Live
losing yourself to your world, to your Life as it is. Unite with the Life
available to you just now. Be one with the Universe.
Most
of us struggle through Life because we resist what is happening to us. Any
resistance will bring pain. Total submission, total acceptance will make living
simpler, easy and blissful. Life is like dance. In dance, the dancer is
encouraged by the Master, the guru,
to unite with the act of dancing. It is only through the unison of the dancer
with the act that a work of art, of beauty, is visible to the world.
Osho,
the Master, says this story about Gurudjieff (1877 ~ 1949), the Armenian
spiritual teacher from the 20th century, who
taught that it was possible to transcend to a higher state of consciousness and
achieve full human potential by working on oneself: “…For the
(true) dancers, the dance continued inside, and the inside whirling circles
became smaller and smaller until they became centered. One day it happened that
they were coming just to the edge of the stage, dancing. It was expected,
supposed, that Gurdjieff would stop them just before they danced down the stage
onto the audience. A hundred dancers were just on the edge of the stage. One
step more and they would all fall down into the hall. The whole hall was
expecting that suddenly Gurdjieff would say stop, but he turned his back to
light his cigar. He turned his back to the dancers to light his cigar, and the
whole group of a hundred dancers fell down from the stage upon the floor – on a
naked stone floor. The whole audience stood up. They were screaming, shouting,
and they were thinking that many must have broken their bones – it was such a
crash. But not a single one was hurt; not even a single bruise was there. They
asked Gurdjieff what had happened. No one had been hurt, and the crash was such
that it seemed impossible that people would not be hurt. The reason was only
this: they were really not in their bodies at that moment. They were slowing
down their inner circling. And when Gurdjieff saw that now they were completely
oblivious of their bodies, he allowed them to fall down. If you are completely
oblivious of your body, there is no resistance. A bone is broken because of
resistance. If you are falling down, you resist: you go against the pull of
gravity. That going against, that resistance, is the problem – not gravity. If
you can fall down with gravity, if you can cooperate with it, then no
possibility of being hurt will arise.”
Quite
similarly, as in the Gurudjieff story that Osho has made immortal, if you flow
with Life, you will be bliss yourself. There’s a need for you__and me__to
discover our inner rhythm, for us to harmoniously unite with our inner selves;
to be the Self, to be nothing but creation itself. And that
can happen when you stop resisting and just slip in with Life, hand in glove
with whatever is happening, living in acceptance, peace and inner harmony. Bliss
then happens naturally!!!
PS:
(Enjoy this beautiful song that captures the spirit of this Thought. Live
losing yourself as the dancers in this video from Jodha Akbar, 2008, directed by Ashutosh Gowariker, starring Hrithik
Roshan and Aishwarya Rai; music is by A.R.Rahman, who says he composed this
tune in his sleep, while he dreamt of the Garib
Nawaz of Ajmer!)
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