Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

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Question 1
CHAPTER 13
Krishna Goes to the West
QUESTIONER: YOU HAVE SAID ONE CAN ENCOUNTER KRISHNA’ SOUL ANY TIME,
BECAUSE IT IS EVERLASTING, NOTHING IN EXISTENCE DIES. IF SO, WHAT SHOULD ONE
DO TO MAKE IT POSSIBLE? AND TELL US IF ONE CAN ATTAIN TO FULL DEVOTION THROUGH
CONCENTRATION ON KRISHNA’S ICON AND CHANTING HIS NAME AND HYMNS OF HIS
PRAISE.
Nothing in existence perishes, nor does anything new come into being. Forms change, appearances
change, but the deepest mysteries of life remain ever the same. Individuals come and go, waves in
the ocean rise and disappear, but that which is hidden in the individual, in the wave is eternal.
We have to look at Krishna in two different ways, and then we can look at ourselves in the same
way. We exist at two levels – one at the level of waves and another at the level of the ocean. As
waves we are individual human beings, and as the ocean we are the supreme being.
Krishna’s physical form, his voice, his music are like the waves. His soul, hidden inside the body
is like the ocean. Waves come and go, but the ocean Is everlasting. While the forms of existence
change, its soul, the spirit which abides in its elan vital is deathless. eternal. The spirit was there
even when Krishna was not born and it is there when he is no more. It was there before your birth
and it will be there even after your death. Krishna was like a wave that arose from the ocean, danced
for a while with the winds, and disappeared again in the same ocean.
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