I am looking to read the commentary of Bhagavad Gita by Osho in English. Can any one let me to know the title of the book. Thanks

- Dr. Manmohan Singh, prime minister of India

“Osho is one of India’s greatest mystics…. I see him as one of the world’s great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of International Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life.”

- Kabir Bedi, international film star

“Through my friend Deepak Chopra I came across Osho’s books which gave me an other deeper shift in my life. I regret I did not met him in person, and I feel sorry the US Government missed such an opportunity back in 86.”

- Madonna, Singer and Performer

“Osho is an enlightened master who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness.”

- The Dalai Lama, exiled leader of Tibet

“He was the most original thinker that India has produced: the most erudite, the most clear-headed and the most innovative. And in addition he had an inborn gift of words, spoken and written. The like of him we will not see for decades to come…”
“It is a religion for the irreligious, for the agnostic, for the unbeliever, for the rationalist.”

- Khushwant Singh, former editor of The Times of India; author and historian

“When we wrote and prepared for shooting Vanilla Sky, I constantly checked in with Osho’s insights. It is not so easy to present the unconscious mind with images and a story. Osho is the only one who can perfectly explain it all, the inner and the outer and that helped me and my team immensely”

- Tom Cruise, actor

“Never before or after have I encountered anybody having such a harmonious and immensely creative view encompassing art, science, human psychology and religiousness. Certainly we would lack substantially without his vision of the new man.”

- Dr. A. Schleger, Ph.D., Institute of Technology, Switzerland

“Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans ex-pressing himself with joy.”

- Paul Reps, author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones

“Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works.”

- K. R. Narayanan, former president of India

“I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion.”

- Yehudi Menuhin, distinguished violinist

“Here is somebody who fuses everything and makes it understandable to people, and it makes sense. And he also challenges very fixed beliefs, challenges religions which have tradition and ritual and so forth.”

- Aroon Purie, editor of India Today

“These brilliant insights will benefit all those who yearn for experiential knowledge of the field of pure potentiality inherent in every human being. This book belongs on the shelf of every library and in the home of all those who seek knowledge of the higher self.”

- Deepak Chopra, author of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind; Quantum Healing and Unconditional Life on Osho’s Book “From Medication to Meditation”

“Few people have understood India like Osho. It was an understanding at many levels. The philosophical, the historic, the purely emotional - and even the political and the literary, the wanton and the spiritual. His was a holistic understanding. An understanding that went beyond words, into the uncharted terrain of true love. For love was at the core of everything that Osho believed in. It was the ultimate message he left for us. To discover, experience, savor life through love.”

- Pritish Nandy, JAIN TV presenter; former editor, and publisher of The Illustrated Weekly, India

“I’ve been charmed from reading his books.”

- Federico Fellini, film maker

“Osho’s books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind.”

- Kapil Dev, cricketing super-star from India

“Osho gave his country and the world a vision, which one can be proud of.”

- Chandra Shekhar, former Indian prime minister

“Osho is a fountain of wisdom that never goes dry. This century’s most original mind has created a new world for us humans to revel in, enjoy and remain ourselves through the pathway of love. Here is the quintessence of the wisdom of ages, the pure nectar of essential knowledge for mortals to acquaint with immortality.”

- Mr. V. N. Narayanan, editor-in-chief, Hindustan Times

“He is the rarest and most talented religionist to appear this century.”

- Kazuyoshi Kino, professor of buddhist studies, Hosen Gakuen College, Tokyo, Japan

“I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublime and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere.”

- Shri. V.R. Krishna Iyer, former supreme court judge

“I fell in love with Osho’s vision, when I visited the Osho Commune a few years ago. Osho’s words have helped me when I was going through a difficult phase. Since then I was looking for an opportunity to pay my tribute.”"

- Jasbir Jassi, Punjabi Pop Star

“As a result of reading The Golden Future (and many other works by Osho) I would like to let you know that I completely and heartily support the vision of Osho. As a writer I hope that his words will reach the hearts of those who need them most. I have every faith in this result, because the words of Osho are loaded with the power of love.”

- Douwe de Groot, writer

“These books are really what people are looking for…they are even more relevant now than when they were spoken.”

- Michael Mann, chairman of Element Books

“Osho is the greatest incarnation after Buddha in India. He is a living Buddha.”

- Lama Karmapa, late head of the Kargyupta, (or Red Hat) Sect of Tibetan Buddhism

“With Osho, words flow endlessly. Provocatively. Challengingly. In a hundred years more copies of Osho’s works will have been printed than the Bible itself, till now the outstanding best-seller.”

- M. V. Kamath, former editor of The Illustrated Weekly, India

“His incredible taped discourse lectures and books have inspired me, and millions of others, on the path of self-evolution… He is like a great bell tolling, Awaken, Awaken, Awaken!”

- James Coburn, actor

“Osho has a unique identity of his own. Our worldly life can become more fruitful through meditation and people can evolve towards a better society with the help of Osho’s wisdom.”

- Rt. Hon’ble Shri Girija Prasad Koirala, former prime minister of Nepal

“Osho speaks the language of today’s Yug Bhasha. His message is for the whole world.”

- Shri Krishnakant, former vice-president of India,

“Osho is such a vision that stands for the welfare of the whole of humanity, transcending the narrow boundaries of religions. Though today’s man is so caught up in his myriad problems, all of Osho’s books and discourses suggest simple and easy ways for man’s liberation.”

- Lokendra Bahadur Chand, the former prime minister, of Nepal

“I was inspired by Osho’s wisdom when I wrote the song ‘How fragile we all are’; Reading his books gave me hope for humanity. It is a must for everybody to have a look into his words …..”

- Sting, Singer and Performer

“To enable Indians and the world to appreciate the eternal India, Osho’s insights contained in his discourses and books should be made widely available around the world and through all media. This will also make the world understand India much better. “I was surprised and very impressed by Osho’s logic and how well he proved his points. When I was imprisoned during the Emergency for 19 months, I had the opportunity of reading Osho’s books on Mahavir, Kabir and the Geeta.”

- L. K. Advani, former minister of home affairs, govt. of India

“Osho - unmatched orator, unorthodox thinker and an original interpreter of ancient texts. His exposition of Japji Sahib and other teachings and philosophy of Guru Nanak Dev has deeply impressed me. I admire his courage, sense of conviction and spirit of adventure.”

- The late Giani Zail Singh, former President of India

“I believe that Osho was well ahead of his time in terms of his teachings, his thinking and as a practical man. This is very clear that the message of Osho is universal in nature. This also means that the right to His message is equally universal and should be available to any individual. In fact each one of the 6 Billion of us that inherit the earth today have a right to the words of Osho.”

- Padamshree Dr Raghunath Mashelkar - Renowned scientist, Director General CSIR and Chairman of the committee of World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

“Osho’s new man is both spiritual and scientific, simultaneously; he is not repressive and aggressive as in the past but tender and loving to embrace the joyful future. Let us rejoice and welcome the new man of Osho who is open and transparent, honest and truthful, authentic and self-disclosing. Osho’s new man is not fragmented but integral, wholistic in the image of his creator. And, this new man is not going to fall from some alien space but he is arriving through each one of us as we start dropping the gross sheath of our existence and start reaching the essential nature of ourselves, which is pure existence, pure consciousness and pure bliss.”

- Padamshree Dr. Vijay Bhatkar - Eminent scientist, Former Director of C-DAC

“Osho is one of the greatest mystics of all times who has a tremendous spiritual power to go into such a variety of subjects including Geeta, Nanak, Meera, Kabir, Sufism, Tantra, Yoga and Zen. He has given a new vision and direction to humanity.”

- Pandit Shiv Kumar Sharma, world renowned santoor player

“Where the dance of Meera and the silence of Buddha meet, blossoms the true philosophy of Rajneesh.”

- Amrita Pritam, renowned poetess

“I grew up with Osho around me. He was controversial because he had the courage to speak the truth.”

- Mallika Sarabhai, famous dancer

Thank you again for making me a part of Osho’s world of wisdom, joy and radiance once again. With gratitude!”

- Shubha Mudgal, renowned classical singer

“Osho’s vast repertoire and insight into the finer aspects of every faith, every religion just illustrates with no ambiguity the universality of the teachings, the message, the WORD in all religions. Not everyone is blessed so, as to be able to fathom the depth of this wonderful essence, enjoy it and live it. Thank you for letting me touch the tip of this vast treasure.”

- Maxwell Pareira, former commisioner of Police, Delhi

Main be-qaid, main be-quaid
Na rogi, na vaid!
“Loosely translated, this line by the 18th century Sufi poet Bulle Shah, would go somewhat like this - I am unfettered, unfettered am I. Neither the sick nor the savior am I. The line for me is a source of boundless creative energy and celebration. This is the irresistible feeling in the presence of Osho’s aura. I can say no more.”

- Madangopal Singh, University professor and Sufi Scholar

Please free your body from logic and try to feel whatever you read from the soul. If your soul says whatever you are reading is right then it does not matter who has said that (osho/prabhupad).
Also, by reading a human can only gain the knowledge (only zyan) but to gain the experience we need to feel it ourself from the soul. So leave the logical mind behind and take the feeling of what exists beyond logic. You will get what you are looking for from births to births. It is beyond man-made religions and you will require a guru(infact a sadguru) for the same.
GOD is within and outside in everything, feel the same and the soul will be enlighten.
Dhyan is what will lead the path.

Always Yours

READ SRILA PRABHUPADA’S BHAGAVAD GITA AS IT IS..WHICH IS WITHOUT ANY INTERPRETATIONS….YOU HUMBLE SERVANT

No body has so much time that they will be able to read about all the Great persons.
As your LOVE for OSHO made you say that he is the brightest star,in the sameway Dinesh’s love for Krishna made him say that he is the biggest example of living life moment by moment.

If Dinesh is fanatic,then so are you.
Give your all blog posts to some 3rd person,it wont take him much time findout that you are the biggest fanatic(of OSHO).

Cheers,
RJ

you can download tamil gita mp3 in thais blog

With very little experience and hardly any knowledge gained, I honestly want to express something… (another proof of my ignorance, though).

Rajnish (osho) himself said that we, “the logic loving” people find it too difficult to acknowledge people or things which are or appear to be ’superior’ …

Criticising Osho as a person starts the moment many of us are shaken by his bold logic and impressive way of explaining his veiw points very assertively…
It does not make any sense to me to dig and look out for personality issues of superior, great people… let us see what have they delivered…
The Cow may not be consistent in its eating habits… but we just look out for the MILK… the moment Cow starts speaking / talking like us, we shall start criticising and point out at things other than milk… may be out of the ‘ego’ to accept / acknowledge, many of us might stop having MILK too !
However, Cows cant give logical explanation…and fortunately we have Budhha, Krishna, Mahaveer, Gandhi, Jesus, and ofcourse though for limited population - Osho and Shri Shri in recent times who can talk , write and share their veiw points with us.

I went through the comments like “womaniser”… Looks like we are only looking for negativity around us… searching for these and we never get disapponted by the World… Cant we see in Osho the Love… the same love that Shri Shri finds as the final objective as well as the methodology to ahieve the ultimate…

With all due respect, there might be people to have similar comments about our lord Krishna! As Osho mentioned somewhere… if the Lord comes to live a human life once again, many of us may not allow him to enter our houses!

Whether it is our vedas or Krishna or Geeta or Osho or Shri Shri and so many other superior, knowledgeable people, the common truth about life is to look for love and be in the present moment… Lord Krishna, to me, is the biggest example of ‘living moment by moment’…

No great person is compelling us to accept him/ her as a person… its on us how do we take their thoughts…
by the way the self acclaimed critics… how sure you are to be accepted in your own tiny surroundings as a person..? Take no offence please…

Kind regards.

I could not reply to you immediately because of fever.Today after recovery, I write to you. Your view that statues and idols are to be used for meditation is 100% correct.That is why our forefathers constructed huge ,most peaceful and beautiful temples as places of worship and meditation is a form of worship only. In our village, there is still that very big and very old prahaaram, a stone mandapam which can accommodate 5000 people to do meditation peacefully. KINDLY remember this temple was constructed 1000 years before, not now. But only very few use that space for meditation. So, what I can do ? System is not to be destroyed. We have to make it function effectively.

I have seen hundreds of people meditating in the meditation halls of big temples where silence is available.But we can not expect the facility of meditation in temples where lakhs of people come for prayer daily.Take Tirupathi in South India for example. There the space available for devotees to sit and meditate within the temple premises is NIL. Hence meditation halls have to be constructed at a very long distance only.

The basic concept in our tradition is that the idols of God in any name or form is one among the best tools for meditation. I am having a small photo of my family deity( a TAMIL SAINT) in my house and my native village is more than 500 kilometers from the present place of living.So every day this photo helps me as a very good tool to enter meditation within few seconds.I can not go to my native village, more than once in a year.

Some temples, where huge crowds of people come everyday become commerciallised because of certain shortfall in infrastructure.Let us improve them and solve the problems in future. The word idolotry used in English is a misnomer. Any body, who think that people worship only the idols are cheating themselves. Worship through idols leads to the highest form of meditation very quickly. Worship is the first step in meditation which is very easy to follow and helps to improve our concentration power in our work spot.This is my own experience. But all people can not concentrate for meditation with the same type of idols. People have different complexions which makes them require different idols for MEDITATION.That is why different forms of deities have been created by our forefathers. Leave the Adi Shankaracharya who has read vedas and upanishads and made valuable commentaries. Even the present day Shankaracharyas are doing great service in our society. When we read something bad in the news papers about one personality who is well known to most people, we cannot destroy the entire system created and maintained by him.We have to remove the leader person who has committed wrongs and appoint a new good leader. We should not run away from the system and create a new system. Because, fault lies not in the system, but with the individuals.

One religious leader suppose involves himself in criminal activites, can we run away from the temple ? No. We have to remove the wrongleader and appoint a new leader. That is the only remedy. What is the guarantee, the new system created will not find a worst leader at some point of time.

Fault is with the individuals and not on the philosophies. Some followers commit mistakes, then the whole philosophy cannot be condemned. But I would like to tell you that whatever sufferings OSHO had from certain CHRISTIANS and as you told from some HINDUS, it is not an organised attack by a religion. Some mentals in any religious group do this type of attacks due to intolerance and incapacity to give proper reply. But we cannot blame the entire religion in any case.

For example, according press information, recently in MAY 2009, lakhs of Tamil People were unnecessarily killed by the Srilankan military and IT IS A BUDDHIST NATION AND BUDDHIST GOVERNMENT. So can we ban BUDDHISM through out the world.It will not be correct.

I have Christian friends who read OSHO literature and enjoy. I know Hindus who read OSHO and enjoy. As you have correctly pointed out in your letter, only 10 to 15% of the people are having the aptitude for meditation and the remaining 85% remain in the stage of worshipping itself and does not reach further levels. But don’t blame the religion. Because they are creations of persons only. We are also persons, why can’t we try to improve our brothers and sisters and lead to a dynamic life.

Buddhism as taught by Buddha is not the present day Buddhism. The present day Buddhism will not expand because it has its own seeds of exclusiveness.If we want to spread, you have to include and unite all the people. If we exclude something today, then later, finally we may have to exclude so many other things and finally we shall end up as a lonely without any followers.

RELIGIONS will not help us to reach the goal of realisation without our own effort. Because, even OSHO’S followers, after reading his beautiful lectures, which is the whole and sweet essence of Vedas, if they don’t undergo practice of meditation and higher levels of saadhana then there is no meaning in it. Dear Friend, my view is that we read a lot and we have no time to practice everything.If Good leaders are not available at present, why can’t we become leaders and make needed reforms ?

English expanded as a very good language because it started including words from so many languages and now there are more than a million words in their dictionaries. They have added words from French, German, Hindi, Mandarin, Tamil, Telugu and many other languages. So let us include everybody and expand. I take leave for 3 days and meet you again.

With regards

S.BALACHANDRAN

19.8.2010

5.26AM IST

We study history in schools and due to the inexperienced stage at that age, we start believing, that the history is true. When some king or dictator rules, the historians write something very good about the ruler, which may not be the truth.

My children have shown me their text books and stated that when ‘x’ was the ruler in Tamil nadu (India), the school text books carried a lesson praising the then ruler. After the next general elections, when there was change in the rulers, immediately the text book committee added a new lesson on the new ruler and deleted the lesson on the previous ruler. This is the state of our history books.

British divided so many countries for their business supremacy and they divided india and ruled. When introducing the English system of education in india, Lord Meccauley openly declared that he was introducing the English system of education in India as the then East india company wanted more clerks, stenographers and accountants at a very cheap wage rate which they could not recruit from England. So the very purpose of introducing English education was not for reforming the educational system. We study the text books of those days and fight with each other unnecessorily due to misunderstanding.

There was a country by name Yugoslavia till the very early nineties ruled by the Communist party government in those days. At that time, that country had a set of history books for the school and college curricullum. Subsequently, after the downfall of the communist rule in USSR, the communist government in Yugoslavia also fell down and that country had broken as 7or 8 small pieces with new names and smaller territories than the old country. Some time, in 1989-1991, the famous news paper THE HINDU published an article stating that all the 7 or 8 countries which split from Yugoslavia are now having different history books and each history book followed by one country is at variance with that of the history book followed in the remaining 6 or 7 countries. So nobody in these countries, study the real history and the new born countries are also blaming that the history books followed in schools and colleges in the educational curricullum in the erstwhile Yugoslavia is a dupe history and each new country is claiming that the new history followed at present in their country is the real and true history. Nobody knows the real history. History is the whim and fancy of the author of the text book who writes it according to the directions of the man in power. Don’t attach much importance to the old and dirty books of history and waste our time.

Atrocities committed by one group on other group or groups have no religious sanction and we cannot blame an entire religion for the blunder of certain section even if it is true. In all walks of life, always there will be a section doing mischief and we have to find ways to reform them and we will succeed. Not only section of Hindus but also sections of Muslims and section of Christians fought with each other unnecessarily and killed human beings in the past. The main reason for all these misdeeds was that each religious group was unable to digest the fact that truth can be expressed in many ways ( more than one way) and felt by more than one way. Intolerance for new ways and means for achieving the purpose, was the reason for the unnecessary fight among various groups in the past.

Even now, every week, we read in newspapers attacks of one religious group on the other groups in weekly prayer on Fridays in Pakistan and other countries in this 21st century. Lord Buddha opposed worship through idols because he never said anything about the concept of God. Not only Buddha, even atheists and agnostics are part and parcel of Hindu religion only.Even in the days of Ramayanaa, Shri Raama was advised by a Charvaaha Rishi, to fight with Dasharatha and get the kingdom, when Ramaa was directed to go the forests for 14 long years, Chaarvaaha is the agnostic and agnostics were treated as part and parcel of our religion only in those days.

You have pointed out in your letter about the atrocities committed on harijans by other communities. Probably, you may not be knowing people like Shri Vaidhyanaatha Iyer who fought for the rights of untouchables in entering the Meenaakshi Amman Temple in Madurai in Tamil nadu. Poet Subramaniya Bharathi was a great Tamil reformer on the same lines and so many Hindus fought for reforms in the areas of untouchablity and women’s rights.

So, we cannot blame a whole nation or whole religion or whole language for any of the past misdeeds if any. Our duty is to find the best ways for uniting the humanity and make the human life more happier and enjoyable.

Buddhism has become totally irrelevant as it is only a part of Hinduism and it follows the worship of idols of Lord Buddha and all types of rituals condemned by Buddha himself. Hinduism has place for worship through idols or without idols and it has also place for the non-believers and agnostics in its fold. I consider all the jains also as part and parcel of Hindu society as it is the truth. Brahmins are not the founders of Hindu religion. Hinduism has no founder and it is not bound by any limitations. It is wide open for any new ideas, and new methods in finding the real truth.

Tomorrow, if any body finds a new sect, with a new philosophy, that will also be absorbed into the folds of Hinduism as a new part of the religion which is existing.

You can write and share your ideas and we welcome it always. I am also a fan of OSHO one among the greatest lights in human history. LET US SHARE AND IMPROVE THE HAPPINESS IN OUR LIVES.

S BALACHANDRAN

CHENNAI

14.8.2010 5.59PM- IST.

-So no blame game wud lead us anywhere, but our intrest to self grow will certainly.
-i listened to osho satsang (perhaps geeta darshan) in which he shared immencely valuable opinion:-”beedh ko kabhi jagrutti nahi hoti, aur jo bhi jagrut hue hain ve sab akele hi the” thats why mystics never say follow this and that.
I dont mean that dont follow any religion but i do mean that religion is just 1st step towards jagrutti it is just for guidance to begin the journey, and after completing the first step when we become all alone our actual journey begins!
-osho also says that almost of all are stuck at before 1st step, only few are able to reach 1st step and still fewer who come ahead!
-it is also seen in geeta, in the beginning krishna gives instructions to arjuna and at last he says forget karma,dharma,religion and all just come under my shelter!
thus we can understand importance of religion here, we have to remain with it till we get matured then just throw it far away otherwise it becomes obstacle as krishna says.
Thanks

Ours is a society where more freedom to follow and try any new method is possible. A person born in this planet as Hindu can not be restricted by any means. There are no limitations.

Science has now declared that matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed. They only take different forms. Long back, our Vedas openly declared that there is only GOD everywhere.All the matter and energy are only the different form of the same supreme power.

We can use any language, method for knowing the ultimate truth. One of the stories in Upanishad goes like this:-

The student approaches the Teacher for guidance and admission in the Gurukula.The teacher informs his sishya that he could teach only what is known to him and also admits the fact that there may be manyother ways not known to the teacher and the sishya is not limited or restricted and the student can also try any new methods possible to find the ultimate truth.There can be no barriers for getting salvation and finding the ultimate truth. All limitations and barriers will be shortlived.

With regards

S BALACHANDRAN

12.8.2010
10.35PM (IST)

I cannot stop my laughing at your comment.
I don’t need to say anything more.
I cannot imagine someone stooping to such a low level that he can call Buddha a begger which interestingly you were praising a lot in your previous comment.
What has changed so suddenly in between that from being a hero ,Buddha has become a begger ??
If Buddha is a begger,then I would love to be such a begger.
And I don;t understand your special knack for brahmins or pandit
I have got many friends as brahmin/pandits.There might be some bad apples in the cart but to discard whole box is a foolish thing.
I think some pandit has kicked you so hard in the Ass that you are not able to forget it .
Take a chill pill!!!! :)

Cheers,
R.J.

You seem to have lot of negative energy build inside you.Your loving OSHO would never have been pleased with you.
I feel that you have not been able to interpret him properly.
Coming back to Sanatan dharam ,this is not just a religion ..this is a way of lIfe.This is only culture/tradition that believe in Universal Acceptance.As Swami Vivekananda said it “As many faiths,so many paths”.
Every culture has its Ups and downs so as ours.But the fact that it has remained Alive for more than 5000 years itself shows its greatness.
Such is the beatu of the culture that the things which weren’t good have been taken from.

It is like a open source system.
If we consider god, the concept of god, the practices that lead one to god, and the ideas, thoughts and philosophies around the nature of the human mind the source code, then India has been the place where the doors have been thrown wide open and the coders have been given free reign to craft, invent, reinvent, refine, imagine, and re-imagine to the point that literally every variety of the spiritual and cognitive experience has been explored, celebrated, and documented.

Atheists and goddess worshipers, heretics who’ve sought god through booze, sex, and meat, ash covered hermits, dualists and non-dualists, nihilists and hedonists, poets and singers, students and saints, children and outcasts … all have contributed their lines of code to the Hindu string.

So many cultures have come,so many cultures have gone.But it is stll withstanding all the storm.
And when you say that Girls aren’t safe while walking alone in India,is it just a Hindu to be blamed for it ???
Are you sure that it cannot be Osho lover like you who won’t be doing eve teasing.
Just to prove your point you are just turning blind eye to some of things.
Pains to see so much hatred and anger developed in the youth of India.
Nevertheless Time and experience show way to everyone.
God bless you!!!

Cheers,
R.J.

It seems that yuo are almost fanatic of Osho.Though Even I find some works for osho interesting that doesn’t mean that you can force your views on others.
As far as Hindus are concerned they know what their religion is.You don’t need to remind them.Instead I pity on you that after living so many years in India,you don’t know that religion of majority of population is “Santan Dharma”.

Regards,
R.J.

First let us all understand the fact that the final commentary on Gita is possible only through Krishna , the Jagadguru. All others can fill some voids. That is all.

To fully understand the Gita , one must have thorough knowledge/understanding of Veda and Vedanta.

I doubt very much that Osho had any grasp on Veda. When the whole world was duped into believing that Veda meant the Yagya karma kanda, it was Aurobindo’s wisdom that flashed new light into another esoteric dimension of Vedas. But, Osho was too carried over by his anti Vedic stand that he did not even think of understanding the other dimensions of Veda.

Understanding Vedanta without Vedic symbolism is another pitfall and most of our today’s wise men are victims of such a state.

Gita is a jist of Vedanta. So its roots lie in Vedas. Osho once interpreted a Vedic mantra thus ” let my neighbor’s field not get rain”.

Once one reads Aurobindo’s book , ” secret of the Vedas”, one immediately knows how flawed were Buddha and Mahavira in their understanding of Vedas. Osho carried on from where Buddha left and his vision vas partly masked by the ignorance that came as as a present from the two masters.

These are Osho’s negative points. Whatever be his inner motive, his choice to live in Luxury was another of his negative points. His book of meditation, for example, though a digest of some techniques of concentration, never can even touch the shallow depths of truth.

His interpretation of Gita is unique and great. But that does not mean the traditional understanding is flawed. Osho Himself laments that the present Indians question the veracity of our Puranas and Itihasas. But the same Osho in other circumstances will lambast the Pauraniks who hold these books as sacred.

I for myself respect Osho. But I do not follow him. His methods can never guarantee me upliftment in Saadhnaa. For that I turn to the MOST ORTHODOX teachers and PUNDITS. This is the Indian Hindu way. It remains so.

Venkat

First of all many salutations to all of you that you are talking about Geeta and Upnishadas.Somebody says “You have to be lucky to be born in INDIA”.Adhyatman or Spirituablity is the breath and blook of India.And India has ability to lead the whole world to brotherhood and peace and realization.
In my view its almost impossible to describe the realization of Atman/Soul in words.Those who know or taste the nectar of Atman OR Godly consciousness or SAMADHI ..they feel like immortal and unending source of happines and bliss.
There have been more than 100 writers on Geeta and Upnishadas after Shri Krishna. One could write crores of pages on each verse and epiisode.Because the truth is endless and infinite.Its KRISHNA’s intelligence that could breif it out in 18 episodes. Still the secret of happiness remains secret for those who reads GEETA as book. Geeta is secret book of YOGA abdhyas or YOGA.Its said so after every end of episode that Geeta is Dialog betwen Krishna and Arjun for BrahmVidya ( the supreme knowldge) which is again nectar of Upnishadas.
Thousands have reached state of realization just by surrendering and chanting of Geeta in everyday life.
May it be Shri Swami Prabhipad ( ISKNON) Or OSHO or Shankaracharya Or the Jewel of Saints Lineage ..Shri Dnyaneshwar Maharaj. Everybody has agreed and directed the world to Geeta saying that , YES Geeta is way to immortal bliss and happiness.
Ashtavakra , Avadhoot Geeta and Guru Geeta also remains same and Bhagvat Geeta. Becaus the infinite can take any form that is beyond our intelligence and MIND ( thought process).
Unfortunately there are very few people in the world who realize this SAMADHI and pass on the happiness to others like Ramkrishna Paramhans.
I know one such sacred lineage which is pure like GOD himself and helping the whole world to attain KSRISH consciousness OR SAMADHI wihtout any benefit OR charges.
“LOKNATH PATH” was brought to Western and South part of India by Swami Loknath Tirth who initiated many disciples into Mahayoga path ..the same Deeksha Or Initiation of Kundalini dont by Lord “Krishna” to “Arjun”. Unlike other paths of Yoga this is unique and secret in the sense that disciple is not supposed to do anything but just to observer the flow of Prana or Mother energy in his boyd from Muladhar to Crown chakra.
The only living disciple of Loknath Tirth Mahraj is H.H. Narayankaka Maharaj has initiated many people over the world into LOKNATH path. This is the cheapest, simplest and highest way of realization described in Bagvat Geeta.
You can read more at http://www.mahayoga.org.
I pray mother energy OR Bhagavati that all people over the world may experience the Geeta Consciousness and thie world be happy forever.
This path does not descriminate on Cast, Creed, Religion, Color , country OR Sex or Age.
As said by Bhagvan Shri Krishna thia path remains impartial as well as devine as LORD SHRI KRISHNA.

May there be unending happiness in your lives !!

Always at his feet,
Sadhak

so please read first Geeta by Osho,then give any comments

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1. who other than krishna can explain geeta fully? why you ppl are involved in the monolouge?
2. anyone by saying that he is krishna never becomes so bcz krishna is one without second !!!!
3. Had krishna wanted commentries to refine your self, he had not told geeta personally!
4. it is only you who dives inside your innermost core, but never the other outer thing.why should that matter to you??
5. just open the original krishna’s words’ geeta in your own language(not polluted by commentries) and go inside it, you wud start getting his grace.

every person in this world has different karmic patterns; in some life one likes particular tasks and in other life he averses; that means likes and dislikes are two different things but still same cuz they have evolved from same mind.!!
so whereever you feel that empty space inside you is to be fullfilled by prabhupada or osho let the space fullfill bcz its only krishna who is filling it.

BE stith-pragya as krishna has asked to do and please have faith in him, then there wont be any quarrels inside your buddhi !! :)
May Krishna Give You All This Deep and Sharpest Sword of Gyan to cut the ill effects affecting you.!!
Jai Shri Krishna, Jai Jai Shri Krishna, Jai Govind

I’m very much interested in reading geeta darshan by osho..any idea where to get it? in us or india..

thx..

This problem of interpretation makes for the doom of wisdom of Vednta or the other religion texts from around the world. So two schools/sects are trying to corner for who have the better of the explanation through the followers making a point or two. A text written thousands of years back in a language that is only understood by few and a context that comes to only the enlightened to explain. So whether Prabhupada wrote the better one or it was osho who interpreted nicely is not the question. The question is what you make of it by reading and understanding it. None( the readers) I am sure are any authority or else would have translated the book themselves and understood. Moreover any author would have looked at the previous interpretations and then with some higher understanding put his own thoughts. Perhaps we try to find the interpretation we best like but would also be open to respect what someone else thinks of it.

Better not miss the essence of Gita which is about reaching to God through inquiry and knowledge.

Best

I am a nutral reader, I wanted to read Gita as how it is given by Krishna, so I bought the book call Gita as it is by Prabhubatha and finally find out that it is not more than boring book wasted by the writers who tries to force his thinking on a subject to every body who reads it. I got a chance to read Bhagavat Gita Ek Dharshan by Osho in tamil, that is the books which explains, the things what a common man can understand, again Osho is not forcing to accept any of his idea, that is good part from him.

I hope in his comments Mr. Ravindra also tried to do the same thing what Prabhubahda did to Gita. I respect Prabhubadha, but I Cannot accept what he is trying to force. Mr. Ravindra try see things from a nutral point.
Cheers.
Hakkim

I have read both commentaries on Gita - by Prabhupad and Osho. I agree with Venugopal that:
1. Osho’s is prefereable;
2. Lord Krishna would not approve this commentary;
3. Osho’s commentary is so powerful and soul enagaging that one can easily
listen to it in discourse form for hours and hours everyday and feel Krisna
on mental and spiritual level;and
4. We are fortunate indeed to be contempreneous of Osho to avail this rare
opportunity of genuine Krishna consciousness through his interpretation.
May Lord Krishna bless his soul heavens.

Osho’s Gita Dharshan is a masterpiece. I have been doing Gita Parayana for nine years and only lately found Gita Dharshan. I believe it was Osho who has brought out the totality of Krishna out of the Gita than anyone else- even Swamy Ramsukhdasji Maharaj, whose commentary ‘Sadhak Sanjeevani” I rever. Though comparisons are not suitable, I see Osho fill some critical areas in my mind about the import of Gita.

1. Osho calls Krishna as Bhagavan (at least in that work. But later he was saying God did not matter to him)
2. Osho’s understanding of sloka 2/16
nasato vidyate bhaavo , naabhaavo vidyate sata:|
ubhayorapi drushto(a)antha: tvanayos tattva darshibhi:||

is perhaps unique and rare. His definitions of sat and asat are gems.

Personally, To me, Krishna is everything. But, a Gnana Yogi like Osho did great service to a Bhakta like me. I have just gone through ch 1 and part of Ch 2 (in Tamil) and every page stuns me.

But, I can understand vatts ji’s aversion. Osho has a habit of shocking others. As he says ” My job is not consoling people but to disturb them. For, they have lost the ability to think for centuries. My disturbing will wake them up”

I think that every Hindu must read or hear Osho’s Gita.

Pranams
Venkat