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The Song Talks on Adi Shankara's Bhaj Govindam |
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The Song Talks on Adi Shankara's Bhaj Govindam |
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‘A white cloud is a mystery, the coming, the going, the very being of it... The White Clouds' Way means a pathless path, a wayless way. Moving, but not with a fixed mind - moving without a mind.’ Osho chooses the symbol of the white clouds for all the adventures we call life, storm, wind, sun, rain and rainbows.
The ego can be dropped this very moment
The Song of Ecstasy
Shankara is an unique person. And it is very easy to misunderstand the unique person because he is beyond your common understanding. It seemed to people that he was also a logician, a great logician. But can a great logician say, "Sing! dance! Sing the song of the divine"? It is just not possible for the logician to say so. Such words can be spoken only by a lover of the divine from the depths of his heart.
How can you express your gratitude in words? Words are too small and gratitude is too vast, it cannot be contained in words. It can be expressed only by dancing. If there is nothing to be said then it is better to remain quiet so that the divine may speak and you may listen.
Bhajan, devotional singing, kirtan, divine songs and dance - these are the means of expressing the feelings. Shankara is hinting that without saying anything, you yourself should become a song, a divine song. These verses are very simple, these sutras are direct, and they are written by a genius like Shankara. In the whole of Shankara's literature there is nothing more precious than Bhaj Govindam. Shankara is basically a philosopher; whatever he has written is very complex; it is all words, scriptures, logic, analysis and thinking. But Shankara knows that godliness cannot be attained through logic, analysis and thinking. The way to attain is to dance and sing - through feeling and not through thinking.
The path of Shankara's realization is through the heart and not through the head. That is why, although Shankara has written commentaries on the Brahmasutra, the Upanishads and the Gita, you will find his innermost feelings expressed in these small verses; here he has opened his heart. Here Shankara does not speak like a scholar or a thinker, here he expresses himself like a devotee.
‘Shankaracharya has written many books but none of them is so beautiful as this song: BHAJ GOVINDAM MOODH MATE. I have spoken much on these three or four words, almost three hundred pages. But you know how I love to sing songs; if I have the opportunity I will go on endlessly. But here I wanted to at least mention the book.’ From: Books I have Loved
Prayer is the seed; bhajan, singing the song of the divine, is the tree
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I WILL SPEAK ON CHRIST, but not on Christianity. Christianity has nothing to do with Christ. In fact, Christianity is anti-Christ - just as Buddhism is anti-Buddha and Jainism anti-Mahavir. Christ has something in him which cannot be organized: the very nature of it is rebellion and a rebellion cannot be organized. The moment you organize it, you kill it. |
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The songs of Kabir commented by Osho |
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