Earthen Lamps
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- In the preface to this book, Osho writes:
- "What do I find when I look deeply into man? I find that man, too, is an earthen lamp! But he is not just a lamp made of clay; in him there is also a flame of light that is constantly rising towards the sun. Only his body is made of earth, his soul is that very flame."
- 2016 edition:
- "One needs a very sympathetic ear and a very sympathetic heart to understand these beautiful parables, which are a rarity in Osho's work because they don't come from the talks that have made him so famous — the parables are actually written by him. Mystics like Buddha and Jesus talked in parables — and in his book Osho provides us with sixty parables, anecdotes, and stories that speak directly to us — contemporary people of the modern age. These parables and their metaphors are all very simple, and because they are so simple they have a purity, they are unpolluted by complicated rationalizations of the modern mind. They are straightforward and direct, aimed to the heart like an arrow.
- In these parables Osho says in a poetic way things that cannot be said in prose. He is expressing things from the heart, things that cannot be expressed by the head. Each parable is a lesson to bring insights into one of the most important issues we face in life.
- As he points out, a parable is a way to talk in pictures and not in words. And in our dreams, we are again living in parables because the unconscious understands only pictures. Your conscious has become trained for language, words, but the unconscious is still that of a child.
- When a mystic like Osho wants to communicate something from his innermost depth to your innermost depth — he uses parables. They function like a seed, hovering around the consciousness and emerging into sharp focus when our everyday life experiences bring an opportunity to apply their lessons. It is very easy to remember them.
- translated from
- Hindi : Mitti Ke Diye (मिट्टी के दीये)
- Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava
- notes
- Read this book as PDF or create a free account at osho.com to read the book online.
- Previously published as The Earthen Lamps (1968). The order of the chapters is the same as in the latter edition, and as in the original Hindi.
- The 2016 edition has 60 parables, one more than the earlier edition and than Mitti Ke Diye. See Talk:Manuscripts ~ Mitti Ke Diye (मिट्टी के दीये) for an explanation.
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- from 1966 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 59/60, see note above
editions
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Earthen Lamps59 Parables and Stories
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Earthen Lamps 60 Parables and Anecdotes to Light Up Your Heart
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Earthen Lamps 60 Parables and Anecdotes to Light Up Your Heart
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