Osho Rajneesh: I Respect Money Youtube Video

Osho Rajneesh: I Respect Money Youtube Video

I do not completely agree with the points said in this video by Osho Rajneesh but it is also an incomplete video. It is possible that if, I would watch the complete video then this sense of disagreement would not be present. This criticism is not an ordinary criticism but I just want to reflect that the things could be said in a better way. He intentionally chooses such a vague method to express himself. In this way, he is misunderstood most of the times. I will cover the different points covered by him from my perspective.

There is an old anecdote. A man went crazy. He was very rich and a great mathematician. He was sent to a madhouse. When he was taken to a madhouse, he did not have any sense of his brilliance and talent. He could just solve some ordinary problems of math. He lost his sense and consciousness so much that it was not easy for him to solve some easy problems of math but people around him were impressed. They did not know anything about math at all. So, a few mad people would gather around considering him a great mathematician. He would add, subtract, multiply or divide numbers which was the big achievement for the other people around him.

Osho's comment about classical music is also linked with the above story. I will be covering later in the post why I said so. When he is saying that classical music is needed to be learned then I do not agree with it. Classical music cannot be learned but it can be aroused from within. Osho used the wrong word at this place. The music that is learned will reach corrupted in other hands and it will go on corrupting.

I would say that there is a very strong connection between us and music. We have seven chakras in our body and there are seven basic notes of music also. Each chakra has its one note. If, you become aware about any chakra then the corresponding note comes into an action. Multiple notes can be related to one chakra too but out of them one is the most significant for each chakra. When, a person becomes aware of himself or all his seven chakras then orchestra comes into an action. The above lines have been taken as reference from The Orange Book of Osho. Here is my interpretation, I call this music a real classical music. Only an enlightened person like Osho can know what classical music is that arises from the silence. I think, when Osho is talking about classical music, he means the one that arises from within.



I would say classical music that is played today cannot be called fully classical because it is learnt. It is not arising from your own being but such music can show some signs or traits of spirituality within it. Classical music played today has some kind of weakened connection between us and our higher being. Classical music is like playing with the vast variation of notes and scales. Other types of musics are like fundamental math. We are not properly synchronous with ourselves. We gather around people playing such music because we are far from ourselves. We gather around like mad people gathered around a mad mathematician. It is natural to feel some kind of amusement in such music according to our present consciousness. So, there is no need to discard different kinds of music because at least they are capable to synchronize with our current consciousness. To understand classical music, we need higher consciousness and awareness.

Osho also commented about money in this video. I agree with his point because life is meant to be abundant. If, it is lacking any of the dimension then it is incomplete for me. Money is needed for lots of things. We should be able to control money but money should not control us. If, we are able to utilize and produce money properly then we can buy and produce lots of creative work.

Once Osho said that a poor man cannot understand good literature, paintings of Picasso and great music. Life needs to be at some kind of saturated state to understand such things. A poor man will remain busy in earning his two meals a day. This is the need of money. Once, you have used money to a great extent, vast questions can arise in your mind. You thought in the past that money would bring me happiness but it did not happen. A poor man would still be thinking that wealth will bring me happiness. So, he is more far from the truth. Let him earn enough money to come up at the stage where a vast question can arise in his mind.