The Mysteries of Life and Death

ACHARYA RAJNEESH Acharya Rajneesh is an Enlightened One, who has become one with the infinity, the totality. He is NOT, but the infinity breathes through him. He is not a person but the divinity personified. Transcendental Truth shines, every moment, through him. His eyes, his fingers, his gestures, his laughter, his smile, brings the message from the beyond and the transcendental. In fact he is not living in Cosmic Consciousness, but he has become the Cosmic Consciousness itself. Even further, he lives beyond Cosmos, beyond Being in No-Being, in No-thinness, in Great Void-Nirvana. There lies in him the essence of Lao-tse, Buddha, Krishna and Christ. He says, they are one and the same. A seeker of the truth can feel the mystery of his existence and the radiation of the divinity in him. By his very presence the seeker feels that something mysterious has started changing and awakening in him.

Born on 11th December 1931, in a small village of Central Province (now Madhya Pradesh) in India, he bloomed into fullness, took his Masters' degree in Philosophy from the Saugar University in 1957. He was an extra-ordinarily brilliant student and stood first in the University. Later on he served in the two colleges as a Professor for nine years. In 1966 he resigned from his service to consecrate his life to the Wish of God, for the spiritual regeneration of humanity, to spread the practical spirituality for every man.

He travels throughout the country giving discourses, discussions and conducting Meditation Camps. 'He challenges and shatters all the set pat-terns and values of human culture and knowledge. He wants to indicate at the totality of Life, about the Total Transformation of human being. The process, the Alchemy for the inner transformation, he says, is MEDITATION and SAMADHI. As a back-ground for this one must be free from the clutches of scriptures, words, authorities, traditions, know-ledges, beliefs and the past memories. He says that when the consciousness is totally non-identified with the contents within and without it, in that Void, Emptiness an explosion of every thing takes place.

One transcends the body, the mind, the thoughts and there remains the pure Inness, the mysterious divinity, infinite bliss which no words can describe. He says, the total transformation of every individual being into his total divine potentialities is the Way, the dimension, the solution, for the uncountable problems of modern civilization. That only can save the Man from the total destruction. Due to his lecture tours and meditation camps, some inspired friends and seekers have formed many 'Life Awakening Centers’ throughout India. They publish his lectures, conduct his tours and meditation camps. In Hindi language they publish a quarterly magazine-UYOTI SHIKHA' (the Divine Flame) and a monthly magazine 'YUKRA1NDA' (bulletin of Rebellious Youth Force). In near future they are going to publish an English monthly magazine also.

They have a vision to create a 'World Meditation Centre' where all the dimensions of human potentialities could be experimented, searched and awakened, in the light of modern Science, human wisdom and practical spirituality. Thousands of seekers from India and abroad are coming closer and closer to Acharya Rajneesh. Many of them are being transformed, changed and awaken-ed. Unseen forces are attracting seekers from all the corners of the world towards Acharyaji to usher in a world-wide movement for Spiritual Awakening.

In India Acharya Rajneesh speaks in Hindi language. His lectures on various subjects are published in the form of books which are plenty. Many of the books have been translated into different Indian languages and some of them are in English. To the English speaking audience and foreign interviewers he addresses in English. This booklet contains one of the hundreds of interviews taken by the foreign seekers. We publish it as a glimpse, a ray of his infinite wisdom, so that those who read it can seek for more and more, deeper and deeper. Let God send thirsty seekers, striving souls, rest-less youths, hungry and angry new generation to dive deep into the cool and serene illumination, enlightenment, and divinity of Acharya Raj.neesh to be awakened to save the humanity.