Tag Archives: truth

Old Master and a tiger cub

September 12, 2020 · by · in Uncategorized

Just the other day I was reading one of Ramakrishna’s parables. I love it. I read it again and again whenever I come across it. It is the whole story of the Master being a catalytic agent. The story is: A tigress died while giving birth to a cub, and the cub was brought up […]

Those who have not forgotten their wings and the open skies

July 21, 2019 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories, upanishad

Enchanted by the song of a bird singing happily on the branch of a tree, a king had it caught and kept in a cage. Even singing is wrong in the presence of wrong people. The poor bird could not have imagined that his song would get him behind bars! The bird that flew in […]

That which you know already

July 14, 2019 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

Ouspensky was a marvelous thinker from Russia. He had written many books, one of which had brought special fame. It was said that there was no book in the world to equal his. Our famous book was written by the Greek philosopher, Aristotle – THE ORGANUM. This was the first book on truth. The second […]

Truth and Lie and a Child

May 17, 2012 · by · in Osho, Spirituality, Stories

  One day I was playing — I must have been five or six years old… A man used to come to see my father, an utterly boring man. And my father was growing tired of him. So he called me and told me, “I see that man is coming; he will waste my time […]

Town of the submerged temples

May 5, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized

I have heard a story. Thousands of years ago, a town with temples of gods got submerged in the sea. The bells of those drowned temples are still ringing. It is possible that the stroke of water makes them ring. Or, they keep ringing on account of the fish running here and there striking them. […]

Truth at any cost

April 26, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized

THE Chhandogya Upanishad has a beautiful story. Let us begin with it. Satyakam asked his mother, Jabala, “Mother, I want to live the life of a student of supreme knowledge. What is my family name? Who is my father?” “My son,” replied the mother, “I don’t know. In my youth when I went about a […]

Soup of the soup of the soup of the soup of…

April 22, 2012 · by · in Uncategorized · Leave a comment

Truth is never second hand, it cannot be transferred. One has to know it and be it oneself — that is why all tradition falsifies it, and all scriptures, and all words, and in the end it is nothing but the soup of Mulla Nasrudin… But first I must tell you the story. A kinsman […]