Sadhana-Sutra ~ 05

साधना-सूत्र ~ 05

event type	discourse & meditation
date & time	8 Apr 1973 pm
location	Palace Hotel (Bikaner House), Mount Abu, meditation camp
language	Hindi & English
audio	Available, duration 1h 29min. Quality: good, but the last 2 minutes barely audible (under revision).
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video	Not available
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see also	timeline : Osho Timeline 1973 first edition : Sadhana-Sutra (साधना-सूत्र) (1976) first edition 2 : The New Alchemy: To Turn You On (1978) first English translation : The Voice of Silence (1999) other editions, translations and links
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shorttitle	ALCHEM04

notes: See Talk:Sadhana-Sutra (साधना-सूत्र). English part of this event published as The New Alchemy: To Turn You On #05 = the book's ch. 4
See the The New Alchemy: To Turn You On for an overview of these events.
Audio: Contains at the end The New Alchemy: To Turn You On ch.4 (audio #5). After the book-text continues with some of the meditation. The New Alchemy mp3 itself contains the complete meditation, this version only the start.
Audio #18: "Now, get ready for our meditation". This is clearly the evening meditation: Tratak, and it is the same recording as in The New Alchemy: To Turn You On #5. (So OW's title, "Sadhana Sutra Dynamic1" is mis-named.)

synopsis: This discourse consists of a Hindi part (published as Sadhana-Sutra (साधना-सूत्र)), followed by an English part (published as The New Alchemy: To Turn You On).
Reader of the sutras: n/a; sutras are being read by Osho himself.
After discourse Osho leads Tratak Meditation.

English part:

Sutra 1

Desire only that which is within you.

... For within you is the light of the world -- the only light that can be shed upon the path. If you are unable to perceive it within you, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

Sutra 2

Desire only that which is beyond you....

It is beyond you; because when you reach it you have lost yourself.

Sutra 3

Desire only that which is unattainable.

... It is unattainable, because it forever recedes. You will enter the light, but you will never touch the flame.

(source:CD-ROM)