Talk:Bhakti-Sutra (भक्ति-सूत्र)
A few things:
Osho on Narada and his sutras, from chap 5 of Books I Have Loved: Having started the chapter with Badrayana, Osho continues, "Second: Narada's BHAKTI SUTRAS. Narada is just the opposite of Badrayana, and I love to put opposites together. I would like to put Narada and Badrayana into the same room and enjoy whatsoever happens between them. Narada always carried an ektara, a musical instrument with only one string -- ek means one, and tara means string. Narada always carried his ektara, playing on it, singing and dancing. Badrayana would not have tolerated it at all. I can tolerate all kinds of people. Badrayana would have shouted and screamed at Narada. Narada was not the kind of person who would have listened to Badrayana; he would have continued to play, singing even more loudly to irritate Badrayana. I would have enjoyed seeing them both together in the same room. That's why the second book I choose is Narada's BHAKTI SUTRAS.
"His sutras begin with 'athato bhakti jigyasa -- now the inquiry into love....' To inquire into love is the greatest exploration, the greatest inquiry. Everything else falls short, even atomic energy. You can be a scientist even of the caliber of Albert Einstein, but you don't know what real inquiry is unless you love. And not only love, but love plus awareness... then it becomes inquiry into love, the most difficult task in the world.
"Let me repeat, it is the most difficult task in the world -- love with awareness. People fall in love; people become unconscious in love. Their love is only biological, it is gravitation. They are pulled down towards the earth. But Narada is talking about a totally different love: love as meditation, as awareness. Or in scientific terms, love as levitation, against gravity. Leave gravitation for the graves; levitate, arise! And when one starts rising to love, flying towards the stars, that is athato bhakti jigyasa.
"Why do you all look so worried? I love the devils -- let them work, let them create as much noise as they can. As far as I am concerned they cannot disturb me, and as far as you are concerned you are already disturbed, what more can they do? So everything is perfectly okay, it is as it should be.
"I have loved Narada's book tremendously. I have talked about it, but not in English, because English is not my language, and moreover it is too scientific, mathematical, modern. I have spoken of Narada in Hindi, my mother tongue, in which I can sing more easily. It is closer to my heart."
NB Athato Bhakti Jigyasa is the title of a similarly themed two-volume series on the Bhakti Sutras of Shandilya, a sage who came after Narada.
A recent Devanagari "spelling" conundrum was resolved with this book. Astute observers will have noticed that "Bhakti" is rendered slightly differently in the text and cover image versions, भक्ति and भक्त्ति respectively. An analogous issue arose with "vyakti," a word in the subtitle of Bahuri Na Aisa Daanv (बहुरि न ऐसा दांव). It now appears that both "--kti" usages are acceptable practice, though both G**gle's translation app and Lexilogos' Devanagari keyboard app prefer the former, and <search> will sometimes not find the latter.
Regarding the info about the editions, some sites have the pub date of the second Diamond edition as 2009. And usually when there are hardcover and paperback editions, they have different ISBNs but not in this case, so there may be an error or bookseller enhancement in one fact or another regarding the 2001 edition, including the black-and-whiteness of the cover image. -- Sarlo (talk) 00:17, 25 July 2014 (PDT)
19th and 20th of March Osho did not talk as first edition (1976) says. Events will be changed.--DhyanAntar 17:24, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
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