Osho Quotes on Chakras Most people die from the lowest chakra, the sex center. There are seven chakras in the body from where life can go out of the body. The last is on top of the head, and unless you are enlightened life cannot go out from that chakra. - Osho, "Beyond Psychology, #19" As you move more and more into the present, inside you will come across s...

Question 1: Osho, I have understood that the witness is pure consciousness, unaffected by the body and mind it takes temporary residence in. So, first: how do personality traits and conditioning persist from one life to another? And second: does not that which makes us unique individuals have a continuum? Maneesha, first you have to understand that you have n...

Osho on Tirthankara desires to be Born again Question : If a Tirthankara desires to be born, can he take a Physical Body? Now this is a different matter altogether. If a tirthankara wishes to be reborn a very interesting happening takes place: that is, before death he does not discard his fourth body. There is a way and a method of doing this, and that is by ...

Question 1 If enlightenment and samadhi mean total consciousness, cosmic consciousness, all-pervading consciousness, then it seems very strange to call this state of cosmic consciousness centering, as the word `centering' implies one-pointedness. why is cosmic consciousness, or samadhi, called centering? Centering is the path, not the goal. Centering is the m...

The mysteries of the seven bodies Question 1 In yesterday's talk you said that the seeker should first worry about his own receptivity and should not go begging from door to door. but the very meaning of a sadhak is that there are obstacles on his path of spiritual growth. he does not know how to be receptive. is it so difficult to meet the right guide? To se...

The second body is the vital. The vital body is the energy body, the electricity body, or whatsoever name we like to use for it — the bio-energy body. One thing is certain, it is not material, it is energy. But energy can be transformed into matter, and matter can be transformed into energy. Energy means not static, moving. Energy means vibrant, waves. Energy...

Question : Enlighten us about a few practical points for the opening and development of the Heart Center. The first point: try to be headless. Visualize yourself as headless; move headlessly. It sounds absurd, but it is one of the most important exercises. Try it, and then you will know. Walk, and feel as if you have no head. In the beginning it will be only ...

A COLLECTION OF SHEATHS COMPOSED OF NOURISHING FOOD, IN THE FORM OF THE PHYSICAL BODY IS CALLED THE ANNAMAYA KOSH, OR THE FOOD BODY. THE FOURTEEN KINDS OF WINDS, LIKE THE VITAL ENERGY, ET CETERA, CIRCULATING THROUGH THE FOOD BODY, ARE CALLED THE PRANAYAMA KOSH, OR THE VITAL BODY. Now, we have to go into an enquiry about the bodies. Man is not one body, man ha...

Man can function from three centres: one is the head, another is the heart and the third one is the navel. If you function from the head you will go on spinning thoughts and thoughts and thoughts. They are very insubstantial, dream-stuff – they promise much, they deliver nothing. The mind is a great cheat but it has tremendous capacities to delude, because it...

Beyond the Astral Body Question 1 I have understood that the witness is pure consciousness, unaffected by the body and mind it takes temporary residence in. So, first: how do personality and conditioning persist from one life to another? And second: does not that which makes us unique individuals have a continuum? Maneesha, first you have to understand that y...

Transcending the Seven Bodies Question 1 You said we have seven bodies: an etheric body, a mental body and so on. Sometimes it is difficult to adjust the Indian language to the terms of Western Psychology. We have no theory for this in the West, so how can we translate these different bodies into our language? The spiritual is no problem, but the etheric? The...

The path of kundalini: authenticity and freedom Question 1 In yesterday's talk, you said that false experiences of kundalini can be projected which you consider to be not spiritual but psychic. in your initial talk, however, you had said that kundalini is only psychic. this means, according to you, that there are two states of the kundalini - psychic and spir...

Question 4: Are all enlightened ones navel centered? for example, is krishnamurti head or navel centered? was ramakrishna heart or navel centered? Every enlightened one is navel centered, but the expression of each enlightened one may flow through other centers. Understand the distinction clearly. Every enlightened one is navel centered; there is no other pos...

WHEN THE SELF - LIVING INSIDE THE FOOD BODY - AND THE VITAL BODY THINKS THROUGH THE INSTRUMENTALITY OF THE FOURTEEN ORGANS LIKE MIND, ET CETERA, ABOUT OBJECTS LIKE SOUND, SMELL, TOUCH, ET CETERA IT IS CALLED THE MANOMAYA KOSHU OR THE MENTAL BODY. WHEN THE SELF, UNITED WITH THESE THREE BODIES, KNOWS THROUGH INTELLIGENCE, IT IS CALLED THE VIGYANMAYA KOSHA OR TH...

Question 3 : Is the development of the navel center exclusively free and separate from the growth of the heart and head centers, or does the navel center develop simultaneously with the growth of the heart and the head? And also, please explain in which way the training and techniques for the navel center will differ from the training and techniques for the d...

Osho on Seven Bodies and their Tensions Question 1: Please Tell us some thing about the Tensions and Relaxation of the Seven Bodies The original source of all tension is becoming. One is always trying to be something; no one is at ease with himself as he is. The being is not accepted, the being is denied, and something else is taken as an ideal to become. So ...

Osho on Astral Body The first body is the physical body. The second body is the mental body. The third body is the astral body. One becomes enlightened when one transcends the mental body. The astral body consists only of pure light, just a flame with no smoke around it. - Osho, "Beyond Enlightenment, #22" Only the astral body is capable of rising upwards; it...

The basic thing to be understood about these centers is this: whenever you are centered within, the moment you are centered, whatsoever may be the center, you fall down to the navel. If you are centered at the heart, the heart is irrelevant – centering is meaningful. Or if you are centered at the third eye, the third eye is not basic; the basic point is that ...

The Mysteries of the Seven Bodies Question 1 In yesterday’s talk you said that the seeker should first worry about his own receptivity and should not go begging from door to door. But the very meaning of a sadhak is that there are obstacles on his path of spiritual growth. He does not know how to be receptive. Is it difficult to meet the right guide? To seek ...

The fifth body is known as the bliss body. This is the last, the innermost body — but still the body. When the fourth body is purified, when the fourth body becomes just a transparency, the fifth is realized, because the fourth becomes so transparent then the fifth is felt directly. That’s why, when you are in deep meditation you don’t feel meditation, you fe...

[Note: This is the final edit of the Hindi translation of Antar Yatra, later published as part of Sadhana Path. This is for reference use only, pending publication.] My Beloved Ones, This afternoon I would like to discuss a few more points relating to the real center of the body. A few questions have also been asked about it. Neither the head nor the heart bu...

The Divine Melody Unless you have known what love is, you have not known what melody is. oshoIt is the meeting, orgasmic meeting, of death and life. Unless love is known, you have missed. You were born, you lived, and you died - but you missed. You missed tremendously, you missed utterly, you missed absolutely - you missed the interval in between. That interv...

Beyond the mind-body is the fourth, the fourth body. The fourth body is known as the consciousness-body — VIGYAN MAYKOS. It will be difficult, a bit difficult, to distinguish between the mental body and the conscious body, because we don’t know any consciousness except the mind. But if the mind is purified, then you become simply aware that something else is ...