Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Why Watch and Roll Royces

Once Osho was asked why do you wear a watch worth Rs. 55 lakh and why do you have 93 Rolls Royes as such things do not match or are not in conformity with what is said about an enlightened soul or sage ? Osho in reply asked th...e questioner "Why and how have you come to this place, Pune ?" The visitor replied" I read your books and listened your discources. I felt I have found my Guru, therefore I am here." Then Osho said "Then why are you showing interest in watch and cars? This simply shows that your mind still has more attraction towards the object of desire compared to what I am saying. Why cannot you see that your mind is making you fool." The visitor was ashamed of his questions. Osho has beautifully explained all these things. He said " I don't need the watch as time is immaterial for me. I don't need so many cars or for that matter a single car( as the distance between his residence and the place where discources were held was hardly 2 minutes walk)." He has explained that by keeping such objects of desire with him he was able to screen unwanted persons coming and residing in the Ashram. He wanted his own people i.e those who were interested in what he was trying to share with them. He was interested in attracting intelligent people who could understand him i.e. people who were not interested in superficial behaviours like how he talks,what he speaks,what he eats, etc. Intelligent people, according to him, are those people who can "understand/imagine/conceive" the "background/context" from various angles of what he was sharing. Who can find out something positive even from something which appears to be negative on superficial level, for the benefit of his/her upliftment towards self-realisation. For all these qualities Osho has used term "Reading in between the word/lines". Nisargadatta Maharaj's all discources are simply firing one. He and his Guru used to smoke. We cannot understand the Masters' way of working as they are totally unpredictable, as they are true representative of life as such. Prediction can be made only in the case of dead thing. We should be interested in what we are looking for from that person, not in what other things he has in his possesion. This is the root cause why we generally fail is our approach. I don't find any contradiction in sayings of various Masters I have read.

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