Osho discusses in this book almost everything under the sun in the backdrop of Krishna’s life and philosophy. He responds to a number of questions on various topics from seekers at a meditation camp at Manali in the Himalayas.
The book begins with Osho’s reply to a question on why he has chosen to speak on Krishna. Osho says that he has chosen to talk about Krisna because : Krishna accepts the world as it is and he accepts everything and denies nothing; he is all for celebration and he takes life as a great play , a mighty drama. To another question about Bhagavat Gita, Osho says that Gita is Krishna’s spontaneous discussions with Arjuna while the two of them were standing on the battlegrounds of Kurukshetra. They are meant for Arjuna alone, for his spiritual transformation. They are very intimate conversations meant exclusively for a close friend. He also observes that Krishna does not speak to Arjuna through words, he communicates with him at the psychic level. It is such a wordless, silent communication between two persons that a third person standing close by will never know it. No other people present at Kurukshetra could hear it; otherwise a crowd would have gathered round Arjuna’s chariot. Osho also responds to various questions on life, death, and renunciation; attachment and non-attachment; action, inaction and non-action
Osho. initiated his first group of sanyasins at the Manali camp in Sept 28,1970 and the book ends with a chapter on a special discourse on the significance of Neo-Sanyas.
Osho’s other observations like the following , found elsewhere in this book are unique in nature and have tremendous relevance for all time.:
Do not, even by mistake , follow any other, or become like another. To be oneself is the only virtue and to be like another the only sin.
If one does not seek anything, it means he does not lack it, he already has it.
We see in others only that which we want to see; in fact we see what we are. We do nothing but project ourselves on the world.
The elite will always dominate the society. Sometimes it dominates in the form of emperors and kings, sometimes as messiahs and saints, and then as pioneers and leaders.
A writer can never touch that depth which a speaker does. All that is of the highest in the world of wisdom has been spoken, not written.
It is impossible that an unhappy man can make another happy. .Remember, we can share with others only that which we have, not what we don’t have.
