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The Supreme Doctrine: Talks on the Kenopanishad
The Upanishads can be read today as contemporary sources of wisdom, despite being many thousands of years old. They are direct transmissions of truth – and truth is eternal, above religious dogma and tradition – but because of their antiquity, they can appear cloaked in a mysterious language, which can be hard to understand. Osho, with his fresh and sometimes irreverent approach, brings the Kenopanishad uptodate.
Because Osho can so easily go beyond the intellect, his presentation of this ancient treatise is unlike anything coming from the academic world. For those familiar with exploring ideas through the intellect, this book could be an ideal way to discover what they have been missing. One can open the book to almost any page and be astonished by the brilliance of the insights.
“When you fall within yourself, sooner or later the form will be lost, the name will be lost, because they exist only on the surface. The deeper you drown the more you come nearer to God – God as existence, not as a person.”
— Osho
Because Osho can so easily go beyond the intellect, his presentation of this ancient treatise is unlike anything coming from the academic world. For those familiar with exploring ideas through the intellect, this book could be an ideal way to discover what they have been missing. One can open the book to almost any page and be astonished by the brilliance of the insights.
“When you fall within yourself, sooner or later the form will be lost, the name will be lost, because they exist only on the surface. The deeper you drown the more you come nearer to God – God as existence, not as a person.”
— Osho
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344 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 7, 1980
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Osho
4,292 books6,795 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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March 19, 2021
The only book that convinced me to love humans no matter who they are. I read this book so I can love unbearable humans again.
Upanishad too simple to understand, Yet too difficult to comprehend through the compulsive human brain. When I first try to read it, I was taken aback by the unclear message is offered. It was unclear to me a few years back, Life in me was puzzled by all outward illusions and blind to all inner happenings. After doing Spiritual Sadhanas, the Universal truth offered in Upanishad started making sense and all my previous beliefs became ashes in the crematory of outer hopes.
You unlearn more than learning by reading all Upanishad. Keno Upanishad also serves the same purpose and serves the same truth of Brahman. Osho has done a noble job by offering interpretation for every shloka with profundity, and stories to back made it more enjoyable. I have read all Upanishad, But all distinctively serve the same truth.
It's an easy read, But make sure you read it with devotion not to seek pleasure.
Upanishad too simple to understand, Yet too difficult to comprehend through the compulsive human brain. When I first try to read it, I was taken aback by the unclear message is offered. It was unclear to me a few years back, Life in me was puzzled by all outward illusions and blind to all inner happenings. After doing Spiritual Sadhanas, the Universal truth offered in Upanishad started making sense and all my previous beliefs became ashes in the crematory of outer hopes.
You unlearn more than learning by reading all Upanishad. Keno Upanishad also serves the same purpose and serves the same truth of Brahman. Osho has done a noble job by offering interpretation for every shloka with profundity, and stories to back made it more enjoyable. I have read all Upanishad, But all distinctively serve the same truth.
It's an easy read, But make sure you read it with devotion not to seek pleasure.
October 11, 2013
This text truely changed my way of seeing the world and myself. It spured me to seek the answers within me.
The entire path is the entire life, yet this reading was a real turn in my life.
The entire path is the entire life, yet this reading was a real turn in my life.
July 8, 2023
My fav quotes (not a review):
-Page 99 |"You can end it only in meditation, nowhere else, because in meditation you are not angry with someone: you are simply angry. the anger is released into the cosmos. like a dirty river falling into the ocean: the ocean will purify it."
-Page 99 |"You can end it only in meditation, nowhere else, because in meditation you are not angry with someone: you are simply angry. the anger is released into the cosmos. like a dirty river falling into the ocean: the ocean will purify it."
November 30, 2017
Bliss!!
May 10, 2022
Make every moment a celebration; then you will not need to search for a God. God will try to search for you, wherever you are. p.356
April 22, 2025
insightful
full of intelligent paradoxes.but very intelligently explained he original upnishad. Indeed very imaginative and narrated by a deep insightful being.
full of intelligent paradoxes.but very intelligently explained he original upnishad. Indeed very imaginative and narrated by a deep insightful being.
March 29, 2021
TATVAMASI.You are That
Transform your madness into Meditation.Laugh,sing,dance but don't argue.Make every moment of your life celebration. God will try to search for you.You need not search for God.Tatvamasi.Youarethat.There is no prayer.Only Meditation.A problem rightly understood is solved. Attention is Energy.If you know one,all is known.Where is Brahman? It's in the worshipper,not in the object of Worship.Nice book. Thoroughly enjoyed.Sairam.
Transform your madness into Meditation.Laugh,sing,dance but don't argue.Make every moment of your life celebration. God will try to search for you.You need not search for God.Tatvamasi.Youarethat.There is no prayer.Only Meditation.A problem rightly understood is solved. Attention is Energy.If you know one,all is known.Where is Brahman? It's in the worshipper,not in the object of Worship.Nice book. Thoroughly enjoyed.Sairam.
March 12, 2020
Very good thoughts, not limited to any religion. Most people have to know the details instead of blindly believing on something.
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