The Path of Yoga: Discovering the Essence and Origin of Yoga (OSHO Classics)
Osho
Language: English
Pages: 250
ISBN: 0918963095
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This book introduces us to Patanjali, the founder of ancient Yoga in India. It takes us step by step into a deeper understanding of the essence and origins of Yoga. Osho introduces and unlocks Patanjali's ancient sutras, revealing how contemporary this ancient message truly is. It quickly becomes clear that we are just on the cusp of a gaining a much deeper understanding of Yoga and its place in our evolving world. Surprisingly, the mind even more than the body is the focus of Patanjali’s teaching. He says: "Yoga is the cessation of mind."
As Osho says: "This is the definition of Yoga, the best definition. Yoga has been defined in many ways; there are many definitions. Some say Yoga is the meeting of the mind with the divine; hence, it is called yoga – yoga means meeting, joining together. Some say that Yoga means dropping the ego, ego is the barrier: the moment you drop the ego you are joined to the divine. You were already joined; it only appeared that you were not joined because of the ego. There are many definitions, but Patanjali’s is the most scientific. He says: Yoga is the cessation of mind.
“What is the mind? What is the mind doing there? What is it? Ordinarily we think that mind is something substantial there, inside the head. Patanjali doesn’t agree, and no one who has ever known the inside of the mind will agree. Modern science also doesn’t agree. Mind is not something substantial inside the head. Mind is just a function, just an activity."
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heard there was a master, he would go. But neither was the tree there, nor the perfume, the musk, nor those eyes the old man has described. The personality was not there. And he had a ready-made formula, so he would judge immediately, “This is not my master,” and he would move on. After twenty years he reached under a tree – the master was there. The musk was floating in the air just like a haze around the man. The eyes were fiery, a red light was flowing. This was the man! He fell at his feet
you don’t know where you are coming from and where you are going, then what is the hurry? But this is the situation of everybody, and everybody is on the road. Life is a road – you are always in the middle – and you don’t know where you have come from, you don’t know where you are going. You have no knowledge of the source, no knowledge of the goal, but you are in a great hurry, making every effort to reach nowhere. What type of sanity is this? And out of this whole struggle not even glimpses of
you had seen me five years before, then the picture of five years ago, the past picture, will come into your eyes and fill your eyes, and you will see me through that picture. That’s why if you have not seen your friend for many days, the moment you see him you immediately say, “You are looking very thin,” or “You are looking very unhealthy,” or “You have gained weight.” Immediately! Why? – because you are comparing; the memory has come in. The man himself is not aware that he has gotten fat or
became exposed to him: “If it is not something, nothing can be done about it. If it is an activity, then don’t do the activity; that’s all. If it is like walking, don’t walk.” He opened his eyes. He bowed down to Bodhidharma and said, “There is no mind to be found.” Bodhidharma said, “Then I have put it at peace. And whenever you feel that you are uneasy, just look within for where that uneasiness is.” The very looking is anti-mind, because a look is not a thinking. And if you look intensely
many people, through fragments, go mad. Patanjali’s system is complete, and discipline is needed. Before you move into this unknown world of the within, a deep discipline is needed so no accident is possible. If you move without discipline, then many things are possible. Vairagya is enough, but that “enough vairagya” is not there in your heart. If it is there, then there is no question. Then close Patanjali’s book and burn it; it is absolutely unnecessary. But that “enough vairagya” is not