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LISTEN TO ASHTAVAKRA. :
”IF YOU CAN SEPARATE YOURSELF FROM THE PHYSICAL BODY, AND REST IN CONSCIOUSNESS, THEN THIS VERY MOMENT YOU WILL BE HAPPY, AT PEACE, AND FREE OF BONDAGE.”
Right here, right now, this very moment. ”If you can separate yourself from the physical body, and
rest in consciousness.” If you begin to see the fact, ”I am not the body, I am not the doer and enjoyer: I am that one hidden within me who sees all….
When childhood came it saw childhood, when youth came it saw youth, when old age came it saw old age. Childhood did not stay, so I cannot be childhood. It came and passed, still I am. Youth did not stay, so I cannot be youth. It came and passed, still I am. Old age came, and it is also going, so I cannot be old age.
HOW CAN I BE THAT WHICH COMES AND GOES? I AM ALWAYS.
The one to whom childhood comes, to whom youth comes, to whom old age comes… to whom thousands of things have come and gone. I am that one eternal ,everlasting.”
Like railway stations they go on changing: childhood, youth, old age, birth.
The traveller keeps moving. You never think you have become one with train stations. Coming to Poona station you donot think you are Poona. When you reach Manmad you don’t think you are Manmad.
You know thatPoona has come and gone, Manmad has come and gone. You are a traveller. You are the observer that saw Poona: Poona came; who saw Manmad: Manmad came. You are the one who sees.
THE FIRST THING, SEPARATE WHAT IS HAPPENING FROM THE OBSERVER.
”… separate yourself from the physical body, and rest in consciousness…” There is nothing else
worth doing.
JUST AS Lao Tzu’s KEY SUTRA IS SURRENDER, ASHTAVAKRA’S KEY SUTRA IS REST, RELAXATION.
There is nothing to do.

~ OSHO – CHAPTER #1 THE PUREST EXPRESSION OF TRUTH #THE MAHAGEETA vol 1

BUDDHA SAYS: STOP IN THE MIDDLE
There is no need to be indulgent, there is no need to renounce either. Just be in the middle, exactly in the middle.
He has a great point there: if you remain exactly in the middle, that is the point from where transcendence happens.
It is like the pendulum of a clock. It goes from the right to the left, from the left to the right.
Try to understand the pendulum and its process because it is very similar to the process of your mind.
When the pendulum is going towards the right, visibly it is going towards the right, but invisibly it is gaining momentum to go to the left.
When it is going to the left it is gaining momentum to go to the right.
When you are INDULGING you are gaining momentum for renouncing the world, and
when you are RENOUNCING you will gain momentum to indulge again.
And this can go on for lives together.
But hold the pendulum in the middle and the clock stops.
THAT’S WHAT BUDDHA SAYS: HOLD THE PENDULUM IN THE MIDDLE AND THE MIND STOPS.
The mind is the clock because the mind is time, the mind is desire.
It brings past and future -IT IS TIME. Hold it in the middle.
Don’t live in the past and don’t live in the future.
BE IN THE PRESENT, THAT IS THE MIDDLE.
Don’t be indulgent and don’t be a renunciate; be in the middle.
Fulfill the necessities of life.
Don’t be obsessed by possessing things and don’t be obsessed by renouncing them.
Both are obsessions and both are pathological states.
AVOID BOTH, BE IN THE MIDDLE. IN THE MIDDLE IS BALANCE.

~ OSHO – The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 9

“When a person is utterly vegetarian he can easily remember his past lives. His clarity is such that he can look into his past lives. He is not gross, his energy is not blocked, his energy moves easily. His river of consciousness can penetrate to the ancient most times; he can go backwards as much as he wants.
The consciousness of a non-vegetarian is blocked – in many ways. He has been accumulating gross matter in himself. That gross matter functions as a barrier. That’s why all the three religions that were born outside India, and have remained non-vegetarian, could not come to the idea of reincarnation. They could not experience it.
Pythagoras lived in India, lived the life of a vegetarian, meditated deeply, became aware of the past lives, could see himself moving backwards. He could understand what Buddha means when he says, “Once I was an elephant, once I was a fish, once I was a tree.”
The idea of evolution has been here in the East for ever — and in a far more subtle way than it has been given to Western science by Darwin. Darwin’s idea is very raw: he says monkeys have become man — although Darwinians have not yet been able to prove it, because they are still searching for the link between the monkey and the man. And the problem arises: why did only a few monkeys become men? What happened to other monkeys? And monkeys are basically imitators – if a few monkeys had become men then all the monkeys would have imitated. What happened to the other monkeys? Great imitators they are – why only a few men?
And the monkeys are still there! Thousands and thousands of years have passed and monkeys are still monkeys. And you don’t come across a monkey suddenly becoming a man… one fine morning he wakes up and he is a man. Nobody has ever seen this miracle happen.
The question is: where are the links between monkey and man? – and the difference is great, it is not small.
Just the other day somebody asked, John Lilly has said that man is not the only being on the earth who has consciousness; there are other beings too who have more consciousness than man.” The questioner has asked, “Is it true? Is John Lilly right?”
But those other animals have not discovered man yet – it is John Lilly who discovers those other animals. It is man who goes on discovering. Certainly the discoverer has more consciousness than the discovered. Even if we find some day that some animal has a great, evolved brain, WE are the discoverers. That great brain has not discovered us just.
There was based in vegetarianism – because people started remembering their past lives.
It was a basic technique with both Buddha and Mahavira: whenever a disciple was to be initiated, the first thing that both Buddha and Mahavira required was that he had to go into his past lives. Great methods were developed so that one could move into past lives.
And once you start moving into past lives, this life will be utterly transformed. Why? Because once you see that all the stupid things that you are doing now, or wanting to do, you have been doing for many many lives… you have done those same things many times, and each time nothing was attained.
For example, if you are mad after money and then you remember that in the past life also you were mad after money and then you had succeeded, and you had become a rich man, a very rich man, and then you died… and all that richness and all that wealth was of no use. It was taken away by death, and you died as empty as ever, as poor as ever. And you remember even before that: you were a king and you had a great kingdom. And still you were frustrated, and still you lived in misery, and you died in misery. And again you are doing the same and hankering for more money? It will become impossible. The longing will simply fall flat on the ground. How can you go on repeating the same stupid thing again and again if YOU CAN REMEMBER? YOU can go on repeating the same stupidity again and again if you CANNOT remember.
The idea of reincarnation is not a philosophical idea: it is an experience, it is utterly scientific. People have remembered their lives.
When you have grown a little deeper into meditation… we are going to do all those techniques here too. But those techniques will require that you be absolutely vegetarian, otherwise you will not be able to go beyond THIS life. Your mind cannot move — it has to be so light, featherlight, that it can simply pass from one existence into another. And the lighter it is, the deeper it goes.
It can not only remember that you were a man in the past life – slowly slowly, you will remember that you have been animals. AND, sometimes, when the depth gross, you will remember that you have been trees, rocks. You have lived for millennia in many forms. And if you remember that once you were a fish, it will become difficult for you to eat fish.
Vegetarianism leads you into remembering your past lives. And KNOWING your past lives, you become more and more a vegetarian – because seeing that all are brothers and sisters, the whole existence, you cannot kill animals. It becomes simply impossible! Not that you have to prevent yourself: it simply becomes impossible.”

~ OSHO – Philosophia Perennis Vol 2