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What is the significance of choicelessness in relation to Krishna and the Gita's teachings on life and death?

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"To be choiceless is to embrace each experience fully, transcending the duality of pleasure and pain, and in that surrender, one discovers the profound freedom of being untouched by fear or desire."

Core Insight:
According to Osho, Krishna’s Gita points to choicelessness: not killing sensitivity but fulfilling it so totally that, in pleasure or pain, no separate chooser remains to be agitated. This is the sthitaprajna—utterly sensitive yet unmoved. By entering each experience wholly, one goes beyond comparison and preference; thus one abides equally in life and in death, free of fear, clinging, and aversion.
Feel everything fully without picking sides; then nothing inside is left to fight, so you rest the same in joy, pain, life, or death.
Why this matters practically
- Stops numbing and repression; you become more alive yet steady.
- Reduces anxiety by ending the habit of comparing and choosing.
- Cultivates fearlessness toward change, including sickness, loss, and death.
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