Secret of everlasting happiness - how you can find the key! (Pic Credit: Pixbay)

Once speaking at the inauguration of a chair at Surat University dedicated to Osho, spiritual guru Morari Bapu expanded to give a different dynamic to the meaning of the acronym OSHO.He felt OSHO should mean, Own Silent, Happiness Own meaning our silence and peace should be internal and within us.

The great Adi Shankaracharya had said, Ekante Sukhamasyatam (There is happiness in solitude). Bapu felt that considering the Lockdown has naturally put us in a situation of solitude, we must use it for the purpose of introspection.

Is the peace that we feel really our own? Silence can be of many kinds. There is deep hush even in a graveyard. Sometimes we become quiet due to the compulsions of our circumstances. Sometimes a wicked man can force us into silence by showing us fear, Bapu said

He explained further, A child plays with toys and then discards them. He understands that toys are for meant him and he is not meant for the toy.

The same is true of materialistic objects in life. We need to analyse whether our happiness is based on some incident, object, person, country or time. A Buddhpurush (Self Realized soul) is in bliss all the time because he is the reason for his own happiness. The joy is neither borrowed or purchase or dependent on external factors. This is inner peace.

We could use this time when we are confined to our homes and with limited social mingling to thus internally analyse about these aspects and we might find new strength.

What is not yours and is borrowed is never permanent. It will break or be interrupted

The Ramayana says:

Nija sukha binu mana hoi ki thira, parasa ki hoi bihina sameera

(Can the mind be stilled without inner happiness? Just like there can be no touch without the existence of air.)

II Ram Charit Manas Uttara Kaand 90 (A) II

This brings us to the question whether we all have the capacity to find that calm within.

Morari Bapu feels that in actuality there is no difference between a Guru and the disciple except as a societal arrangement. They are the same in the spiritual realm, otherwise Adi Shankaracharya would not have said, Na Bandhur Na Mitram Guru Naiva Shishyah, Chidaananda Rupah Shivoham Shivoham. (I am not the relative, nor the friend, nor the guru, nor the disciple. I am indeed, that eternal knowing and bliss, Shiva, love and pure consciousness.)

Goswami Tulsidas also says Shrota Vakta Gyan Nidhi (Both the listener and narrator of Gods tale are full of knowledge) in truth both are on the same plane.

Guru only enters into disciple and lights the lamp of his soul and in the light of this lamp, all delusion is destroyed!

And what do we discover after such a stage?

God is all about acceptance and love. God is the joy within and the peace that emanates from within us. They are synonyms.

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