Prabhaker

A person can't enter into mental illness in awareness, if you are aware you can't become mentally ill. Those who have insight , it comes in saner moments of a mentally ill person. There are moments in life of a normal person, in which he can become mad, like in anger, but while he is in a insane moment, he is unaware.

I know his problem, you stop interacting with me, he will be fine !

I am also kidding around !

Do you mean, I stop posting on this forum? If you find my posts as incorrect and potentially harmful "advice", you can request Leo to ban me.

I don't interpret his wisdom, I copy and paste his words.

Yoga is discipline. It is an effort on your part to change yourself. Many other things have to be understood. Yoga is not a therapy. In the West many psychological therapies are prevalent now, and many western psychologists think that yoga is also a therapy. It is not! It is a discipline. And what is the difference? This is the difference: a therapy is needed if you are ill, a therapy is needed if you are diseased, a therapy is needed if you are pathological. A discipline is needed even when you are healthy. Really, when you are healthy only a discipline can help then. It is not for pathological cases. Yoga is for those who are completely healthy as far as medical science is concerned, normal. They are not schizophrenic; they are not mad they are not neurotic. They are normal people, healthy people with no particular pathology. Still, they become aware that whatsoever is called normality is futile, whatsoever is called health is of no use. Something more is needed, something greater is needed, something holier and whole is needed. Therapies are for ill people. Therapies can help you to come to yoga, but yoga is not a therapy. Yoga is for a higher order of health, a different order of health – a different type of being and wholeness. Therapy can, at the most, make you adjusted. Freud says we cannot do more. We can make you an adjusted, normal member of the society – but if the society itself is pathological, then? And it is! The society itself is ill. A therapy can make you normal in the sense that you are adjusted to the society, but the society itself is ill! Yoga is not therapy; yoga is not trying in any way to make you adjusted to the society. If you want to define yoga in terms of adjustment, then it is not adjustment with the society, but it is adjustment with existence itself. It is adjustment with the divine! If your mind has come to realize that whatsoever you have been doing up to now was just senseless, it was a nightmare at the worst or a beautiful dream at the best then the path of discipline opens before you. Patanjali takes it for granted that you are interested in yoga, not as a hope, but as a discipline, as a transformation right here and now.

@elias Light on Yoga is widely called the bible of yoga and has served as the source book for generations of yoga students around the world. It is the classic text for all serious students of yoga. http://yogabog.com/sites/default/files/files/Iyengar_B_K_S__The_Illustrated_Light_On_Yoga.pdf Baba Ramdev is most reputed and famous yoga teacher in India. His Youtube video 's are available in English also. https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ramdev+english

@Fidelio has right to express his views, I respect his freedom of speech. I still love him.

Why do you believed this article ? Is it a reliable proof ? I never claimed I am a wise man, I post Osho's wisdom.

This was the job of people who want to kill Osho and destroy commune. If Osho was involved in the bioterror attack, why he was not sentenced by court for this crime ? 3 million people died from starvation and malnutrition during a famine in the Indian province of Bengal in 1943. It was a man made holocaust by Britishers. Hitler Killed people in less cruel way.

@Lai This was the claim made by the @Fidelio about Indians. I asked him to provide source of information. Now do you want to me to proof of my Indian residence , instead of proof of @Fidelio's derogatory claim about India ? Burden of proof lies on @Fidelio

Whatsoever your life is, death reveals only that. If you have been miserable in life, death reveals misery. Death is a great revealer. If you have been happy in your life, death reveals happiness.

We need masters and teachers but a master has not to be imitated but understood. If you copy a Jesus, memorize his teachings, pray like him - you will not become a Jesus, by imitating you can become a Christian but not a Christ.

There are people who are ready to become mentor. Finding a real master is very difficult. A false master is a consolation, he gives you peace as you are, he never bothers to change you -- he is a tranquilizer. You come to him and he consoles. Even if a real master consoles you, that consolation is just like a fishing net. You will be caught in the consolation and then, by and by, he will create the chaos. You have to pass through the chaos, because as you are you are absolutely wrong.

@Afonso If you want road-maps you will have to go to the churches and to the priests - they have. Buddha's last message to his disciples was "App Deepo Bhava", meaning "be a light unto yourself". Do not follow others, do not imitate, because imitation, following, creates stupidity. You are born with a tremendous possibility of intelligence. You are born with a light within you. Listen to the still, small voice within, and that will guide you. Nobody else can guide you, nobody else can become a model for your life, because you are unique. Nobody has there been ever who was exactly like you, and nobody is ever going to be there again who will be exactly like you. The real master creates masters, not followers. The real master throws you back to yourself. His whole effort is to make you independent of him, because you have been dependent for centuries, and it has not led you anywhere. You still continue to stumble in the dark night of the soul. A Buddha has not to be followed but understood. A Buddha has not to be imitated but listened to -- listened to in tremendous silence, love, trust. And the more you understand a Buddha, the more you will feel he is speaking not from the outside but from within, from the very core of your being. He is a mirror who reflects your original face -- but he is only a mirror. All great masters are mirrors, they reflect your original face. But don't cling to the mirror. The mirror is not your face!

For thousands of years man has been living the way he has wanted to, and he has simply forced the next generation to live in his way. We have to take a quantum leap and teach the new generation not to live the way we have lived. Only then can the future be changed.

He was delusioned, he need help. Nobody was taking him seriously.

He was recruiting only 12 persons (apostles), as he claimed that he was incarnation Jesus. He promised them they will become billionaires, because old temptation of 'Kingdom of heaven' will not work now. He should not be taken seriously.

There are two types of religions in the world: prayer-oriented religions and meditation-oriented religions. Christianity is a prayer-oriented religion. Prayer and meditation are absolute contraries: prayer moves outwards. Prayer is addressed to a God. Meditation moves inwards. Christianity is an extrovert religion. The emphasis is on serving people - love, compassion. The emphasis is not on meditation. The extrovert religion prays to God; the introvert religion meditates. Prayer is extrovert; it is addressed to God. Meditation is reaching to one’s own being. Love is an effort to reach to the other’s being. There are religions which say that if you meditate, you cannot love. There are religions which say that if you love, how can you meditate? If you meditate, that looks selfish. When the world is in such a misery, people are hungry, ill, dying, and you are meditating – the whole thing looks to be too cruel. Somebody is dying on the road, a beggar, and you are sitting in your temple and meditating. It looks selfish. ’Throw this meditation away,’ says the extrovert religion. ’Go and help people – that is the only way to reach God. A healthy person is one who when he wants to move in, he moves. There is no hindrance. He has no compulsion to be an extrovert. And vice versa. If you are compulsively an introvert – whenever you start moving without, there are inner hindrances. You have to fight, you cannot flow, you have to force. Then you are ill. A healthy person, a healthy being, a healthy energy, is always ready to move anywhere. There is no compulsion to be somewhere in particular. When you can pray like Jesus and meditate like Buddha , then you are complete , whole and healthy.

When two parties are in a discussion and one makes a claim that the other disputes, the one who makes the claim typically has a burden of proof to justify.

There are people in India who learn Yoga for longevity , not for enlightenment. People practice Hatha Yoga for a healthy and longer life.

You do the job of correcting all inaccurate information provided by me. Serve the humanity !

@Fidelio I live in India but I never heard that there are some people believe that raping a virgin is a cure for AIDs. India is a democratic country, Indian press is independent. Such news can bring turmoil in India, please provide me some link, source of your information.

@Annetta The first step is relaxing is the body. Remember as many times as possible to look in the body, whether you are carrying some tension in the body somewhere – at the neck, in the head, in the legs. Relax it consciously. Just go to that part of the body, and persuade that part, say to it lovingly "Relax!" "And you will be surprised that if you approach any part of your body, it listens, it follows you – it is your body! With closed eyes, go inside the body from the toe to the head searching for any place where there is a tension. And then talk to that part as you talk to a friend; let there be a dialogue between you and your body. Tell it to relax, and tell it, "There is nothing to fear. Don't be afraid. I am here to take care – you can relax." Slowly slowly, you will learn the knack of it. Then the body becomes relaxed. Start from the body, and then go, slowly slowly, deeper. And don't start with anything else unless you have first solved the primary. If your body is tense, don't start with the mind. Wait. Work on the body. And just small things are of immense help. "You walk at a certain pace; that has become habitual, automatic. Now try to walk slowly. Buddha used to say to his disciples, "Walk very slowly, and take each step very consciously." If you take each step very consciously, you are bound to walk slowly. If you are running, hurrying, you will forget to remember. Hence Buddha walks very slowly. "Just try walking very slowly, and you will be surprised – a new quality of awareness starts happening in the body. Eat slowly, and you will be surprised – there is great relaxation. Do everything slowly... just to change the old pattern, just to come out of old habits. "First the body has to become utterly relaxed, like a small child, then only start with the mind.

Suffering exists because of your being, the way you are , not due to circumstances. Never think that somebody else or your childhood or your past is responsible for your present suffering. You suffer because you have not yet reached state of meditation. You can't sit silently twenty four hours, whatsoever you do, do it with awareness; this is meditation. Walking, walk attentively, as if walking is everything; eating, eat with awareness, as if eating is everything; rising, rise with awareness; sitting, sit with awareness; all your actions become conscious, your mind does not travel beyond this moment, it remains in the moment, settles in the moment – this is meditation. Start with small things like bathing, eating, cleaning dishes etc. It can be very difficult in the beginning. Never expect quick results, only those who have infinite patience get quick results, those who are in hurry miss it.