The GOD Stands Alone
BABA JOGI EK AKELA*
Recently I was reading the book by Paulo Coelho - "The Winner Stands Alone". To the great disappointment of the reader club at my home it was far from our expectations from the writer of "The Alchemist". But as soon as I read the title of the book, one line sparked in my mind - "The GOD stands alone".
Somewhere Vivekananda has written-"Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature".
If we really understand how human mind works (get the best references in Osho's books), them mind of GOD is not far away.
एकाकी ना रम्यते,
एकोहम྄ बहुस्यामि|
"Ekaaki na Ramyate, Ekoham bahusyaami".
-I don't enjoy being alone, so I become many even I am one.
Imagine yourself alone in an infinite place in fact you are the place with no one else.....what will you do? You are perfect, you are blissful, you have each and everything in your errr...stomach or mind whatever....because if a perfect soul is in perfect place, no desire neither any requirement can arise. SO what will you do? You have nothing to do, nothing to work no need to hurry, no need to sleep……..perfectly Perfect.
Then the best you can do is to play. But play with whom? You are the ONE, no other is there....you can play something in which you play from both sides and no matter who wins, you enjoy it hehehe...so all goes in your mind, the play, the opposites, the tricks, the shadow of defeat, the joy of winning and apart from that there is something within you that perfectly knows that it is all a play and you, only you are playing form both sides....still you feel the joy and sorrows, you get involved in that game too much....too engrossed....and then suddenly you are so much in defeat you want to retire from the play.., it is painful, it is boring now....it doesn't entertain anymore because you have forgotten you are playing from both sides….you are the one playing it and you wanna rest.....so GOD goes in rest with calling all his mind energy to rest...so all mind shadows, personalities, dolls, world, this and that...come to a halt.....dead now...as you go to sleep and everything comes to a halt……….
Or maybe you start dancing….your whole being in a mad tune…in the core you are one, but each step, each tune, each gesture defines something different then your early state…the Universe as it seems…
And then you are tired or just wanna rest, and the dance stops….and it is all calm and still….no music, no dance, you are in rest…..perfectly perfect again…….
This world is a dream stuff, if you don’t have any dreams and fantasies to live upon, you have little attachment, little ego and little identity left. You are about to turn to nameless, formless, and Absolute nothing...all talks are either about some dreams, some future plans or some sorrow about the unfulfilled dreams…sometimes it is about the fault findings…this way we cover our own faults, weaknesses, insecurities and feed our ego bit by bit and make a huge ego…..very difficult to conquer upon.
Till "I" exists here, it has a dream world around it which is far from the reality.
But to face reality, to see things in right light needs much courage…it will start casting off your all illusions one by one whom you thought were your very own personality, you have to see yourself with all dirt and ugliness then only you can start working to make it clean.
A saying is that good people don’t have any story. These are bad people who make a stir, who create stories, interesting stuff, then I came to know that only being bad is not enough, sometime they need to show their defeat too….so they can cast their fear off…
Long time I wondered why it is that people get interested in those gossips, and why good people make little fuss….
Then I understood – people living with fantasy, dream stuff are likely to go astray from reality. Reality in this physical world is like naked body, little beauty and much ugliness….they need to cover it, they need to make it up, so it could show beautiful face and you don’t get bored with it….
That is why OSHO insists so much on the observation.
Be an observer, watch…sometimes around you, but most certainly watch yourself…an anger has risen, watch, why it is coming…may be you had failed to fulfill some duty and someone is asking you… you don’t want to accept your fault…you become angry,. you become offensive…..
This is just one pure energy taking so many forms………playing so many games….hide and seek…love and hate….affection and anger……cool and hot….energy upon energy taking so many forms…waves upon waves....they just sometimes forget their origin and start thinking they are separate entity….
THE GOD STANDS ALONE!!!
Only it is that sometimes he is getting bored and starts some plaything…
Recently I was reading the book by Paulo Coelho - "The Winner Stands Alone". To the great disappointment of the reader club at my home it was far from our expectations from the writer of "The Alchemist". But as soon as I read the title of the book, one line sparked in my mind - "The GOD stands alone".
Somewhere Vivekananda has written-"Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature".
If we really understand how human mind works (get the best references in Osho's books), them mind of GOD is not far away.
एकाकी ना रम्यते,
एकोहम྄ बहुस्यामि|
"Ekaaki na Ramyate, Ekoham bahusyaami".
-I don't enjoy being alone, so I become many even I am one.
Imagine yourself alone in an infinite place in fact you are the place with no one else.....what will you do? You are perfect, you are blissful, you have each and everything in your errr...stomach or mind whatever....because if a perfect soul is in perfect place, no desire neither any requirement can arise. SO what will you do? You have nothing to do, nothing to work no need to hurry, no need to sleep……..perfectly Perfect.
Then the best you can do is to play. But play with whom? You are the ONE, no other is there....you can play something in which you play from both sides and no matter who wins, you enjoy it hehehe...so all goes in your mind, the play, the opposites, the tricks, the shadow of defeat, the joy of winning and apart from that there is something within you that perfectly knows that it is all a play and you, only you are playing form both sides....still you feel the joy and sorrows, you get involved in that game too much....too engrossed....and then suddenly you are so much in defeat you want to retire from the play.., it is painful, it is boring now....it doesn't entertain anymore because you have forgotten you are playing from both sides….you are the one playing it and you wanna rest.....so GOD goes in rest with calling all his mind energy to rest...so all mind shadows, personalities, dolls, world, this and that...come to a halt.....dead now...as you go to sleep and everything comes to a halt……….
Or maybe you start dancing….your whole being in a mad tune…in the core you are one, but each step, each tune, each gesture defines something different then your early state…the Universe as it seems…
And then you are tired or just wanna rest, and the dance stops….and it is all calm and still….no music, no dance, you are in rest…..perfectly perfect again…….
This world is a dream stuff, if you don’t have any dreams and fantasies to live upon, you have little attachment, little ego and little identity left. You are about to turn to nameless, formless, and Absolute nothing...all talks are either about some dreams, some future plans or some sorrow about the unfulfilled dreams…sometimes it is about the fault findings…this way we cover our own faults, weaknesses, insecurities and feed our ego bit by bit and make a huge ego…..very difficult to conquer upon.
Till "I" exists here, it has a dream world around it which is far from the reality.
But to face reality, to see things in right light needs much courage…it will start casting off your all illusions one by one whom you thought were your very own personality, you have to see yourself with all dirt and ugliness then only you can start working to make it clean.
A saying is that good people don’t have any story. These are bad people who make a stir, who create stories, interesting stuff, then I came to know that only being bad is not enough, sometime they need to show their defeat too….so they can cast their fear off…
Long time I wondered why it is that people get interested in those gossips, and why good people make little fuss….
Then I understood – people living with fantasy, dream stuff are likely to go astray from reality. Reality in this physical world is like naked body, little beauty and much ugliness….they need to cover it, they need to make it up, so it could show beautiful face and you don’t get bored with it….
That is why OSHO insists so much on the observation.
Be an observer, watch…sometimes around you, but most certainly watch yourself…an anger has risen, watch, why it is coming…may be you had failed to fulfill some duty and someone is asking you… you don’t want to accept your fault…you become angry,. you become offensive…..
This is just one pure energy taking so many forms………playing so many games….hide and seek…love and hate….affection and anger……cool and hot….energy upon energy taking so many forms…waves upon waves....they just sometimes forget their origin and start thinking they are separate entity….
THE GOD STANDS ALONE!!!
Only it is that sometimes he is getting bored and starts some plaything…
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