The Book of Mirdad - Chapter 1

Decided to write a commentary on "The Book of Mirdad". Osho Rajneesh has rated this book as no. 1 book. And when Osho says there must be something in it. The book is really a book of big words and big meanings. The book which speaks off the relationship of blood and flesh with the space and time. My aim is not to create a literature out of this commentary. My aim is not to make you more knowledgeable. My simple aim is to look at the book the way I see it. Here it goes...

Thus, Mirdad unveils himself to unveil you. There are class of people who would not unveil themselves unless someone unveils them. Mirdad says your eyes and your ears which itself are veil, how can they show the path of enlightenment. Mirdad himself is very surprised that eye can only veil, but cannot pierce the veil. But his surprise is natural. This is the game of nature that for an individual will not be very easy to understand. And perhaps he will never understand. According to me, eyes should always unveil. I also just don't understand why do eyes always veil and the purpose behind. However, Mirdad shows a way to unveil. That's fine. The way is fine. Sooner or later you will find. But the very question is still open - Why do eyes veil? And this is the point almost every so-called enlightened being has missed out. I do not favor individual enlightenment. I support mass enlightenment. Mass enlightenment is something which has never happened in the history of human civilization. Only one Jesus and rest all followers. Only 1 Buddha, 1 Bodhidharma. It's not enough. One Buddha cannot do much. Unless each and every person on the earth will become Buddha the question will remain open. And perhaps they knew it. If you allow me the freedom of speech and syllables - according to me - Each and every person should start meditating and keep meditating forever leaving everything onto the nature. And everybody should get released from clasp of known time and space continuum.

Mirdad is pointing to a different kind of eye that is needed to pierce the veil. He is saying first correct your eyes, because your eyes itself is a veil. Basically, he is saying to correct yourself. Eyes speak more than the mouth. Look at the eyes of Osho. I have never seen eyes like him. What a calm, radiating eyes. Those eyes are not of this world. If you want to understand the person look into his eyes. His eyes will tell you what he is. He is right there in his eyes. He cannot deceive from eyes. Eyes are the most lively part of the body. These are practical matter, but in theory he is saying to change yourself. A change is needed. It's a must. Because, the man is almost sleep. Don't think just because you are not sleeping that means you are waking. Even when not sleeping you will be sleeping which you will never know unless awakened. Mirdad is demanding a change. And the change has to be at very fundamental layer. I am in complete accordance with him at this point. The first will be the man has to be awaken. He doesn't even know that he is waking. All his activity are in sleep, in deep deep sleep. By the time you will finish reading this line, that moment will drip into the eternity of the past. And so much of sleep-time is being dripped into the eternity of past every moment. How does the nature accommodate this? Only nature knows...

The change has to be applied to each and every person on the earth. Individual enlightenment is absolutely absurd to me. The humanity has to achieve it together. Not even a signal person should be escaped. That is the only and only possibility the humanity will be cheerful and contented. However, this possibility is a remote possibility. Because, it has never happened so far. Many have tried to achieve this possibility, but all have failed, utterly failed. And if they have failed, it's not their fault. Because, this is the very nature of the existence itself. You have a plan and the existence itself has it's own plan. And at many times these two plans contradict. Because you don't know the plan of the nature nor the nature knows your plan. At this point of existential contradiction the highest degree of intelligence suggests to just be an observer. Whatever happens you are just an observer. This will allow the whole of the existence to complete it's plan. The existence created you to fulfill it's purpose. Through you, the existence wants to achieve some goal. Whatever be the goal, that's immaterial. But you never allow the existence to complete it's plan. That's what your teachers have taught you. But, they can't be blamed about it, because they were taught by their teachers. And it's a big chain, a big viscous circle . That's why Osho says the world is mesh. He is absolutely right. The whole nonsense have been taught for centuries and centuries. And since it has been taught over the centuries it look like a truth now. If you keep lion in a cage for long time he will forget that he is a lion. In the beginning we were all lions, but now we are lame. The degradation is only possible, if elevated.

Not that you don't want to help others. Not that they didn't teach you to help others. They have tried their level best to teach you "so-called" good values. But those "so-called" values were incomplete. They have made you lame and asked you to help others. This may be the propaganda of society. Being lame no help can be done, so it creates guilt. Even if you want to help other, you would do disaster to him/her. That's why Mirdad says your world is a baffling riddle, it is because you are that baffling riddle.

To be continued...

The world is a mesh

When Osho says the whole world is a mesh, he really mean something. Something wrong happened and it continued to happen for centuries. Now it is not easy to correct. A big momentum is needed. We have done and doing something wrong but no one can be blamed about. So it appears that the nature itself somehow wants to create a mesh. This is very strange and difficult to understand. Why would nature produce non-enlightened being over the centuries? This is absolutely absurd or probably I am not able to understand. Or probably it may happen in the near future. The Intelligence of the whole is much more than that of an individual. The nature has very strange way of it's survival. I want to understand the mind of the nature. In Japan earthquake, tsunami came and so many ppl died. What is this game of the nature? And why only to Japanese? What is the nature's plan behind? Fukusima was thrashed totally. So, does it mean that we should not develop our city because any moment earthquake can come? Our development is subjected to natural disaster. So we should stop developing? This point everyone should understand. If you think carefully, very very carefully, you will find that so called development which society has been doing since Adam's day is not needed. The only development ever needed is about human consciousness. Development is happening but it is not happening in the right direction. This is creating the whole mesh what Osho says. It is like pushing a wall. If you push a wall, the wall will not move, but you will feel tired. The whole of humanity is pushing a wall, trying to move a mountain which is not needed in it's absoluteness.

Everyone would have to take initiative and change him/herself. Because 1 person cannot change 6-7 billion people. I admire Baba Ramdev to some extent what he is doing. He is doing good but that will not be sufficient to establish peace and harmony on the earth. He should shift thinking from nation level to world level. At present he is concentrating on India level probably he will move to world level. Osho once had said - "There is no need for nations". The whole earth should be 1 nation. I have read about too many philosophers but no one has the Audacity of Osho. The common problem which is felt by all the prophets and saints is that their momentum is not sufficient to change the whole of the humanity. Because to change everybody has to change. Not that they didn't know this problem. They knew very well. But they did their best. Nothing more can be done. The inertia of humanity is much more than the momentum of all the prophets and saints :( But nature knows it all :)

Joke

Benny arrived home to find the kitchen a mess of broken crockery. "What happened?" asked his wife.
"There's something wrong with this cookbook," she explained. "It says an old cup without a handle will do for the measuring - and it's taken eleven tries to get a handle off without breaking the cup."
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The fatherhood

I was fathered to b a father. And it so happened on 20th jan 2011. The very first day of hindi calender month Maagh. My anticipation was on the full moon but it crossed it. God choosed to give us a baby boy - the joy of our life :-) Agastya will be his name as kept by my wifeeee. I wanted to keep his name Raajan. But dropped the idea because so many underworld name is associated with this name. Raajan is a beautiful name to me - something royal. I have noticed one thing to some extent that people become almost opposite of the meaning of their name. Their whole personality is no way positively associated to their name. Raajan are supposed to be holy king, but they became underworld don. But the king of underworld? Hope he will gather some qualities of sage Agastya.

Read upto eleventh chap of "The book of Mirdad". going slowly. i will write commentary on this book when i will have time. The book is highly philosophical. The book which talk the relationship between blood and flesh with time and space. Mirdad must be the man of insight. Otherwise there is no possibility that these words can be written in order to just write a best seller. No best seller writer can write such sentences unless he has the insight. He says, "eyes can see the viel but cannot pierce the viel". Now such statements u cant expect from, chetan bhagat. When did he get time to think on that? It needs ample time to pierce the viel which we dont have.
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osho video

this video is nice..

The book of Mirdad

This is a classical spiritual literature. This is the book. I am extremely selective in reading books. So, selective that I almost don't read any book. I would have read the least number of books as compared to others, in general. Because I believe in bad books. All books are not good as it appears. And ever I cared is only about the truth which books do not contain. Books contain information about the truth, not the truth. When you r hungry, food is the only way. I love books lying on the shelf rather than reading them. And it so happened when other day I picked "the book of mirdad". After a long time I started reading a classical spiritual text. The book really has something in it. Although millions have tried to measure the depth of ocean but very few have succeeded in true sense. Mirdad is one of them. A rare piece. It was like Ashtavakra Geeta. Do give it a shot. It will be more insightful than tonnes of bestsellers. It may not make you more knowledgeable about certain subject matter, but it will open a new dimension of life in you (provided you are open, a closed pot cannot be filled). And that's what your holy teachers have done to you unknowingly. When Jesus says, "god forgive them coz they don't know what they r doing" - is of tremendous value. Your teacher, your politician, your parents didn't know what they were doing to you. And you will repeat the same nonsense to your kids in a little different manner subjected to the society. If u look at the humanity, it is doing same nonsense starting from day 1. Man has not changed at all. Means have changed, environment is changed, time has changed. But man is utterly same. Doing, but no idea of doings. Just following a race. Since everybody else is racing so I am racing. And that everybody thinks. Everybody is fooling everybody else.

This world would have been full of natural gardens, full of contented and cheerful people living in their totality. Buddhas would have been your neighbours. Unless each and every person on the earth will become lile Buddha the problems of this world will not be solved no matter what you do. This is my word I say onto you that Buddha knew it. We need 1000 Buddhas operating at a time and the fate of human race can be changed forever.

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Contradictions

Our holy teachers taught us that contradictions are not good. We should avoid contradictions. Contrarily, I find contradictions very beautiful when analyzed carefully. Often contradictions turns out to be complementary. First of all, what is required is a clear mind free from illusions which just see the reality as it is. But how do you know what is an illusion and what is not an illusion? Now this is a million $ question. There are two separate distinct school of thoughts at this point. The thought of eastern civilization originated mostly from India - "This is unreal, that is real." And the thought of west - "This is real, that is unreal." This is where east and west contradictions in proposing the reality.

I feel that these school of thought should be merged to - "This is real, that is real" - Even unreal is real. We cannot simply deny the unreal. Since unreal is the part of this very existence, it should be merged to real. So, everything is real as far as understanding is concerned. Then east and west are in consensus at this point - the convergence of reality.

Now coming to practical aspect of my life. I have not cared for good and bad. I simply live experimentally. Experience can be good and bad with which I am not concerned. But, I am concerned with the experience. I simply don't believe in just living a consistent "so called" good life. I hate the word - "consistent". Really really hate this word - consistent. But if it happens on it's own, naturally, it's okay. Then it's perfectly okay. Anything which happens naturally, be it consistent, inconsistent, good, bad, is good. However, the life in general remains mysterious and inconsistent. As a student I have received, both good and bad feedback. One teacher told me you are a very intelligent student. Never seen an intelligent hard working like you. The other teacher told me you are a fool. The deviation of complements received in my life varies too much. Even in professional life I received both very good performer and then average performer. Have you ever think on "average". This is such a beautiful word. I will write about average sometime later. Meanwhile keep thinking on - "law of average" :)