About this series · summary by Osho Live
"The Beloved, Vol 1" is an expansive exploration into the depths of love and spirituality, as interpreted by the profound insights of Osho. This discourse series offers a transformative journey through understanding the nature of love, not merely as an emotion, but as a doorway to spiritual awakening and self-realization. Osho dissects the conventional notions of love, urging a shift from attachment and dependence towards a state of unconditional and transcendental love. He emphasizes love as a pathway to dissolve the ego, a surrender that opens us to the boundless potentialities of existence. Throughout the series, Osho invites listeners to explore love as a meditative practice, where the beloved can become a mirror reflecting one's inner divinity. The messages are laced with paradox and poetry, challenging and encouraging seekers to move beyond the mundane and into the sacred celebration of life. By integrating insights drawn from mysticism, psychology, and meditation, Osho presents a revolutionary perspective on relationships, suggesting that true love arises only from inner freedom and spiritual fulfillment. This series promises a rich tapestry of teachings for those yearning to experience love as the essence of spiritual growth and enlightenment.
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Submission is the secret of knowledge 21 June 1976
Submission - total surrender of ego through love - is the true knowledge: Bauls live by spontaneous, ecstatic devotion, finding the inner essential man.
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I am just a midwife 22 June 1976
Awe is the only doorway to the divine: surrender, lose control and let a Master act as midwife to your inner birth; mind's substitutes block true faith.
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What is there, is there 23 June 1976
Reality is unchanging; the flickering mind projects a dream-world. Stop the projector: be here now, witness, lose the ego, and lose dreams to meet the real.
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The only criterion is your thirst 24 June 1976
Thirst is the only criterion: wake as the witnessing self; transcend sex not by repression but by fully living it, so it naturally ripens and fades.
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Kali and Krishna are one 25 June 1976
The novel man renounces having to become a man of being; Kali and Krishna are one; inner eternity replaces time, revealing nonduality and true freedom.
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Direction a non-ending process 26 June 1976
Direction, not destination: live the present as a spontaneous, unfolding journey rather than a fixed goal; trust life, drop expectations, and be surprised.
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Dying with death, You must live to seek 27 June 1976
Commit to the earth and discover God within: Baul wisdom urges full embodied presence—embrace body, love and death so you die with death and keep seeking.
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The body is an abode 28 June 1976
Body as an inhabited temple: fully celebrate it as the shrine of the divine, not as mere fitness; surrender, allow life, and stop chasing happiness.
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It is always god who loves 29 June 1976
Love is the divine energy that transforms and reconnects the heart to existence; logic blinds like an owl—allow love, resist possession, be receptive to God.
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Truth is neither I nor you 30 June 1976
Spontaneous Baul life, words as energy-transmission, love must be purified from ego and lust; true self transcends 'I' and 'you', surrender yields freedom.
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