Sometime back a friend of mine sent an sms saying, "the true flavor of a tea is tested when put in hot water. So if you are feeling gloomy today, shed it off....you are God's own favorite cup of tea" .......Oh my God! it surely did put a smile on my face.
Osho had said somewhere once that heaven and hell are not geographical places... they are our states of mind. WE create them. I only realised the truth of the statement these last six- seven months.
I have visited this place called hell and its a very nasty place to spend a lifetime.....And nobody enters with you there and nobody ever can pull you out from this place.
I have cried, I have gone crazy, miserable, frustrated, anxious, tense and cried all over again...I did a lot of brooding on my imagined past bad karmas ....nothing helped. I stopped my meditations.
And then one day as if it was a miracle I pulled myself out of it.
Now I am back. Thank you my blogger friends ....each one of you... I am not mentioning the names here because so many of my friends wrote to me ....thank you so much for writing to me on my mail or the blogger and letting me know that though we may have never seen each other, though we may be having different national identities... there is something which keeps everyone connected.
And I am really happy to be back amongst you all. And I never want to get back to that place again. I may be still standing on the doorway...I dont know....maybe I havent run too far but definitely I have my back towards it... waiting for the big leap....ha ha ha that surely is a dream I watch every-day.
And thank you so much Osho for telling me this : "This is your life. If you laugh, you laugh. If you cry, you cry...no-one else is responsible for you. You alone are responsible for everything in your life."
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Thank you for this wonderful write up. I am possibly much elder to you and I saw both hell and Heaven. Once during a punishment session my N.C.C teacher said "well I can not reduce your punishment but take this odycolon sprayed napkin with you, you shall be relieved when your sweat and tiredness shall be the maximum. You are right, hell and heaven are located inside our mind. Hell is meant to correct you, heaven is the solace for your life.If you have corected yourself completly you never need to visit hell but if not be ready for the next semestar. And more you correct yourself your duration ticket at heaven is for a longer period. Hell and heaven are just like hot sun and shadow, they repeat in life you can only choose to adjust your duration by the corrective measures you take.
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You're back! I am sooo happy to have your blog again. I missed your spirit. And while we might have never met - we are connected like lost sisters -who somehow seemed to have found eachother.
Wishing you a much better 2009 - away from the hell that keeps seeming to pop up randomly...
J
HapPy NeW YeaR!
I am in no way an Osho fan.
I think I myself could well say all that you've quoted...don't really see anything great there..they are true, though..
btw, I too was living a kind of hell...But after coming to the blogging, I think I have gained more clarity for myself, communicating and knowing other bloggers...
Get Zapped is one of them, I am happy to see her here...
Ofcourse blogworld has its own ways of working, and it is really really hard to know a human mind and its workings through a few written words...
One needs to be sure of oneself the most...
That was a nice one to read and to know you..
wishes,
devika
thanks for visiting me here.
this blog is not about osho's words....it is more about you and me. and i do not write because i hve something great to say.....but because i love to express myself the way i am.
osho's words may not be always very important tho i am an osho sannyasi myself......it is his presence which is very precious even tho he is not in his body anymore.
to me he is an enlightened being...my guru. i feel a world for him....because he is always by my side.... and i never judge his words for their greatness...i accept them for their truth.
it is not important whether i could hve said that or no...it is important that the source from where these words come are not the mind but the no-mind.
also i do not aspire to be an intellectual.... i just want to live my life
Wouldn't like to miss your powerful words! Thank you.
This will be your (our) year!
Osho is so true, I guess I feel the same about him more or the less..but I would suggest to follow only Your path- as he had always emphasized on... And I read you made a start with that! :-)
Cheers+Hugs from Scotland, Kate x.
Forgot to respond here, after doing it at mine...
My dear, please don't be too serious with my comments..I just write out my first impression after I read a post..
Even my poetry is that way..I seldom do much of an editing or correcting..
Hope you understand me, dear Jyotsana...
i came to read a new one...
will come later :)
love, always
devika
u are so enigmatic ....
i loved this post as usual and may be u r absence did create a void somewhere bt am glad u re back
keep rocking :)
PS:- An nt in facebook :(
but soon i will :)
I'm very happy to hear that you're feeling better and in a brighter place!
Peace to you, Sister.
seeya around
I must be God's fav cup of Coffee...cos He's the one who's enjoying while Im being gulped down! ;-)
Keshi.
thanks for that beautiful song ...
okay i must have said u earlier ...
first i thought to dedicate am alive and second thought was that's the way it is ...so i dedicated both ...both my fav :)
tc
sayani
With love
Such a wonderful piece! so, thank YOU!
Perhaps we should say;
I am my own favourite cup of tea! :)
Yes, I know a lot about tea - I went to school in Darjeeling!
I can somewhere connect to your words or you can say the theme of writeup was something which am trying to put in words but couldn't do that.
Welcome back and wish you a great year ahead.
It, surely helped to read your article, but my enlarged heart condition stems from a genetic history. & there's not much I can do about it...
Smita Ma'am.
Hey both of us got out of there now well make sure we wont get back there again.
So whenever you're feeling low, remind yourself- 'this, too, shall pass.'
And you're braver than most, have the courage of conviction to move on, not just not look back!
Besides, you have Osho- your strenghth...
Hell and heaven are unmistakably the states of mind. Sri Aurobindo, too, on his yogic plane of consciousness has discovered that consciousness is the basic thing in existence.
I would like to make it clear that consciousness and mind are not the same. Mind is a form of consciousness. In the human mind we can ascend the spiritual and supramental planes of consciousness.
Nikhil