Prati-Prasav

Can prati-prasav, the process of going backwards, be that of unlearning instead of reliving?

They are both the same: when you relive, you unlearn. Reliving is a process of unlearning. Whatsoever you relive disappears from you. It has been unlearned, it leaves no marks, the slate is clean. You can call it a process of unlearning, it is the same. The seventh question:

Osho, in the Puranas there is a tale that at the time of pralaya, the great dissolution, the whole creation is submerged under water, and a small patch of land remains. There, on a banyan leaf, the tiny Bal-Mukund is found sucking his big toe; and from him the entire creation is re-created. Even when a seeker goes to a Sadguru, a similar pralaya occurs within, and after that his spiritual rebirth happens. Is this story a symbol of that event? Please describe it.

Einstein—if we could hold on to him, he seems immensely useful. Centuries will pass before such a man may be born again. And if we could keep Einstein for a hundred years more, who can say what he would not do? For just when his intelligence was becoming completely mature, his time to depart came. If we could preserve him another hundred years, new edifices could be raised upon that intelligence. And Einstein could give something which children—how will they give? So this effort is on. You may not know that thousands have insured that after their death their corpses be preserved, because there is a suspicion that by the end of this century the art of reanimating individuals will be in our hands. In America, at several places, deep-freezing arrangements have been made where some corpses have been secured. It is expensive; only millionaires can do it. It costs…

12. Whether fulfilled in the present or the future, karmic experiences have their roots in the five afflictions. 13. As long as the roots remain, karma is fulfilled in rebirth through class, span of life, and types of experiences.

14. VIRTUE BRINGS PLEASURE; VICE BRINGS PAIN. That is the whole method of prati-prasav: how to move from the effect to the cause, how to go backwards and find the cause, from where it is coming up. Whatsoever happens to you -- you feel sad, just close your eyes and watch your sadness. Follow where it leads, go deeper into it. Soon you will come to the cause. Maybe you will have to travel long, because this whole life is involved; and not only this life, but many other lives are involved. You will find many wounds in you which hurt, and because of those wounds you feel sad; they are sad. Those wounds have not gone dry yet; they are alive. The method of prati-prasav, the method of going back to the source, from the effect to the cause, will heal them. How does it heal? Why does it…

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I did not say—please, listen to me; no, no, listen to me—I did not say that it is a comedy; I said that it is not a tragedy. I have understood your point. Consider it in two or three parts. First, I did not say that because death came it was a good thing. I did not say that, not even by mistake. I only said that we are not entitled to decide whether it was good or bad. We know nothing about what happened.