The Mahageeta, Vol 1, Ch 1 (translated from Hindi)Ĭhaitanya Keerti travels around the world to facilitate Osho meditation retreats. These profound discourses are aptly titled: Enlightenment – The Only Revolution. By the end of the dialogue, King Janak is enlightened. Osho talks poetically on the famous dialogue between the ancient mystic Ashtavakra and King Janak. This is an inner revolution, a metamorphosis. If these words penetrate you, they will start awakening your sleeping soul. Osho concludes: Why did Ramakrishna ask that he read the Ashtavakra Gita out aloud to him? Because there is no purer statement of truth. I must hear this book – read it out to me.” It is said that Vivekananda kept on reading aloud from the book – and disappeared in meditation. What harm can there be in it? How can this book hurt you? You are young, your eyes are still fresh, and I am old, it is hard for me to read. He said, “I cannot read on.” Ramakrishna insisted, “Go ahead and read. Read a little but read it aloud to me.” Vivekananda read just three or four sutras and he started shaking, every cell of his body began trembling. He said to him: “You are young, you are still strong – read from the book lying there. Ramakrishna urged him to read out a few lines from a book Ashtavakra Gita lying there. As Narendranath, he was extremely argumentative, an theist, a rationalist. When he came to Ramakrishna his name was still Narendranath – later on Ramakrishna named him Vivekananda. There is an incidence in the life of Vivekananda. There was no big crowd, just a couple of thousands of seekers. There he chose to talk on Ashtavakra Gita, calling it Mahageeta. Thousands of people did throng to Osho’s public discourses at the open grounds of Mumbai, Ahmedabad, and Pune.Īfter these public discourses, Osho moved to his ashram in Pune and settled there.
Osho has given over 200 discourses on it, and a large number of people have been reading and relishing them. But still it is quite easy for a large number of people to understand Gita.
For most of us, even this too may be difficult as we often become victims to our ambition and ego very easily. One can choose to be a devotee, a karmayogi, a warrior like Arjuna, and at the same time, can be in total surrender to God, not looking for any reward. This holy book has a divine message of living a multi-dimensional life without renouncing the world. In India and abroad, Bhagwad Gita is read by most of the Hindus and the liberal followers of the other religions also. Osho has given over 200 discourses on Bhagwad Gita, and a large number of people have been reading and relishing them, writes Chaitanya Keerti in The Asian Age, on October 31, 2017.
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