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    51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I
    51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I
    51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I
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    51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I

    By Rajesh Gurjar

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    Can inspirational stories really change our lives? The simple answer is yes.
    If one wants to get inspired – then one should read inspirational stories and listen to inspiration lectures.

    Reading is an enjoyable way in which we can continue to learn and open our minds to a world of endless possibility and wonder.
    The stories moral encourages one's thinking while teaching them about rightness,

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRajesh Gurjar
    Release dateJan 22, 2016
    ISBN9781310175091
    51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I
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    Rajesh Gurjar

    Rajesh Gurjar is an MBA graduate from Boston, MA and has bachelor in Chemical Engineering from India. He is fascinated by mysterious world and on path of discovering permanent happiness. He loves read to and listen to spiritually enlightened personalities and alternative medicines to stay healthy. He also loves to travel and experiment adventurous things.

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      51 Enlightening Stories and Quotes Part I - Rajesh Gurjar

      OSHO was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.

      Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. His parents Babulal and Saraswati Jain, who were Taranpanthi Jains, let him live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old. By Osho's own account, this was a major influence on his development because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom, leaving him carefree without an imposed education or restrictions. When he was seven years old, his grandfather died, and he went to Gadarwara to live with his parents. Osho was profoundly affected by his grandfather's death, and again by the death of his childhood girlfriend and cousin Shashi from typhoid when he was 15, leading to a preoccupation with death that lasted throughout much of his childhood and youth. In his school years he was a rebellious, but gifted student, and acquired a reputation as a formidable debater. Osho became an anti-theist, took an interest in hypnosis and briefly associated with socialism and two Indian nationalist organisations: the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. However, his membership in the organisations was short-lived as he could not subscribe to any external discipline, ideology or system.

      Osho's teachings, delivered through his discourses, were not presented in an academic setting, but interspersed with jokes and delivered with a rhetoric that many found spellbinding. The emphasis was not static but changed over time: Osho revelled in paradox and contradiction, making his work difficult to summarise. He delighted in engaging in behaviour that seemed entirely at odds with traditional images of enlightened individuals; his early lectures in particular were famous for their humour and their refusal to take anything seriously. All such behaviour, however capricious and difficult to accept, was explained as a technique for transformation to push people beyond the mind.

      He spoke on major spiritual traditions including Jainism, Hinduism, Hassidism, Tantrism, Taoism, Christianity, Buddhism, on a variety of Eastern and Western mystics and on sacred scriptures such as the Upanishads and the Guru Granth Sahib. The sociologist Lewis F. Carter saw his ideas as rooted in Hindu advaita, in which the human experiences of separateness, duality and temporality are held to be a kind of dance or play of cosmic consciousness in which everything is sacred, has absolute worth and is an end in itself. While his contemporary Jiddu Krishnamurti did not approve of Osho, there are clear similarities between their respective teachings.

      Osho also drew on a wide range of Western ideas. His view of the unity of opposites recalls Heraclitus, while his description of man as a machine, condemned to the helpless acting out of unconscious, neurotic patterns, has much in common with Freud and Gurdjieff. His vision of the new man transcending constraints of convention is reminiscent of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil; his views on sexual liberation bear comparison to D. H. Lawrence; and his dynamic meditations owe a debt to Wilhelm Reich.

      There ae many motivational, inspirational and life changing stories were told by Osho during his lectures, this book has 51 stories with the quotes, I found it very heart touching and I found true meaning of life.

      NEVER ALLOW A CAT IN YOUR LIFE

      A great saint was dying and he said to his successor, a young man, Remember one thing: never allow a cat in your life, and he died. A big crowd had gathered to listen to the last statement of this great saint… and what a sentence! Never allow a cat in your life. The successor said, My god, why should I allow a cat in my life in the first place? And this is the whole religion? But an old man — who was also a disciple, but was not chosen as a successor because he was too old; he was himself going to die within a year or two — said, You don’t know, there is a long story behind it. He has just given you the punch line.

      He said, Then I must know the whole story.

      The story was that when the saint renounced his wife and children and his home and went into the Himalayas, he lived near a small village. Otherwise, from where will you get your food? But the villagers were happy that they had a saint of their own, so they made a small bamboo cottage for him.

      The Indian monks used, in place of underwear, just a long strip of cloth called langot. It is a mini — mini-est — because just a long strip… they wrap it around themselves. They were allowed to have only two langotis. But a trouble arose: some rats came into the house and they started chewing on the langot. The man was in a great difficulty; he had only two langotis and soon they would be gone. So he asked the villagers, What to do? because my religion does not allow a saint to have more than two langotis. That’s the only possession allowed.

      They said, Why don’t you take a cat from the village? She will kill the rats. It was a perfectly rational solution. So the villagers gave him a good cat, and the cat killed the rats. But the problem was; now he had to beg for his food and the cat also needed something to eat, because the rats were finished. So he had to beg for some milk for the cat.

      The villagers said, This is a small village… the best thing for us is that you have a cow. The whole village can contribute some money and purchase a beautiful cow, and in that way you will become very independent. You can have enough milk for yourself and for your cat.

      It looked right, so a beautiful cow was brought in. Now the problem was that the cow needed grass. So every day he had to go to the village to beg for the grass. People said, This does not look right. A great saint asking for grass, in fact, no saint has ever asked for grass; it is not conventional.

      He said, But what to do? My cow, my cat…

      So they said, A simple solution: we are villagers, we don’t know much about your philosophy. One woman has become a widow; her husband has died, and she has nobody. So we will persuade her. She will be really happy to serve a saint and then you don’t have to come every day. We will clear some ground by the side of your hut so she can grow grass, she can grow wheat… and she will take care of you in sickness, in illness.

      The idea was right — it was always right. It was not much effort to persuade the woman; she was alone and the saint was young… there was a possibility, a hope. So she immediately agreed. She started taking care, and you know how things grow….

      The grass grows by itself. In fact many things grow by themselves. So grass started growing, they fell in love… the woman was beautiful, the saint was young. What more is needed? They worked in the field, they started growing wheat and they started growing grass. The cat was very happy and the cow was very happy, everything was perfect. But then the ultimate — children came in, and then he thought, My god, that’s what I had left behind! I have renounced the world — this is the whole world again! It grew so slowly that I was not aware until the children came.

      Now, just because of the cat the whole world came in. The old man said, "That was the punch line. He told you, `Remember not to allow a cat,’ because behind the cat the whole world comes in. He was talking about his own life story, how he again became engaged in the same world — taking children to the school… and people started laughing at him: `What kind of saint are you? You are keeping a woman! You have fallen down from your greatness.’

      But what to do now? Once you have fallen, you have fallen; it is very difficult to rise again. He thought many times to renounce again, but he thought — what is the point? Those rats are everywhere. Again the same story will start. It is better to be silent.

      "Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you that are true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature.

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