The Real Thing Is Authenticity

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From:Yoga: The Path to Liberation

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"The Chhandogya Upanishad has a beautiful story.
"Let us begin with it.
"Satyakam asked his mother, Jabala, 'Mother, I want to live the life of a student of supreme knowledge. What is my family name?..."
The Real Thing Is Authenticity
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"The Chhandogya Upanishad has a beautiful story.
"Let us begin with it.
"Satyakam asked his mother, Jabala, 'Mother, I want to live the life of a student of supreme knowledge. What is my family name?..."

Osho continues:
"In my youth when I went about a great deal as a maidservant I conceived you. I do not know who is your father. I am Jabala and you are Satyakam, so call yourself Satyakam Jabal.' Sir, I am therefore Satyakam Jabal.'

"The sage then said to him, 'None but a true brahmin, a true seeker of truth, would have spoken thus. You have not swerved from the truth, my dear. I will teach you that supreme knowledge.'

"The first quality of the seeker is to be authentic. Not to swerve from truth, not to deceive in any way, because if you deceive others, eventually you are deceived by your own deceptions. If you tell a lie too many times, it almost starts looking like a truth to you. When others start believing in your lies, you also start believing in them. Belief is infectious.

"That's how we have got into the mess we are in.

"The first lie that we have accepted as truth is that 'I am a body.' Everybody believes in it. You are born in a society which believes that we are bodies. Everybody reacts as a body; nobody responds as a soul.

"And remember the difference between reaction and response: reaction is mechanical; response is alert, aware, conscious. When you push a button and the fan starts moving, it is a reaction. When you push a button, the fan does not start thinking, 'Am I to move or not?' When you put the light on, the electricity does not respond; it reacts. It is mechanical. There is not any gap between your pushing the button and the electricity's functioning. There is not a little gap of thought, of awareness, of consciousness.

"If you go on reacting in your life – somebody insults you and you become angry, somebody says something and you become sad, somebody says something, you become very happy – if it is a reaction, a push-button reaction, then by and by you will start yourself believing that you are the body.

"The body is the mechanism. It is not you. You live in it, it is your abode, but you are not it. You are totally different."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 84 mins
File Size 22.65 MB
Type Individual Talks