Osho's perspective on Mystery
When Osho Spoke About Mystery
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Osho, you have said that the world and life are filled with supreme mystery, and that every particle of it is miraculous. Why and how are our eyes becoming blind to that mystery and wonder? And can that sense of mystery be regained?
Your eyes are becoming blind because of overthinking. To perceive mystery, thought has to fall still, because it is in that very pause that mystery is revealed. Your eyes are open, but they are full of thoughts. That is why even open eyes cannot see. You look at a flower and know it is a rose. You have seen it many times; there are thousands of memories of roses in you. Who knows how many poems you have read about roses, how many pictures and paintings you have seen—your mind is filled with them. When you go near a rose, all your knowledge stands in between like a curtain. Layer upon layer, whatever you have known comes in the way. Your knowing itself becomes your blindness. Trim knowledge away for a little while. Be by the rose as if you were ignorant—as if you had never seen a rose before,…
आखिरी प्रश्न: ओशो, आपने कहा कि जगत और जीवन अतिशय रहस्य से भरा है। और उसका ़जर्रा-़जर्रा चमत्कारपूर्ण है। उस रहस्य और चमत्कार के प्रति हमारी आंखें क्यों और कैसे अंधी हो रही हैं? और क्या उस रहस्य-बोध को फिर से उपलब्ध हुआ जा सकता है?
आंखें अंधी हो रही हैं अति-विचार से। रहस्य को समझने के लिए विचार का थिर हो जाना जरूरी है, क्योंकि उसी संधि में से रहस्य दिखाई पड़ता है। आंखें तो तुम्हारी खुली हैं, लेकिन विचार से भरी हैं। उसी कारण खुली आंख भी देख नहीं पा रही है। देखते हो फूल को, जानते हो गुलाब का फूल है, बहुत बार देखा है, हजार-हजार स्मृतियां हैं गुलाब के फूल की; न मालूम कितनी कविताएं पढ़ी हैं गुलाब के फूल के संबंध में; चित्र और पेंटिंग्स देखी हैं; सब तुम्हारे मन में भरी हैं। जब तुम गुलाब के फूल के करीब जाते हो तब तुम्हारी सारी जानकारी बीच में पर्दे की तरह खड़ी हो जाती है। पर्त दर पर्त तुमने जो-जो जाना है, वह बीच में आ जाता है। तुम्हारा जानना ही तुम्हारा अंधापन हो जाता है।
Osho, your talks are very logical, but on the other hand your way of working is so illogical. What is this mystery? Please explain.
When this phenomenon was known it was very puzzling. Eddington said that physics is becoming mysticism. Even mystics cannot do such miracles; no mystic has been known to do it. They have walked on water and they have raised the dead, but even Buddha has to walk from one village to another -- not just appearing in one village, disappearing, appearing into another. Then in forty years time he would have done at least the work of four thousand years! But when physicists were asked, "How do you explain it?" they said, "We cannot explain it. This is how it is." They were asked, "It does not fit with logic." So they said, "We have to change logic!" Logic will have to fit with it; existence has no obligation to fit with logic. Why it should fit with your logic? Logic is man's invention, existence is not. Man himself is…
Osho, you are giving us an understanding of life through countless pretexts, from countless dimensions, yet day by day it keeps becoming more and more unfathomable, mysterious, astonishing. Is this what is meant by life’s vastness, life’s infinity, life’s ever-newness? Please tell us.
Let the mystery grow. If it grows, know that you are with me. When the mystery begins to stall or get stuck, know that you have left my side—you have made doctrines, you have stopped, you have stepped off the road and pitched your tent on the wayside and settled down. With me there will be many halts, never a final destination. And every “destination” is no more than a halt, because further on the journey continues. Buddha said: chareveti, chareveti—go on, go on. There is no end anywhere. Truth has no boundary. Keep welcoming the new. Each day a new sun will rise. Day after day I will give you new flavors of feeling. Keep welcoming them. At whose welcome the sky has emptied all its pitchers, and the banyan has spread a carpet of shade— that is you, O Dawn; my eyes offer you their greeting. Islands of…
पांचवां प्रश्न: ओशो, आप हमें अनेक-अनेक बहानों से, अनेक-अनेक आयामों से जीवन-बोध दे रहे हैं, पर वह रोज-रोज और-और अबूझ, रहस्यमय, आश्चर्यजनक होता जा रहा है। क्या जीवन के विराट होने, जीवन के अनंत होने, जीवन के नितनूतन होने का अभिप्राय यही है? कृपा करके हमें कहें।
रहस्य तो बढ़ेगा। बढ़ता जाए तो ही समझना कि तुम मेरे साथ हो। जहां रहस्य रुकने लगे, अटकने लगे, समझना कि तुमने मेरा साथ छोड़ दिया। तुमने कुछ सिद्धांत बना लिए। तुम रुक गये। तुम राह के नीचे उतरकर किनारे पर तंबू गाड़ लिये और तुमने घर बना लिया। मेरे साथ पड़ाव तो बहुत आएंगे, मंजिल कभी नहीं। और हर मंजिल पड़ाव से ज्यादा नहीं है, क्योंकि और आगे है और आगे है यात्रा। बुद्ध ने कहा है, चरैवेति, चरैवेति। चले चलो, चले चलो। अंत कहीं भी नहीं है। सत्य की कोई सीमा नहीं है।
Drop this junk and become light. Instantly, when your eyes are not filled with knowledge, they will be filled with mystery. The inward journey of that mystery is called wonder; its outward journey is called astonishment. If you pour that sense of mystery onto objects, you become a scientist. If you pour that sense of mystery onto your own being, you become a great yogi. And the outcomes will be different. For astonishment is violent; wonder is non-violent. Wherever astonishment is directed, it begins to break, to analyze; for in astonishment there is a restlessness. In wonder there is a savor. Understand this difference also well. It is not written in the dictionary; it cannot be written—for the maker of the dictionary knows nothing of wonder. Astonishment is violent, aggressive. Toward that which fills you with astonishment a tension arises. That tension has to be resolved.
तुम्हारे सब जानने ने ही तुम्हें मारा। इस कचरे को हटा दो और हलके हो जाओ। तत्क्षण, तुम्हारी आंखें जब ज्ञान से न भरी होंगी, तब रहस्य से भर जाएंगी। उस रहस्य की अंतर्यात्रा का नाम विस्मय है, बहिर्यात्रा का नाम आश्चर्य है। अगर उस रहस्य को तुमने पदार्थों पर लगा दिया, तो तुम एक वैज्ञानिक हो जाओगे। अगर उस रहस्य को तुमने स्वयं की सत्ता पर लगा दिया, तो तुम एक महायोगी हो जाओगे। और दोनों के परिणाम भिन्न होंगे। क्योंकि आश्चर्य हिंसात्मक है; विस्मय अहिंसात्मक है। आश्चर्य जिस तरफ लग जाता है, उसी को तोड़ने लगता है, विश्लेषण करता है; क्योंकि आश्चर्य में एक बेचैनी है। विस्मय में एक रस है। इस फर्क को भी ठीक से समझ लो। शब्दकोश में वह नहीं लिखा हुआ है; लिखा भी नहीं जा सकता; क्योंकि शब्दकोश बनाने वाले को कोई विस्मय का पता भी नहीं है।
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