Understanding of differnce between Religion and Spirituality by Osho Rajneesh

I was fortunate enough to stumble upon the website with MP3 of Japji Sahib Katha / translation by Rajneesh Osho. I had heard years ago that Osho's explanation of Japji Sahib / writing of the founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak, the Guru of Hindu's and Pir of Muslims is by far the best. I loved Osho's way of weaving Guru Nanak's life stories within the explanation giving them new life. I truly appreciate and accept what Osho has said. I have only heard the first two MP3 so far.

Some of his sayings that I loved are as follows
Ek Onkar Satnam completes the Sikh religion. The rest of the Japji is an effort to explain God to people.

The reason we need a Guru is to destroy our ego that I am doing something. Gurprasad - whatever is happening is by God's Grace / Guru's Grace not by my effort.

Hukam means Total acceptance of God's Will.

Philosophy plays with words but the word 'water' can't quench the thirst, a map can't contain the country in it, a painting of a rising sun can't provide light in the darkness. Similarly God can't be found in any religious book as its only an effort to explain God in words and Guru Nanak says that God can't be described.

The website where I heard the MP3's of Osho's explanation of the Japji Sahib of Guru Nanak
http://www.gururavidassny.com/htmls/downloads/jjso.html doesn't exist anymore. Someone has written what Osho explained and posted it on http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?/topic/46438-oshos-discourse-japji-sahib/ (checked 2/12/11)

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Obsession with Religious figures - a dangerous business

Do you praise some religious figure too much and thing this person is greater than everyone else? If so, ask yourself -
Am I obsessed?
Am I thinking of this person's welfare ahead of my own family's welfare?
Do I empathise too much with this person?
If any of the answers is 'Yes', you might be in big trouble before you know.

Religious people who do long hours of reading prayers, singing and / or meditation naturally learn how to move energy within once body and then given enough spare time, also learn how to use this energy to connect to other people. Some can throw an energy cord and connect it to your solar plexus. If they manage to do this, soon you will do what is good for this person, not good for yourself.

According to the 'World of Reiki' website, "The solar plexus chakra is the third chakra. It may be referred to as the "spleen chakra", the "navel chakra", "stomach chakra", or "manipura chakra". It is located below the rib cage, between the tip of the sternum and the navel. Solar Plexus chakra is said to be a reservoir of energy that can be distributed throughout the entire body. Hence, blockages and weakness in the solar plexus chakra can have profound consequences for all of the other chakras. Again, blockages of solar plexus / manipura chakra are related to both physical and psychological disturbances." Source: http://www.worldofreiki.com/solar-plexus-chakra-in-reiki-healing.html

If a very religious person has psychological problems, think of all the living religious figures affecting this persons life and you will find a culprit that you least suspected, the one this person loves the most. Learn to protect yourself and if you are already in trouble see a spiritual healer who can balance your solar plexus and remove the undue influence of others on your life and solve your psychological problems as well that your regular psychologist or psychiatrist can't.

Read my previous blog for a personal experience and a lesson for life.

Psychic invasion is like a webcam in your bedroom

If you do meditation and can feel, hear or see things but do not use protection everyday, you are walking on dangerous ground. Until now I believed that if you do not want to go in the world of destruction / negativity, you don't have to. My only mission of entering this world was to seek God, nothing else. But my recent experience in a Nanaksar Thath has given me a valuable lesson. People can attach energy cords on your solar plexus while singing music or talking to you. Then you do meditation and they have the experiences. How this happens I don't know. Not only this, they can reverse the energy where you feel and think what the other person is thinking while they enjoy your positive experiences. This is outrageously bizarre but true. I can only speak for my own experience.

So the big lesson is learn to protect yourself everyday without fail either by visualising a bubble of white light 3 feet around yourself, keep your mind occupied with positive thoughts and not think of the living vampire invading your privacy and sucking your energy or simply do as many Chaupai Sahib paths as you can.

Here is a link to listen to the path / Sikh prayer
http://www.rajkaregakhalsa.net/audio/index.php?q=f&f=%2FPrayers%2FChaupai+Sahib


The energy cord attached to my belly was dirty yellow cord. I had great difficulty detaching it as I didn't pay any attention to it while it was being inserted deeply everyday. I thought the energy movement in the belly was because my solar plexus was being activated. It wasn't for a good reason. I felt all the symptoms mentioned - headaches that never had, feeling lost, obsessed with one person and losing interest in all others. This is highly dangerous. If my deceased father didn't come to warn me, I wouldn't have known. I thought it to be a friendly cord and didn't mind it for so long. The most surprising but true fact is that it was done unintentionally. The person doesn't know he has the power to do so.

If you do meditation, my serious advice to you is to do it when no one is looking. Don't be a fool like me to do it in a public place just because you feel like doing to then. You shouldn't listen to live music and try to connect while others are watching you. Its ok in a setting like Ransabai of Akhand Kirtani Jatha where everyone is sitting with their eyes closed and are only focused on themselves not others. But even then, as soon as someone finds out about what you can do, they would want a piece of it, either the right way or the wrong way. Believe me, you won't know who is a right person and who is not. A sweet talker, lovely guy that you know can be the very vampire you should have avoided.

Below is a source on occultism, something I never wanted to enter into and probably never will. I think I will stick to complaining to God and my Guru Nanak who had the responsibility to protect me while I was listening to his Bani.

Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology / By Lewis Spence, p627 - Music and psychic attack

Spiritual and Psychic attack / invasion

There are also many levels of psychic invasion varying in severity from psychic invasion to psychic attachment to outright astral attack. These can be intentional or non-intentional.

A PSYCHIC INVASION is thought to occur when a thoughtform , entity,or astral imprint has entered the soul and permeated it like a virus. This usually circulates through the ethereal system and eventually dissipates like a bad cold.

PSYCHIC ATTACHMENT occurs when someone finds him or herself somehow possessed by, obsessed with or overly attached to an object or subject. Often this object is charged with negative energy from another place or time. It is also possible to get psychically attached to a place / person or for a place / person to get psychically attached to you!

ASTRAL ATTACK is usually the result of a venomous thoughtform or a direct attack on your aura using a ritual. Some metaphysicians send spirits to harm you with the intention of directly separating you from your higher self.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/25688658/Spirit-Attack-and-Psychic-Attacks-Protection-spells-Protective-Angels

Visions in Dreams, live and in meditation

The symbolic meanings of dreams, live experiences with the dead people and visions during meditation are same.

I saw a vision while awake in my bedroom. My dad came and sat in front of me. His turban was tied carelessly and he was upset with me. He was saying something but I couldn't hear the words. I asked him to explain as I can't understand what he is upset about. So he showed me picking up tiny pieces of glass from the ground with my bare hands. I knew it would hurt but I still had to pick it up in order to clean the floor. The tiny pieces if glass got stuck into my ring finger of right hand. It wasn't a shock as I was already aware what the result of that job could be but it did hurt a lot. I tried to get those pieces of glass out but they were so many that no matter how many I took out, there were still more stuck in the finger and were hurting and making it bleed. I even tried a magnet, several times, to suck them all out. It wasn't enough. I even tried to put the finger in the hot lava in the core of the earth to burn the top to make it better but in vain.

Next morning, in my deep meditation at the temple, I saw my left eye closed. I noticed my eyelashes but more importantly noticed that I was only seeing one eye and it was closed as if I was focuing inwards. The dream dictionary suggests that closed eyes suggest either refusal to see the truth about something or feeling of hurt. Left eye represents moon. It might also mean that you need to see inside your head, insight - something you need to be aware of and to trust your intuition and instincts.

A day later I found out a secret that two people have been hiding from me. It hurt me so much that I feel betrayed. I can't trust these two people that I loved so much. I did want them to do exactly what they were doing but the fact they tried to hide this from me, made me feel very uncomfortable and foolish. My dad was so right. He warned me to stay out of someone's personal life. I had understood this but couldn't understand why he was saying that and why would I be hurt. Now I know. Thanks dad for coming to warn me everytime. Now what should I do with these loving relationships that I have built?

Spirituality Meditation & Personal experiences: Taboos for Sikh women

Spirituality Meditation & Personal experiences: Taboos for Sikh women: "Do you think its easy to pursue spiritual life as a Sikh woman? I feel its extremely difficult. Firstly there are no Sikh female saints like..."

How to Ground Yourself of Negative Energy - wikiHow

How to Ground Yourself of Negative Energy - wikiHow

Taboos for Sikh women

Do you think its easy to pursue spiritual life as a Sikh woman? I feel its extremely difficult. Firstly there are no Sikh female saints like Mirabai in Hinduism who are absolutely crazy about finding God. If Mirabai is to be seen as an example, her life as a saint was also very difficult as people including her own family did not accept her behaviour as acceptable.

What hope do we have to be free like Guru Nanak to declare our pursuit of God? Especially when you are an attractive woman. No matter what you declare about your intentions, you will be looked upon as an object of lust.

Why don't we have any Sikh female Kathakars? Why don't we have female Raagi Jatha in Darbar Sahib, Amritsar? Is there no talent available to occupy those places or we don't accept women to be spiritual to that extent? Its not a question of power or authority, it's a question of the right to freely express our spirituality.

By not allowing women to express and share their spiritual knowledge, are Sikhs approving Muslim way of keeping women behind closed door, in burkas and depriving them from gaining and expressing spiritual knowledge much like how hindus and muslims use to stop them from getting educated in Guru Nanak's days?

"Ae Ree Main To Prem Diwani, Mera Dard Na Janei Koi"
No one understands the extent of my love for God -- Merabai.

The desire body, thoughtforms and their impact

This morning I was very upset upon realizing that the energy tubes thrown by other people to suck up our energy mean different things depending upon the part of the body they are attached to. I woke up a 1.30am this morning and after doing some meditation decided to read 'The inner temple of witchcraft, meditation and psychic development by Cristopher Penczak'.



Chapter 6, I think, covers info on protecting your aura and describes what the intention of the energy thief is depending on where that tube attaches itself on your body. I have known this energy tube being attached to my body from weeks but I didn't care initially as one psychic lady had told me to not worry about small things like this as we are always pulling energy from each other depending on our needs. Since I knew that these cords can be cut by visualization, when I tried to cut it twice, on two different occasions, it tried to attach itself more firmly and became a scar. So both times I left it alone thinking, may be I am not strong enough to cut it yet.

Eight days ago, when I was in deep meditation at the temple, this scar along with the energy tube started to separate itself from me. Since I wanted to keep a connection with this person, I requested for it to not be removed completely. So it stayed at a one hand distance from my body. But this morning I was shocked and horrified when I realized the intention of the cord. I did more meditation and requested its removal and did the Aura cleansing by visualizing a crystal egg around me. I scrubbed it well, removed all the slime on the outside and smoothed the sharp edges with purple colour shower and made it crystal clear again. I later called the person and adjusted the feeling to scale them to a comfortable and acceptable relationship.

On doing a google search on thought-forms, I found the following google book 'Thought-Forms By Annie Besant' which mentions desire-body and its entities on p.19 onwards.