By: k velmurugan

k velmurugan — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:52:58 +0000

Mr.Ravinder Nath Watts I think ur an fanatic u don’t want to understand the right geeta. Osho is not an brainwasher. Yes u can explain an ancient texts as per your experience. Prabhupada explain geeta as like a Hindu who want to interpret Krishna in an Hindu way of thinking. On the other hand OSHO is not trying to give an ultimatum on geeta, he’s just explaining his own experience. He uses geeta as tool. Its not an philosophical sermon. His speeches on geeta will transform your inner being which is far more important than the outer circles…

By: sanjeev

sanjeev — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:48:40 +0000

I have read geeta darshan by osho.I read it accidently. He explain every verse in detail. I don’t know whether osho was fake gure or real guru but one thing is sure that he had brilliant mind. I attracted towards geeta when I read osho book on geeta . I have also read Geeta as it is after that. Both prabhupad and osho has explained geeta in a very unique way. But I have a great respect for osho because just because of him my interest to know krishna is increased.

By: Ravinder Nath Watts (Pandit Vats)

Ravinder Nath Watts (Pandit Vats) — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 22:21:36 +0000

Dear Mr. Korde,
Are you talking on Gita or praising Osho? Your article is highlighting a man who was more than the womanizer and a sort of person called in our language a PATH BHRASHT. I have seen him when he was a professor in Sagar University and in later years his works I had opportunity to go through but his thoughts about Krishna are more as if as a humanbeing is talking and he had praised the Astavakr Geeta than Shrimad Bhagwadgita. The Jains highlight the Shringar Shaily of Leela of the Lord than His practical philosophies on Karmayoga and Adhyatmagyan. If you happen to read Prabhupada’s Geeta as it is and then read Gita of other authors and compare you will yourself understand how wrongly some of the verses have been interpretted.
To have worldly knowledge and to practice it are two different poles. I would like to quote Swami Shivananda of Rishikesh who wrote in advance more than 60 years ago I happen to visit his ashram in Rishikesh ,about all those modern swamis and acharyas & Lady sanyasins…………….
“VEDANTA is today a much abused term. All sorts of vanity, hypocrisy and self-conceit have been masquerading in its name. It has become the fashion of the day to pass for a Vedantin as it is then convenient to give up all sorts of responsibilities, rituals and restrictions of the Varnashrama Dharma and enables one to lead a happy-go-lucky life of ease, lethargy and inertia. The Punjab is full of dry, lip-Vedantins. Punjabi women have also taken to Vedanta and they take great pride in calling themselves Vedantins, whether or not they understand the philosophy, whether or not they do any practice. All retired officers who have not done any selfless service or any Sadhana or worship or charity take to Vedanta as a sort of fancy.”
(Swami Shivananda was a Doctor in Burma during British Raj in India and became a Sanyasi. Did Tapasya at Muni ki Reti in Rishikesh and his Ashram produced Yogis like BKS Iyengar who has now 2000 yogic centers throughout the world and many other Sanyasis later all the” Chalantru Philntaru “sanyasis from the west had one or the other time come to visit Shivananda Ashram. Swami Shivananda further eulogizes:-
“Thus Vedanta has become a very comfortable philosophy, because one can do whatever he chooses and eat whatever he likes. Licentiousness is mistaken for a life of expansion. If a man can eat anything in any hotel in any part of the world, if he can move socially with any man or woman, that does not mean, he is a Vedantin. There is much tall talk of Vedanta nowadays. There is idle Vedantic gossiping. But there is no practical Vedanta. Nobody wants to do any real solid Vedantic Sadhana. Man feels ashamed to call himself a Bhakta, but he takes great pride in calling himself a Yogi or a Vedantin, because he foolishly imagines he will be respected by the public. Many ignorant Vedantins have mistaken the body for Brahman and hence there is corruption amongst the so-called loose Vedantins. This is not only lamentable but also highly deplorable.”
I wish to add in the thoughts of great Sanyasi that the commercialization has overtaken Adhyatma that is why we only see the bright side of the person and forget the Truth. It is just like the packaging industry has overtaken the real contents of the thing presented.
The list of various modern swamis, or so called Sanysis and saints is long….
One of them was Acharya Rajnish who declared himself as Bhagwan Rajnish and then a Japanese name as ‘OSHO’. I agree that he was very well read.But his views and sayings on contradictions in Geeta and depiction on Krishna is lamentable and deplorable. He confuses more than he explains.
Shrimadbhagvadgita is summarised form of Vedas that is why it is also known as Geetopnishada. The Upnishadas are that part of Vedas wich highlight the Sanatan Hindu philosophy of our Dharma ( please note that religion word is being wrongly used in place of the Dharma- a wrong translation because English has no substitute for Dharma) Every chapter of Geeta is focused on a Yoga. The entire philosophy revolves around a Central Figure that is the creator controller and ahhilator or recycler which makes Hinduism as Monotheistic inspite of the fact that the administration of JAGAT (the Universe) is controlled by Lord Vishnu and when the same cosmic energy works as the created we call him Lord Brahma and ultimate for a new cycle of the Universe we have the annihilator or recycler Lord Shiva. They all are one and the same. The Supreme is Krishna who has inifinte names, eternal, almighty loves the right doers Bhaktas that is why he is an apostle of love.
Time to time he incarnates to establish the natural laws.
Please excuse me if I had used some harsh words or hurted any body whose mind is brainwashed by reading one type of persons views only.
Pandit Vats at San Lorenzo California.

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