The Eternal Message
- beloved bhakti,
- Love. Meditation is like the sea, receiving the dirty river and yet remaining pure.
- You need not be purified before it.
- But you will come purified out of it.
- Meditation in unconditional.
- Purity is not a pre-requirement - but a consequence.
- (Osho, letter 12)
- notes
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- "A collection of 30 immortal letters written by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, U.S.A., now Ma Ananda Pratima, World President of Neo-Sannyas International."
- Later published as part of A Cup of Tea.
- For the publishing history of each letter, addressees and other info, see A Cup of Tea (sources).
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Apr 17, 1971 to May 30, 1971 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 30 (see table of contents)
editions
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table of contents
edition 1973.11 chapter titles |
letters | |||||||
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event | location | addressee | ||||||
1 | The Inward Growth | 20 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
2 | Life Is Non-Fragmentary | 21 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
3 | Maturity Comes Through Understanding | 17 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
4 | Reason Is Necessary but Not Enough | 22 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
5 | Authentic Knowledge -- Only Through Meditation | 24 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
6 | Self-Deception | 30 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
7 | The Silent Observation | 1 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
8 | The Explosion of Thoughtless Awareness | 2 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
9 | The Fire Test | 28 Apr 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
10 | Drop Yourself into the Divine | 3 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
11 | The Anti-Life Negative Attitudes | 13 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
12 | Purity -- a Consequence of Meditation | 4 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
13 | Mutation Is Explosion | 11 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
14 | The Mind Dies with Total Acceptance | 17 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
15 | Thought Can Never Come to the Cosmic Whole | 13 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
16 | Freedom from the Ideology-Oriented Mind | 14 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
17 | To Go Beyond Ego | 26 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
18 | Ecstasy Is Always with the New | 15 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
19 | Truth Cannot Be Transferred | 21 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
20 | Transcendence of Conflicts | 19 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
21 | Knowledge Is Through Experience | 27 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
22 | The Seeker Dissolves in Awareness | 20 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
23 | Illusion of the Ego | 22 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
24 | The Trap of the Opposites | 22 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
25 | To Be Negative Is to Be Sell-Destructive | 22 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
26 | Mind Is Ego-Centric | 25 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
27 | Childish Metaphysical Theories | 26 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
28 | In Search of the Secret of Success | 30 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
29 | Childish Answers About the Ultimate Reality | 30 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA | ||||
30 | The Eternal Message | 10 May 1971 | unknown | Ma Yoga Bhakti, New York, USA |