It is really mysterious that each relationship begins with the freedom to love, but ends with the bondage of the relationship. Love comes like a strong breeze, carrying the lovers to unknown dimensions. Lovers go through peak experiences and then feel the need to settle down. But soon they start getting bored, craving the same peaks again. When this does not happen, they feel frustrated and fall into the ditch of misery.
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There is a wonderful story about the Greek philosopher Socrates, who was always busy in dialogues and debates with people. He was a very rational human being, who would occasionally fly beyond the frontiers of mind and have some strange revelations. It happened one night, while awaiting his death in prison, he was haunted by a dream that kept urging him, “Socrates, make music!” The philosopher thought that he had always served art with his philosophising. But now, spurred on by that mysterious voice, he turned fables into verse, indicted a hymn to Apollo, and played the flute.
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Wikipedia informs us that a “selfie is a self-portrait photograph, typically taken with a hand-held digital camera or camera phone. Selfies are often shared on social networking services such as Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.”
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Being and non-being produce each other. Difficult and easy complement each other. Long and short define each other. High and low oppose each other. Fore and aft follow each other,” says the Chinese enlightened mystic Lao Tzu describing the intrinsic harmony between polar opposites. There is no fight or struggle between them; they support each other.
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Our body and our life form function with an energy which moves like a bioelectric current within us. When everything within functions perfectly, we can hear a hum arise out of us — the sound of health. Energy, electricity, sounds — this is the play of the trinity in our being. A rhythmic hum means that we are in good health. When it’s discordant, we should know that it’s in chaos. The same happens with emotions — sadness and joy, misery and ecstasy create their own vibrations or hum.
What is true of our being is true of the cosmos. Ancient sages, who illuminated us about the universe, meditated first to experience the same within themselves. Says Osho, “Physicists say sound is merely modification of electricity. Yogis say electricity is merely a modification of sound. Both are true. Sound and electricity are two forms of the same phenomenon. Call it electricity or sound, call it fire like Heraclitus or water like Lao Tzu… All these are merely forms of the formless!”
But how can you know the formless? Knowledge is possible only when there is form, when something is known. But form is a modification of the unknown. For a yogi, electricity is irrelevant. Through sound, he can change many phenomena, even inner electricity. He calls it prana — the inner bioenergy.
Through sound, it can be changed. That’s why when you listen to classical music you feel a certain silence — your inner body energy changes. Listen to a madman and you feel you’re going crazy too, because the madman’s body electricity is in chaos, which you imbibe. Sit with an enlightened person and suddenly everything within you falls into a rhythm.
To connect with our inner and outer cosmos, Osho has given a very powerful method of meditation, Nadabrahma. It lasts for an hour and has three stages.
The Article written by Swami Chaitanya Keerti was published in The Asian Age and the Deccan Chronicle in December 2014
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