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A rendezvous with the self
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An Osho centre, to be set up on the outskirts of the city in August, will teach meditation techniques that have been designed to release stress and tension.
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THOSE WHO passed by a Statue hall on May 26 gaped in wonder. A group of 30-odd men, comprising young as well as old, were dancing in wild abandon. As a tape recorder sputtered out wild African beats, each dancer resembled a swirling dervish. Their eyes closed, they seemed to be lost in a world far removed from the mundane; their faces shined with the satisfaction of breaking free from the shackles of self-consciousness that stood in the way of exploring their inner selves. As Nijinsky said, when the dancer and the dance became one, life became poetry.
Even the only woman member in the hall seemed to be in a world of her own, uninhibited by the overriding male presence.
Her child, not participating in the dance, watched in amusement.
The music changed and now it was a cascading melody, coaxing the listener to close his eyes and relax. It brought the four-stage Osho Kundalini Meditation session to an end.
The session was held as part of setting up an Osho centre at Thiruvallom on the outskirts of the city.
Weekly sessions and occasional intensive camps are being planned here from August. "For want of a centre here, devotees in the State had, till now, to go to Thiruchirapalli or Mysore to learn Osho techniques of meditation," said Suresh, a member of the centre.
The focus of the May 26 session was not on Osho, but on his methods of meditation, which he claimed, to be "a key to unlock the door of the mystery of existence".
"The idea is not to create a cult, but to spread awareness about meditation," said Dhyan Ranjith, who introduced the session.
So forget Ma Anand Sheela and the Oregon commune. Keep Hugh Milne aside, and dip into the meditation techniques his former master had formulated and popularised.
Osho's Dynamic Meditation, the most popular in his repertoire, has been "designed to release stress, tensions and repressed emotions, opening the way to a new vitality and an experience of profound silence".
It lasts for an hour and is best done at sunrise. It begins with rapid breathing. The meditation, which takes the practitioner through five stages of alternating physical movements and silence, ends with a celebration of dance and music.
"To me, there is no God other than life itself, and there is no temple other than existence itself," Osho wrote in `Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega'. "There is nothing more meditative than celebration. The whole art of religion is how to transform your life into a constant celebration. Celebrate everything and meditation comes of its own accord; it follows you like a shadow."
Osho centres also teach Vipassana and Nadabrahma meditation techniques, among others.
Nevertheless, they say that meditation essentially cannot be taught. It can only be indicated, for it is an understanding of one's own inner life.
It can come to you only through a basic transformation of your personality. It is a flowering, a growth.
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