Some Questions

Master Disciple Relationship | Experience, Knowledge & Osho

On Meditation | On Physical Attraction | Sex & Enlightenment

Question One

Beloved Master,
There are many disciples who live with 
their masters for many years, 
and we know that they became great 
masters themselves after 10 or 20 years. 
There are others, like Swami Sivananda, 
who met their master for only a half hour.
Others like our dear Osho, your master, 
realized the truth without a
personal master.

I have not lived with you, 
but I can see in you my 
eternal master and you refer to 
me as your sannyasin.

Do you think that it is necessary 
for me to live with you? 
I mean physically.
Love, David

Beloved David, Love.

The master-disciple way to 
enlightenment is but one way. 
There are many paths to self-realization. 
A master provides a physical point of surrender, 
and for some this is the appropriate path.

Yes, when you are in the physical presence of a master 
you do receive the energy from the master. 
The master does not even have to speak.

However, it is the unconditional love 
a disciple achieves using the
master as the icon. 

Some can feel this energy
through the words of the master, 
or from books or over the Internet.

Being in the physical presence of the 
master does create the permanent bond. 

However, it does not require living
together with the master for a lifetime. 
As in the case of Swami Sivananda, 
a single meeting can create this energy bond.

Question Two

Beloved Master,
What are the three most important things 
that you learned from Osho, your master?
Love, David

Beloved David, Love.

I learned nothing from Osho. 
I simply experienced. 
It was not knowledge.

In fact, Osho showed through his
discourses the folly of 
gaining more knowledge.

Knowledge is of the mind. 
Experience is for the heart and soul.

And there were not three things. 
I experienced countless things, 
and no three can be singled out. 
At each point in my life 
another experience is applied. 

Life is dynamic, 
and at every moment 
there is a different color to existence.

Also, the true master will 
give you obstacles of all sorts, 
he will be a Cosmic Trickster, 
challenging you to grow always. 
If you can maintain your unconditional love 
under all circumstances, 
you shall arrive.

Osho allowed me to let go to the universe. 
Infinity is beyond a number, 
whether that be three or a million. 
When you let go totally, 
all the universal knowledge of
the Akasha becomes available. 

You shall then
become one with all.

Question Three

Beloved Master
What is meditation?
Love, David

Beloved David, Love.
Many things have been written 
about meditation that are often very esoteric. 

Meditation is simply a transitional technique 
used to move from mind to spirit. 

Scientifically speaking, meditation 
may be called brain entrainment. 

It should be noted that guided meditation, 
where mental pictures are created, 
while beneficial in some ways, 
is not meditation. 

Neither should contemplation be
considered meditation.

While the mind is active, 
meditation cannot occur. 

Our mind is like a lake where 
there is much activity, 
creating ripples and waves.
These waves interact and intersect 
with each other creating all sorts
of patterns on the lake. 
Most of these patterns are chaotic.

The mind is the same, 
creating activity, drowning out 
our higher self so to speak. 

The benefits of meditation are endless. 
When the waves of the lake quiet down, 
we can then see the reflection of the sky 
and trees around the lake. 

Likewise, when the brain calms down 
we can see the reflection of the Universe.

One basic meditative technique 
is to repeat a sound, 
such as a mantra or chant 
for a period of time, 
until the brain is quieted. 

The brain should be looked at 
as the machinery or hardware, 
while the mind is the function 
of the brain, or its software. 

In addition to sound, 
you can use a mandala. 
Simply by staring at a mandala 
for a period of time
the mind can also get 
into the quiet state. 
Some long-distance runners have used 
the repetition of their feet hitting 
the ground as a meditative tool.

You gain physically from the deep relaxation 
experienced by the body during meditation. 

The ability to think clearly will improve as
the technique calms the mind naturally, 
alleviating stress, allowing you
to become more positive, precise and alert. 

The calming of the whole nervous system 
will benefit the bodily functions which 
normally absorb the stresses of life.

Meditation also increases perception, 
awareness and creativity. 
In the quiet of meditation you 
draw from the infinite source of
supply, energies to heal you mentally, 
physically and emotionally 
as you also spiritually unfold. 

In the process of unfolding you
experience greater inner strength. 

Your perception and awareness increase, 
which helps you to face adversities as you
become aware of opportunities inherent in them. 

With meditation you begin to accept yourself, 
and become responsible for your existence. 

All in all your life will be transformed and 
uplifted as you begin to draw upon, 
and shine your inner light 
which will also reflect on 
all those around you. 

Your relationships with other people
and the world at large will improve 
as you become more open and
loving through meditation.



Question Four

Dear Master,
To be attracted to many women, 
or to have sex relations with more than
one woman is this permissible?
Can this be an obstacle in one's spiritual life? 
Many religions teach that celibacy 
or a relationship only with your wife is
absolutely indispensable to attain God.
Love, David

Beloved David, Love.
Why do you think that being 
attracted to many women, or 
having sexual relationships with more than 
one woman should not be permitted?

Physical attraction is a natural thing. 
However, you must be aware of
the essence of this attraction. 

If you are only lustfully attracted to the
woman’s body, without moving into love, 
this will not support your spiritual evolution. 

Unless you are in a state of love,
succumbing to only a physical attraction 
can indeed take you off the spiritual path. 

One of the reasons that Tantra is called the
"left-handed path," is that you can become 
addicted to the physical pleasure only 
of a sexual relationship, 
the same as you can
become addicted to drugs.

Another thing you may wish to examine 
is the essence of sexual attraction itself. 

Sexual attraction is simply an energy. 
The body wishes to duplicate itself 
by creating another life form. 
It is the way the human race 
in form propagates itself. 
This is natural.

The problem arises when your desires 
are based solely upon the physical. 

Become aware of your desires, 
for all desires are
gifts given to you. 
How you choose to use 
these gifts is what matters.

What you do with these desires reflects 
your degree of spiritual evolvement. 

The reason religions have advocated 
celibacy and monogamy,
has to do with the simple fact that 
most humans are weak, 
and easily fall from 
a state of spiritual grace. 

Religions have acted as parents, 
assuming they know what is best 
for your spiritual development. 

However, what has happened is 
that those in religious bondage 
have actually been kept from evolving.

Tantra allows for freedom, 
not suppression. 
It allows you to become a spiritual adult, 
and not remain a perpetual 
child in a religion. 

If you are in a state of love, 
you may find that your desire 
for many women simply leaves. 
However, if the attraction is there, 
and you do not abuse or seduce women, 
there is nothing wrong. 

The important thing to be aware of in all 
relationships, monogamous or polyamorous, 
is that they should be entered into within 
a state of love consciousness.


Question Five

Dear Master,
What is your view about sex 
and enlightenment?
Love, David

Beloved David, Love.

Sex is very broad word with many permutations. 

As I have said before,
one is sexually attracted to 
another to propagate the species.

Of course, homosexuality 
has deviated from this purpose. 
While many homosexual relationships 
perpetuate deviance, 
some are indeed Divinely blessed.

However, there is another celestial aspect 
to sexual attraction, 
and that is to seek union, or yoga, with Divinity. 

When one is in a Divine state of grace
--a state of love consciousness with another--
there is an opportunity to enter into an 
enlightened state as well. 

At the moment of orgasm, 
you are in a pure spiritual state 
if you let go totally. 
When both partners are in this state 
magic will happen. 
The partners can enter in Nirvana. 

It is sad that today, 
and perhaps ever since society 
as become "civilized," that sex is either
condemned or pornographic. 

When it is balanced, and embraced in love,
sex can be a doorway to enlightenment. 

When it out of balance,
it is a hindrance. 

Always bring love and let go to any sexual
encounter, and you shall be rewarded.

Blessings & Love,
Swami Nostradamus Virato

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