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Osho
ISSUE SIXTY THREE, JUNE 2007 Ecological Balance
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:: The Book Intro::


Introduction
Osho There are some point to ponder over before we step into the unknown…” No one can start a book like Osho, and no one can continue or finish one like him either. No one but an ultimate alchemist can split the atoms and release the energy of the ancient scriptures of the Atma Pooja Upanishad either such a startling mixture of depth and finesse- an enlightened sorcerer enchanting us with deceptively uncomplicated language and daring us to glimpse at what “begins with the unknown and ends with the unknowable.”

Time and again when I read this book, I find myself exclaiming out loud and reaching for a piece of paper or closing my eyes and sinking as far as I can inside in an effort to keep some remembrance od the impact of a split-second of understanding, a tantalizing tongue-tip taste of Osho’s words of truth. A small flame leaps inside as I am given glimpse after glimpse of the extraordinary – or as he says, “the extraordinarily ordinary” – world of an enlightened consciousness.

The Ultimate Alchemy is an invitation into the expanse that is Osho. Just as the rishis of old gave birth to the Upanishads in revolt against the dead, ritualistic structure that had grown up around the Vedas, so Osho takes these ancient sutras and breathes twenty-first century life into them. Here is a living response to words of eternal truth from on who dwells in the unknowable and who understands the needs and the search of modern man – his longing to discover and inner harmony and peace, to taste an authentic religiousness and to find respite from the increasingly global collective nightmare of the mind, given to us by our traditions, our religions, Our politicians and our home videos.

For a westerner, whose religions are based on right-actions and doing good, and whose whole psychogical understanding rests on the notion that we can become “well-adjusted personalities,” this invitation to step away from our mind can come as quite a shock. Osho is a compassionate, humorous, zen-like genius at persuading contemporary man to explore this possibility and start dipping his big toe – the part of him that is furthest away from his head – into “the only solution”: the waters of meditation. “The greatest freedom is to be free from one’s mind…..because it is a subtle bondage so deep that you never feel it as a bondage. Be constantly aware that your mind is not your consciousness. Consciousness is the energy, mind is just the thought content.”

These eighteen discourses, which alternate between responses to the sutras and answers to an international audience of seekers’ questions, show the master alchemist at his extraordinary work, helping us to find our essential essence, the real gold inside. Fire is needed to burn away our dreams and illusions to transform our base metal into gold, and these talks are strong. Yet at precisely the tight moment, they are tempered with such a gentleness, love and humor that whatever the flames have not yet consumed gets the chance to melt in another way.

Osho suggests we” drink” the message of the Upanishads because “… although they use words –they have to –they stand for silence.” He also says, “If I am responding to this Upanishad, it is simply because I have fallen in love with it.” No one could find a better way to describe his words or this book.

- Satyam
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