Selfishness Brings Absolute Knowledge
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From:Secrets of Yoga
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"One of the most important sutras of Patanjali – the very key… This last part of Patanjali's yoga sutras is called 'kaivalya pada.' Kaivalya means the summum bonum – the ultimate liberation, the total freedom..."
"One of the most important sutras of Patanjali – the very key… This last part of Patanjali's yoga sutras is called 'kaivalya pada.' Kaivalya means the summum bonum – the ultimate liberation, the total freedom..."
Osho continues:
"The other is continuously pulling you off the center. Sartre's famous saying – Patanjali would have understood it well – is, 'The other is hell.' The other may not be hell, but the hell is created by your desire for the other. The desire for the other is hell.
"And to be desireless of the other is to attain to your pristine clarity of being. Then you are, and you are the whole, and there exists nobody except you. This Patanjali calls kaivalya.
"And the way, the path, toward kaivalya is: first, the most essential step, vivek, discrimination; the second important step is vairagya, renunciation; and the third is the realization of kaivalya, aloneness.
"Why are you hankering so much for the other? Why this desire, this constant madness for the other? Where have you taken a wrong step? Why are you not satisfied with yourself? Why don't you feel fulfilled? Why do you think that somehow you lack something? From where does this misconception that you are incomplete arise? It arises out of the identity with the body; the body is the other. Once you have taken the first wrong step, then you will go on and on, and then there is no end to it.
"By vivek Patanjali means: to discriminate yourself as separate from the body, to realize that you are in the body but you are not the body; to realize that you are in the mind but you are not the mind; to realize that you are always the pure witness – sakshin, drashta – the seer. You are never the seen, you are never the object; you are pure subjectivity.
"Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most influential existential thinkers in the West, has said, 'God is subjectivity.' He comes very close to Patanjali. What does he mean when he says God is subjectivity? When all objects are known as separate from you, they start disappearing. They exist through your cooperation. If you think you are the body, then the body continues; it needs your help, your energy. If you think you are the mind the mind functions; it needs your help, your cooperation, your energy.
"This is one of the inner mechanisms: that just by your presence nature becomes alive."
"And to be desireless of the other is to attain to your pristine clarity of being. Then you are, and you are the whole, and there exists nobody except you. This Patanjali calls kaivalya.
"And the way, the path, toward kaivalya is: first, the most essential step, vivek, discrimination; the second important step is vairagya, renunciation; and the third is the realization of kaivalya, aloneness.
"Why are you hankering so much for the other? Why this desire, this constant madness for the other? Where have you taken a wrong step? Why are you not satisfied with yourself? Why don't you feel fulfilled? Why do you think that somehow you lack something? From where does this misconception that you are incomplete arise? It arises out of the identity with the body; the body is the other. Once you have taken the first wrong step, then you will go on and on, and then there is no end to it.
"By vivek Patanjali means: to discriminate yourself as separate from the body, to realize that you are in the body but you are not the body; to realize that you are in the mind but you are not the mind; to realize that you are always the pure witness – sakshin, drashta – the seer. You are never the seen, you are never the object; you are pure subjectivity.
"Soren Kierkegaard, one of the most influential existential thinkers in the West, has said, 'God is subjectivity.' He comes very close to Patanjali. What does he mean when he says God is subjectivity? When all objects are known as separate from you, they start disappearing. They exist through your cooperation. If you think you are the body, then the body continues; it needs your help, your energy. If you think you are the mind the mind functions; it needs your help, your cooperation, your energy.
"This is one of the inner mechanisms: that just by your presence nature becomes alive."
| Publisher | Osho International |
|---|---|
| Duration of Talk | 101 mins |
| File Size | 30.6 MB |
| Type | Individual Talks |
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