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Ecstasy : The Forgotten Language :Discourses on Songs of Kabir
Osho speaks on the exuberant poems of Kabir, as translated by India's Nobel Prize-winning poet, Rabindranath Tagore. He also responds to questions as diverse as the difference between relationship and aloneness, mind and society, self and enlightenment, and explains the difference between a crystallized self and a strong ego.
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Published January 1, 1978
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September 4, 2021
Fav quotes / learnings:
Don’t keep two bowls to eat- one for bitter food, one for sweet. Keep one bowl and mix bitter sweet without differentiation
-Page 99 |
"The word ”idiot” is beautiful; it comes from a root which means ”one who lives a private life.”"
-Page 113
"A reporter was trying to get a human-interest story out of an old, old man at a state-supported home for the aged. ”Pop,” asked the brash reporter, ”how would you feel if you suddenly got a letter telling you that a forgotten relative had left you five million dollars?” ”Son,” came the answer slowly, ”I would still be ninety-four years old.”"
-Page 162
"Man is the only species of animal that kills its own kind."
-Page 218
"Every intelligent person becomes atheistic at a certain age. Near about the fourteenth year, everybody becomes atheistic. That’s a natural part of growth because the child needs to say no. It is a psychological need. Up to the age of fourteen, the child has lived protected by the mother, the father, the family; now he wants to be himself."
-Page 246
"Father saying yes: Even if they say yes, they say so very reluctantly. Even if they say yes, they make the child feel that he is guilty, that he is forcing them, that he is doing something wrong. Whenever the child feels happy, doing whatsoever, somebody or other is bound to come and stop him – ”Don’t do this!” By and by the child understands, ”Whatsoever feel happy in is wrong.” And of course he never feels happy doing whatsoever others tell him to do, because it is not a spontaneous urge in him. So he comes to know that to be miserable is right, to be happy is wrong."
-Page 247
"If he wants to open the clock and see inside, the whole family jumps on him – ”Stop! You will destroy the clock. This is not good.” He was just looking into the clock; it was a scientific curiosity. He wanted to see what makes it tick. It was perfectly okay. And the clock is not so valuable as his curiosity, as his inquiring mind. The clock is worthless – even if it is destroyed nothing is destroyed – but once the inquiring mind is destroyed much is destroyed; then he will never inquire for truth."
-Page 258
"Becoming is the very root cause of misery. If you want to be ecstatic – then it is just now, here-now, this very moment. Look at me. This very moment – nobody is barring the path – you can be happy."
Don’t keep two bowls to eat- one for bitter food, one for sweet. Keep one bowl and mix bitter sweet without differentiation
-Page 99 |
"The word ”idiot” is beautiful; it comes from a root which means ”one who lives a private life.”"
-Page 113
"A reporter was trying to get a human-interest story out of an old, old man at a state-supported home for the aged. ”Pop,” asked the brash reporter, ”how would you feel if you suddenly got a letter telling you that a forgotten relative had left you five million dollars?” ”Son,” came the answer slowly, ”I would still be ninety-four years old.”"
-Page 162
"Man is the only species of animal that kills its own kind."
-Page 218
"Every intelligent person becomes atheistic at a certain age. Near about the fourteenth year, everybody becomes atheistic. That’s a natural part of growth because the child needs to say no. It is a psychological need. Up to the age of fourteen, the child has lived protected by the mother, the father, the family; now he wants to be himself."
-Page 246
"Father saying yes: Even if they say yes, they say so very reluctantly. Even if they say yes, they make the child feel that he is guilty, that he is forcing them, that he is doing something wrong. Whenever the child feels happy, doing whatsoever, somebody or other is bound to come and stop him – ”Don’t do this!” By and by the child understands, ”Whatsoever feel happy in is wrong.” And of course he never feels happy doing whatsoever others tell him to do, because it is not a spontaneous urge in him. So he comes to know that to be miserable is right, to be happy is wrong."
-Page 247
"If he wants to open the clock and see inside, the whole family jumps on him – ”Stop! You will destroy the clock. This is not good.” He was just looking into the clock; it was a scientific curiosity. He wanted to see what makes it tick. It was perfectly okay. And the clock is not so valuable as his curiosity, as his inquiring mind. The clock is worthless – even if it is destroyed nothing is destroyed – but once the inquiring mind is destroyed much is destroyed; then he will never inquire for truth."
-Page 258
"Becoming is the very root cause of misery. If you want to be ecstatic – then it is just now, here-now, this very moment. Look at me. This very moment – nobody is barring the path – you can be happy."
September 8, 2012
In this book Osho talks about the poems of Kabir on the forgotten language of humanity - Ecstasy.
Every child is born ecstatic. Everything in the existence is ecstatic except the humans. So called Leaders, Politicians and saints makes their life miserable so that they can be in power. If someday the world becomes happy, all these religions, countries, political parties will disappear. Then there will be only ecstatic humanity which has no name, religion, scripture. It will be full of love, dance, poetry, reverence, benediction. One needs lot of patience to read this book, but it is worth the effort.
Every child is born ecstatic. Everything in the existence is ecstatic except the humans. So called Leaders, Politicians and saints makes their life miserable so that they can be in power. If someday the world becomes happy, all these religions, countries, political parties will disappear. Then there will be only ecstatic humanity which has no name, religion, scripture. It will be full of love, dance, poetry, reverence, benediction. One needs lot of patience to read this book, but it is worth the effort.
November 30, 2022
awesome reading...
July 25, 2020
Every child is born ecstatic. Ecstasy is very natural. It is not something that happens only to great sages. It is something that everybody brings with him into the world; everybody comes with it since birth. It is the innermost core of life. It is part of being alive. Life is ecstasy. Every child brings it into the world, but then the society jumps on the child, starts destroying the possibility of ecstasy, starts making the child miserable, starts conditioning the child.
You cannot control an ecstatic man for sure! The society is neurotic and it cannot allow ecstatic people to be here. They are dangerous for it. Try to understand the mechanism; then things will be easier. You cannot control an ecstatic man; it is impossible. You can only control a miserable man. An ecstatic man is bound to be free. Ecstasy is freedom. He cannot be reduced to being a slave. You cannot destroy him so easily; you cannot persuade him to live in a prison.
He would like to dance under the stars and he would like to walk with the wind and he would like to talk with the sun and the moon. He will need the vast, the infinite, the huge, the enormous. He cannot be seduced into living in a dark cell. You cannot make a slave out of him. He will live his own life and he will do his thing.
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You cannot control an ecstatic man for sure! The society is neurotic and it cannot allow ecstatic people to be here. They are dangerous for it. Try to understand the mechanism; then things will be easier. You cannot control an ecstatic man; it is impossible. You can only control a miserable man. An ecstatic man is bound to be free. Ecstasy is freedom. He cannot be reduced to being a slave. You cannot destroy him so easily; you cannot persuade him to live in a prison.
He would like to dance under the stars and he would like to walk with the wind and he would like to talk with the sun and the moon. He will need the vast, the infinite, the huge, the enormous. He cannot be seduced into living in a dark cell. You cannot make a slave out of him. He will live his own life and he will do his thing.
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February 1, 2012
Such an intact, intimate, insuring, inspiring, indepth, intangible and integral book.
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