Let the Mind Go Wherever it Wants to Go – Annamalai Swami
Questioner: I think that I am now beginning to grasp what the ‘I am’ is. It seems that this is something behind the body, behind the mind, and behind the awareness of the body. I think that we don’t...
View ArticlePractice Until Stillness is Permanent – Annamalai Swami
I first met Annamalai Swami in June 1993, during my initial visit to Arunachala and the Sri Ramanashramam. As I explained earlier, I was eager to meet with disciples of Papaji’s guru, Sri Ramana...
View ArticleYou have to Work for the Fulfillment of Your Destiny – Dada Gavand
I first met Dadaji in Pune in the fall of 1993, shortly after my return from Germany where, for a few weeks, I had tried in vain to become a “normal” citizen again. I had been feeling stuck and...
View ArticleA True Mystic – Lucy Cornelssen
A True Mystic There are a few individuals who come into this world, live a remote, almost obscure life, yet radiate a special presence. They are like a little lantern on a worn path that, if one...
View ArticleThe Secret of this Place: An Interview with Lucy Cornelssen
I’m a professional writer, always have been. I lived in Berlin much but was born in the country. I was interested from the beginning in Eastern wisdom. About thirty years ago someone brought me the...
View ArticleBeyond the Gateless Gate: Transcending the Seven Bodies, Part 2 – Osho
Raja yoga begins with the fourth body. Only hatha yoga begins with the first body; other yogas begin from somewhere else. Theosophy begins from the second body, and other systems begin from the third....
View ArticleFrom the Many to the One: Transcending the Seven Bodies, Part 1 – Osho
You said we have seven bodies: an etheric body, a mental body and so on. Sometimes it is difficult to adjust the Indian language to the terms of Western psychology. We have no theory for this in the...
View ArticleThe Self is Light – Lucy Cornelssen
In December 31, 1989. Lucy Cornelssen – “Lucy Ma” to us, the Ashramites – “went gently into the night”. She did not “rage against the ending of the light”. Why should she? It was the end of the shadow,...
View ArticleMediation, Satori and Samadhi – Osho
Question 1: What is the difference in experience between satori – in Zen, a glimpse of enlightenment – and samadhi, cosmic consciousness? Samadhi begins as a gap, but it never ends. A gap always begins...
View ArticleWhat is the Soul? – Osho
What is it that you call atman, soul? Is this soul consciousness itself or is it something individual? Really, no matter what we call it, we will miss it. Any conceptualization is going to miss the...
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