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Gautam Buddha Disciple Ananda Enlightenment
Osho : Since Buddha, many scientific developments have happened....
We don’t know what Buddha actually said although he never used anybody
like Ouspensky or Plato or Vivekananda; he himself was his own
interpreter. But there arose a problem when he died. He spoke for
forty-two years – he became enlightened when he was about forty and then
he lived to eighty-two. For forty-two years he was speaking morning,
afternoon, evening. Now there were no scientific methods for recording
what he was saying. When he died the first question was how to collect
it all.
He had said so much – forty-two years is a long time,
and many had become enlightened in those forty-two years. But those who
became enlightened had become crystallized in the heart. because that is
easier, simpler, and people tend to move to the simplest process, to
the shortcut. Why bother? If you can reach a point directly, straight,
then why go roundabout? And when Buddha was alive there was no need for
anybody else to interpret him; he was his own spokesman, so the need was
never felt.
There were thousands of arhats and bodhisattvas;
they all gathered. Only those were called to the gathering who had
become enlightened – obviously, because they would not misinterpret
Buddha. And that’s true, they could not misinterpret him – it was
impossible for them. They had also experienced the same universe of the
beyond, they had also moved to the farther shore. But they all said, ”We
have never bothered much about his words since we became enlightened.
We have listened to him because his words were sweet.
We have
listened to him because his words were pure music. We have listened to
him because just listening to him was a joy. We have listened to him
because that was the only way to be close to him. Just to sit by his
side and listen to him was a rejoicing, it was a benediction. But we did
not bother about what he was saying; once we attained there was no
need. We were not listening from the head and we were not collecting in
the memory; our own heads and memories stopped functioning long ago.”
Somebody became enlightened thirty years before Buddha died. Now for
thirty years he sat there by the side of Buddha listening as one listens
to the wind passing through the pine trees or one listens to the song
of the birds or one listens to the rain falling on the roof. But they
were not listening intellectually. So they said, ”We have not carried
any memory of it. Whatsoever he must have said was beautiful, but what
he said we cannot recollect. Just to be with him was such a joy.” It was
very difficult now – how to collect his words?
The only man
who had lived continuously with Buddha for forty-two years was Ananda;
he was his Personal attendant, his caretaker. He had listened to him,
almost every word that he had uttered was heard by Ananda. Even if he
was talking to somebody privately, Ananda was present. Ananda was almost
always present, like a shadow. He had heard everything – whatsoever had
fallen from his lips. And he must have said many things to Ananda when
there was nobody there. They must have talked just on going to bed in
the night.
Ananda used to sleep in the same room just to take
care of him – he may need something in the night. He may feel cold, he
may feel hot, he may like the window to be opened or closed, or he may
feel thirsty and may need some water or something, or – he was getting
old – he may feel sick. So Ananda was there continuously. They all said,
”We should ask Ananda.” But then there was a very great problem: Ananda
was not yet enlightened. He had heard everything that Buddha uttered
publicly, uttered privately.
They must have gossiped together;
there was nobody else who could have said, ”I am friendly with Buddha,”
except Ananda. And Ananda was also his cousin-brother, and not only a
cousin-brother but two years older than Buddha. So when he had come to
be initiated he asked for a few things before his initiation, because in
India the elder brother has to be respected just like your father. Even
the elder cousin-brother has to be respected just like your father.
So Ananda said to Buddha, ”Before I take initiation.... Once I become
your bhikkhu, your sannyasin, I will have to follow your orders, your
commandments. Then whatsoever you say I will have to do.But before that I
order you, as your elder brother, to grant me three things. Remember
these three things.
First: I will always be with you. You
cannot say to me, ’Ananda, go somewhere else, do something else.’ You
cannot send me to some other village to preach, to convert people, to
give your message. This is my first order to you.
Second: I
will be always present. Even if you are talking to somebody privately I
want to hear everything. Whatsoever you are going to say in your life I
want to be an audience to it. So you will not be able to tell me,’This
is a private talk, you go out.’ I will not go, remember it!
And
thirdly: I am not much interested in being enlightened, I am much more
interested in just being with you. So if enlightenment means separating
from you I don’t care a bit about it. Only if I can remain with you even
after enlightenment, am I willing to be enlightened, otherwise forget
about it.”
And Buddha nodded his yes to all these three orders –
he had to, he was younger than Ananda – and he followed those three
things his whole life. The conference of the arhats and the bodhisattvas
decided that only Ananda could relate Buddha’s words. And he had a
beautiful memory; he had listened to everything very attentively. ”But
the problem is he is not yet enlightened; we cannot rely upon him. His
mind may play tricks, his mind may change things unconsciously. He may
not do it deliberately, he may not do it consciously, but he still has a
great unconscious in him. He may think he has heard that Buddha said
this and he may never have said it.
He may delete a few words,
he may add a few words. Who knows? And we don’t have any criterion
because many things that he has heard only he has heard; there is no
other witness.” And Ananda was sitting outside the hall. The doors were
closed and he was weeping outside on the steps. He was weeping because
he was not allowed inside. An eighty-four-year-old man weeping like a
child! The man who had lived for forty-two years with Buddha was not
allowed in! Now he was really in anguish.
Why did he not become
enlightened? Why did he not insist7 He made a vow, a decision: ”I will
not move from these steps until I become enlightened.” He closed his
eyes, he forgot the whole world. And it is said that within twenty-four
hours, without changing his posture, he became enlightened. When he
became enlightened he was allowed in. Then he related... all these
scriptures were related by Ananda.
Osho on Meher Baba Enlightenment
Question: With growing desirelessness, sometimes the person becomes
outwardly inactive. Is it lethargy and dullness? Why does it happen?
Osho: Many things are possible, and it will depend. Certainly many
desires will drop and many actions also. Those actions which were just
caused by desires will drop. If I was running for a particular desire,
how can I run if the desire has dropped? My running will stop. At least
the same running on the same route will stop. So when a person becomes
desireless, at least for an interim period, for an interval – and how
long it will be will depend on the individual – he will become inactive.
The desires will have dropped – and all the actions that he had been
doing were concerned with desires, so how can he continue? They will
drop. But by dropping desires and actions, energy will be accumulated –
and now energy will begin to move. When it moves, how it moves will vary
from individual to individual, but now it will move. There will be a
gap, an interim period, an interval.
This I call a pregnancy
period. The seed is born, but now it will gestate for at least nine
months. And it may seem strange, but it happens. This nine months period
is meaningful. Near about this, eight months or ten months, will be the
interim period, and you will just become inactive. This inactivity will
also vary. Someone may become so inactive that people may think that he
has just gone into a coma. Everything stops.
For Meher Baba it
happened like that. For one year he was just in a coma. He couldn’t
even move his limbs. Action was far off, he couldn’t stand up because
even the desire to stand had gone. He couldn’t eat; he had to be
forced. He couldn’t do anything! For one year continuously he became
just helpless – a helpless child. This was a pregnancy period, and then,
suddenly, a different man was born. The man who became inactive was no
more: a new energy – energy accumulated.
Lives and lives of
dissipated energy create this gap – because you do not have enough
energy. When desire is not there to invoke, provoke, stimulate, you just
drop. Your energy is not really energy, but just a pushing and pulling.
Anyhow you go on running because the goal seems just nearby. A few
moments’ endeavour more and you will reach! You pull yourself on;
somehow you carry yourself and run. But when the goal is dropped, when
there is no desire, you will drop. An inactivity will be there.
If you can be patient in this inactivity period, after it you will be
reborn. Then energy will begin to move without desires. But I say it
depends. It may happen suddenly as it happened for Meher Baba: that was a
sudden case. It happened in Bombay.
It happened by a kiss from
an old lady, Babajan. Meher Baba was just passing, coming back from his
school. Babajan was an old Sufi mystic, an old lady who was just
sitting under a tree for years and years and years. Meher Baba was just
coming, and Babajan called him. He knew this old lady. She was sitting
for years under the tree, and he had passed by that street daily on his
way towards his school and towards his home. She called and he came
near. She kissed him – and he dropped as if dead just there. Then he had
to be carried home.
For one year continuously the kiss
remained on him and he was in a coma. It may happen suddenly like this.
Mm? This was a great transfer, and Babajan died afterwards because she
had just been waiting for this moment to give someone the whole energy.
This was her last life, and there was not enough time even to explain
what she was giving. And also, she was not the type to have explained.
She was a silent mystic.
She had not touched anybody for years.
She was a only waiting for this moment when she was to kiss someone and
the whole energy was to be transferred in a single transfer. Before
this she had not even touched anyone, so this touch was to be total. And
this child was simply unaware of what was going to happen. He was ready
– otherwise this transfer would not have been possible – but he was not
aware. He had worked through his past lives. He was just coming up. He
might have become aware later on, but just now he was completely
unaware.
This happened so suddenly that he had to go again
through a second pregnancy. For one year he was as if not. Many
medicines were given; many, many doctors and physicians tried to help,
but nothing could be done. And the woman who could do something, she
disappeared, she died. After one year he was a different man – totally
different. If it happens so suddenly, then it will be a deep coma. If it
happens through some exercises, then it will never be so deep a coma.
If you are doing awareness exercises, meditation, then it will never
happen so suddenly.
It will come so gradually, so gradually,
that you will never even become aware of when it has happened. By and
by, inactivity will be there, activity will be there, and very gradually
inside everything will have changed. And the desire will drop, the
activity will drop, but no one will ever feel that you have been
lethargic or that you have become inactive. This is the gradual process.
So those who follow yoga or any method will not feel the suddenness.
There are also methods in which sudden happenings become possible, but
one can be prepared.
Babajan never prepared this boy; she never
even asked his permission. It was a one-way affair. She just
transferred the energy. Zen monks also transfer, but before transferring
they prepare the ground. A person can be made ready to receive the
energy, then this reaction will not be there. He may feel lethargy for
some days, for some months, but no one will feel outside that inside
everything has become inactive. But that needs preparation, and that can
happen only in schools. And when I say ”school”, I mean a group
working.
Babajan was alone; she never made anyone her disciple.
There was no school, there was not a following in which she could have
prepared anyone. And, also, she was not the type. She was not the
teacher type; she couldn’t teach. But she had to give to someone, to
whomsoever passed and she felt: ”Now is the moment, and this one will be
able to carry it,” so she could just deliver it.
So it
depends. Inactivity is bound to be there – more or less, but it will be
there, a period will be there. And only then can you be reborn, because
the whole mechanism has to change completely. The mind drops, old roots
drop, the old habits drop, the old association of consciousness and
desires, consciousness and mind, drops – everything old drops and
everything has to be new. A waiting is needed, patience is needed. And
if one is patient, one has not to do anything: just to wait is enough.
The energy begins to move by itself. You just sow the seed and then
wait!
Don’t be in a hurry; don’t go every day to pull the seed
out and see what is happening. Just put it inside and wait. The energy
will take its own course. The seed will die, and the energy will sprout
and will begin to move. But don’t be impatient. One has to wait. And the
greater the seed, and the greater the possibility, the potentiality of
the tree that is going to be, the more will be the waiting. But it
comes. It comes! The deeper the waiting, the sooner it
comes.
Source: from book "The Ultimate Alchemy, Volume 1" By Osho
Sri Ramakrishna Enlightenment
Osho : There is an episode in Ramakrishna’s life.... For his whole life
he had been worshipping Mother Kali, But at the very end he began to
feel,”It is duality; the experience of oneness has still not happened.
It is lovely, delightful, but two still remains two.” Someone loves a
woman, someone loves money, someone politics; he loved Ma Kali – but
love still was divided in two. Still the ultimate nonduality hadn’t
happened and he was in anguish. He began looking out for a nondualist, a
Vedantist – for Some person to come who could show him the path.
A Paramahansa named Totapuri was passing. Ramakrishna invited him to
stop with him and asked, ”Help me to have darshan of the one.”
Totapuri said, ”What’s difficult in that? You believe there are two, so
there are two. Drop the belief!” Ramakrishna replied, ”But dropping this
belief is very difficult – I have lived with it my whole life. When I
close my eyes the image of Kali is standing there. I drown in that
nectar. I forget that I am to become one; as soon as I close my eyes
there are two. When I try to meditate, it becomes dual. Help me out of
this!”
So Totapuri said, ”Try this: when the image of Kali is
before you, pick up a sword and cut her in two.” Ramakrishna said,
”Where will I find a sword?”
What Totapuri said is the same as
what is said in Ashtavakra’s sutra*. Totapuri said, ”From where did you
bring this Kali image? – bring a sword from the same place. She too is
imaginary. She too is an embellishment of your imagination. Through
nurturing it for your whole life, through continuously projecting it for
your whole life, it has become crystalized. It is just imagination. Not
everyone sees Kali when they close their eyes.”
After years of
effort a Christian closes his eyes, and Christ comes to him. A devotee
of Krishna closes his eyes and Krishna comes to him. A lover of Buddha
closes his eyes and Buddha comes to him. A lover of Mahavira closes his
eyes and Mahavira comes to him. Christ doesn’t come to a Jaina, Mahavira
doesn’t come to a Christian: only the image you project will come.
Ramakrishna’s effort was with Kali, and the image became almost solid.
It became so real from constant repetition, from continuous remembering,
that it seemed Kali was standing in from of him. No one was standing
there. Consciousness is alone. There is no second here, no other.
”Just close your eyes,” Totapuri said, ”raise the sword and strike.”
Ramakrishna closed his eyes, but as soon as he closed them his courage
vanished. Raising his sword to strike Kali! – the devotee has to raise
his sword and strike God – it was too hard. To renounce the world is
very easy. What is worth holding onto in the world? But when you have
established an image deep in the mind, when you have created poetry in
the mind, when the mind’s dream has become manifest, then it is very
difficult to renounce it. The world is like a nightmare. A dream of
devotion, a dream of feeling is not a nightmare, it is a very sweet
dream. How to drop it? how to break it?
Tears would start
flowing from his eyes and he became ecstatic... his body would begin
shaking. But he didn’t raise his sword – he would completely forget
about it.
Finally Totapuri said, ”I’ve wasted many days here.
It’s no good. Either you do it or I’m going to leave. Don’t waste my
time. Enough of this nonsense now!” That day Totapuri brought a piece of
glass with him, and he said, ”When you begin to be absorbed in delight,
I will cut your forehead with this piece of glass. When I cut your
forehead, inside gather courage, raise your sword and cut Kali in two.
This is the last chance – I am not staying any longer.”
Totapuri’s threat of leaving... and it is difficult to find such a
master. Totapuri must have been a man like Ashtavakra. Ramakrishna
closed his eyes and Kali’s image appeared to him. He was about to bliss
out – tears were ready to flow from his eyes, overwhelmed, joy was
coming – he was about to become ecstatic when Totapuri held his forehead
and, where the third eye chakra is, made a cut from top to bottom with
the piece of glass. Blood began to stream from the cut, and this time
Ramakrishna found courage. He raised the sword and cut Kali in two
pieces. When Kali fell apart he became nondual: the wave dissolved in
the ocean, the river fell into the ocean. It is said that he stayed
immersed for six days in this ultimate silence. He was neither hungry
nor thirsty – there was no consciousness of the outside, no awareness.
All was forgotten. And when he opened his eyes six days later, the first
thing he said was, ”The last barrier has fallen!”
Source: “The Mahageeta Vol 1” - Osho
Sambodhi Meeraji,
Actually I should not ask you ,and woman do not like even to discuss
such thing... but out of curiosity , I could not stop me..I would like
to know...In what thoughts you do not in agree with Osho...
The
reason we do not see GOD because we are looking through our mind. When
we look through our soul there is nothing but GOD everywhere without a
single doubt.
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