If you are living joyfully, you would like everybody to be joyful.
Tantra was born as a rebellion - a rebellion against Buddhism. Saraha, who is a disciple of Buddha in the same lineage, with the same understanding and with the same awareness is the founder of Tantra vision. The vision of Tantra is that sex can become samadhi and one can experience the ultimate ecstasy through sex. It says that no man is just man, and no woman is just woman; each man is both man and woman and so is each woman - woman and man. In this book Osho comments on Saraha’s ‘The Royal Song of saraha.’
Saraha says that a man who has known his inner reality knows that there is no proof other than realizing it. He also says that all those who claim experiences are bogus and that belief is not truth, and truth is never a belief. For him Truth is an experiencing and not an experience; it is a knowing and not knowledge.
According to Osho Tantra vision is one of the greatest visions ever dreamed by men : a religion with out priests, a religion without temples, a religion without organisations. It is a direct approach towards God, towards reality, towards that which is. Tantra says the moment the priest enters, religion is corrupted. Osho says that Tantra is not a religion in the ordinary sense because it has no rituals, no priests and no scriptures.It does not deny anything but it transforms everything.The whole message of Tantra is to live a life of expression, creativity and joy. Saraha says to be available to joy wherever it comes from.
Osho also responds to a number of queries from seekers and disciples on topics like love, life and sex; intelligence and meditation; service and duty; prayer, and jealousy . It is with utmost clarity, sharpness and authority that he responds to all the queries. He uses timely jokes, small stories and anecdotes to enthuse the audience or to give emphasis to his points. Here is one such story:
A christian missionary was teaching his Sunday school students, small boys and girls. He was telling them to do one good thing, one good work, at least once a week. Next Sunday he inquired whether they had done any good job, if they done any public service, if they been of some help to somebody. Three boys stood up, and he was very happy. Out of thirty, at least three. Not bad.
So he asked the first boy, “What did you do? Tell the whole class.”
And the boy said, :” Sir, I helped an old woman to cross the road.”
The missionary said, “Very good. Always take care of old women.”
And then he asked another boy, and the boy replied, “I also helped an old woman to cross the street.”
Then the priest was a little puzzled, but he was nothing to be puzzled about as there are so many old women; may be the second boy also found a woman.
So he asked the third, and the third said, “I also helped an old woman to cross the street.”
Then the priest said, “But this seems too much - you all three got old women?”
They answered, “No, there were not three, there was one. Only one woman was there - we all three helped.”
So the priest said, “But three were needed? You are saying three were needed?”
“Even with six it would have been difficult because she didn’t want to go to the other side. It was very difficult, sir, but we did it, because something was to be done! She was very angry.”
Given below are some of Osho’s observations:
Don’t imitate! Find out ways of doing things in your own way, have your signature on everything that you do
Friendship should grow out of love, otherwise enmity will grow.
Those who say God is, degrade God - they drag him down. Those who say God is not certainly don’t understand at all. They are both the same: one negates, one posits.
In this book Osho sheds light on an ancient and little known Tantric master Saraha and his teachings by giving commentaries on ‘The Royal Song of Saraha’.
