VBT – Week’s Meditation 11
VBT – Week’s Meditation 11 Pilgrimage Inside One of the beautiful songs, created by the Baul Mystics, of Bengal...
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Illuminating Education: Roundtable # 2
Shifting the Mindset: From Survival to Significance Introduction Prof. Joy Sen opened the session by explaining that the meeting...
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Illuminating Education: Roundtable # 1
Einstein’s Law of Energy and the Conservation of Energy (Akarma) Introduction Welcome to a special edition of Illuminating Education:...
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Podcast With Debasis Satapathy # 25
Career planning and Succession planning in the lens of Mahabharat Introduction Introducing Mr. Debasis Satapathy for the podcast series...
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Podcast With Upasana Tendulkar # 2
Saundarya Shastra in the Digital Age: Crafting Content with Grace and Truth Introduction A warm welcome to Illuminating Education:...
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Podcast With Debasis Satapathy # 24
KRA, KPI and Bell Curve – Ancient Wisdom to Modern Performance Introduction Welcome to the thought-provoking episode of “Exploring...
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Podcast With Upasana Tendulkar # 1
The Art of Conscious Participation: Leadership and Life through the Nāṭyaśāstra Introduction Welcome to Illuminating Education: Research, Awareness, and...
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Podcast With Dr. Bharat Dash # 1
The Katha Pratha Project: Storytelling Pedagogy for Self-Transformation Introduction Welcome to Illuminating Education: Research, Awareness, and Meditation in the...
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Podcast With Dr Satya N Verma # 1
The Architecture of Unity: Sardar Patel’s Lessons in Nation-Building for the Modern Student Introduction Welcome to Illuminating Education: Research,...
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Podcast With Dr. P. NagaRaju # 1
Integrated Practices of Ergonomics and Yoga for Corporate Wellness Introduction Welcome to Illuminating Education: Research, Awareness, and Meditation in...
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Podcast With Dr. Ravi Prakash Gupta # 2
Adversary or Enemy? The Language That Broke Democracy Introduction Welcome to Illuminating Education: Research, Awareness, and Meditation in the...
VBT – Meditation 8.3
VBT – Meditation 8.3 Division Disappears Witnessing self is the ultimate, you cannot go beyond it, because now whatsoever you do will be witnessing. Beyond witnessing you cannot move. So witnessing is the ultimate substratum, the basic ground of consciousness. This sutra will reveal it to you. Each thing...
Bhagavad Gita Verse 11.1
Witness Is Spirituality – In Gita Verse 11.1 Arjuna said: By my, hearing the instructions You have kindly given me about these most confidential spiritual subjects, my illusion has now been dispelled. To understand this verse first we need to understand the Witness and the Illusion. How may one...
Learning Is Evolution Session: 94
Divine Consciousness
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Creative Act
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Immortal
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Religion
Ochre Robe
MANY OF THE EXISTENTIALIST THINKERS OF THE WEST – SARTRE, CAMUS ETC. – HAVE COME TO REALIZE THE FRUSTRATION,...
Prayer
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart Prayer The Sufi mystic was a rebellious person. It happened this time that for three days they had no food, because every village they passed refused...
Old Man’s Answer
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. – Albert Einstein Old Man’s Answer A Sufi story. A man was sitting at the gate of a town, an old man. A rider stopped, a horse rider and asked him, ”what...
You Have Stolen My Heart
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. – Albert Schweitzer You Have Stolen My Heart 💓 Let me tell you a Zen anecdote about a burglar who entered the house of a Zen master to rob him....
Wood Cutting
Relaxation means you don’t have any shoulds. You are simply living moment to moment, not according to some future idea of yourself, but according to your reality that is herenow. – Osho Wood Cutting A Zen story. A very curious king, wanting to know about what these...
As You Sow So Shall You Reap
“Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life.”...
Pick Up The Roses And Avoid The Thorns
Pick Up The Roses And Avoid The Thorns Osho, When you were responding to Sarjano’s question, I heard you...
Illuminating Education: Roundtable # 2
Shifting the Mindset: From Survival to Significance Introduction Prof. Joy Sen opened the session by explaining that the meeting...
Come To The Middle
You have to wake up and realize the fact that your imprisonment is your imagination, that your fetters are nothing but the thoughts, that your bondage is nothing but your own unconscious way of living. – Osho Come To The Middle A youth, Prince Shrona, was initiated...
Buddha’s Footprints
We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more. – Carl Jung Buddha’s Footprints He...
Not Even for Free
If a man recites religious scriptures without bothering to understand the ideas being stated. Such person is not better than a ladle that is dipped in all kinds of food, but is unable to taste any. – Chanakya Not Even for Free What Buddha said… : Look at...
Something Of Me Behind
I would rather die a meaningful death than to live a meaningless life. – Corazon Aquino Something Of Me Behind Once in awhile there have been single individuals who had the quality of true religion; for example, Bodhidharma. One of the most lovable human beings, he went...
Gift From Universe
Once I have asked myself what is the biggest gift I have received from the universe? I feel that it is life. The next question was then how I can reciprocate to the universe? By living joyously and in celebration. That’s the only way I can be in gratitude...
In Love, Drop The Object
In Love, Drop The Object Osho, Waiting for you to get well, there came a point where I wasn’t waiting anymore for something – it simply became just waiting. Discovering the beauty and sweetness of it was so precious. Waiting needs no patience. It is like living in moonlight...
Mantra And Monkeys
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing?’ – Martin Luther King, Jr. Mantra And Monkeys Milarepa was a mystic who lived in Tibet. One day a young man went to him and said, “I want to attain some powers. Please give me a mantra.”...
The Night Song
The Night Song You will find your soul too in the silence of darkness because it is not of the mind; it is even deeper than the heart, but heart is a bridge. If you can sing a song of love you are not far away from the sound...
Death Is Life
Death Is Life The eighth sutra of yoga. When I talked about the seventh sutra I told you that conscious life has two forms: self-conscious and self-unconscious. The eighth sutra is: Yoga begins with self-consciousness and ends with the dissolution of the self. To be self-conscious is the way;...
Always On The Rocks
Always On The Rocks Go as deeply as possible in your relationships with women – don’t be worried. Soon you will see that there is a different kind of relationship that can exist only between polar opposites. Then go into a deep relationship with a man, because only by...
Eyes For Painting
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. – Pablo Picasso Eyes For Painting Story Of Vincent Van Gogh His younger brother, hearing that not a single painting had sold, gave some money to a man — a friend of...
The Challenge Of The Buddha
The Challenge Of The Buddha Very difficult. We go on unconsciously expressing our opinion about others. Do you know others? You don’t know even yourself. How foolish it is to express opinions about others. You may have known somebody for a few days. You know his name, you know...
Just A Quantum Leap
Just A Quantum Leap First, don’t console yourself. Consolation is not the way to real understanding. It is true that there is nothing that you can do, but this can be just a consolation, a kind of defeatism. Then it is untrue. Even a truth can be used as...
Prayer
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough. – Meister Eckhart Prayer The Sufi mystic was a rebellious person. It happened this time that for three days they had no food, because every village they passed refused...
Ego
Ego Osho, How to sacrifice the ego? It is impossible. The ego cannot be sacrificed because the ego exists not. The ego is just all idea: it has no substance in it. It is not something – it is just pure nothing. You give it reality by believing in...
Beyond Acceptance And Rejection
Beyond Acceptance And Rejection Osho, The vision “neither this nor that” feels so negative, so absolutely negative. How can I be accepting or even creative with this? I feel totally confused. Mind lives in the duality of the positive and the negative. It lives like a pendulum, moving from...
Osho's Preaching
The Fundamental Rule Be a little more aware when you make such assumptions. You think that somebody is mad?...
A Mystic Born Before His Time Krishna is not a hawk, not a supporter of war for war’s sake....
Dropping Out Of The Wheel Nothing is new in life; it is a wheel, it moves on the same...
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go. – Rumi Havana Cigar I(Osho) have heard about an...
When you are deeply in love your mind cease to be. There is no past; only the present moment...
Creativity I BELIEVED I WAS UNCREATIVE. WHAT ELSE CAN BE CREATIVITY BESIDES DANCING AND PAINTING AND HOW TO FIND...
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. – Philo Poras And Alexander In...
Be Unpredictable The golden age is always in the future. Osho, You are an ever-changing, unpredictable master – how...
The lion king was busy appointing various animals at different posts. The cheetah had been made the army commander...
Once, a fox lived in a forest. One fine morning, he was roaming around the forest and he was...
Once, a poor beggar lived in a village. One day he thought of going to meet the village head...
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. –...
With our outer sacrifice, we see the Truth. With our inner sacrifice, we become the Truth. An ounce of...
When you’re in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?...
An idol-maker had to deliver an idol to a customer. He placed it on his donkey’s back and they...
A wild boar was rubbing his tusks against a tree. A fox passing by asked him what he was...
On a summer day, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a...
It takes a long time to find your own voice. Along the way, you imitate all the things that...
Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations. – Sam Rayburn ...
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. – William Shakespeare The King’s Condition The ruler of Vijaynagar, Krishnadeva...
I will tell you a story from the Upanishads… A rishi is sitting with his wife and son. A...
The servant who does not acts as per command of his master, denies duty, who is proud, and speaks...
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Yama
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Eight Fold Path of Yoga
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Viveka Khyateh
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Purusha
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Yama
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Eight Fold Path of Yoga
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