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Osho's Past Lives
The moment the child is born, you think, is the beginning of its life.
That is not true.
The moment an old man dies, you think, is the end of his life.
It is not.
Life is far bigger than birth and death.
Birth and death are not two ends of life; many births and many deaths
happen within life. Life itself has no beginning, no end: life and eternity are
equivalent..
Life begins at the point of your past life's death. When you die, on the one
side one chapter of life, which people think was your whole life, is closed. It
was only a chapter in a book which has infinite chapters. One chapter
closes, but the book is not closed. Just turn the page and another chapter
begins.
The person dying starts visualizing his next life. This is a known fact,
because it happens before the chapter closes...
Buddha has a word for it, he calls it tanha. Literally it means desire, but
metaphorically it means the whole life of desire. All these things happened:
frustrations, fulfillments, disappointments, successes, failures., but all this
happened within a certain area you can call desire.
The dying man has to see the whole of it before he moves on further, just to
recollect it, because the body is going: this mind is not going to be with him,
this brain is not going to be with him. But the desire released from this mind
will cling to his soul, and this desire will decide his future life. Whatever has
remained unfulfilled, he will move towards that target.
Your life begins far back before your birth, before your mother's
impregnation, further back in your past life's end. That end is the beginning
of this life. One chapter closes, another chapter opens. Now, how this new
life will be is ninety-nine percent determined by the last moment of your
death. What you collected, what you have brought with you like a seed-
that seed will become a tree, bring fruits, bring flowers, or whatever
happens to it. You cannot read it in the seed, but the seed has the whole
blueprint...
If a man dies fully alert, seeing the whole terrain that he has passed and
seeing the whole stupidity of it, he is born with sharpness, with intelligence,
with courage-
automatically. It is not something he does. misery09
There are six great religions in the world. They can be divided into two
categories: one consists of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They believe in
only one life. You are just between birth and death, there is nothing beyond
birth and death-life is all.
Although they believe in heaven and hell and God, they are the earnings
from one life, a single life. The other category consists of Hinduism, Jainism
and Buddhism.
They believe in the theory of reincarnation. One is born again and again,
eternally—
unless one becomes enlightened, and then the wheel stops. glimpse16
I have meditated; I have come to a point where I can see my own past lives,
and that's proof enough. It is my knowing, my experiencing; it is nothing to
do with Indian heritage, beliefs, or anything. I speak on my own authority.
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I began as an intellectual--not only in this life but in many lives. My whole
work in many lives has been concerned with the intellect-refining the
intellect, sharpening the intellect. inzen08
I have known so many esoteric groups--in this life and before. I have been
in contact with many esoteric groups, but I cannot tell you their
whereabouts. I cannot tell you their names, because that is not permitted.
And it is of no use really. But I can tell you that they still exist, they still try to
help.. gate08
I traveled with Bodhidharma
I knew Bodhidharma personally. I traveled with the man for at least three
months.
He loved me just as I loved him. You will be curious to know why he loved
me. He loved me because I never asked him any question. He said to me,
"You are the first person I have met who does not ask a question-and I
only get bored with all the questions. You are the only person who does not
bore me."
I said, "There is a reason."
He said, "What is that?"
I said, "I only answer. I never question. If you have any question you can
ask me. If you don't have a question then keep your mouth shut."
We both laughed, because we both belonged to the same category of
insanity. He asked me to continue the journey with him, but I said, "Excuse
me, I have to go my own way, and from this point it separates from yours."
He could not believe it. He had never invited anyone before. This was the
man who had even refused Emperor Wu--the greatest emperor of those
days, with the greatest empire--as if he was a beggar. Bodhidharma could
not believe his eyes that I could refuse him.
I said, "Now you know how it feels to be refused. I wanted to give you a
taste of it.
Goodbye." But that was fourteen centuries ago. glimps06
One of Past birth in Tibet
Some days ago Lama Karmapa had said something about me.. Karmapa
had said that my one body from some past birth is preserved in a cave in
Tibet. Ninety-nine bodies are preserved there; among them one body is
mine.. that was said by Karmapa.
In Tibet they have tried for thousands of years to preserve the bodies in
which some extraordinary things happened. They have preserved such
bodies as experimentation.. .Because such events do not happen again
and again, and do not happen so easily. After thousands of years, once in a
while such things happen. For instance, someone's third eye opened and
along with it, it broke a hole in the bone where the third eye exists. Such an
event takes place sometimes once in hundreds of thousands of years. The
third eye opens in so many people but this hole does not happen to
everybody. When this hole happens, the reason behind it is that in that
case the third eye has opened with tremendous force. Such skulls or such a
body is then preserved by them.
For instance, someone's sex energy, the basic energy, arose with such
force that it broke a hole in the crown of his head and merges into the
cosmos. Such a thing happens only once in a while. Many people merge
into the universal reality, but the energy filters through so slowly, and with
such intervals, that the energy simply seeps in small measures, and a hole
is not created. Once in a while, it happens with
such sudden intensity that, breaking the skull, the entire energy merges into
the cosmos. So they preserve that body. This way, until now they have
done the greatest experiment in the history of mankind. They have
preserved ninety-nine bodies. So Karmapa had said that among those
ninety-nine bodies a body of mine is also preserved..
It is the ninety-seventh body, but if it is counted from the opposite side, it
can be the third one. samadh12
Note: Swami Govind Siddharth, one of Osho's disciples, reported that on 6
June 1972 Karmapa told him, "Osho is the greatest incarnation since
Buddha in India, and is a living Buddha!" and "Now in this life, Osho has
taken birth specially in order to help people spiritually-only for this purpose.
He has taken birth fully consciously."
Karmapa was very excited and indicated a close association with Osho in
past life.
Osho's last birth is said to have occurred about 700 years ago. Karmapa
was referring "to one birth before that". Osho was one of their great
incarnations two births ago. "If you want to see one of Osho's past
incarnations, you can go to Tibet and see his golden statue there which is
preserved in the Hall of Incarnations."
Asked of whom Osho is an incarnation, he replied, "Now, that is a secret.
Unless someone is the head of one of our monasteries, we do not disclose
whose incarnation he is."
"My blessings are always there, and I know that whatever we Tibetans are
not going to be able to do to help others, Osho will do. "Osho is the only
person able to do this; he took birth in India specially. You are very
fortunate to have him. He is the only divine incarnation living today who will
be a world teacher." And "The world will know him but only a few people will
realize what he actually is. He will be the only person who can guide
properly, and can be a world teacher in this age, and he has taken birth
only for this purpose."
Seven hundred years ago
You ask me: Please would you say something about your last life, and if
you were born in your present life fully realized.
My previous birth took place about seven hundred years ago..
It can be said that I was born with near about full knowledge. I say near
about only because some steps have been left out deliberately, and
deliberately that can be done.
In this connection, the Jaina thinking is very scientific; They have divided
knowledge into fourteen steps. Thirteen steps are in this world and the
fourteenth is in the beyond..
After a certain stage of development, for example, after the attainment of
twelve steps, the length of time that it takes to achieve the remaining steps
can be stretched out. They can be attained either in one birth, two births or
in three births. Great use can be made of postponement.
After the attainment of full realization there is no further possibility of taking
birth more than one time more. Such an enlightened one is not likely to
cooperate or be helpful for more than one additional birth. But after
reaching twelve steps, if two can be set aside, then such a person can be
useful for many births more. And the possibility is there to set them aside.
On reaching the twelfth step, the journey has near about come to an end. I
say near about: that means that all walls have collapsed; only a transparent
curtain remains through which everything can be seen. However the curtain
is there. After lifting it, there is no difficulty in going beyond. After going
beyond the curtain, whatsoever you are ordinarily able to see can be seen
from the other side of the curtain also.
There is no difference at all.
So this is why I say near about: by taking one step more, one can go
beyond the curtain. But then there is a possibility of only one more birth,
while if one remains on this side of the curtain one can take as many births
as one wants. After crossing into the beyond, there is no way of coming
back more than once to this side of the curtain..
Seven hundred years ago, in my previous life, there was a spiritual practice
of twenty-one days, to be done before death. I was to give up my body after
a total fast of twenty-one days. There were reasons for this, but I could not
complete those twenty-one days. Three days remained. Those three days I
had to complete in this life. This life is a continuation from there. The
intervening period does not have any meaning in this respect. When only
three days remained in that life, I was killed.
Twenty-one days could not be completed because I was killed just three
days before, and those three days were omitted..
The person who killed me had no enmity with me, though he was taken to
be and was treated as, an enemy. That killing became valuable...
Now I can take still another birth. There is now a possibility of one more
birth. But that will depend on whether I feel that it will be useful. During this
whole life I shall go on striving to see whether one more birth will be of
some use. Then it is worthwhile taking birth; otherwise the matter is over
and it is no use making any more effort. So that killing was valuable and
useful..
In the last moments of my previous life, the remaining work could have
been done in only three days because time was very compact. My age was
one hundred and six years. Time was moving very fast. The story of those
three days continued in my childhood of this birth. In my previous life it was
at its end, but to finish that work here in this life took twenty-one years.
Many a time, if the opportunity is missed, it may be necessary to spend as
many as seven years for every single day. So in this life I did not come with
full realization, but came with near about full realization... known02
Search of your past lives
What little I have told you about my previous life is not because it has any
value or that you may know something about me. I have told you this only
because it may make you reflect about yourselves and set you in search of
your past lives. The moment you know your past lives, there will be a
spiritual revolution and evolution.
Then you will start from where you had left off in your last life; otherwise you
will get lost in endless lives and reach nowhere. There will only be a
repetition.
There has to be a link, a communication, between this life and the previous
one.
Whatsoever you had achieved in your previous life should come to be
known, and you should have the capacity to take the next step forwards...
Nowadays the difficulty is this: it is not very difficult to make you remember
your previous births, but the thing called courage has been lost. It is
possible to make you
remember your previous births only if you have achieved the capacity to
remain undisturbed in the midst of the very difficult memories of this life.
Otherwise it is not possible..
When no memory of this life can be a cause of anxiety to you, only then can
you be led into the memories of past lives. Otherwise those memories may
become great traumas for you, and the door to such traumas cannot be
opened unless you have the capacity and worthiness to face them.
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Do you hear me? Do you see me? I stand at the door and knock, and I
knock because of a promise made in another life and another age.
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This was my assurance given to many friends in the previous life: that when
truth is attained, I will inform them.
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