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Title: Behind A Thousand Names - Talks on the Nirvana Upanishad
Condition: Brand New & Plastic Wrapped
ISBN: 8172610157
Publisher: A Rebel Book
Edition: Hard Cover
Book size: 22 cm X 19 cm
Coffee Table Quality Hard Cover Book
Description
The Kaivalya Upanishad is about the nature of ultimate freedom. It is an inquiry into one of the major themes of modern man: becoming complete in oneself; finding aloneness without feeling lonely. Osho brings these sutras to life again, not from the intellectual standpoint of a scholar or with the dogmatic mind of a priest, but from his own enlightened experience. Translated from Hindi
About The Book
The Kaivalya Upanishad is a longing for the ultimate freedom. Kaivalya means the moment in your consciousness when you are utterly alone, but you do not feel lonely…. Your very being becomes the whole. This is the longing of man that is hidden in his deepest innermost core.”
Osho
Excerpt from Flight of the Alone to the Alone
“This Kaivalya Upanishad is a search for this ultimate freedom, an inquiry and an exploration into the path of this inquiry.
It begins with a prayer. It will be good to understand this too, because generally, any journey should begin with effort, not with prayer; with endeavor, not with prayer. But this Upanishad begins with a prayer, and it is very meaningful.
The first thing is that what we are searching for will not be found by your effort. But this does not mean that it will be found without your effort, either. This is where there is a small difficulty, and this is the knot, the complexity of all religion, of all spiritual discipline: what you are searching for will not be found only through your effort, and it will also not be found without your effort. It will not be found through your effort because what you are searching for is too vast for you.
It is as if a man who is imprisoned in a jail decides to search for freedom; as if a prisoner, dependent and chained, tries to search for the open sky. What he is searching for is too big, too vast, and his capacity is too limited. If his capacity were not limited he would not be a prisoner in the first place; he would not be in jail at all. If his capacity were not limited, who would have been able to put chains on his hands? Who would have been able to shackle him? Who would have been able to create a prison around him? He is limited, weak; that’s why he is in a prison. “He is in prison” is a statement about his limitations. Hence, nothing will be possible through his own efforts alone. If it were possible only through his efforts, he would not be in prison in the first place.
But this does not mean that freedom will happen without his efforts, either. Because if a prisoner just accepts his chains and goes to sleep, then no power in the world can free him. He cannot get free alone, on his own, and even the greatest power can’t free him without his cooperation. So let us understand this most complex and profound problem of religion from the very beginning.
Man can become free, but he will also have to make efforts. But even before he makes any effort, he will have to invoke the power of one greater than himself. Even before making the effort, he will have to pray. His effort will begin with prayer. You can say that prayer is to be his first effort.
But a prayer does not look like an effort. Prayer means “You do it for me,” prayer means “You help me,” prayer means “You hold my hand,” prayer means “You pull me out.” If the prayer stops at this, then too it will not accomplish anything. If the prisoner prays and then goes back to sleep, then too he will not be able to get out of the prison. Prayer is only the beginning of an ongoing effort.
Prayer is needed, but it is not enough. Effort is a must, but it is not enough. Where prayer and effort join hands, a colossal energy is born which makes even the impossible, possible.
Prayer means “I invoke the help of existence,” and effort means “I am ready to go with existence and to cooperate with it.” Prayer means “You pick me up,” while effort means “Whatever energy I have for getting up, I will use all of it.” But prayer also means “I won’t be able to get up on my own strength, you are needed.” Effort means “Unless I myself want to get up, how can even your grace pick me up? Hence, I will get up, I will stand on my own feet and I will try to break these chains – yet I know I am weak and nothing is possible without your help.’”
Chapter 1
OSHO was born on 11 December 1931, and attained 'enlightenment' at the twenty-one, and went on to complete his academic studies. He spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. By the late 1960, Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. He felt that modern man is so burdened with the archaic traditions of the past as well as the anxieties of modern-day living, that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thought-less relaxed state of meditation.
In early 1970s, the West first began to hear of Osho. By 1974, a commune had been established around him in Pune, and the trickle of visitors from the West soon became a flood. Osho left his body on 19 January 1990. His talks have been published in more than six hundred volumes, and translated into over thirty languages.
"Osho is an enlightened master who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness."
The Dalai Lama
"Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works."
K R Narayanan, Ex President of India
These brilliant insights will benefit all those who yearn for experiential knowledge of the field of pure potentiality inherent in every human being. This book belongs on the shelf of every library and in the home of all those who seek knowledge of the higher self."
Dr Deepak Chopra
"I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion."
Yehudi Menuhin
"Osho is the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ... He's obviously a very effective man, otherwise he wouldn't be such a threat. He's saying the same things that nobody else has the courage to say. A man who has all kinds of ideas, they're not only inflammatory-they also have a resonance of truth that scares the pants off the control freaks."
Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Still Life with Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume
"Osho is one of the most influential spiritual teachers of the second half of the 20th century and many thousands of people -- of all ages, from all countries and all spiritual backgrounds -- have been inspired by the simplicity and directness of his teachings."
Penguin Books
"I have never heard anyone so beautifully and playfully integrate and then dissolve the psychological problems which, for generations, have sapped our human energies."
Rev. Cain, Chaplain, Churchill College Cambridge
"He Osho is the greatest incarnation after Buddha in India. He is a living Buddha."
Lama Karmapa, late head of the Kargyupta, (or Red Hat) Sect of Tibetan Buddhism
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