OSHO AND THE INEVITABLE TEMPTATIONS
by Jeevan Ekin on Saturday, 3 December 2011 at 14:00
OSHO AND THE INEVITABLE TEMPTATIONS
Resisting certain temptations on the path of spirituality is the most arduous task.
Man gets born with an inherent paradox of ruling the world being the most powerful owing to
the very co - central fear of death.The existence makes all the efforts to attract and ditract one
equally and simultaneously.
The mind sounds contradictory and paradoxical for getting enamored to defy that which is
inevitable.
To rule the world is an inherent ambition of a man hence a desire to have all the power that God
might be having.
Listening to an enlightened master, one tends to develop a kind of heightened vision that allows
one to see through rather farther than when he was blind and groping.
Listening to Osho, one comes to see the society imposed programs; one is able to see the
triviality of conditioning. Listening to Osho intellectually is a kind of refined deafness.
One develops such character because one is afraid of one’s own being and develops a false
morality of helping others because of being severely horrified inner realm of immorality
that is endowed with chaos.
The greatest intimidation approaches when is at the verge of developing a unity among body,
mind and emotions – an oneness.
One gets tempted and lure to connect with others looking and hoping for their support to sustain
his own false tool kit.
This temptation is the devil and the tempter is inevitable.
The moment one sees some one else responding to him being less sharp, he starts indoctrinating.
Temptation controls the mind and uses it to keep one away from God or the existence.
A temptation is just to relinquish and savor the senses, ego included. Resisting this temptation is
a difficult job.
The goodness of God tempts almost everyone against him using the mind as a tool which always
prefers to remain identified and attached to the personality owing again to the fear of death of
mind.
A temptation gets birth to escape the abolition of ego which is the very fabric of attachment and
escape the fear of loosing everything.
A temptation is a repressed aspiration, desire, energy, anger, sex, greed and such refinements.
The temptation always come from within- outside is merely a pretext, an excuse. A temptation is
nothing but the revenge of a repressed mind. The very shadow of the denial is known as
temptation.
There are seemingly two major possibilities that this temptation can cause. The first one is
a desire to be a Guru or a guide to lead others which is merely a refined and more ego
satisfying exercise.
Gurudom is the thinnest and most subtle destructive exploitations.
Gurudom is the greatest temptation that trickster mind offers to remain away from the ultimate
possibility of human being to be one with super consciousness.
Having had the broadened vision after listening and reading Osho, mind gets tempted to guide
others just get attention from others. This is the greatest obstruction that mind has to offer
through using ego by giving rationales and logic.
No one can guide any one unless one becomes inundated with inner light and become one with
being a being and not a doing and then the guidance flow from him without any thing being in
between- this is the point of meditation when there is no temptation.
Second possibility is that one tends to have the sense of fulfillment by having known the life
intellectually and in philosophical terms. Most people get stuck here whose path is knowledge
among selected major paths of meditation, devotion (Bhakti) and deeds (Karma).
Listening Osho and having broadened the vision is just a platform to jump into unknown through
meditation and being meditative.
Tremendous valiance is needed to confront these temptations to enter the kingdom of self
realised godliness.
Osho is the invitation. Osho is the path and Osho is the no-destination too.
To be aware of the temptation on the path of vertical journey makes journey more joyful a game.
Ekin