Throw out this whole mind; whatsoever it contains, it is useless.
Yoga is a methodology for inner awakening and Patanjali is the greatest name in the world of Yoga. Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra is not a popular scripture; it is a simple, scientific treatise, only for the few. Osho’s talks on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra are transcribed in this book.
Yoga is the cessation of mind, says Patanjali. And when patanjali says, “Cessation of the mind,” he means cessation of mind’s functioning as a master. In other words mastery of the mind is Yoga. He says, “ You may do all the postures but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in Yoga.”
Osho says that Patanjali has written whatsoever can be written about Yoga and he has left nothing out. According to Patanjali the mind has five modifications, five modes of function which are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory. What is needed for the cessation of the mind with all its modifications is first, constant inner practice, abhyasa, and second, desirelessness, vairagya. Abhyasa and vairagya - constant inner practice and desirelessness are the two foundation stones of Patanjali’s Yoga.
Patanjali neither follows any religion nor insists on any concept; he follows only truth, the scientific truth. According to him God is not the goal but is just one of the paths. Patanjali says, “ you can also reach, so be godless, don’t bother about God.” “That’s why”, says Osho, “ the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali are rare, unique.”
Osho also answers questions from disciples and seekers. A question asked by one of his disciples is how Osho becomes a Taoist sage while talking on Lao Tzu, a tantrika while talking on Tantra, an enlightened bhakta while talking on bhakti and a perfect yogi while talking on Yoga. Osho’s reply to this is worth noticing, which says: “If You are not, then you can become Patanjali; there is no difficulty. You can become Krishna, you can become Christ. If You are there, then it is very difficult. If You are too much there, your ego is there and then whatsoever I am saying cannot flow in you.”
Osho tells a number of jokes and stories during the course of his talks. A rule obsessed Mulla is portrayed in the following joke:
Mulla Nasruddin was working as a door-keeper in a museum. The first day he was appointed he asked for the rules: “What rules have to be followed?” So he was given the book of rules that were to be followed by the doorkeeper. He memorized them, he took every care not to forget a single detail.
And the first day when he was on duty, the first visitor came. He told the visitor to leave his umbrella with him there outside at the door. The visitor was amazed. He said, “But I don’t have any umbrella.”
So Nasruddin said, “In that case, you will have to go back. Bring an umbrella because this is the rule. Unless a visitor leaves his umbrella here outside, he cannot be allowed in.”
Given below are some of Osho’s observations:
If you are right then everything becomes right, if you are wrong then everything goes wrong.
The past, if continuously present, will not allow the present to be. And if you miss the present you miss all.
The persons who claim that they love humanity are the persons who cannot love a person.
The more you make others responsible for your life the more you are a slave.
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