Beauty and Asthetics

Beauty, wealth, intoxicants and all material desires are only temporary.  Indulgence does not bring peace to the mind or the soul.  Not in this life, nor after death. 















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Without the name of God even beautiful and handsome people are as ugly as the hunch-backs.
Kabeer, Vaar 3, Pauree 25

In the company of the gurmukhs neither the wealth and physical beauty of others is seen nor is backbiting committed

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radha soami shabads part 1

What would the world be like without us

alif al'lah chambey di booti-- meaning

Alif Al'Lah chambay di booti, tay meray murshid maan vich lai hoo

Alif Al'Lah...My Master (guru) has planted the fragrant seed of love in my heart

Ho nafi-asbaat da paani dey kay

by giving me the drink of negation-affirmation (La’ilaha,illal’La’Hu)

Har raggay harjai Hu

I am detached from everything

Ho joog joog jeevay mera Murshid sohna

May my loving Master (guru) be there for ever and ever

Hathhay jissay booti lai ho

who blew life into me

Pir meraya jugni

I have the spirit of my Pir (guru)

As way Al’Lah waliyan di jugni ji

The spirit of all the lovers of Al’Lah

Ae way Nabi Pak di jugni ji

The spirit of the Holy Prophet (Muhammad)

Ae way Maula Ali wali jugni ji

The spirit of Maula Ali

Ae way merry pir di jugni ji

The spirit of my Pir (guru)

Ae way saaray sabaz di jugni ji

The spirit of all His words

Dum gutkoon, dum gutkoon, dum gutkoon

Every time I think of you my God, my heart races

Karay Saaeein pardhay tay kalima nabi da parthay saaein

Fakir recites the kalima that was brought on by Prophet Muhammad (La’ilaha,illal’LaHu

Jugni taat khaeein vich thaal

O’people, share what ever you have

Chhadh duniya dey janjaal

discard worldly worries

Kuch nai nibna bandiya naal

There is nothing you can take to the grave

Rakhi saabat sidh ammal

Except your pure and righteous actions

Jugni dig payee vich roi

So perplexed was the creation that she stumbled (poet is referring to the Covenant of Alast, mentioned in the Qu’ran))

Otthay ro ro kamli hoi

There she wailed profusely

Oddi vaath naye lainda koi

But there was no one who could notice

Tay kalmay binna nai mildi toi

Remember, there is no salvation without kalima (La’ilaha,illal’LaHu) —

Ho wanga charha lo kuriyon

Put on your bangles, girls

Mere daata dey darbar diyan

At the court of my Daata (Ali Hijviri)

Ho naa kar Dheeya khair piyari

Daughter, don’t be proud of your youth

Maan daindiya gailryaan

your mother scruffs and scolds you

Din din talhi juwani jaandi

With each passing day, your youth slips by

Joon sohna puthia lariyaan

Even gold when put in furnace moulds itself

Aurat marad, shahzaday sohney

Women, men are so beautiful

O moti, O laa lariyaan

Like pearls, like the gems

Sir da sarfa kar naa kairey

Those who are not self-absorbed

Peer prem pyar lariyan

They are the ones who know unconditional Love

O daata day darbaar jaw ke ache

Whenever you visit the court (shrine) of Daata Sahib

Pawan khair sawa lariyan

osho quotes on sex

• You can be intense in sex and you may not be sincere, because sex is not necessarily love. You may be very, very intense in your sexuality -- but once sexuality is fulfilled, it is finished, the intensity gone. Love may not look so intense, but it is sincere -- and because it is sincere, the intensity continues. In fact, if you are really in love it becomes a timelessness. It is always intense. And make a clear distinction: if you are intense without sincerity, you cannot be forever intense. Only momentarily you can be intense; when the desire arises you are intense. It is not really your intensity. It is enforced by the desire.
   
• Love is the creative refinement of sex energy. And so, when love reaches perfection, the absence of sex automatically follows. A life of love, an abstinence from physical pleasures is called brahmacharya, and anyone who wishes to be free from sex must develop his capacity to love. Freedom from sex cannot be achieved through supersession. Liberation from sex is only possible through love.
   
• The more mind is filled with chattering, more sex has appeal.
   
• Why is so much sex needed? Because you are tense, sex becomes a release. Your tensions are released through it -- you feel relaxed, you can go to sleep; if you repress it, you remain tense. And if you repress sex -- the only release, the only possibility of release -- what will happen? You will go mad. Where will you release your tensions then?
   
• Only in sex the noise sometimes stops. I say "sometimes". If you have become habitual in sex also, as husbands and wives become, then it never stops. The whole act becomes automatic and the mind goes on its own. Then sex also is a boredom.
   
• If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever you look, that wound immediately projects, and whatsoever you see becomes sexual.
   
• Brahmacharya is not against sex. If it is against sex then sex can never disappear. Brahmacharya is a transmutation of the energy: it is not being against sex, rather it is changing the whole energy from the sex center to the higher centers. When it reaches to the seventh center of man, the sahasrar, then brahmacharya happens. If it remains in the first center, muladhar, then sex; when it reaches to the seventh center, then samadhi. The same energy moves. It is not being against it; rather, it is an art how to use it.
   
• If you go on loving a person deeply, by and by sex disappears. Intimacy becomes so fulfilling, then there is no need for sex; love is enough unto itself. When that moment comes then there is the possibility of prayer dawning upon you.
   
• When you make sex to a person, woman or man, you think it unites you. For a moment it gives you the illusion of unity, and then a vast division suddenly comes in. That's why after every sex act, a frustration, a depression sets in. One feels that one is so far away from the beloved. Sex divides, and when love goes deeper and deeper and unites more and more, there is no need for sex. Your inner energies can meet without sex, and you live in such a unity.
   
• When you are feeling very passionate, lust, sex takes over. Just try to be tranquil in the breathing, and you feel sex has disappeared.
   
• When sex desire arises, one simply pays total attention to it, not judging, not saying this is good or bad not saying this is evil, not saying that this is a provocation from the devil. No -- no evaluation at all because all valuation belongs to the mind and witnessing is not of the mind. Good, bad -- distinctions all belong to the mind, and the witnessing is undivided, one. It is neither good nor bad, it simply is. One pays attention to hunger or to the sex desire, total attention -- and total attention is such an energy, it is fire-the hunger simply is burned, the sex desire is simply burned.
   
• A great poet, a great singer, a dancer who is moving totally in his commitment, automatically becomes celibate. He has no discipline for it. Sex is superfluous energy; sex is a safety valve. When you have too much in you and you cannot do anything with it, the nature has made a safety valve; you can throw it out. You can release it, otherwise you will go mad or burst  --  explode. And if you try to suppress it, then too you will go mad, because suppressing it won't help. It needs a transformation, and that transformation comes from total commitment. A warrior, if he is really a warrior  --  an impeccable warrior, will be beyond sex. His whole energy is moving.
   
• If you are involved totally, sex disappears because sex is a safety valve. When you have energy unused, then sex becomes a haunting thing around you. When total energy is used, sex disappears. And that is the state of brahmacharya, of virya, of all your potential energy flowering.
   
• If you can come to this nowness without sex, sex, by and by will become useless, it will disappear. It will not be a desire then. If you want to move in it you can move into it as a fun, but not as a desire. Then there is no obsession in it because you are not dependent on it.
   
• What happens with your sex energy depends on how you use it. What it can become does not depend on it alone, but on your understanding and on how you live your life. Have you not observed that it becomes brahmacharya, the state of celibacy when it is transformed? bramhacharya is not hostile to passion; brahmacharya is the purification, the transcendence, the sublimation of passion. In the same way, the energy that manifests itself in violence becomes peace, serenity and tranquility. It is only a question of transformation.
   
• Be a witness of sex too. Don't be the controller of it. Don't try to forcibly bring it under control, remain a witness of it too. Just as you are a witness of everything else, remain a witness of sex too.
   
• Transcendence of sex is a totally different phenomenon from the suppression of it. But suppression can give you the feeling that you have transcended.

sun charkhe din mitthi mitthi..............

sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook
sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook mahiya mainu yaad aawanda meri dil viccho udthi e hook mahiya mainyu aawnda meri Id waala chan kadon chadega Allah jana mahi kadon vede wadega Dukh dhade ne te Zindhi malook sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook mahiya mainu yaad aawanda mahi aavega te khushiyan manavangi udehe rahavan vich akhiyan vichawangi jaan chadi hai vichhorein ne fook sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook mahiya mainu yaad aawanda meri dil viccho udthi e hook mahiya mainyu aawnda taane marde ne apne sharik ve likh chithi vich aaun dee tarik ve kaale raat wali dange mainu shook mahiyqa mainu aawanda sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook mahiya mainu yaad aawanda meri dil viccho udthi e hook kata pooriyan de hanju mere waghde hun haase vi nahi mainu change lagde kivein bhul jawan ude mai salook sun charkhe di miithi mithi kook mahiya mainu yaad aawanda meri dil viccho udthi e hook

Love is the Color of Godliness

 OSHO HAS SAID THIS MANY A TIMES THAT HE HIMSELF DID NOT ATTAIN THE ULTIMATE TRUTH THROUGH BHAKTI YOGA, BUT FOR A TRAVELER THE BEST PATH IS BHAKTI. KINDLY PUT SOME LIGHT ON THIS.

That’s right. Osho did not reach through BHAKTI yoga. Osho reached ultimate truth through path of Dhyan Yoga – path of meditation, awareness. But the path of meditation is dry and arid; it is like the journey in a desert. If one path goes through a desert and another path goes through valley of flowers and trees, then any intelligent person will prefer a path where there is greenery all around, where there are waterfalls, peacocks are dancing, cuckoo is singing. The path of meditation is parched, where one gets baked in the heat of sun. There is love, songs, dance and celebration on the path of devotion. Realizing this, Osho says there was no one to suggest me but I am here to suggest you. Therefore I tell you to leave other paths and walk on the path of devotion.

A famous saint happened in Bengal. His name was Baba Bhajan Bhramachari. He had thousands of disciples. In those days people use to criticize all Osho sannyasins. In earlier days, it was very easy to recognize the disciples of Osho as they used to wear orange robes and Mala while doing their daily chorus work. But Baba Bhajan Brahmachari gave more value and more respect to me than his own disciples. He made me sit besides himself whereas when his disciples used to leave, he used to say “Come, I will make you hear one song”. He used to sing very sweetly. He had written one song, which he himself sang sometimes and at times he played its cassette –

“Bhakti ka marag seedha re, kahe Baba Brahmachari”

I used to say “No, my path is of meditation. My path is not of devotion. My master teaches meditation.”  Baba Bhajan Brahmachari used to say “You don’t know, the path of devotion is very simple. There are many deludes in other paths. On the path of devotion not many deludes are there. It is a path of fun and one day you will have to reach through this path. At the end there is no difference left between different paths. So you travel through the way of devotion.”

Today I feel that Baba Bhajan Brahamachari was absolutely right. On the path of devotion you reach the destination on the very first step, because it is the path of love.

Tujhe malum bhi hai kitne janam beet gaye

Bada e talakhiye ayyaam ko peete peete.

This means - By drinking the bitter liquor of wealth, position, power, fame, how many births have you passed? Do you know?

Tishnagi phir bhi teri kam nahin hone payi

Aao peeneka saleeka main batata hoon tujhe,

De mere hath mein hath aur chal mere saath.

Aao chalne ka salika main batata hu tujhe.

Ishq ka pehla kadam hi hai naviye manzil.

Aao jeene ka salika main batata hu tujhe.

This means- Your desires are not yet reduced. Your thirst has not yet been quenched. Come, I will teach you the manner of drinking. Give your hand in my hand and walk with me.  Come, I will teach you the manner of walking. The first step of love is the last ladder of destination. Come, I will teach you the manner of living.

In love the first step is stepped on the destination. Remember that where the last step is placed in the path of meditation, in love the fist step itself is placed there.

                   

Ishq ka pehla kadam hi hai naviye manzil.

Aao jeene ka salika main batata hu tujhe.

Osho rightly says that if you travel through the path of devotion there is bliss at the destination as well as there is bliss on the way. If you go through the path of meditation, then there is no bliss on the way. When you reach the destination till that you are used to live in a dry and arid way, so you remain dry and arid on reaching the destination. If provision is made who won't like to travel through the path of devotion?

              Akbar asked saint Dadu how is God? What is His color? What is His caste? What is His style? How does He exist? Saint Dadu said a lovely thing–

“Ishk allah ki jaat hai, ishk allah ka dhang.

Ishk allah aujud hai, ishk allah ka rang.”

Love is its caste. Love is its form. Love is its way. Love is its color. So definitely if there is provision to go through the path of devotion, then any wise person will wish to go through it. 

osho quotes on present moment

Osho Quotes on Present Moment

• Live each moment as if you were going to die the next, and then there will be a great intensity and a great passion. You will be aflame with life. That being aflame is what being divine is to me.
  
• You have to pull all your energy back to the present moment. And the moment the whole energy becomes a pool, here and now, the explosion of light happens and you are, for the first time, absolutely yourself -- an eternal being, an immortal being, who knows nothing of death, who has never come across any darkness.
  
• Intelligence is the capacity to be in the present. The more you are in the past or are in the future, the less intelligent you are. Intelligence is the capacity to be here-now, to be in this moment and nowhere else. Then you are awake.
  
• When you are in the present without thinking, you are for the first time spiritual.
  
• This is the sleep: being absent, being not present to the present moment, being somewhere else.
  
• God is not in heaven -- God is in the present moment. If you are also in the present moment you enter the temple.
  
• The reality consists only of now, the present. It has nothing to do with the past and nothing to do with the future. It is so concentrated in this moment that if you can be in this moment, all that you are seeking and searching will be fulfilled. This moment is the door to the divine.
  
• Act in the moment, live in the present, slowly slowly don't allow the past to interfere And you will be surprised that life is such an eternal wonder, such a mysterious phenomenon and such a great gift that one simply feels constantly in gratitude. So this is my message for you: live in the moment, herenow. That's why I call it divine purity
  
• I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The very idea of "aim" brings future into the mind, because any aim, any end, any goal, needs future. All your goals deprive you of your present, which is the only reality you have. The future is only your imagination, and the past is just footprints left in the sands of your memory. Neither is the past real anymore, nor is the future real yet. This moment is the only reality.
  
• I am utterly devoted to the present moment. Don't move into the past because that is memory; there is no relevant existence to your memory anymore. Don't move into the future because that is only imagination. Just remain here, and you will be surprised. If you are just now here, all thoughts disappear, because all thoughts are either of the past or of the future. No thought is of the present. The present is so pure, so clean, so clear, just an opening into the cosmos. This is Zen, and this is the key to enter into life eternal. The very feel of life eternal takes all tensions, anxieties of old age, of sickness, of death, and birth away from you.
  
• Each moment life is new and you have to respond from your inner newness, you have to be available to the new as the new. And you have to respond, not out of your knowledge, but out of your present awareness. Only then life works, otherwise life stops working. If your life is not working, remember, it is the ego that is hindering, the mechanical has encroached upon the organic. To be free from the mechanical is to be in God, because it is to be in the organic unity of existence.
  
• Awareness means that whatsoever is happening in the moment is happening with complete consciousness; you are present there. If you are present when anger is happening, anger cannot happen. It can happen only when you are fast asleep. When you are present, immediate, transformation starts in your being, because when you are present, aware, many things are simply not possible. All that is called sin is not possible if you are aware. So, in fact, there is only one sin and that is unawareness.
  
• Greed arises only because your present moment is empty, and to live in an empty moment hurts very much. To forget it you project greed into the future, thinking that tomorrow things are going to be better, a lottery is going to open in your name. But of course you have to wait for tomorrow, it cannot be just now -- and tomorrow never comes. All that comes is always the present moment, which is empty. Greed is because we don't know how to live the present moment in its total richness.
  
• The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it disappears when thoughts disappear. The future is also a thought; it disappears when you drop thinking. When you are in a state of no-thought -- there is no past, no future, there is only the present -- in that state of no-thought you are ONE, in tune with God. And suddenly the flood is there: you are flooded with light, with love, with grace. You are no more a man, you are divine. You have surpassed humanity. Humanity is in a state of deep sleep.
  
• My sannyasin has to be utterly alive alive, spontaneous, responsive to the moment. My sannyasin has to forget both the past and the future, because one is no more and the other is not yet. Then you are left only with this moment and the rain falling on the trees, and the sounds... and you and me.... And then there is blessing. It is impossible to be miserable in the present. People are always miserable because of the past or the future. People are worried because they have done something in the past or something has been done to them, or they are worried about whether they will be able to do something right in the future or not. The present moment is utterly free of worry. It has a taste of the divine... the door to god opens through it.

Osho Quotes on Contentment

• Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.
   
• Move inwards! Contentment is a quality of your center; it is not found on the circumference. Fulfillment is when you have arrived at your real, authentic being; it is not found in the ego.
   
• Contentment is the door to god. If one is contented, one has already arrived. And the meaning of contentment is absolute acceptance as you are. Contentment means acceptance, discontentment means non-acceptance. A wants to become B -- that is discontent. A is perfectly happy in being A, there is no desire to become B -- that is contentment.
   
• Egolessness is contentment.
   
• Discontentment is human, contentment is divine. Animals know neither contentment nor discontentment; they simply go on living mechanically, unconsciously. It is the great privilege of human being to be aware of discontent. To be aware of discontent means there is a possibility to grow towards contentment. But very few people make any effort towards inner growth. Their whole life is rooted in a misunderstanding. They think that if they have a bigger house or more money or more power or more prestige they will be contented; that if they become famous, if their name is known all over the world, then they will be contented. That is sheer nonsense.
   
• Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.
   
• All power is God's power; we are only vehicles. He pulsates in our hearts. He breathes through us. He sings a thousand and one songs through us. Sannyas means to let this understanding become the foundation of your life: We are not, God is. Let the ego disappear, evaporate, and you will find infinite contentment. With the ego there is only misery; without the ego there is only God; and God is bliss, and God is benediction, and God is ecstasy. Die to the ego so that God can live in you.
   
• As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be less and less desire for that which you don't have, and more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. As meditation goes deeper, a very contented consciousness evolves. Ultimately there is no desire, only contentment.
  They are contraries, contradictories:
  More desires, then less contentment.
  Less desires, then more contentment.
  No desires, then absolute contentment.
   
• I teach contentment. And the basic principle of contentment is to drop your ego. Don't think for a single moment, "To be or not to be." Just not to be is the rule. What have you gained by trying to be? Just for a change try not to be, and you will be amazed. The moment you are not, there is contentment, there is silence, there is beauty, there is bliss. Meditation is only a methodology to make you aware that your only disease is your ego, and your only health is egolessness.
   
• Be contented with whatsoever is; never ask for more. The moment you ask for more you have asked for hell. The moment you ask for more you have asked for misery. The desire for more creates misery.
   
• If meditation is going rightly, deep, you will feel transformed throughout the whole day. A subtle contentment will be present every moment. With whatsoever you are doing, you will feel a cool center inside -- contentment.
   
• You cannot possess all and everything. Whatsoever you possess will not give you contentment. The mind, the ego, will always feel unfulfilled.
   
• The more you are possession oriented, the less happy you will be. The less happy you are, the farther away from the Divine, from prayer, from gratitude you will be. Be austere. Live with the necessary and forget about desires; they are fantasies in the mind, ripples in the lake. They only disturb you, they can never lead you to any contentment.
   
• When a man is able to be alone he is also able to love. And his love has a totally different quality, a different beauty, a different fragrance to it. It is something divine, it is something of the beyond. It is deeply fulfilling. It brings great contentment.
   
• Love can have the quality of the devil -- that's how it is there in the world, ninety-nine percent. Love can have the quality of God, and unless you make your love divine, it is not going to give you any contentment.
   
• The moment you become a little distant from the mind -- that's what meditation is, creating a distance between you and the mind -- you start feeling a new climate, the climate of contentment. Suddenly there is no hankering for anything. Suddenly the future is no more your interest, the past is no more your obsession. whatsoever you have seems to be so fulfilling; it may not be much but it seems so fulfilling. Even ordinary things of life can give such tremendous contentment that one could have never believed it before. Just sipping a cup of tea is more than one can ask for, or just breathing or just listening to the wind passing through the pine trees or just the moon reflected on the water. The whole world becomes a totally different kind of world when you are moving away from the mind.

Osho Quotes on Suffering

• You would like to live a life where there is no suffering, but that life is not possible if you continuously carry the ego with you. You cannot make a life around you so that suffering disappears. If you carry the ego, again and again you will bump into some reality which will hurt the unreal. Whenever there is an encounter between reality and unreality, the unreal causes suffering.
   
• Each suffering should be started in celebration. Then you change the quality of suffering itself. Each suffering should be welcomed through celebration; then the suffering is no more suffering.
   
• Use every opportunity in life for raising your intelligence, your consciousness. Ordinarily what we are doing is using every opportunity to create a hell for ourselves. Only you suffer, and because of your suffering, you make others suffer. And when so many people are living together, and if they all create suffering for each other, it goes on multiplying. That's how the whole world has become a hell. It can be instantly changed. Just the basic thing has to be understood, that without intelligence there is no heaven.
   
• Opposites are complementaries. If you can suffer your suffering in totality, in great intensity, you will be surprised: Saul becomes Paul. You will not be able to believe it when it happens for the first time, that your own suffering absorbed willingly, welcomingly, becomes a great blessing. The same energy that becomes hate becomes love, the same energy that becomes pain becomes pleasure, the same energy that becomes suffering becomes bliss.
   
• If you really want to get rid of misery and suffering then you will have to understand -- you don't have a self. Then it will be not just a small relief but a tremendous relief. And if you don't have a self, the need for the other disappears. It was the need of the unreal self to go on being nourished by the other. You don't need the other. And listen carefully: when you don't need the other, you can love. And that love will not bring misery.
  
  Going beyond needs, demands, desires, love becomes a very soft sharing, a great understanding. When you understand yourself, that very day you have understood the whole of humanity. Then nobody can make you miserable. You know that they are suffering from an unreal self, and they are throwing their misery on anybody who is close by. Your love will make you capable of helping the person you love to get rid of the self.
   
• Remember, one who enjoys more is bound to suffer more because he becomes very sensitive. But suffering is not bad. If you understand it rightly, suffering is a cleansing. If you understand it rightly, sadness has a depth to it which no happiness can ever have. A person who is simply happy is always superficial. A person who has not known sorrow and has not known sadness, has not known the depths. He has not touched the bottom of his being; he has remained just on the periphery. One has to move within these two banks. Within these two banks flows the river.
   
• The moment you become identified with your suffering you want to discard it, you want to get rid of it, it is so painful. But if you are a witness then suffering loses all thorns, all stings. Then there is suffering, and you are a witness to it. You are just a mirror; it has nothing to do with you. Happiness comes and goes, unhappiness comes and goes, it is a passing show; you are just there, a mirror reflecting it. Life comes and goes, death comes and goes; the mirror is not affected by either. The mirror reflects but remains unaffected; the mirror is not imprinted by either.
   
• Suffering is there. It is part of life and part of growth; nothing is bad in it. Suffering becomes evil only when it is simply destructive and not creative at all; suffering becomes bad only when you suffer and nothing is gained out of it. But I am telling you the divine can be gained through suffering; then it becomes creative. Darkness is beautiful if the dawn is coming out of it soon; darkness is dangerous if it is endless, leads to no dawn, simply continues and continues and you go on moving in a rut, in a vicious circle.
  
  This is what is happening to you. Just to escape from one suffering you create another; then to escape from another, another. And this goes on and on and all those sufferings which you have not lived are waiting for you. You have escaped but you escape from one suffering to another, because a mind which was creating a suffering will create another. So you can escape from this suffering to that, but suffering will be there because your mind is the creative force.
  
  Accept the suffering and pass through it; don't escape. This is a totally different dimension to work in. Suffering is there: encounter it, go through it. Fear will be there, accept it. You will tremble, so tremble. Why create a facade that you don't tremble, that you are not afraid? If you are a coward, accept it.
  
   

Osho Quotes on Parents

• Each child is made neurotic by the parents, by the society; and we know that we are doing it, and we know that others have done the same to us. Stop doing it to yourself and stop doing it to others. Become alert. Just be real. I emphasize reality more than truth. Because truth has been used by the anti-life people so much, it has wrong associations. Be real. If you are real, one thing will start disappearing from your heart, and that is guilt.
  
• Parents appreciate the child who agrees; they condemn the child who disagrees.
  
• Every child is so helpless -- just to survive he has to be political, he has to accept whatsoever the parents are saying.
  
• The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him more. Appreciate what is good in him rather than emphasizing what is bad. Talk about his goodness. Let the whole neighborhood know how nice and beautiful a boy he is. You may be able to shift his energy from the bad side to the good side, from the dark side to the lighted side, because you will make him aware that this is the way to get respect, this is the way to be honored. And you will prevent him from doing anything that makes him fall down in people's eyes.
  
• Every child has to disobey the father. Unless a child disobeys the father he never becomes mature. It is nothing, original, it is very simple and natural. It is very psychological. There comes an age when every child has to say NO to the parents. If he does not say no to the parents he will not have a spine; he will be spineless. If he cannot say no to the parents, he will be a slave his whole life. He will never attain to individuality.
  
• Every child is simple, just a clean slate. Then the parents start writing on his slate -- what he has to become. Then the teachers, the priests, the leaders -- they all go on emphasizing that you have to become somebody; otherwise, you have wasted your life. Just the opposite is the case. You are a being. You need not become anybody else. That is the meaning of simplicity: remaining at ease with one's being, and not going on any track of becoming -- which is unending.
  
• If you are born in a Hindu family your parents will start teaching you that you are a Hindu. Now they are creating a hypnotic state. Nobody is a Hindu -- but this child is innocent, he can be befooled. This child is simple. He will believe the parents, that he is a Hindu -- not only a Hindu, but a brahmin, not only a brahmin, but a deshastha brahmin. Sects within sects, just like Chinese boxes -- boxes within boxes. And the more he becomes narrowed, the more he becomes a prisoner. The box goes on getting smaller and smaller. He was just like the sky when he was born. Then he became a Hindu, a smaller box; then he became a brahmin -- a smaller box; then he became a Deshastha -- an even smaller box.
  
• Freedom is the basic thing. Consciousness grows in freedom and starts dying, becomes paralyzed and crippled, when things are forced. And up to now, this has been done. This is the greatest crime that parents have always committed against children. They go on forcing the child.
  
• The world is not religious because religion is imposed upon us. The parents are in a hurry to impose; the church, the state, the country -- everybody is in a hurry to impose a certain religion on the child. How foolish! How stupid! Religion needs maturity, great understanding, before one can choose.
  
• Every child is born with tremendous love for himself. It is the society that destroys that love, it is the religion that destroys that love -- because if a child goes on growing in loving himself, who is going to love Jesus Christ? Who is going to love the president, Ronald Reagan? Who is going to love the parents?
  
• The parents, the society, the state, the church, the educational system, they all depend on lies. As the child is born they start trapping it into lies. And the child is helpless. He cannot escape his parents, he is utterly dependent. You can exploit his dependence...and it has been exploited down the ages.
  
• If parents are really wise they will create opportunities for the children to say no -- and beautiful opportunities. Right now, unknowingly, they give ugly opportunities. For example, you say to the child, "Don't smoke cigarettes." This is an ugly opportunity because the child WILL smoke -- you have tempted the child to smoke cigarettes. You should have told him something better -- "Don't go out in the sun. Don't climb the tree." But you say to the children, "Don't eat ice cream." You should say to them, "Don't eat fruit" -- that will be a wise temptation! "Eat as much ice cream as you want, but don't eat fruit." Give them such a temptation as leads them to say no to you but does not harm their lives; otherwise they will remain deformed their whole lives.
  
• No child is born with an inferiority complex. It is the parents, the teachers, the priests, the society, the culture, which are responsible for creating the inferiority complex in the child. And the only way for the child to get rid of it seems to be to prove himself worthy according to the expectations of others. It creates a very miserable situation. He is not growing towards his own potential, he is following guidelines given by others. He will become somebody else that he was not by his nature supposed to be. He will never be happy; misery is going to be his lot. He may be able to assert himself; he may not be able to prove he is worthy, or he may be able to prove he is -- whatever the case, misery is going to be the end result.
  
• Don't teach the child the politics of religion. Leave him intact, alone, but give him an opportunity, a milieu, an atmosphere, a climate where he can feel in touch with what religion is. Then he will be religious. He may not be a Christian, but that is pointless, that is meaningless. He may not be a Hindu, but he will be religious. But parents are more interested that the child should be a Christian -- he should follow the same foolishness that they have been following. The child should be a Hindu -- he should be corrupted in the same way they have been corrupted. The child should have an identity of belonging to some organization -- the same that they belong to. This is the politics of religion; it is not religion at all.

Osho Quotes on Ambition

• When ambition enters, creativity disappears -- because an ambitious man cannot be creative, because an ambitious man cannot love any activity for its own sake. While he is painting he is looking ahead; he is thinking, 'When am I going to get a Nobel Prize?' When he is writing a novel, he is looking ahead. He is always in the future -- and a creative person is always in the present.
   
• Wherever there is desire and ambition, you are in bondage.
   
• The family gives you ambition, and ambition is one of the hindrances for enlightenment. It gives you desires, it gives you a longing to be successful, and all these things create your tensions, your anxieties: how to be a celebrity?
   
• All these problems are created because the society wants you to be ambitious, and ambition can only be created if there is a goal in the future. For ambition, future is needed. And without ambition, the ego cannot be created. And the ego is the basic strategy of the society to rule over you, to exploit you, to oppress you, to keep you miserable. The ego exists in the tension between the present and the future: the bigger the tension, the bigger the ego. When there is no tension between your present and future, the ego disappears because there is no point where it can have shelter, where it can exist. Hence society teaches you, "Become this, become that." It teaches you becoming. Its whole education system is based on the idea of becoming.
   
• We start making every child ambitious, and ambition means you cannot love; ambition is anti-love. Ambition needs fight, ambition needs struggle, ambition needs you to use others as a means.
   
• Love says respect the other as an end unto himself or herself; never use the other as a means. Nobody is a means for you, everybody is an end. But then ambition will flop, and our whole educational system depends on ambitiousness, our politics depends on ambition, our religions depend on ambition.
   
• Every child is born sane, and then, slowly slowly, we civilize him -- we call it the process of civilization. We prepare him to become part of the great culture, the great church, the great state to which we belong. Our whole politics is stupid, and then HE becomes stupid. Our whole education is ugly. Our politics means nothing but ambition, naked ambition -- ambition for power. And only the lowest kind of people become interested in power.
   
• The whole society depends on creating ambition in you. Ambition means a conflict, ambition means that whatsoever you are, you are wrong -- you have to be somewhere else. Wherever you are, you are wrong -- you have to be somewhere else. A constant madness to be somewhere else, to be somebody else, is what ambition is.
   
• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.
   
• How to find joy? Let your ambition disappear; ambition is the barrier. Ambition means an ego trip: "I want to be this, I want to be that -- more money, more power, more prestige.
   
• Man wants two contradictory things together: he wants peace and he is ambitious. It is impossible. If you are ambitious, then your mind is bound to remain restless. If you want peace, then the first requirement is to drop all ambition. Unless you drop ambition you cannot be at ease, at peace, you cannot be relaxed.
   
• Mind is politics, because mind is ambitious and ambition is the root of politics. If you are ambitious you are political. Your ambition may take the form of religion, but the politics is there. Then you are competing with other saints.
   
• Buddha introduced the idea that young people should become sannyasins. Then it is something significant. When a young person goes beyond sex, when a young person goes beyond desires, when a young person goes beyond greed, ambition, the longing to be powerful, the ambition to be famous, then it is something tremendously meaningful, significant.
   
• All political power, all power as such, is stupid. Don't rush after it, don't be ambitious, because all ambition collects dust and only dust. If you are not disillusioned by dust, you will not be able to know what truth is. A man obsessed with ambition is not capable of knowing truth at all. Eyes full of ambition never see what is; they only see what they want to see. The ambitious mind is the wrong mind; the non-ambitious mind is the right mind.
   
• Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.
  
  Be the first! Wherever you are, whatsoever you are doing: be the first! -- as if being the first has something divine about it. By what means you become the first is irrelevant. By right means or wrong means, succeed! As if success in itself has become equivalent to life, synonymous with life. Life has nothing to do with success. Success keeps you rushing towards the future and that becomes your intoxicant. Hoping, hoping for the tomorrow, wasting that which you have or that which you don't have and will never have.

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Gautam Buddha Quotes The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.   For in craving pleasure or in nursing pain There is only sorrow.   All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak or act with a pure mind And happiness will follow you As your shadow, unshakable.   Free yourself from attachment.   Fresh milk takes time to sour. So a fool's mischief Takes time to catch up with him. Like the embers of a fire It smoulders within him.   The wise man tells you Where you have fallen And where you yet may fall - Invaluable secrets! Follow him, follow the way.   By your own folly You will be brought as low As you worst enemy wishes.   Health, contentment and trust Are your greatest possessions, And freedom your greatest joy. Look within. Be still.   By your own efforts Waken yourself, watch yourself. And live joyfully. You are the master.

Buddha Quotes and Sayings Speak or act with an impure mind, And trouble will follow you.   An untroubled mind, No longer seeking to consider What is right and what is wrong, A mind beyond judgements, Watches and understands.   In this world Hate never yet dispelled hate. Only love dispels hate. This is the law, Ancient and inexhaustible.   In every trial Let understanding fight for you   If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.   Your worst enemy cannot harm you As much as your own thoughts, unguarded. But once mastered, No one can help you as much, Not even your father or your mother.   Whoever follows impure thoughts Suffers in this world and the next. In both worlds he suffers And how greatly   Understand that the body Is merely the foam of a wave, The shadow of a shadow.   Desire never crosses the path Of virtuous and wakeful men.   The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay Does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue Rises to the heavens.

Jesus Christ Quotes and Sayings Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see god.   Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.   The kingdom is within you and it is without you.   Cleave a piece of wood and i am there; lift up the stone and you will find me there.   Blessed is the man who has suffered; he has found life.   If you will know yourselves, then you will be known and you will know that you are the sons of the living father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty and you are poverty.   He (Jesus Christ) sat down, and called the twelve, and saith unto them, if any man Desire to be first, the same shall be last of all, and servant of all.   Ye have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But i say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good To them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.   I will give you what the eye has not seen, and what the ear has not heard, and what the hand has not touched, and what has not arisen in the heart of man.   Blessed are the solitary and elect, for you shall find the Kingdom; and because you come from it you shall go there again.   If they say to you, ’from where have you originated?’ say to them, ’We have come from the light, where the light originated through itself.’   If they ask you, ’what is the sign of your father in you?’ say to them, ’it is a movement and a rest.’   Whoever is near to me is near to the fire, and whoever is far From me is far from the kingdom.   Whoever drinks from my mouth shall become as i am and i myself Will become he, and the hidden things shall be revealed to him.   Jesus said: it is impossible for a man to mount two horses and to stretch two bows; and it is impossible for a servant to serve two masters, otherwise he will honor the one and offend the other.   Jesus said: the mote that is in thy brother’s eye thou seest, but the beam that is in thine eye thou seest not.   Jesus said: When thou castest the beam out of thine eye, then thou wilt see clearly to cast the mote out of thy brother’s eye.   Jesus saw children who were being suckled. He said to his disciples: these Children who are being suckled are like those who enter the kingdom. They said to him: shall we then, being children, enter the kingdom? Jesus said to them: when you make the two one, and when you make the inner as the outer and the outer as the inner, and the above as the below, and When you make the male and the female into a single one, so that the male 2ill not be male and the female not be female, then shall you enter the kingdom.

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Quotes

Hazrat Khwaja Moinuddin Chisti Quotes

• Love Towards All, Malice Towards None.
• The spiritual disciple deserves to be called a Dervish only when he lives in the world with no self-interest.
• There are such lovers of God, whom the love of God has made quiet to an extent that they do not know that there is anything else existing in the world.
• He is a hardened sinner who commits sin and yet simultaneously entertains the belief that he is one the God’s ‘chosen few’.
• A friend of God must be generous like a river. We all get water from the river to quench our thirst. It does not discriminate whether we are good or bad or whether we are a relation or a stranger.
• The noise of the lover is only while he has not seen his Beloved. Once he sees the beloved, he becomes calm and quiet, just as the rivers are boisterous before they join the ocean, but when they do so, there are becalmed forever.
• The heart was essentially created for making rounds of the love of God.
• Whosoever received any blessings, received them due to his generosity.
• The Enlightened becomes perfect only when all else is removed from in-between him and the Friend. Either he remains or the Friend.
• When one comes on the path of love of the Friend, he becomes nonexistent (loses himself).
• Those devoted to the path of the ‘knowledge of God’s realisation’ (Irfaan ) have nothing to speak of except God.
• A seer of the ‘essence of things’ is characteristically mute and meditative.
• Be overflowing with peace and joy,
  and scatter them wherever you are
  and wherever you go.
• He indeed is a true devotee blessed with the love of God, who is gifted with the following three attributes: river-like charity, i.e his sense of charity has no limits and is equally beneficial to all the creatures of God who approach him, Sun-like affection, i.e. his affection may be extended indiscriminately to all like sunlight and Earth-like hospitality, i.e. His loving embrace may be open to 

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Guru Nanak Dev Sayings

• his (god) compassion is beyond all description.
  the lord's gifts are so great he expects nothing in return.
   
• all creation is his (god) name;
  there is no place that is not his name.
   
• countless are the names and the places where you (god) dwell,
  countless worlds that have never been reached.
  to say countless is to burden the mind.
   
• those in whose heart rama (god) abides
  never die nor can be cheated.
   
• his (god) is the timeless form.
  never born, self-creating.
  he is attained by the guru's grace.
   
• the real power lies in his hands
  -- who creates and keeps on watching.
  nanak says, no one is high and no one is low before him.
   
• were you to live through four ages,
  or even ten times more,
  were you known on all nine continents,
  and were to gain universal following,
  were you to earn fame and praise from all of mankind,
  if you have not his grace, nothing will save you.
   
• he makes the worthless worthy,
  and showers the gifted with more gifts.
  none but god can bestow such excellence

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Guru Nanak Dev Quotes the lord is truth. truth is his name. his praises are sung in endless ways.   oh yogi, assume the posture of contentment and modesty. pick up the carrying bag of dignity and honor, and apply the sacred ash of meditation.   if you must bow, bow to him (god). he is the primal being, pure, without beginning or end; he is the unstruck sound. he is immutable through all time.   saint or sinner are no empty words; all our actions have been recorded. man sows and he himself reaps the harvest.   if my single tongue becomes a hundred thousand, and this hundred thousand becomes twenty times more, with each tongue would i sing a hundred thousand times the only name of the master of the world.   if i have succeeded in attaining his (god) pleasure, i have bathed in all the holy rivers. and if i fail to please him, why should i bathe and adorn myself?   remember the true name and meditate on its glory in the ambrosial hour. through your actions you receive this body, and by his grace the door to salvation opens.   however well i know him, he cannot be described. he cannot be expressed by words. the guru is the secret that solves the riddle. he is the benefactor of all. let me never forget him.

Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes In the waters of purity, I melted like salt Neither blasphemy, nor faith, nor conviction, nor doubt remained. In the center of my heart a star has appeared And all the seven heavens have become lost in it.   When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.   Without cause God gave us Being; without cause, give it back again.   How long will you think about this painful life? How long will you think about this harmful world? The only thing it can take from you is your body. Don't say all this rubbish and stop thinking.   There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life. There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine. O traveler, if you are in search of That Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek That.   Hundreds have looked for you and died searching in this garden where you hide behind the scenes. But this pain is not for those who come as lovers. You are easy to find here. You are in the breeze and in this river of wine.   There is a way between voice and presence where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens. With wandering talk it closes.   When your chest is free of your limiting ego, Then you will see the ageless Beloved. You can not see yourself without a mirror; Look at the Beloved, He is the brightest mirror.   In love, aside from sipping the wine of timelessness, nothing else exists. There is no reason for living except for giving one's life. I said, "First I know you, then I die." He said, "For the one who knows Me, there is no dying."   Come, Come again ! Whatever you are... Whether you are infidel, idolater or fireworshipper. Whether you have broken your vows of repentance a hundred times This is not the gate of despair, This is the gate of hope. Come, come again...

Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes

Mowlana Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes Open the love window. The moon won't use the door, only the window.   A lifetime without Love is of no account Love is the Water of Life Drink it down with heart and soul!   Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent.   The sky was lit by the splendor of the moon So powerful I fell to the ground Your love has made me sure I am ready to forsake this worldly life and surrender to the magnificence of your Being   If I love myself I love you. If I love you I love myself.   I see so deeply within myself. Not needing my eyes, I can see everything clearly. Why would I want to bother my eyes again Now that I see the world through His eyes?   With passion pray. With passion work. With passion make love. With passion eat and drink and dance and play. Why look like a dead fish in this ocean of God?   Love is from the infinite, and will remain until eternity. The seeker of love escapes the chains of birth and death. Tomorrow, when resurrection comes, The heart that is not in love will fail the test.   This aloneness is worth more than a thousand lives. This freedom is worth more than all the lands on earth. To be one with the truth for just a moment, Is worth more than the world and life itself.   The intellectual is always showing off, the lover is always getting lost. The intellectual runs away. afraid of drowning; the whole business of love is to drown in the sea.

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Saint Kabir Quotes If there be lust, how can love be there? Where there is love, there is no lust.   It is the mercy of my true Guru that has made me to know the unknown.   Your Lord is near: yet you are climbing the palm-tree to seek Him.   Where is the night, when the sun is shining? If it is night, then the sun withdraws its light. Where knowledge is, can ignorance endure?   Serve your God, who has come into this temple of life! Do not act the part of a madman, for the night is thickening fast.   The man who is kind and who practises righteousness, who remains passive amidst the affairs of the world, who considers all creatures on earth as his own self, He attains the Immortal Being, the true God is ever with him.   You are alone, you have no companion: you will suffer the consequences of your own deeds.   You are weaving your bondage of falsehood, your words are full of deception: With the load of desires which you hold on your head, how can you be light?   The flute of the Infinite is played without ceasing, and its sound is love: When love renounces all limits, it reaches truth. How widely the fragrance spreads! It has no end, nothing stands in its way.   O my heart! the Supreme Spirit, the great Master, is near you: wake, oh wake! Run to the feet of your Beloved: for your Lord stands near to your head. You have slept for unnumbered ages; this morning will you not wake?   Subtle is the path of love! Therein there is no asking and no not-asking, There one loses one’s self at His feet, There one is immersed in the joy of the seeking: plunged in the deeps of love as the fish in the water. The lover is never slow in offering his head for his Lord’s service.