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Arpana posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Swami Shanti.
Do you ever get that feeling you’ve taken sannyas again?
Happened a number of times to me, well more than that; and
I’ve been feeling the sense of renewal again the last few days.
Arpana posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Swami Shanti.
Do you ever get that feeling you’ve taken sannyas again?
Happened a number of times to me, well more than that; and
I’ve been feeling the sense of renewal again the last few days.
Sometimes I do feel very connected to his energy and yes it has happened recently just over the last couple of weeks
Arpana replied 2 hours, 35 minutes ago
Yeah. Thought you might.
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Maybe you just have your days and feel good. Why this need to blame it on taking sannyas again? Sounds like a projection from a closeted mindset. Very twee. Besides, as Osho once said, ’A sannyas that is taken is not sannyas.’ Where does that leave you?
Arpana is a devotee – Lokesh did move on.
Where did he move ?
Satchit, I did not move anywhere. I live where I have lived for many years, here and now.
Lokesh has taken up residence in his own bottom.
Not of Lokesh I’m not a devotee, which in his eyes is a flaw.
The mind can project anything.
Arpana, as I see it, Lokesh just teases you and helps you that your devotion can become stronger.
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I have always found the path of devotion, bhakti, a bit suspect in relation to Osho. I had a few months in the 70s where I felt that I was a devotee. In retrospect I see it as some kind of trip I had to go through. One can never be sure what is a projection in these matters. If someone wants to devote themselves to a guru, bully for them. It is none of my business what others do with their lives. I was a disciple, student of Osho. Most people that I know personally, who got on a devotional trip were, in the long run, kidding thjemselves on. That does not meean to say I disrespect them. In Arpana’s case. I do not see him is being clear. Often he comes across as bitter and at times a little confused. Somehow carrying a chip on his shoulder and needing to project that frustration on others by demonizing them. Of course, that is an opinion I have formed from reading his comments for some years. Who he really is I cannot really say and I take what he says with a pinch of salt. I suspect that somewhere down the line something not so good happened to him that he never quite got over. Hence Arpana’sneed to think he is a really, deep, devotee of Osho. Looks like a wobbly crutch to me. Different strokes for different folks. Ultimately none of it really matters. We are all just consciousness experiencing itself in myriad forms. Today I find that teacher plants give me a more spiritual perception than hanging around a guru.