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Monday, May 23, 2011

Do we really need to get married?

Marriage is one of the most important subject in everybody's life. I am writing this post while thinking about the concept of marriage. What this marriage is and how it got started? I will try to present my opinion here about marriage and how it might have started. I do not care here about any historical evidence or a religious scripture to say my points. One cannot prove anything with the help of arguments. We all can try giving arguments to prove something but arguments can be given from the opposite side too. How one can prove that his arguments were stronger than others? The logic that can decide about the stronger or weaker arguments is man made too. So, the arguments will keep shifting their position from weak to strong or from strong to weak according to the different belief systems.




The thing here is what I feel or think about the concept of marriage. According to me, marriage is just a social technique to bind people. According to the process of human evolution, our morality is changing day by day. We were more close to the animals than we are today. In ancient times, the concept of marriage was essential to implement to greater extent because people were not good to each other. Sex was just restricted to physical relation for them. Then, the different intelligent people came up with the concept of marriage and they intentionally linked it with religion. Religion and marriage would have been invented more or less at the same time. It was essential to come up for the religions to create fear in minds of people. Marriage played an important part in religion and the word responsibility was invented with all the ethics included in the religion. It is strange to say that responsibility seems to be an ugly word to me. Can you think why? The word responsibility conveys that we still have unsophisticated society. We need to show people that these are the things you have to do otherwise it would not be good for the society. Everything that comes out of responsibility has burden present in it and whatever is done in love is pure and burden free.

So, the marriage came up with responsibility towards our partner, family or children. That responsibility took the shape of love too for some people which is the main advantage here of marriage. At least people started being lovable and compassionate to bunch of people belonging to their family. It helped the society a lot but we need to go beyond. Today, we are taught that we need to be responsible about the whole society. Do not harm others etc. It is just not about today but it has been taught for centuries and lots of people are responsible towards the society but there is no sign of love and compassion at all. Being responsible is not bad but as I already said it is a sign of weak infrastructure of the society. We always remain biased about our family for the different reasons. The main reason is just the infrastructure of the society. If, we are brought up in such an environment where, we do not know about any small family but about a big global family then the love and compassion will burst out automatically like it is present within families today.

Once Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh said that he wants marriage to disappear from this world completely. I do not completely agree with Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh's statement according to my current understanding. Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh also once said that he does not believe in anything. Now, if I have to relate these two things then I can conclude that Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh meant to be free and unbiased regarding marriage. If, we do so, negligible amount of people will enter in marriage and it can be said as an end of marriage concept.

Our minds have been programmed in such a way that we enter in marriage life automatically. We think that it was our choice to get married or not but it is not so. I think children should not even know what marriage really is. In this way only, we can create an individual that is open to all the choices. If, that person wants to stay with one person then it is perfectly fine but it should be without the feeling of possessiveness. The feeling of possessiveness is one of the most stupid feeling present here in the society. It is strange to say that. How one can possess a life? It is stupid to say that my wife or husband can just make love to me but not to someone else because only I have right on him or her. How you can prove that your love is more authentic and pure than others. Love cannot be bounded at all. If it is bounded then it will just take the shape of pure sex. Have you ever noticed that people go to clubs just for having pure sex? It is not bad either but we have to rise little bit high. Why they cannot love anybody in the clubs? Because their minds think that love means commitment, prison and bondage. That is why they just enter into some pure physical relations. I wish, we could teach people that love is not a bondage.

It is not good to mix up a lots of things in a single post. I will keep writing on the same topic and will be highlighting different factors on the same topic but if I have to summarize this most then I would do it by saying that "Marriage helped this society a lot but it has number of flaws too. We can have more sophisticated civilization. We need to rise this whole society to a different level".

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Which is the true way of life?

It is one of the most common question that arises in the so called religious mind. Most of the people try to answer this question according to their belief systems or religions but we need to be unbiased here. We have to stay outside here from all the different systems and then we have to decide about the true way of life.

As far as I am concerned, do we really need to think about the true way of life? Do we need to bother about the true way of approach to life? The title of my blog is the same but I do not mean it in people's sense. My intention is not here to bind people in any of the current or new belief system but my goal is here to show people the world, where there is no belief system at all, where at first the person is free from all the belief systems and then he is capable to choose his own belief system that suits him, that can synchronize with his existence. Any belief system that is acquired through some influence is wrong. Today, we are just inheriting some of the belief systems from our parents and some are being transferred to us through some other influence. We are just programming our minds without even knowing. We think that we control our life completely but it is not true. Everything we are doing now is just because of programming of our mind. You are doing what you have been taught. Such a conditioning causes conflict and misery in our life.

All the religions are present today because of influence. Many great people like Gautam Buddha, Jesus Christ, Mahavira, Krishna and Guru Nanak sang their inner songs and they wanted us to find harmony that is present within us. They never wanted to influence us according to them but we all got influenced and the whole world is trying to copy them. People are trying to copy their daily routine and it makes them to live in a burden. They are trying to sing something that does not suit their voice. They do not know that there is something present within them that is more than enough but they are trying to be someone else. Through such influences, all the religions came into existence and all the religions think that they are better than others. Its not what the religious sculptures are thinking but it is just people's biased thinking. People do say that we respect all the religions or all the religions are equal etc, then why they are immensely attached to their religions. Why people do not read some other scripture with the same respect or interest. There is some kind of biasness that is present within them. This biasness is very dangerous.

The next question arises in most of the clever people's mind is that is it not an another belief system that is free from all the belief systems. The answer to this question can either be given as yes or no. To make a society that is free from all the belief systems, we need to have a belief system that eradicates all the belief systems but on the other hand it cannot be called itself a belief system because it also eradicates itself and nothing remains after. Out of this nothingness, whatever comes out in your awareness will be your true way of life. It will always remain personal or individualistic rather than common or society oriented. If, it comes out to be similar or identical to someone, then it would be a pure coincidence. It is just the limitation of language here that I could not say anything else. I had to create nothingness and something had to be said. This saying is giving you a choice where there is no biasness and influence. One can only decide about the true way of life while standing away from all the belief systems. Staying within the belief systems makes you conditioned and dull to think something new and creative. It just overlaps your inner joy and forces you to be a normal human fighting with himself.

We all need to sing our inner song, there are infinite different choices that this existence has given to us. Doing so , we can create a society, where there will be no more conflict and we can come up here with a very sophisticated civilization.

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Who is Religious here?

Religion is the most corrupted word in the English dictionary. I am sorry to say this thing but it is truth. When we ask most of the people that are you religious? Then they reply mostly yes because they believe in God and they go to church, temple or mosque. This is the common reply heard from the majority and it is a stupid reply.

The true meaning of being religious is to have feeling of gratitude towards the whole existence but we all are so unhappy, unsatisfied and ungrateful people in our life. We are always trying to prove ourselves as if we are competitors here. We do not have any feeling of contentment with in ourselves. The whole life is spent in such a hurry and competition and we call ourselves religious. We people are full of jealousy and envy. Are we really religious? Have you ever wondered that if something ever bad happened to you? How do you react to that situation? You feel stuck in the situation and feel like dying in such a situation. Is this a true religious attitude? A true religious attitude is to remain thankful to God or the whole existence for whatever has happened to you.

Once, Osho Rajneesh told an old anecdote. There was a man who was very poor. He hardly could manage two meals in a day. Once, a wind storm hit the village that took roof of his small hut. Now, how you would have reacted in this situation. You would have cried and felt worse. You would probably curse God and you would feel the most unlucky person in this situation but he remained quiet and full of gratitude. He thought that he still has four walls of his hut standing. Who managed to keep them standing in such a storm. It must be because of God who did this for me. Now, I would call this a true religious attitude. Now, when you are going to tell anybody that you are religious then think twice before saying that. Actually, you should not say it at all. It would be a true lie if you do say.

We do not understand the Science of religion at all and we think that we are so good in that. People need to understand more about religion and it would be better to drop all the stupid practices done for the sake of religion. True religion arises from with in and you become so full of love, compassion and gratitude that nothing can make you feel bad.

This life is a gift to you and whatever happens to you is also the part of this whole existence. Who are you here to complain? Who are you here to prove anything and to whom are you complaining? Think about the things and then realize that you have come empty handed and will leave this world empty handed.

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

My views on "The need for Catharsis Meditation Osho Rajneesh"

My views on Catharsis Meditation Osho Rajneesh

This meditation works on the principle of forgetting everything present in this world. Just sit for sixty minutes and you have to forget everything. You need to turn around your face from this world and sit silently. You will see clouds first but do not get worried about them. These are just your repressed emotions. This thing may appear confusing here according to the detail given in the orange book of Osho Rajneesh. What is the meaning of clouds here? Did he really mean clouds or clouds are just symbolic for the emotions like ego and jealousy.

You will come across many things like ego, jealousy, hatred etc. but do not try to repress them. I agree with the last line completely. Society has always asked you to suppress them and suppression is the main problem. Once the thing is suppressed, it cannot be seen on the surface but it is still there deep down present in you. It will still be creating problems for you. You will keep thinking that you are free from such evil things but you are not.

You will have to pass through many clouds and you may feel that there is nothing present opposite to this world. You do not have to lose your patience. Osho said that you are not going to find that wonderland that easy. You will come to the fact that there is no fragrance or paradise inside that people like Mahatama Buddha claimed to experience. But it is just because of the shield of emotions like ego and jealousy. So, you will be tempted to come outside again as you will not find anything amusing inside.

You will find that it is better to dream about the outside world and enjoy the things that you use to do like going to watch a movie or go to a club. The main point is that you will be eager to come back to the outside world but you keep on trying to detach from the outside world and do not lose your patience.

Now looking at this meditation, I remember some of the Osho Rajneesh's words when he said that you are born enlightened. There are the false belief systems that blinded your eyes. You just need to identify what is false in this world. You just need to remove the things within you that are man made. In other words, you can forget the whole world and can attach yourself to your natural tendency. This whole meditation appears more or less same to the words "You are born Enlightened".

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Osho Rajneesh Mandala Meditation


Osho Mandala Meditation

This mandala meditation by Osho creates cycle of energy. At the end of the meditation, you experience complete silence, nothingness or absolute stillness. This meditation has four different phases of fifteen minutes each.


This meditation is done with the help of special music which helps to build up cycle of energy. This music can be bought from the internet.

First Phase of Osho Mandala Meditation of Fifteen Minutes

Keep your eyes open and start running on the same place. Start calmly and then increase your pace as the time progresses. Lift your knees as high as possible. Take deep breaths because it will help energy to rotate within you. Forget everything about mind and body. Just continue running.

You can take help of this video to learn the first phase




Second Phase of Osho Mandala Meditation of Fifteen Minutes

Close your eyes and sit down. Have your mouth open. Rotate your upper body starting from the waist like plants and trees move because of wind pressure. Feel that wind is making you to move from here and there. It will make the accumulated energy to concentrate on your navel.


You can take help of this video to learn the second phase




Third Phase of Osho Mandala Meditation of Fifteen Minutes

Lay down on your back with your eyes open and keep your head still. Rotate your eyes in the clock wise direction. Move your eyes in such a way as if you are following the second hand of a big clock. You mouth should remain open and jaws should be still. Your breathing process should be calm. This phase will make energy to accumulate around the third eye.


You can take help of this video to learn the third phase




Fourth Phase of Osho Mandala Meditation of Fifteen Minutes

Close your eyes and be still.

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Saturday, May 7, 2011

Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh Whirling Meditation


Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh Whirling Meditation

This meditation is done with the help of special music. This music helps to build up energy and plays a vital role. This music also ensures beginning of the new phases of the whirling meditation. This music can be bought from the internet.

Sufi Whirling

Sufi Whirling is one of the oldest and effective method. This method can let you go in such a depth that a single experience of it can change you completely. Stand at one place and start rotating yourself like children do. Feel that your whole body is like a wheel and it is rotating around one axis.


Some points need to be discussed about the Whirling Meditation

You should not eat or drink anything before three hours starting this whirling meditation. Be bare footed while doing this meditation and it is good to wear loose clothes.

This meditation is divided into two phases. Rotating and relaxing. There is no time limit set for rotating and it can be done for hours. It is recommended to rotate for at least an hour so that you can experience to mingle with great energy. The process of rotating is done in the anticlockwise direction. Lift your right hand and keep your palm facing towards the sky and keep your left hand low nearly equal to the height of your waist and keep it facing down. People who do not feel comfortable rotating in the anticlockwise direction can rotate in the clockwise direction. Keep your body relaxed and do rotation process with your eyes open.

First phase of Whirling Meditation Osho Rajneesh

Rotate for fifteen minutes with a slow pace. In the next thirty minutes, keep increasing your pace slowly till you get the maximum speed. You will start feeling yourself as a whirl of energy.

Second Phase of Whirling Meditation Osho Rajneesh

When you are rotating so fast, a situation will come when you will not be able to stand more and your body will want to fall. Do not decide yourself to fall and do not make an arrangement to make your body fall. If, your body is relaxed enough then the falling process will happen automatically without any conflict. The earth will take your energy when you will fall on the earth.

When you fall, the second phase of the meditation will begin. Lay down on your stomach so that your navel can touch earth. If, you feel uncomfortable laying in this posture then lay down on your back. Let your body to melt with the earth like a small child hugs his or her mother. Keep yourself in this feeling and just relax for fifteen minutes at least.

If, you feel vomiting sensations or uneasiness while doing this meditation then do not do this meditation. If you do it regularly, you may feel comfortable after two or three days but if you are experiencing the same uneasiness and discomfort then stop doing it for sure.

You can watch this video to learn the this meditation

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