Aura

A white and small aura is visible just over your head. Why is not a colored one visible?

IT IS a colored one -- but all the colors are there, hence it looks white. White is not colorless. White is the presence of all the colors together. White is the most colorful thing in the world -- hence it looks white. When a white ray passes through a prism it divides into seven colors. That's how a rainbow is created in the rainy season. Small particles of water hanging in the air function as prisms. White rays of sun enter through those hanging particles of water and are divided into seven colors. If you mix all the colors in the right proportions, you will create white. White is all the colors together. I am not a Buddhist, I am not a Hindu, I am not a Christian, I am not a Jain, I am not a Mohammedan -- and I am all. All colors together! Hence white is…

Osho, when I listen to you with my eyes closed, it feels as if many waves are entering my body; when I gaze at you steadily without blinking, I see a white halo around you. This aura seems connected with the aura of certain sannyasins. Sometimes during the discourse I also experience something like a gentle electric shock. I have been listening to you for two years, but these experiences have been happening only for the last fifteen days. How should I listen to you—eyes closed or open? Please guide me. Suman Bharti has asked!

Life is like that. Who knows when you might turn back? If at any point in these two years you had turned back, Suman—there must have been chances to turn back—you would have missed, and missed badly. When it will happen cannot be said. And in these two years, many times in your mind, seeing others, the thought must have arisen: “They must be in delusion—hallucinating. It’s a mental aberration.” Because when something is not happening to us and it happens to someone else, the natural inclination is to call it illusion. “His brain is disordered. He’s not in his senses. What halos? What tinklings? What music? What electric shocks! If all this is happening, the man must be pathological. Better not sit near him tomorrow—diseases are contagious.” Many times, Suman, you must have felt that what is happening to others is wrong. But now, what had looked wrong has…

Osho, the other day while listening to your discourse, a strange kind of vibration arose in the heart and along the auditory nerves; since then even ordinary sounds set off odd ripples and waves of bliss. Please tell me: is there something in the voice of enlightened ones that produces a special effect? Also, in your presence there is a particular, delightful fragrance; at times it is felt in the ashram and sometimes during meditation as well. In this regard, please say whether certain moments in time have their own special fragrance too.

I speak with the same purpose with which a musician plays the vina. He does not play to explain anything. Remember me as a vina player. My speaking is my vina. What I am saying to you—less am I speaking, more am I singing. If you understand its purpose, that is enough: listening to this instrument—as one sometimes, listening to a vina, falls into a trance—one begins to sway; something within begins to vibrate; something like a stone inside begins to melt and flow. For a moment a window, an opening, is there—sky is glimpsed. Like a flash of lightning—the darkness is gone—even if only for a moment; but then you know that light is, and you also know there is a path. It was revealed for a moment in the lightning’s flare, but revealed it was. Now no one can tell you there is no path; no one can…

Osho, is psychic exploitation possible in the name of shaktipat? How is it possible, and how can a seeker avoid it?

It is possible; in the name of shaktipat a great deal of spiritual exploitation can happen. In fact, wherever there is a claim, there will be exploitation. Wherever someone says, “I will give you something,” he will also take something—because giving, as such, does not happen without taking. If someone says, “I am giving,” he will also take back from you. The coin can be anything—he may take it as money, as respect, as reverence—in some form he will take. Where there is giving—insistently, claimfully—there will be taking too. And the one who claims to give will take more than he gives. Otherwise, why would he need to shout in the marketplace? In truth, he is “giving” the way a fisherman puts dough on a hook—because fish won’t eat a bare hook. Perhaps some day fish can be persuaded to swallow a naked hook; so far, no fish eats a…