Vigyan Bhairav Tantra – Part 5
विज्ञान भैरव तंत्र – ५
Life is a mystery, not a problem (92-93)
92. PUT MINDSTUFF
IN SUCH INEXPRESSIBLE FINENESS
ABOVE, BELOW AND IN YOUR HEART.93. CONSIDER ANY AREA OF YOUR PRESENT FORM
AS LIMITLESSLY SPACIOUS.
Questions: ~ Enlightenment – the most ordinary
The first question:
Question 1:
LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT WHEN THERE ARE NO THOUGHTS IN THE MIND,
THE MIND BECOMES AN EMPTY SPACE AND THE DOORS TO ALL THE MYSTERIES ARE OPENED.
I FEEL THIS INNER SPACE DEEPLY AND CLEARLY
BUT THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL THAT I FEEL AS MYSTERY.
WILL YOU EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEAN BY THE MYSTERY AND HOW IT IS FELT?
The second question:
Question 2:
NOT ONLY IN MEDITATION BUT IN ROUTINE LIFE ALSO,
I CONSTANTLY FEEL A ONENESS WITH THE EXISTENCE, EGOLESSNESS, TIMELESSNESS.
YET I FEEL MYSELF ORDINARY.
AND I DO NOT FIND IN ME THE TOTAL TRANSFORMATION
ABOUT WHICH YOU TALK VERY OFTEN.
The third question:
Question 3:
YOU ARE OFTEN SAYING THAT THIS IS GOOD OR BAD, OR THIS IS RIGHT OR WRONG.
IS THIS A LANGUAGE JUST FOR US
AS WE ARE NOT ABLE TO REALIZE THE ONENESS OF EVERYTHING>
OR IS THERE SUCH A THING AS GOOD AND BAD?
The fourth question:
Question 4:
IT IS OUR IMAGINATION, THROUGH AUTO-SUGGESTIONS,
THAT HAS ESTABLISHED US IN THE WORLD OF THE FINITE,
IN THE WORLD OF NAMES AND FORMS,
IN THE WORLD OF PAINS AND PLEASURES.
CAN THE SAME INSTRUMENT BE USED TO REACH THE INFINITE,
THE ABSOLUTE, THE BLISSFUL?THE SAME INSTRUMENT IN THE REVERSE ORDER?
Neither mind nor matter (94-95)
94. FEEL YOUR SUBSTANCE, BONES, FLESH, BLOOD, SATURATED WITH THE COSMIC ESSENCE.
95. FEEL THE FINE QUALITIES OF CREATIVITY PERMEATING YOUR BREASTS’
AND ASSUMING DELICATE CONFIGURATIONS.
Questions: ~ If you get serious you lose the point
The first question:
Question 1:
IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT NO DESIRE, NEITHER WORLDLY NOR RELIGIOUS,
CAN LEAD TOWARDS FREEDOM.
BUT A POSITIVE IMAGINATION OF HAPPINESS AND BLISS
IS ALSO A SORT OF DESIRE.THEN ISN’T IT TRUE THAT IMAGINATION IS ALSO DESIRE AND HENCE CREATES TENSIONS?
The second question:
Question 2:
YESTERDAY, YOU SAID THAT MIND IS REALITY, DREAM IS REALITY.
THEN WHY DO GURUS LIKE YOU TAKE THE TROUBLE TO TEACH US
THAT MIND IS THE ONLY BARRIER,
MIND IS THE ONLY OBSTACLE?
The third question:
Question 3:
YOU SAID LAST NIGHT THAT A CHANGE IN THE OUTER OR INNER AND PHYSICAL
OR MENTAL ASPECTS CAN BRING A CHANGE IN CONSCIOUSNESS.
THAT MEANS THAT CHANGES ON THE PERIPHERY ALSO AFFECT THE CONSCIOUSNESS,
THE CENTER.BUT THEN WHY DO YOU EMPHASIZE CHANGING THE CENTER,
INSTEAD OF CHANGING THE OUTER, THE PERIPHERY?
The fourth question:
Question 4:
WHY SHOULD THERE BE A DIFFERENCE IN TECHNIQUES FOR MEN AND WOMEN?
You are unknown to yourself (96-97)
96. ABIDE IN SOME PLACE ENDLESSLY SPACIOUS, CLEAR OF TREES, HILLS, HABITATIONS.
THENCE COMES THE END OF MIND PRESSURES.
Questions: ~ Aloneness is pain
The first question:
Question 1:
CONFRONTATION OF ONESELF IN ALONENESS IS VERY FEARFUL, VERY PAINFUL.
WHAT TO DO?
The second question:
Question 2:
LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT TOTAL ALONENESS IS THE ESSENTIAL NATURE,
IS THE ULTIMATE REALITY OF MAN.
ANOTHER DAY YOU EXPLAINED THAT INDIVIDUALITY IS FALSE
AND MAN IS A WAVE IN THE ORGANIC WHOLE OF EXISTENCE.
The third question:
Question 3:
IN THE FIRST TECHNIQUE TAKEN LAST NIGHT IT IS SAID
THAT TO ABIDE IN LONELINESS IS TO MINIMIZE RELATIONSHIP.
BUT ON PREVIOUS OCCASIONS YOU SAID THAT ONE SHOULD MAXIMIZE THE RELATIONSHIP
WITH LIMITLESS EXPANSION.
The fourth question:
Question 4:
MAN HAS AN INHERENT LONGING TO ENTER INTO THE WOMB.
KINDLY EXPLAIN WHETHER OR NOT MAN’S LUST FOR THE SEXUAL ACT,
PENETRATION, SYMBOLIZES HIS INHERENT LONGING FOR THIS RETURN.
The last question:
Question 5:
YOU SAID WE ARE CONCERNED WITH THREADS, NOT THE ESSENCE.
BUT WHOM DO YOU MEAN BY ‘WE ARE’?
BECAUSE AS WE ARE WE ARE CONCERNED WITH BEADS,
WITH EVENTS. WE LIVE IN EVENTS.
Forget the periphery (98-99)
98. IN ANY POSITION GRADUALLY PERVADE AN AREA BETWEEN THE ARMPITS INTO GREAT PEACE.
Questions: ~ Falling in love with an enlightened person
The first question:
Question 1:
YOU SAID THAT LOVE IS POSSIBLE ONLY WITH DEATH.
THEN WILL YOU PLEASE EXPLAIN BUDDHA’S LOVE.
The second question:
Question 2:
LAST NIGHT YOU SAID THAT LOVE IS ALIVE BECAUSE IT IS INSECURE,
AND MARRIAGE IS DEAD BECAUSE IT IS SECURE.BUT ISN’T IT TRUE THAT LOVE IN THE SPIRITUAL DEPTH BECOMES MARRIAGE?
The third question:
Question 3:
CAN ONE WHO IS NOT ENLIGHTENED LIVE IN TOTAL INSECURITY
AND NOT BE ANXIOUS, DEPRESSED AND MISERABLE?
The last question:
Question 4:
YOU SAID YESTERDAY THAT LIFE EXISTS WITH DEATH.
THEN PLEASE EXPLAIN WHAT IS THE NEED OF TRANSCENDENCE.
This is the need. There is the need. Life exists with death… if you can understand this, you have transcended.
Fear of transformation (100-101)
100. THE APPRECIATION OF OBJECTS AND SUBJECTS IS THE SAME FOR AN ENLIGHTENED
AS FOR AN UNENLIGHTENED PERSON.
THE FORMER HAS ONE GREATNESS:
HE REMAINS IN THE SUBJECTIVE MOOD, NOT LOST IN THINGS.
Questions: ~ The greater the sensitivity, the greater the detachment
The first question:
Question 1:
WITH DEEPENING MEDITATION, ONE BECOMES MORE AND MORE SENSITIVE TO OBJECTS, EVENTS AND PERSONS.BUT DUE TO THIS HEIGHTENED SENSITIVITY ONE FEELS A SORT OF DEEP INTIMACY WITH EVERYTHING, AND THIS USUALLY BECOMES CAUSE OF SUBTLE ATTACHMENTS.
HOW TO BE SENSITIVE AND YET DETACHED?
The second question:
Question 2:
IF FAITH CAN MOVE THE MOUNTAINS, WHY CAN YOU NOT HEAL YOUR OWN BODY?
The third question:
Question 3:
LAST NIGHT YOU EXPLAINED IN DETAIL ABOUT HOW SEEKERS DECEIVE THEMSELVES
BY NOT MAKING EARNEST AND SINCERE EFFORTS TOWARD MEDITATION.BUT WITH MANY OF THE SEEKERS WHO EARNESTLY ASK YOU FOR MEDITATION TECHNIQUES,
YOU SIMPLY SAY TO THEM TO LEAVE EVERYTHING TO YOU
AND THAT YOU WILL LOOK AFTER THEIR SPIRITUAL PROGRESS.BUT MANY SEEKERS FEEL DISSATISFACTION ABOUT THEIR SPIRITUAL TRANSFORMATION THAT WAY.
IN THIS CASE, PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW THESE SEEKERS ARE DECEIVING THEMSELVES.
The last question:
Question 4:
YOU SAID THAT JESUS DIDN’T KNOW THAT THE EARTH IS ROUND.
SO FOR CHRISTIANS WHO BELIEVE THAT JESUS WAS GOD, THIS SEEMS VERY STRANGE.
ISN’T IT IMPLIED THAT AN ENLIGHTENED ONE LIKE JESUS,
WHO KNEW DEEP OCCULT SCIENCES,
MUST ALSO KNOW MANY ASTRONOMICAL AND ASTROLOGICAL FACTS ABOUT PLANETS,
THE UNIVERSE, AND THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP OF CELESTIAL BODIES?
PLEASE EXPLAIN.
The search for the rhythm of the opposites (102-105)
102. IMAGE SPIRIT SIMULTANEOUSLY WITHIN
AND AROUND YOU UNTIL THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE SPIRITUALIZES.103. WITH YOUR ENTIRE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE VERY START OF DESIRE,
OF KNOWING, KNOW.104. O SHAKTI, EACH PARTICULAR PERCEPTION IS LIMITED, DISAPPEARING IN OMNIPOTENCE.
105. IN TRUTH FORMS ARE INSEPARATE. INSEPARATE ARE OMNIPRESENT BEING
AND YOUR OWN FORM. REALIZE EACH AS MADE OF THIS CONSCIOUSNESS.
Questions: ~ Buddha’s inner orgasm:
The first question:
Question 1:
WE HAVE ALWAYS HEARD THAT TANTRA IS BASICALLY CONCERNED WITH SEX ENERGY
AND SEX CENTER TECHNIQUES.
BUT YOU SAY THAT TANTRA IS ALL-INCLUSIVE.IF THERE IS ANY TRUTH IN THE FORMER STANDPOINT,
THE MAJORITY OF TECHNIQUES IN VIGYANA BHAIRAVA SEEM TO BE NON-TANTRIC.
IS THIS TRUE?
The second question:
Question 2:
YOU SAID THAT EXISTENCE IS A WHOLENESS, THAT EVERYTHING IS RELATED,
THAT THINGS ARE MELTING INTO EACH OTHER,
THAT THE TREE CANNOT BE WITHOUT THE SUN
AND THE SUN ALSO CANNOT EXIST WITHOUT THE TREE.
IN REFERENCE TO THE ABOVE,
PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW IGNORANCE AND ENLIGHTENMENT ARE RELATED TO EACH OTHER.
The third question:
Question 3:
WILL YOU PLEASE TELL US WHY KRISHNAMURTI IS AGAINST TECHNIQUES,
WHEREAS SHIVA IS FOR SO MANY TECHNIQUES.
The last question:
Question 4:
YOU SAID THAT SHIVA IS NOT A SYSTEM-MAKER
AND SECTS CANNOT FORM AROUND HIS TEACHINGS.BUT PERSONS LIKE BUDDHA, MAHAVIR, JESUS, GURDJIEFF,
SEEM TO BE GREAT SYSTEM-MAKERS.WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE SYSTEM-MAKERS?
PLEASE EXPLAIN THE PRO’S AND CON’S OF SYSTEM-MAKING.
ARE YOU A MULTI-SYSTEM-MAKER?
Become each being (106-108)
107. THIS CONSCIOUSNESS EXISTS AS EACH BEING, AND NOTHING ELSE EXISTS.
108. THIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS THE SPIRIT OF GUIDANCE OF EACH ONE. BE THIS ONE.
Questions: ~ The inner guide
The first question:
Question 1:
SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES IN THE ONE HUNDRED
AND TWELVE METHODS SEEM TO BE END RESULTS AND NOT TECHNIQUES,
SUCH AS THOSE THAT SAY TO “BECOME UNIVERSAL CONSCIOUSNESS”
OR “BE THIS ONE” ETC.IT SEEMS THAT WE NEED TECHNIQUES TO ACHIEVE THESE TECHNIQUES.
WERE TECHNIQUES LIKE THESE MEANT FOR VERY ADVANCED PERSONS
WHO COULD JUST BECOME COSMIC AT A MERE SUGGESTION?
The second question:
Question 2:
HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE DICTATES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS MIND
AND THAT OF THE INNER GUIDE? HOW CAN ONE RECOGNIZE
THAT THE INNER GUIDE HAS COME INTO FUNCTION?
The third question:
Question 3:
WHEN THAT INTUITION STARTS FUNCTIONING,
IS SURRENDER THE ONLY TECHNIQUE FOR THAT INTUITION, OR THE INNER GUIDE?DOES A PERSON LIVING THROUGH INTUITION ALWAYS SUCCEED?
HOW DO YOU VALUE SUCCESS AND FAILURE?
IS IT NOT TRUE THAT THE PERSON LIVING INTUITIVELY WILL BECOME WEAK INTELLECTUALLY?
Sunyawad – the philosophy of emptiness (109-112)
109. SUPPOSE YOUR PASSIVE FORM TO BE AN EMPTY ROOM WITH WALLS OF SKIN – EMPTY.
110. GRACIOUS ONE, PLAY. THE UNIVERSE IS AN EMPTY SHELL
WHEREIN YOUR MIND FROLICS INFINITELY.111. SWEET HEARTED ONE, MEDITATE ON KNOWING AND NOT-KNOWING,
EXISTING AND NOT- EXISTING.
THEN LEAVE BOTH ASIDE THAT YOU MAY BE.
Questions: ~ All and nothing mean the same
The first question:
Question 1:
YOU SAID THAT REALLY THERE IS NO ONE INSIDE US, THERE IS ONLY A VOID,
AN EMPTINESS, BUT THEN WHY DO YOU OFTEN CALL IT THE BEING, THE CENTER?
The second question:
Question 2:
IF THERE IS ABSOLUTE EMPTINESS INSIDE AN ENLIGHTENED ONE,
THEN HOW IS IT THAT HE SEEMS TO BE MAKING DECISIONS,
DISCRIMINATING, LIKING THIS OR DISLIKING THAT, SAYING YES OR NO?
The third question:
Question 3:
YOU SAID THAT NOISE AND DISTURBANCES ARE NOT OUTSIDE IN THE WORLD,
BUT ARE BECAUSE OF YOUR OWN MINDS AND EGO.
BUT WHY DO THE SAINTS AND MYSTICS ALWAYS LIVE IN UNNOISY, UNCROWDED PLACES?
The fourth question:
Question 4:
IT IS ONE THING TO REALIZE COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS ON EARTH,
AND TRANSCEND BODY.BUT HOW DO REALIZED ONES KNOW FOR SURE THAT THIS CONSCIOUSNESS IS ETERNAL
AND WILL REMAIN AFTER THE DEATH OF THE BODY?
The last question:
Question 5:
I CERTAINLY WANT TO BECOME ENLIGHTENED.
BUT IF I DO, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE FOR THE REST OF THE WORLD?
Osho ~ Vigyan Bhairav Tantra 