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The Master embodies both the purifying fire of death and the essence of Brahman, dissolving the ego and false hopes, allowing the true, deathless self to emerge; in surrendering to this transformative process, one awakens to the radiant Great Life within.

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When Osho Spoke About Master

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Jyun Macchali Bin Neer · Discourse 7Question 2 1980-09-27 Pune Translated from Hindi by Osho Live

Osho, sometimes you speak on spirituality, sometimes on society; sometimes on politics, then on science; sometimes you support the scriptures, and at other times you talk of consigning them to the Holi bonfire. This creates all kinds of contradictions, which makes it difficult to understand you. You seem revolutionary, yet your traditional side also shows, because you insist on ochre robes and the mala. Is revolution not possible without sannyas? Can a person not be healthy without the label of sannyas? Is it not enough to be human—just human? This vast organization you are building—what is th

Melaram Asrani! I understand your difficulty. Your difficulty is the difficulty of many; therefore it is worth considering—worth considering seriously.
ओशो के मूल हिंदी शब्द · Osho's original Hindi

दूसरा प्रश्न: ओशो, आप कभी अध्यात्म पर बोलते हैं, तो कभी समाज पर; कभी राजनीति पर, तो कभी विज्ञान पर; कभी शास्त्रों का समर्थन करते हैं, तो कभी उनकी होली जलाने की बात करते हैं। इससे कई तरह के विरोधाभास खड़े हो जाते हैं, जिससे आपको समझना मुश्किल हो जाता है। आप क्रांतिकारी भी लगते हैं, पर फिर आपका परंपरागत रूप भी दिखाई पड़ता है, क्योंकि आप गेरुए वस्त्रों और माला का आग्रह करते हैं। क्या संन्यास के बिना क्रांति संभव नहीं? क्या व्यक्ति बिना संन्यास के लेबल के स्वस्थ नहीं हो सकता? क्या मनुष्य होना काफी नहीं है--मात्र मनुष्य? यह जो आप एक बड़ा विशाल संगठन खड़ा कर रहे हैं, इन सबका उद्देश्य क्या है?

मेलाराम असरानी! मैं तुम्हारी तकलीफ समझता हूं। तुम्हारी तकलीफ बहुतों की तकलीफ है, इसलिए विचारणीय है, गंभीरतापूर्वक विचारणीय है।

Question: BELOVED OSHO, WHY DO YOU ALWAYS SPEAK OF THE MASTER IN THE THIRD PERSON? Because I am only a witness. My function as a master is not my identity. It is just like somebody is a plumber and somebody is a surgeon; I am a master -- but it is functional, it is not my reality. That's why I speak in the third person. So I go on talking about the master as `he' -- I don't use `I' -- just to make you aware that I am more than the master, that I am watching the master. Just as you are watching him, I am watching him too. You are watching from one side, I am watching from another side. But I am as different from it as you are different from it.
Kan Thore Kankar Ghane · Discourse 6Question 2 1977-05-16 Pune Translated from Hindi by Osho Live

Osho, you sing the glory of the Master’s satsang every single day, but you speak of communion with nature only once in a while. Is the Master an even more sensitive doorway than nature? Please explain.

I have heard: A man died; he reached the gates of heaven. The gatekeeper asked, “Sir, have you done some virtue that you have come straight to heaven?” He said, “Yes, I have. I once gave an old woman three paise.” Seeing such a miser, such a niggard, they could not believe it. There had been reports from earth that he was a great miser. That he had given three paise—hard to believe. But they checked the accounts book. He had indeed given three paise. It was recorded. So the gatekeeper asked his colleague, “Now what should we do?” The colleague said, “Give him not three but four paise back—interest included—and send him to hell. What else can we do!” What you have done in the name of religion is just like those three paise. And remember: the fourth paise will be returned to you—and then the journey to hell!…
ओशो के मूल हिंदी शब्द · Osho's original Hindi

दूसरा प्रश्न: ओशो, गुरु के सत्संग की तो आप रोज-रोज महिमा गाते हैं, पर प्रकृति के सत्संग की कभी-कभी ही चर्चा करते हैं। क्या गुरु प्रकृति से भी अधिक संवेदनशील द्वार है? कृपा करके समझाए।

… इसकी खबरें आती रही थीं जमीन से कि यह महा कृपण है। इसने तीन पैसे दिए हों, भरोसा तो नहीं आया। लेकिन खाता-बही देखी। तीन पैसे उसने दिए थे। लिखा था हिसाब कि तीन पैसे दिए हैं। तो द्वारपाल अपने सहयोगी से पूछने लगा: अब क्या करें! तो उसके सहयोगी ने कहा: इसको तीन पैसे की जगह चार पैसे दे दो--ब्याज सहित वापस--और नरक भेजो। और क्या करेंगे! तुमने जो किया है कभी धर्म, वह ऐसा ही है--तीन पैसे जैसा। और तुम ध्यान रखना: चौथा पैसा तुम्हें वापस मिल जाएगा और नरक की यात्रा...!

Being beyond the limits of time he is the master of masters. He is known as aum.

REPEAT AND MEDITATE ON AUM. REPEATING AND MEDITATING ON AUM BRINGS ABOUT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ALL OBSTACLES AND AN AWAKENING OF A NEW CONSCIOUSNESS. ... Remember this -- desire and need -- these two words. Desire is of the mind; need is of the body. Desire and need, then you are a clock with hands. Only need, no desire, then you are a clock without hands, and when need also drops, you have gone beyond time. This is eternity; beyond time is eternity. For example: if I don't look at the watch -- and I have to look continuously the whole day -- if I don't look at the watch, I don't know what is the time. Even if I have seen it five minutes before, again I have to look because I don't know exactly, because now -- no time inside -- only the body is ticking. Consciousness has no
A living Master can wake you up; nature is lovely but asleep and can’t wake you—once awake, you’ll see the divine in nature too.
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A real Master burns away your fake self so the real you—Brahman—can appear.
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He says ‘he’ to show the master is just a job he watches, not who he really is.
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