Mastery over the Five Elements

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From:Yoga: The Path to Liberation

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"The yoga system of Patanjali is not a philosophical system. It is empirical; it is a tool to work with – but still it has a philosophy. That too, is just to give an intellectual..."
Mastery over the Five Elements
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"The yoga system of Patanjali is not a philosophical system. It is empirical; it is a tool to work with – but still it has a philosophy. That too, is just to give an intellectual..."

Osho continues:
"Food comes from earth. If you stop taking food, your annamay kosh will wither away. So one has to be very alert to what one is eating because that makes you and it will affect you in millions of ways. Sooner or later your food is not just food – it becomes blood, your bones, your very marrow. It circulates in your being and goes on affecting you. So the purity of food creates a pure annamay kosh – the pure food body.

"And if the first body is pure, light, not heavy, then it is easy to enter into the second body; otherwise it will be difficult, you will be loaded. Have you watched when you have eaten too much, and heavy foods…? Immediately you start feeling a sort of sleep, a sort of lethargy. You would like to go to sleep; awareness immediately starts disappearing. When the first body is loaded it is difficult to create great awareness. Hence fasting became so much important in all the religions. But fasting is a science and one should not fool around with it.

"Just the other night one sannyasin came and she told me that she has been fasting and now her whole body, her whole being, is disturbed – tremendously disturbed. Now the stomach is not functioning well, and when the stomach is not functioning well, everything is weakened, the vitality is lost, and you cannot be alive. You become more and more insensitive and dead.

"But fasting is important. It should be done very carefully; one should understand the functioning of the annamay kosh – only then. And it should be done under proper guidance, of one who has moved through all the phases of his annamay kosh. Not only that, one who has gone beyond it and who can look at the annamay kosh as a witness. Otherwise fasting can be dangerous…then, just the right amount of food and the right quality of food has to be practiced; fasting is not needed.

"But this is important because this is your first body and, more or less, people cling to their first body; they never move to the second. Millions of people are not even aware that they have a second body, a deeper body, hidden behind the first sheath."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 105 mins
File Size 28.45 MB
Type Individual Talks