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The views expressed in this book, a compilation of articles published before, constitute a humble effort to touch upon a variety of subjects and are mainly inspired by the new vision of contemporary enlightened mystic, Osho His vision for humanity is profoundly significant since it embraces the immanent and transcendent dimensions of existence, the material and the spiritual without violating either. MANKIND has inherited insights and wisdom given by the visionaries and mystics from around the world. And yet, one wonders why our entering the new millennium does not give us enough hope and optimism. We are confronting a number of issues which need to be seen individually and collectively afresh. The enormous triumph of science and technology has yet to find a balance in an equally powerful paradigm shift in human awareness and understanding.

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Publié par	Diamond Books
Date de parution	06 avril 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9789352615674
Langue	English

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New Vision For The New Millennium

eISBN: 978-93-5261-567-4
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New Vision For The New Millennium
By - Dr. Vasant Joshi
PREFACE
MANKIND has inherited insights and wisdom given by the visionaries and mystics from around the world. And yet, one wonders why our entering the new millennium does not give us enough hope and optimism. We are confronting a number of issues which need to be seen individually and collectively afresh. The enormous triumph of science and technology has yet to find a balance in an equally powerful paradigm shift in human awareness and understanding.
The views expressed in this book, a compilation of articles published before, constitute a humble effort to touch upon a variety of subjects and are mainly inspired by the new vision of contemporary enlightened mystic, Osho His vision for humanity is profoundly significant since it embraces the immanent and transcendent dimensions of existence, the material and the spiritual without violating either.
I express my gratitude to Swami Chaitanya Keerti for his gentle reminders to work on such a book and for his patience. I am also thankful to Shri Narendra Kumar of Diamond Books.
I am specially thankful to the Osho International Foundation for allowing me the space, time and for giving me permission to quote Osho.
Swami Satya Vedant Dr. Vasant Joshi Ph.D. University of Michigan, M.A., Ph.D. University of Baroda, Visiting Professor, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, USA
CONTENT Don’t Let Me Down Osho’s India Education, Environment and Meditation Osho and Women’s Liberation What Indian Woman is Going to-be Like in 21st Century Reverence for Life and Inner Ecology Culture of Violence The Scientist, the Psychologist and the Mystic on War Religion and Religiousness Religion and Social Work in the New Millennium Healthy Kids for a Happy Society Families in Upheaval Patanjali and the Yoga for Today Satguru Kabir : A Watcher on the Hill Infinite in the Indian Metaphiscal Framework Education for Transformation IS Education Same as “Stuffing the Duck”? Education for Rediscovering the Self Why Meditation? Communal Harmony Gandhi ji and Parenting : Letter to the Editor Going Beyond Hypnosis Can India Become Young Again? Politics is Blind Without Religion Osho : Whom the Sky Showers Flowers Osho Tells a Story The Cultrue of Cleanliness: An Agenda for India
DON’T LET ME DOWN
“I HAVE not come to teach, I have come to awaken”. These words of Osho are the cornerstone of his work and show his unique contribution to humanity. Obviously, only an awakened one can and will awaken the sleeping humanity. His work is not like that of a teacher who would pass on information collected from various sources. Religions, traditionally, have emerged out of teachings, through words, Osho is a man of no words and hence he has not given any religion. Indeed, he has used words but only so that one can go beyond these words and enter into deep silence.
Religions have traditionally created rituals, which are part of an overall strategy to hypnotize the follower. Osho’s basic work is to de-hypnotize people hence he is not in favor of any ritualistic way of life. Rituals are mechanical. Osho would like us to be spontaneous. One can be in a state of joy, peace, bliss just by watching a sunrise, witnessing a sunset, taking a shower, touching a tree, eating a fruit — not as part of following any ritual but as manifesting one’s direct and spontaneous response.
Their custodians, the priests, have traditionally controlled religions. They have thrived on the borrowed words of scriptures and have manipulated gullible followers through intricate rituals. They have functioned as mediators between the divine and the ordinary. Osho’s vision has no room for a mediator from the outside. The individual consciousness is the true mediator between the warring states of human mind. And the divine is nowhere out there, but somewhere inside each person. Priesthood is a poison, which has left humanity paralyzed. Osho assures us we can be on our feet — strong and steady with no crutches needed of any kind.
Osho has renewed the spiritual dimension by rejecting all that is passed on as part of a tradition and all that is followed from generation to generation. To be religious one does not need a religion, an institutionalized religion per se. What one needs is discovering one’s center, the core, the silent point within. Drawing upon that source, one goes on moving ahead on a pathless path in a timeless search. Once, when a Zen master was asked how he maintained his silence and peace, he said: “I never leave my place of meditation”. The statement implies that, meditation is the way, but it is not a path. Meditation is not somewhere in the future, it is here and now, in the present moment. Meditation is not part of time, in meditation one transcends time.
Osho’s approach is what is known as “inside-out”. It shows how one can start out by first starting in. Hence, it is a process — a process where effort is not needed, awareness is. Because, all efforts will come from the same mind which puts one in a mess in the first place. Awareness is spontaneous. It is not of the past, it is rooted in the moment.
One of the most persistent characteristics of any religious organization has been that it has used mankind as a cog in a vast machine. In its nightmarish system, each person is imprisoned and forced to either conform or die a humiliating death. The whole religious apparatus turns the individual into becoming a spineless, faceless creature.
What makes Osho’s vision so significant is the fact that, although, organization may be an inescapable part of our lives, however, family, society, church, in his view, are essentially related to our sense of insecurity and hence makes one dependent. An organization consists of human expectations, obligations, and relationships. It is basically a structure within which individuals play their roles. Osho has freed man front organized structure by eliminating the very idea of security and dependency. Courage, commitment, and individuality are products of self-transformation and hence require a totally new paradigm, and therefore, he has redefined spirituality in terms of individual responsibility and flexible collectivity.
Of course, Osho always insists that he has no followers, only fellow travelers, but following is so easy and cozy. Then the individual is not responsible; one can put the responsibility on someone else, God, guru, Jesus, Buddha, whatever. But slowly and inexorably Osho begins withdrawing his support for our projections, like a bird luring its young from the nest. And that is the acid test. Creating something that depended on Osho’s presence was one thing, but, to create something that be self- regenerating, self-growing, without any outer help, relying only on each individuals inner sources — who could have anticipated it ? Who would have thought it possible — that today his work would go on expanding “beyond our minds” as he forecast?
And then one day, suddenly he is gone. It was time to stand-alone. Or as he puts it:
“The way to understand me is to always remember that I am insisting — from every corner, in every possible way— only on a single target, and that is your innermost being. Whatever I may have said... never be too much concerned with what is said. Be concerned about what it indicates .
“I want you to drop all games — worldly games, spiritual games, games that the whole of humanity has played up to now. These games keep you retarded. These games hinder you from growing into consciousness, into your own ultimate flowering. I want to cut away all this rubbish that prevents you .
“I want to leave you alone, absolutely alone, so that you cannot take anybody’s help, so you cannot cling to any prophet, so that you cannot think that Gautam Buddha is going to save you. Left alone — utterly alone — you are bound to find your innermost center .
“There is no way, nowhere to go, no advisor, no teacher, no master. It seems hard, it seems harsh, but I am doing it because I love you, and the people who have not done it have not loved you at all. They loved themselves and they loved to have a big crowd around themselves — the bigger the crowd, the more they feel nourished in their egos .
“That’s why I called even enlightenment the last game. The sooner you drop it, the better. Why not just simply be? Why unnecessarily hurry here and there? You are what existence wants you to be. Just relax. ”
(Om Mani Padme Hum # 9 Q 1)
We watch our physical health and through a set of well-established economic indicators we also worry about the health of our economy. However, by contrast, we hardly care for our spiritual health. We find, in dismay, alienation, violence, exploitation, pollution and many such dehumanizing factors. We urgently need to recognize that Osho has done pioneering work in designing a spiritual index that can show at which rate mankind is making or destroying lives.
The spiritual index is that of Awareness — at all levels of human existence: the body, the thought, and the emotion. Such awareness then can be geared to measuring the social, political, and cultural manifestation of human energy. We in fact need indices of spirituality free from dogma, authority, control, and idolatry. Osho’s guidance in these issues is invaluable. By listening to him we can begin to give a new direction for creating what he calls “The New Man”.
However, Osho describes himself, as “one man against the whole history of humanity,” and as it follows fairly naturally that, he has been the most misunderstood. The misunderstanding arises mainly because most people see only one snapshot of what is really an adventure movie.