Save Osho's Legacy, India

"It is not only with you, but with everybody exactly the same. You are what you are seeking. You are standing at exactly the place towards which you have been traveling - for seven years, seventy years or seven hundred years. You reality is within you; it is not somewhere else. But to understand the point, sometimes it takes years. You knock on many doors before you come to your own door, and then you are puzzled, because this is the house you had left and this the house you have been searching for"

- Osho, You are what you are seeking, Beyond Enlightenment.

Friends,

Osho Basho will NOT be sold.

It has been a magical few days for all the Sannyasins across the world. The Hon'ble Jt Charity Commissioner has rejected the sale application and has also called for a special audit into the accounts of Osho International Foundation Trust.

The deliberate financial mismanagement by the Trustees cannot remain veiled for long.

We are grateful to the Hon’ble courts for taking cognizance of the devotees and disciples of Osho, who have been raising their voice against this sale and against their several wrongdoings.

Died #

Let's Celebrate & Meditate this Guru Purnima. Love to all ❤

Anything that one can be sad about is a life unlived.
You go on dragging yourself without living–that is unfortunate. You are vegetating; you are not singing the songs that you have come to sing, you are not dancing the dance that is lying in your potential, fast asleep; you are not bringing your intelligence to its peak.

You will be surprised that even our so-called great geniuses only use fifteen percent of their intelligence. Eighty five percent of their intelligence remains unused. And this is about our great geniuses–talented people use near about ten percent, and the common masses use not more than seven percent. One wonders, if people were using their intelligence to its full, the world would be a totally different place–far more alive, far more rich, far more beautiful.

The only thing that one should be sad about is that you are not living, but just passing time. Death is not something to be sad about–if it comes to a fulfilled life, if it comes to a life a crescendo, its climax, it has a beauty of its own.

I want my people to live totally, and to live intensely, to burn their life’s torch from both ends together. If they can manage to live a total and intense life in each of their acts, their death will be something of a greater beauty than their life has ever been–because death is the highest peak, the last touches of the painter on the painting.
That’s why I have been saying that death should be celebrated just as life should be celebrated. Both are natural, both are gifts.

Osho, The Razor's Edge
Ch 12: God is also seeking you.

I say unto you; do not be too much concerned with what I say, but be concerned with what I am.
What I say is only the circumference, what I am is the center.
When a disciple is ready to join with the center of the Master, initiation happens. It is an entry into the house of the Master.
The doors are opened for the disciple to come in because the disciple has opened his heart for the Master to come in. It is on both sides an opening -- availability, vulnerability.
And when both sides are open -- the Master's side is always open, even to those who are not open; it is only a question of the disciple, because he is continually defending, afraid. That's what the whole society has been teaching him: "Be on the defense, otherwise somebody is going to exploit you. Be alert, don't be
gullible. Keep yourself ready; if somebody is trapping you, you can escape."
If this mind is there then you can't go beyond the stage of the student.
To be a disciple you have to be ready -- knowingly, with your eyes open -- to step into the unknown, dropping all fear, because the Master is the most unknown and unknowable thing in existence. It is not his body, it is not his mind. It is his vibe, his presence -- not his person. And to enter into his presence you have
to drop all your defense measures. That is initiation. It may take any formal structure. That is not essential; that is just to make it visible.

You are given a red robe, a mala; they are not essential. They are just to make your initiation visible to others, because if it is visible to others they will remind you. Standing before a mirror you will be reminded; continuously you will be reminded that you are a disciple and you have to behave like a disciple. It is just an
outer protection.

But the real initiation is something inner, something that triggers in your heart... a moment when the Master's heart and your heart beat in the same rhythm.
When there is a moment when your breathing and your Master's breathing are one, when the two-ness is lost, and one-ness is felt -- that feeling of one-ness with the Master is initiation.

Disciplehood is a necessary condition for initiation.
And as your initiation becomes ripe, as it becomes easier, natural, spontaneous, then comes the fourth category: the devotee.

Between the disciple and the devotee is the bridge of initiation. The disciple is on the other shore, the Master is on this shore. But the disciple is ready to cross the river, to risk his life. To him there is nothing more important that to be with the Master. Whether it is a river of water or fire makes no difference, he is
going to pass through it.
That very decision changes him from a student into a disciple. That very decision, and immediately -- the Master may be on the other shore, but he starts pulsating with him -- a synchronicity arises.
He starts feeling as if he is part of him, not separate. Slowly the bridge is built. More and more your defenselessness, without any effort, just becomes natural to you. The day it becomes natural, you have crossed the bridge:
the disciple disappears and the devotee appears.
That is the highest category in the world of seeking.

Osho, From Misery to Enlightenment
Ch: 3: Initiation, when one and one add up to none.

Snap your finger, slap your face and wake up!
A Darshan Diary

LAST NIGHT YOU SPOKE OF SATSANG AND THE IMPORTANCE OF THE DISCIPLE’S
PROXIMITY TO THE GURU. DOES THIS MEAN PHYSICAL PROXIMITY? IS THE DISCIPLE WHO
LIVES AT A GREAT PHYSICAL DISTANCE FROM THE GURU AT A LOSS?

Yes and no! Yes, a physical closeness is necessary in the beginning because you cannot understand anything else right now, as you are. You can understand the body; you can understand the language of the physical. You exist at the physical, so yes, a physical closeness is necessary – in the beginning.

And I say no also because as you grow, as you start learning a different language which is of the non-physical, then physical closeness is not necessary.
Then you can go anywhere. Then space doesn’t make any difference. You remain in contact. Not only space, but time also doesn’t make any difference.

A Master may be dead, you remain in contact. He may have dropped his physical body, you remain in contact. If a trust happens, then time and space both are transcended.

Trust is the miracle. You can be in closeness with Mohammed or Jesus or Buddha right now if trust is there. But it is difficult! It is difficult because you don’t know how. You cannot trust a living person, how can you trust a dead1 If trust happens, then you are close to Buddha right now. And for persons who have faith, Buddha is alive. No Master ever dies for those who can trust.
He goes on helping; he is always there. But for you, even Buddha is there physically, standing behind you or in front of you, just sitting by your side, you are not close to him.

There may be vast space between you. Love, trust, faith, they destroy space, time, both.

In the beginning, because you cannot understand any other language, you can understand only the language of the physical, physical closeness is necessary – but only in the beginning. A moment will come when the Master himself will send you away. He will force you to go away because that too becomes necessary – you may start clinging to the physical language.

Gurdjieff almost always, all his life, will send his disciples away. He will create such a miserable situation for them, then they will have to leave. It will be impossible to live with him. After a certain point, he will help them to go away. He will force really them to go away, because you should not become too much dependent on the physical. The other, the higher language, must develop. You must start feeling close to him wherever you are, because body has to be transcended. Not yours only, the Master’s body has also to be transcended.

But in the beginning it is a great help. Once the seeds are sown, once they have taken root, then you are strong enough. Then you can go away, and then you can feel. Just going away, the contact is lost – then the contact is not much importance. Trust will grow, further you go away. Trust will grow more, because wherever you are on the earth you will feel the Master’s presence continuously. The trust will grow. He will be helping you now through hidden hands, invisible hands. He will be working
upon you through your dreams, and you will feel constantly, like a shadow, he is following you.

But that is a very developed language. Don’t try it from the very beginning because then you can deceive. So I will say, move step by step. Wherever trust happens, then close your eyes and follow blindly. Really, the moment trust happens you have closed your eyes. Then what is the use of thinking, arguing? Trust has happened and trust will not listen to anything now.

Then follow and remain close unless the Master himself sends you away. And when he sends you away then don’t cling. Then follow. Follow his instruction and go away, because he knows better.
And what is helpful he knows.
Sometimes, just near the Master, it may become difficult for you to grow – just like under a big tree a new seed will have many difficulties to grow. Under a big tree, a new tree will become crippled.
Even trees take care to throw their seed far away so that the seeds can sprout. Trees use many tricks to send the seed away; otherwise they will die, they fall down just under the big tree. There is so much shadow. No sun reaches there, no sun rays reach.
So a Master knows better. If he feels that you should go away, then don’t resist. Then simply follow and go away. This going away will be coming nearer to him. If you can follow, if you can silently follow without any resistance, this going away will be a coming nearer. You will attain a new closeness.

Chapter 2: The Desireless Path of Yoga
Yoga: The Alpha & The Omega Vol 1

I have no ideology to teach to you. I am not a teacher at all. That's the difference between a teacher and a master. A teacher has an ideology; he tries to condition your mind; he wants to give you certain concepts.
A master simply wants to uncondition your mind; he does not want to give you any concepts; he wants to give you clarity of vision. So if you are thinking that by becoming a sannyasin you have attained to all the answers of life, you are
completely missing me. I have not given a single answer to you. I may have provoked many questions in you, but I have not provided any answer. I may have filled you with deep wonder about life; I may have awakened you towards the grandeur of reality -- but I have not given you a philosophy.

Osho
A Sudden Clash of Thunder
Chapter #10
Chapter title: Towards Nothingness

Wearing my Mala within I enter the ashram reception on 19th of January, Dhyanesh told me not to smile. I am made to sit close to an unsmiling serious Sannyasin at the welcome center. He pretends to act so that he doesn't know me, and does what Devendra tells him to do. This serious Sannyasin, like an immigration officer at a British border, starts searching his desktop computer, when I came last time, he couldn't find my name. I inform him: "you won't find my name here. Let it be a fresh start." He does it by maintaining his official seriousness. His computer takes my photo. The entry card is made. I am directed to another window to make my payment. I feel a bit itchy near my neck, I bring out my Osho mala over my collar. Another serious grim face Devendra comes so fast and commands the person at the window: Don't give him a registration pass with a sticker for entry. He shouts at me: "You cheated me." I say how it can be a cheating when you saw my Mala in front of you under my collar. You saw it anyway. Now if it is out, how it can become cheating? Whether it is inside the clothes or outside the clothes, it is still there, very much there. You don't need to follow me side by side, each step of mine where I keep it, inside or outside. It is none of your business. It is disgraceful to be such a Mulla. One British Mulla directed you to check this Mala, and you became a Kathmulla to follow his fatwa, forgetting the insight given by our Beloved Master that each Sannyasin is free to wear his Mala or not. There is no priest between the master and his disciples. By becoming a priest or Mulla, you are making it into a religion. You have become fundamentalists, and terrorists, lacking all common sense and behaving like robots. A Sannyasin lives with his own awareness, consciousness, and dignity, you are lacking all that by blindly following another insane Mulla Dr. Amrito who was previously known as Swami Prem Amrito. Now he is not being seen outside at the front gate, hiding himself and his own Mala. And he used to command everyone strictly to wear his Mala. Devendra please, do us a favor and you also hide somewhere inside or overseas. You both have been cheating Sannyas world on a much larger scale for such a long time.
Osho reminds us: "My Sannyasins inherit my freedom, my love..."

- Swami Chaitanya Keerti

BELOVED OSHO,
FOR SOME TIME NOW YOU HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT YOU ARE OUR FRIEND AND WE ARE FRIENDS. I'M HAVING DIFFICULTY IN TRULY GETTING IT.
OSHO, TO ME YOU ARE MY MOST BELOVED MASTER. PLEASE SHOW ME WHERE I AM MISSING.

The question is from Vivek.
I can understand her difficulty.
The same will be the difficulty of all those who have come close to me, loved me, received me in their hearts as a master.
I have been saying that I am your friend, and you are my friend for a very strange reason that may not be obvious to you. There was another question from Milarepa -- why are a few sannyasins feeling very resentful towards you, angry with you?
This has been a historical thing, that amongst disciples there are always a few who are
accidental. The wind was blowing this way and they arrived. They saw a tremendous energy in the disciples, and they became greedy. But it was not a search for truth, it was
not a search for love; it was simple greed. They also wanted to be spiritually powerful.
They became sannyasins, they became disciples, but the distance between me and them
remained the same. They could never become my intimate people. They could never become my people. Even though they were with me, deep down they were resentful, angry. I wanted them to drop their resentfulness, to drop their anger. It was not my
problem, it was their problem, and I wanted to help them in every possible way.
It was for this simple reason that I had said, "I am your friend, you are my friend." Those who were not really with me were immensely happy that now their status and my status was the same. And amongst these were people that you would never have imagined...

Just the other day I had the message from a sannyasin that Teertha is saying to people that my
state and his state are now the same -- we are friends. For this he was hanging around for
fifteen years. Rajen is saying to people, "Now I am no longer a disciple but a friend, and I
have the same status."
These were the people that I wanted to get rid of as peacefully, as lovingly as possible.
But those who had loved me felt hurt -- because they have loved me as a disciple, and to
be a disciple is something so valuable that who cares to be a friend?

There is a story in Gautam Buddha's life.... One of his closest disciples, Sariputta, was
found to be not meditating enough. Even people who had come after Sariputta had gone
deeper into meditation, people of lesser genius and lesser intelligence. Buddha called Sariputta one morning and said, "What is the matter?"
He said, "You know it. I never want to be enlightened while you are alive. I simply want to sit at your feet the way I have always been sitting. To be your disciple, to be showered with your love... who cares about enlightenment? This is my enlightenment!"

So I can understand Vivek's difficulty. She has been for sixteen years with me. When she came she was only twenty years old; now she is thirty-six, almost twice the age. And all these sixteen years, day in, day out, she has been taking care of me with as much love as possible, with a deep devotion. It is difficult for her to think of herself as being a friend. It would not be a gain to her, it would be a loss. Those who have understood the joy and the celebration of being a disciple, of being in love with a master, will all feel the same: that to be a friend is nothing compared to it; everything is lost. To be a friend becomes formal.

So those who were really with me have been shaken, hurt, and those who were not really with me have been tremendously happy. Just by me calling you my friend, you do not achieve the state in which I am. If it was so easy I would have called the whole world my
friend, and they all would have come to the same state.
Milarepa's question is concerned with it. After the American government destroyed the
commune, illegally but systematically -- it was a criminal act against human
consciousness and its evolution -- people had to leave the commune. Now, a few of these
people are feeling resentful; that simply means they were around me for a certain reason. There was some greed -- although I have been insistently destroying all greed, all ego, all
jealousy, all competition, all ambition. But they are so deeply rooted that although
intellectually you may feel they have left you, they are there.
These people are now feeling resentful because deep down they had the greed that if they
die in the buddhafield they will become enlightened, and now the buddhafield has
disappeared. They are angry, and they are angry at me, because in spite of me telling
them continually that I do not believe in miracles, they continued to believe, so it was a
shock to them that I was arrested. They would have loved it if I could have gone through
the walls of the jail, and then a miracle... Those were their desires... the commune had
been destroyed and I should have done something to prevent it from being destroyed.
Naturally, they are angry.
But this is their misunderstanding. They can't see real miracles; they can't see how I lived
for those twelve days in jail, how the people in the jail -- the authorities and the inmates -
- almost became sannyasins. All these people in the jail were saying that it was absolutely
unjust, unfair, against the constitution, and when I left their jail, there were tears in their
eyes.

One of the jailers said, "This is the first time that I have tears in my eyes when I am
releasing a prisoner; otherwise I am always happy to make somebody free. But if you ask
me, I really want you to be here always! You have changed the whole atmosphere. How
you have done it, I don't know; perhaps it was just your presence."
I was in the hospital section, and the head nurse told me, "This is the first time that the
jailers, the assistant jailer, and other officers continually come to this department;
otherwise nobody comes here. They come here, they sit with you, they talk with you.
They are hurt that you have been harassed, and they are ashamed that they are all
instrumental in the harassment."
They made every arrangement for me -- they have never done that for anybody else. I call
this a miracle, not coming out of the walls or breaking the chains; those are not miracles.
But this impact on human consciousness... All the six nurses and the doctor -- who was
also a woman -- were crying when I left. They said, "We know you have to go... we know
that you have been only three days with us, and we have become so attached to you; what
must be happening to your people, who have been living for years with you? You have to
go, but our personal feelings do not listen to logic -- we want you to be here. You have
changed the whole atmosphere."
Even the inmates were not smoking so that I was not affected. They were trying in every
possible way so that the government might think they are harassing me but I was not
harassed. I was not taking showers -- the prisoners' shower booth was so dirty that it felt
cleaner not to have a shower -- the nurses found out, and they made available to me their
own shower.
They made available to me their own place -- the office of the nurses, the office of the
doctor -- so that wherever I wanted to sit, I could sit; wherever I wanted to lie down, I
could lie down; I did not need to go to the cell. And whenever I wanted I had simply to
knock and they would open the cell and bring me out. I said, "You need not be worried --
I am perfectly good in my cell."
They said, "It is not a question of your being perfectly good in your cell; we love you to
be in the office. We will remember forever that this is the place you used to sit."
The same happened in Crete: the chair I was sitting in for almost seven hours... By and by
the chief superintendent relaxed, started talking to me, and finally he said, "I am feeling
proud that you are sitting in my office. So many of your people come, and I have seen
you only in the picture of their locket. Now I will be able to say to them, `This is the chair
your master has been sitting in for seven hours with me.'"
He phoned his wife, saying, "I will not come until Osho is safely sent to Athens." He
became so concerned that he allowed Devaraj to drive me to the airport. The police
officers were sitting at the back, I was sitting in the front and Devaraj was driving! This
would have never happened...
These people who feel resentment may have other causes also.
Just the other day Anando was showing me one book published against me in Australia
by a couple who have been sannyasins for three years and have been in the commune.
But just looking at their ideas, it seems they have never seen me. They are saying that
they were working, working hard, and with their work I was purchasing Rolls Royces.
You can see the absurdity: their work was not bringing any money. Their work was
making their own houses to live in, the roads -- which were needing money, not producing money. But in their mind -- and for all those three years also -- they must have
been resentful.
Those Rolls Royces were not produced by the commune. They were presents from
outside, from all over the world. And I was not their owner -- I had given them to the
commune. They were commune property, and I have not brought any of them with me; I
have left them with the commune. Everything that I had has been left with the commune.
I never owned anything. But there must have been the idea that they are earning money,
and I am wasting money. That is their resentment.
What money were you earning? In fact you needed money to make houses, to make
roads, to make a dam -- a dam needed two and a half million dollars to make. You were
contributing your labor, but we were not creating money out of it so that I could purchase
Rolls Royces, so that I could purchase anything. I have not purchased anything from the
money produced by the commune because the commune never produced any money. The
commune was absorbing money. In fact all my royalties, all my books, all their profits
were going to the commune. The situation is just the opposite -- that I had given
everything to the commune. Now, four hundred books in different languages were
bringing millions of dollars in royalties, and those royalties were going to the commune.
If I had wanted to purchase Roll Royces, I could have purchased my own Rolls Royces,
as many as I wanted, just out of my royalties.
But the resentment, the anger, is blind. In the commune we invested two hundred million
dollars. Those sannyasins perhaps think they had brought two hundred million dollars
there! Without me and the people who love me around the world, those two hundred
million dollars would not have been possible. And now you can see: Sheela is trying hard
but is not getting even enough money to pay the attorneys. No sannyasin is going to see
her.
Shanti B and Puja have been given bail by the magistrate -- ten million dollars each. But
they cannot collect even ten dollars, what to say of ten million dollars! Who is going to
put up ten million dollars for Puja, ten million dollars for Shanti B? These people played
with two hundred million dollars, and they remained in the illusion that this money was
coming to them! The money was given to me, but because I don't receive anything, I had
given the whole money to the commune. And still they feel resentful towards me. They
are angry at me.

Just to pacify these people, before I left I did everything: I dissolved the religion, because
that gives hope to people -- and they start believing that the responsibility is mine, that
they should be raised in consciousness, awareness, and finally made enlightened.
I made them free -- saying that you need not wear red clothes, you need not wear a mala, it is not compulsory anymore -- simply to drop all the load of responsibility that they were unknowingly putting on me. They were hoping that just by wearing red clothes and putting the mala on, their work was finished, that now it is my responsibility to make
them enlightened. I dropped that. They think that I was giving freedom to them; in fact I was simply making my own life as light as possible. I was simply dropping unnecessarily imposed responsibilities. And finally, not to let them feel that they were inferior to me in any way, I told them, "I am your friend and you are my friend." And the people who wanted it, who had been waiting for it, rejoiced.
But the people who understood cried and wept.

Now in Rajen's groups even my name is not mentioned. What is the need of mentioning
the name of a friend? You have many friends -- you don't mention their names.
Teertha has made an academy. Devageet was there; he worked hard to find the place, to
arrange it, hoping that it was going to be Osho's meditation academy. But when he saw
the board being put up it said simply "Meditation Academy."
He asked, "But no mention of Osho?"
And Teertha and Vedana and others who were involved in it simply said, "We are all
friends -- why put Osho's name there?"
They printed a brochure, and Devageet was saying to me, "I cried, and I had to fight
almost physically because Your name was not even mentioned in the brochure. It was not
even mentioned that the meditations they will be teaching have something to do with
You. They have all their pictures in the brochure, but Your picture is not there." Because
he fought so much, finally they agreed to put in a picture of me, a strange picture, an old
picture that nobody would recognize -- it must be a picture taken by someone in '74 --
and that too a small picture, and without mentioning my name or saying anything about
who the person is.
Devageet, simply out of disgust, left the place. And now these same people are trying to
have a world festival -- in which my name is not mentioned. There is no need, naturally,
to mention the name of a man who is your friend; you have many friends! But they will
be exploiting the sannyasins.
The strategy is very clear, because I have been seeing: when they advertise their groups
in our newspapers, newsletters, magazines, then they are in orange clothes with the mala.
None of them is using red clothes or mala, and in the group not even my name is
mentioned. But in advertisements, to attract sannyasins to participate in the groups, all of
them are publishing their pictures with malas, with orange dress -- as if they are old
sannyasins. Just to make these people feel at ease, I withdrew myself from their lives.
But, Vivek, you need not be worried about it. Those who love me, those who know me,
know perfectly well that I am their master, and they have traveled a long way with me, in
devotion and love. And of course, it is impossible for them at any moment -- even if they
become enlightened -- to call me a friend. That will be simply ungratefulness.

Again, I remember Sariputta. One day finally he became enlightened, and Buddha said,
"You have to go to preach. Now you are enlightened there is no need for you to sit here
by my feet."
He said, "This was the trouble! I was ready to drop the idea of enlightenment. You forced me to go on deeper into meditation, and now I am in a fix. I knew that this was going to happen -- once I become enlightened you will tell me to go to spread the word. I don't want to go anywhere. While you are alive, I want to be just your shadow."
But Buddha persuaded him. Finally he agreed, when Buddha was so insistent, but he said,
"One freedom I want..." Just see the use of the word `freedom', and you can see the
freedom that your so-called resentful and angry sannyasins have: "One freedom I want,
that wherever you are I should be allowed to bow down and touch your feet, from a
faraway distance, in your direction."
But Buddha said, "You are already enlightened -- you need not touch my feet!"
He said, "You have to give me that freedom."

Love asks for a freedom which logic cannot understand Sariputta was asked again and again in his journeys... Every morning he would get up,
take his bath, and the first thing he would do was to bow down on the ground with folded
hands towards the direction where he knew Buddha was dwelling.
They would say, "To whom are you praying this way?" -- because there is no God in Buddhism.
And he would say, "I am not praying to any God, but Buddha is God to me; he is my
master."
And they would say, "But you are enlightened!"
He said, "That does not matter. I am enlightened because of him. Without him I don't
think it would have happened in many lives' time, I cannot conceive how it could have
happened. So he may say he is not responsible for the happening, but I cannot accept the
idea. This freedom I have asked from him, and this is a special privilege."
I am feeling very relieved -- relieved of all those who were not my people but somehow
were hanging around. Now I want only those who are really with me.
Yesterday while Vivek was reading the questions to me, when she read her own question
she started crying. I said, "What is the matter? Whose question is this?"
She said, "It is my question."
And I know that is the situation of many hearts -- but only those hearts who have learned
to love a master.
All those egoist people were pretending to be disciples. I did not want to hurt them, so the
best, the graceful way was that I declared: you are my friends, and I give you total
freedom.

And they accepted immediately, joyously, not knowing what they were
accepting. They were free... they met me; now they are again free, in the same position.
They have lost something, but they think their egos have gained something. Whenever
the ego gains, you are the loser.
It is one of the reasons that I don't want to have another commune. I want only a mystery
school, so those who really are interested can come, learn, go back. It has been a
tremendously meaningful experience, but it was not new. At every turn of my life I have
had to drop a few people. And I don't want to say to somebody, "I am dropping you." I
can't be that unkind, ungraceful. I have managed things so that they drop themselves.
It has happened many times -- this was not the first time. And it is natural that as you go
along, you start gathering some junk, some unnecessary luggage, and there comes a point
where it has to be dropped. But these are living people. Although they are junk, they are
just luggage, useless, I am still respectful towards them. So I have to find a certain device
so they can go happily, not feeling that they have been dropped, but on the contrary, that
they have gained what they wanted.
It was simply hilarious when I read Teertha's letter. In the end he writes, "I am doing the
same work as you are doing; the only difference is that you are doing it on a bigger scale
and I am doing it on a personal scale, individual to individual. But the work is the same."
And then came this second news that he told somebody on the phone, who informed me,
"I am of the same state."
It is good that they are feeling good.

As far as reality is concerned, those who were real disciples are still disciples -- even if
they become enlightened, they will not lose their disciplehood. In fact, they have attained
to the ultimate of disciplehood.
Their gratitude and their love towards the master is not
less but more than ever.

Beyond Psychology
Chapter #24
Chapter title: Whenever the ego gains, you are the loser
24 April 1986