Osho also known as Rajanish?
When Osho speaks on Economics and Upanishads one has to stop and reflect because oftentimes he suggests more than what he speaks. Economics is a temporal science dealing with material progress; Upanishads is the supra-material science which deals with spiritual progress. Therefore, though they are not comparable the temporal science can be used with purity of heart and clarity of mind as stepping stone to leap to the spiritual awareness.
When Osho says that in economics when one gives something one has something less, he suggests one gets something less as interest on the capital which is larger. On getting the interest there is no hope of the capital being larger. On the other hand with inflation all around the intrinsic value of the original capital shrinks. In the supra-material science when one gives something one gets more than what he had earlier in terms of spiritual wealth of being. His capital, the spirit within becomes enlarged and enhanced ; the love when shared does not make one less loving.
This is because the Soul as the internal essence has larger, comprehensive and extensive reach than the external material world of economics. As he puts it "You give love and you have still the same love, or may be even more, because by giving, your love starts flowing. It may have been dormant, stagnant ; by sharing it starts flowing".
Unlike the gross, material world the subtle spiritual world within is like an untapped Well, from where if water is drawn, the Well becomes filled with more water tapped from unknown, hidden springs, the spiritual source. if water is not drawn, as he points put the water becomes dirty, poisonous.
In his commentary on Isha Upanishads, Osho interprets the verse "Poonamadha Poornamidam, Poornat Poornamuchyate. poornasya Poornamadaya
Poornamevavasishyate" - That is Whole, this is is Whole ; from Whole has the Whole evolved. Even after the Whole has evolved from the Whole, the Whole verily remains as Whole. This is not mathematical equation but a spiritual explanation. In a mathematical equation any thing deducted from the whole leaves the whole less that being whole ; in a spiritual explanation even when any thing is deducted from the Whole, the Whole continues to remain Whole, with no diminution at all.
Osho says that people fall and die in material world because they live in the gross external material world; the seers and the sages, the saints and the prophets rise and soar in the spiritual world because they Iive in the subtle internal spiritual world. People generally live in the world where there is dislike, jealousy, hatred and anger while the seers Iive in the world where there is mutual liking, companionship, love and peace. The former are ever unbalanced, tormented with likes and dislike,living in the state of disharmony; the latter are ever balanced detached from likes and dislikes, living in the state of complete, comprehensive and freed from all contradictions.
Therefore one need not love one but should love all, because Love is not a gross material commodity to be exchanged with few or some but an inner energy which grows when sharing and with sharing. Love is the divine expression which is dormant, stagnant water when it is not bubbling like fresh, spring water, becomes muted when not spoken, dies when it is not not shared. Let us not be calculative with gross mathematical problems but bask in the revealed light of the subtle, the spiritual, the mysterious.
When Osho speaks on Economics and Upanishads one has to stop and reflect because oftentimes he suggests more than what he speaks. Economics is a temporal science dealing with material progress; Upanishads is the supra-material science which deals with spiritual progress. Therefore, though they are not comparable the temporal science can be used with purity of heart and clarity of mind as stepping stone to leap to the spiritual awareness.
When Osho says that in economics when one gives something one has something less, he suggests one gets something less as interest on the capital which is larger. On getting the interest there is no hope of the capital being larger. On the other hand with inflation all around the intrinsic value of the original capital shrinks. In the supra-material science when one gives something one gets more than what he had earlier in terms of spiritual wealth of being. His capital, the spirit within becomes enlarged and enhanced ; the love when shared does not make one less loving.
This is because the Soul as the internal essence has larger, comprehensive and extensive reach than the external material world of economics. As he puts it "You give love and you have still the same love, or may be even more, because by giving, your love starts flowing. It may have been dormant, stagnant ; by sharing it starts flowing".
Unlike the gross, material world the subtle spiritual world within is like an untapped Well, from where if water is drawn, the Well becomes filled with more water tapped from unknown, hidden springs, the spiritual source. if water is not drawn, as he points put the water becomes dirty, poisonous.
In his commentary on Isha Upanishads, Osho interprets the verse "Poonamadha Poornamidam, Poornat Poornamuchyate. poornasya Poornamadaya
Poornamevavasishyate" - That is Whole, this is is Whole ; from Whole has the Whole evolved. Even after the Whole has evolved from the Whole, the Whole verily remains as Whole. This is not mathematical equation but a spiritual explanation. In a mathematical equation any thing deducted from the whole leaves the whole less that being whole ; in a spiritual explanation even when any thing is deducted from the Whole, the Whole continues to remain Whole, with no diminution at all.
Osho says that people fall and die in material world because they live in the gross external material world; the seers and the sages, the saints and the prophets rise and soar in the spiritual world because they Iive in the subtle internal spiritual world. People generally live in the world where there is dislike, jealousy, hatred and anger while the seers Iive in the world where there is mutual liking, companionship, love and peace. The former are ever unbalanced, tormented with likes and dislike,living in the state of disharmony; the latter are ever balanced detached from likes and dislikes, living in the state of complete, comprehensive and freed from all contradictions.
Therefore one need not love one but should love all, because Love is not a gross material commodity to be exchanged with few or some but an inner energy which grows when sharing and with sharing. Love is the divine expression which is dormant, stagnant water when it is not bubbling like fresh, spring water, becomes muted when not spoken, dies when it is not not shared. Let us not be calculative with gross mathematical problems but bask in the revealed light of the subtle, the spiritual, the mysterious.
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