Comments on: On reading Osho’s ‘Last Testament’

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:22:40 +0000

Gee whizz! Arpana is really outdoing himself in the confessions depatment. “Never forget, not everyone who has a sannyas name is anything to do with Osho Sannyas.” Even though stating the obvious, I am curious what has brought this change of heart on. Perhaps you’d care to enlighten the readers, Arpana.

Namaste.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 17:06:17 +0000

Although not as much of a celeb as he thinks he is.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:55:33 +0000

Wonder no more. During his Last Testament phase, Osho was describing gay people as, and I quote from the topic: All perverts, according to him, whose pathologically sick behaviour all stems back to repressed nuns and monks living in monasteries, having to resort to same-sex couplings to vent their repressed sexual energies.

Which leaves me wondering if Arpana is living or ever lived in a monastary.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:47:32 +0000

I’ve never claimed to have dropped my ego, big head.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 16:43:50 +0000

Arpana, you got a chuckle from me for that one. All that dropping the ego shite. Who exactly is it that is doing the dropping? Sorry to see your lack of success in that department. Currently I am dropping my ego in a remote cottage in the north of Scotland. Try as I might, I am having a hell of a job maintaing my celebrity status up here, because there is nobody to support my campaign, only shaggy sheep and hairy, big-horned, highland cows.

That is of secondary importance. What’s of vital importance to the world at large is that SN is up and running again. More or less the old gang of misfits has been reunited once more. Hats of to the boffins at SN central for setting the controls to the heart of the matter.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:41:50 +0000

Mais oui!

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:04:39 +0000

LOL. Thats an sd-ish remark.

When you say ”we” do you mean the royal ”we”?

By: satchit

satchit — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:30:33 +0000

On my car is a sign which means:

“I brake for old ladies.
Keep cool and don’t go for
laughing into the cellar!”

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 14:22:00 +0000

Mod,
Not intended as such.
The high priest of anti-sannyas is a celeb on Ibiza. That’s the point!

Mod, are you Jitendra or SD?

MOD:
Is that so? We didn’t realise that.

Re who is the mod, as Satchit (or Osho) might say, that’s one of life’s mysteries, not “a problem to be solved”!

By: Arpana

Arpana — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 13:46:30 +0000

“And Pankaja, you understand perfectly well that your mind is full of garbage. This very understanding is enough to get rid of it. It seems the problem is that this garbage is paying you; it is in some way fulfilling your ego.

Pankaja is a novelist, is well known as a novelist. I have worked with many kinds of celebrities; they are the most third-rate people to work with for the simple reason that their celebrity has become part of their ego. They cannot drop the ego, because if they drop the ego the celebrity disappears. And the celebrity, the famousness, their name, has become so important to them…it has become their identity in the world. Where millions of people are without any identity, they have an identity. For them, to drop the ego is very difficult — and understandably; it is arduous.

A person who is not a celebrity has a small ego. In fact, to have it or not to have it does not make much difference; he is already nobody. He can drop it, and by dropping it he can gain the whole beautiful Existence and all its benediction. By becoming nobody, he can open the doors to the universe and its blessings.

But all the celebrities that have come to me from different fields, have all proved to be failures. They take the most time, but they have a problem because their ego is involved with their name and fame. Even if they understand that it is garbage, the garbage is paying them so much that they want to cling to it a little more — perhaps tomorrow or the day after tomorrow they will drop it. They have understood the point, but just to drop it right now seems too much.”

Osho
‘Beyond Enlightenment’
Chapter 2
Chapter title: ‘Innocence Is A Light Unto Itself’

MOD:
This is more like another topic, Arpana, isn’t it?