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The Tantra Experience: Discourses on the Royal Song of Saraha
In these discourses, Osho offers penetrating insights into previously insoluble paradoxes of life. He reveals how Tantric experience will free us from the destructive Hebraic-Christian dualism that has crippled our bodies, minds and hearts and condemned as evil almost everything we do. With the author as a guide, this book gives readers a new perspective, a new way of looking at themselves and at life and of living in harmony with existence.
- GenresSpirituality
304 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 1994
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Osho
4,315 books6,837 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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December 28, 2020
A notable point that caught my attention prior to navigating through this book by Guru Rajneesh, was the idea behind what creates devil instincts inside of all pure-hearted souls. What is the root of evil? How can it be elevated? How can it vanish? How can it be destroyed, annihilated, eliminated and/or taken away from all good-natured origins?
The subjective writings from Guru Rajneesh that allowed me to read his book further, comes up in the following initial forms: “There is no unbridgeable gap between the Devil and God: the Devil is carrying God deep down his heart. Once that heart starts functioning, the Devil becomes God.”
This sentence’s ending part brought a new form of understanding into my life. It created something which had been keeping me in an illusion for quite a number of years. Although this statement cannot be truly justified in several fragments of any living being’s life journey, it provides a positive glimpse on how to understand and handle evil-minded thoughts in the self and in other selves.
The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha at one point, compares the tantric experience deriving from Shiva’s Tantra versus Saraha’s Tantra—what makes these two Tantric forms unique and common, or rather, what makes them uniquely common are the fact that both lead to purity and peacefulness, however the approaches taken from each of these tantric manifestations are met with pathways boarding spiritual diversities. Howsoever the routes taken by living forms to reach the ultimate reality of bliss, the writer of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha offers one perspective that strikes as appealing to his readers: “Agreement, disagreement, is about theories, not about truth. So when you agree with me you are not really agreeing with me; you start feeling your theory that you have already been carrying with you.” (Page 25)
When the pinpointing truth with which one really needs to connect in one’s lifetime on the planet has been fulfilled, the certainty of the right divine comfort is felt. At this precise moment, no remedy or no such beliefs or any kinds of platforms laid or set forth by any living being makes sense—the peaceful clarity that is felt surpasses all and reassures one that this truth threshold has been attained. No other understandings make sense as the mind has already agreed with this divine order’s true reality. It is the quest of this true reality that has been keeping the mind puzzled all throughout, and at the prompt instance of this enlightening manifestation, a sense of true joy is felt. The untrue is sifted from the true whereby a true vision of clarity is felt in the interior within self. A joy that surpasses all sufferable clauses is felt.
This book even goes to the extent of explaining the real impact of a Master on the mind of a living being. Thus, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara intones on true happiness that can be lived with when the cunning mind is made to handle doubts with the guided approaches of a Master. The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara denotes that trusting a Master disallows the self to listen to what the mind is really saying. A true Master guides the mind (s) to discover its real potentials, but a fake Master plunges the mind in an even worse state of doubtful abode. The truth can neither be accepted nor explored when a Master deviates the real meaning of truth and trust from the mind’s identity. As such, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara suggests the following: “Listening to the master, trusting the master, by and by the mind is neglected. Many times you have to drop the mind, because the master is saying something which goes against it—it always goes against it. Neglected, mind starts dying.” (Page 79 – 80)
In a different perspective approach to the book The Power of Now (written by Eckhart Tolle), The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara also prescribes the mind to be its own master by possessing the right pathed choice for leading the body and mind (altogether) in the righteous direction.
More deepened thoughts are elevated from this must-read book by Guru Rajneesh. It is a highly recommended book to be read by all as it can certainly allow blockages in minds to be set on open-minded platforms whereby prospective perspectives on life’s various faces can be overlooked.
A brief description of Saraha – the invisible protagonist of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara.
The Tantra Experience which manifests in the man known as Rahul, is first of all his tantric experience of perceiving the spiritual beauty in a woman who in turn, eventually unlocked him from his own self by releasing his spiritual self outwardly. Thereafter, Rahul became known as Saraha – for his having opened his own self to the path of enlightenment. Saraha’s true self-realization took effect when he reached the point of knowing what the truth was really about and what it meant to be truthful by knowing the true truth in one’s lifetime. His ability to find the spiritual beauty hidden in one pious woman’s true self-worth gave rise to this name—Saraha. Saraha is known to have revived the Buddha within his own self. The Royal Song of Saraha is composed of a narrated form of poetry that comes from the truthful experience lived by Rahul – who is the unrealized name of the same man called Saraha. The latter became known since as this true enlightened spiritual being.
The subjective writings from Guru Rajneesh that allowed me to read his book further, comes up in the following initial forms: “There is no unbridgeable gap between the Devil and God: the Devil is carrying God deep down his heart. Once that heart starts functioning, the Devil becomes God.”
This sentence’s ending part brought a new form of understanding into my life. It created something which had been keeping me in an illusion for quite a number of years. Although this statement cannot be truly justified in several fragments of any living being’s life journey, it provides a positive glimpse on how to understand and handle evil-minded thoughts in the self and in other selves.
The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha at one point, compares the tantric experience deriving from Shiva’s Tantra versus Saraha’s Tantra—what makes these two Tantric forms unique and common, or rather, what makes them uniquely common are the fact that both lead to purity and peacefulness, however the approaches taken from each of these tantric manifestations are met with pathways boarding spiritual diversities. Howsoever the routes taken by living forms to reach the ultimate reality of bliss, the writer of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Saraha offers one perspective that strikes as appealing to his readers: “Agreement, disagreement, is about theories, not about truth. So when you agree with me you are not really agreeing with me; you start feeling your theory that you have already been carrying with you.” (Page 25)
When the pinpointing truth with which one really needs to connect in one’s lifetime on the planet has been fulfilled, the certainty of the right divine comfort is felt. At this precise moment, no remedy or no such beliefs or any kinds of platforms laid or set forth by any living being makes sense—the peaceful clarity that is felt surpasses all and reassures one that this truth threshold has been attained. No other understandings make sense as the mind has already agreed with this divine order’s true reality. It is the quest of this true reality that has been keeping the mind puzzled all throughout, and at the prompt instance of this enlightening manifestation, a sense of true joy is felt. The untrue is sifted from the true whereby a true vision of clarity is felt in the interior within self. A joy that surpasses all sufferable clauses is felt.
This book even goes to the extent of explaining the real impact of a Master on the mind of a living being. Thus, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara intones on true happiness that can be lived with when the cunning mind is made to handle doubts with the guided approaches of a Master. The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara denotes that trusting a Master disallows the self to listen to what the mind is really saying. A true Master guides the mind (s) to discover its real potentials, but a fake Master plunges the mind in an even worse state of doubtful abode. The truth can neither be accepted nor explored when a Master deviates the real meaning of truth and trust from the mind’s identity. As such, The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara suggests the following: “Listening to the master, trusting the master, by and by the mind is neglected. Many times you have to drop the mind, because the master is saying something which goes against it—it always goes against it. Neglected, mind starts dying.” (Page 79 – 80)
In a different perspective approach to the book The Power of Now (written by Eckhart Tolle), The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara also prescribes the mind to be its own master by possessing the right pathed choice for leading the body and mind (altogether) in the righteous direction.
More deepened thoughts are elevated from this must-read book by Guru Rajneesh. It is a highly recommended book to be read by all as it can certainly allow blockages in minds to be set on open-minded platforms whereby prospective perspectives on life’s various faces can be overlooked.
A brief description of Saraha – the invisible protagonist of The Tantra Experience: Talks on the Royal Song of Sahara.
The Tantra Experience which manifests in the man known as Rahul, is first of all his tantric experience of perceiving the spiritual beauty in a woman who in turn, eventually unlocked him from his own self by releasing his spiritual self outwardly. Thereafter, Rahul became known as Saraha – for his having opened his own self to the path of enlightenment. Saraha’s true self-realization took effect when he reached the point of knowing what the truth was really about and what it meant to be truthful by knowing the true truth in one’s lifetime. His ability to find the spiritual beauty hidden in one pious woman’s true self-worth gave rise to this name—Saraha. Saraha is known to have revived the Buddha within his own self. The Royal Song of Saraha is composed of a narrated form of poetry that comes from the truthful experience lived by Rahul – who is the unrealized name of the same man called Saraha. The latter became known since as this true enlightened spiritual being.
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July 27, 2020excellent book was looking for long time....nobody can explain and touch they way OSHO does, a true and great master.....
July 7, 2012
My friends and family have probably noticed my recent tendency to post quotes from this book on almost a daily basis! I couldn't help myself though - every time I sat down to read this book, I'd always hit a quote that so succinctly and brilliantly dispels one of the many anxieties I feel in life that I need to share it. I had never read an Osho book before this one, nor have I read up on the Tantric philosophy, but I was very impressed with both. Osho is able to articulately explain concepts in a simple manner that one may never have considered, and it he does it with a sharp wit to boot. Meanwhile, Tantra, which I always dismissed as a "sex thing", is actually an intriguingly life-affirming philosophy. I have so much to say about this book, yet so little, because all I can really say is read it for yourself! It is very rare for me to read a spiritual book that changes my outlook on life as profoundly as this one has.
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