Satyam Shivam Sundram
Satyam Shivam Sundram
Truth Godliness Beauty
Talks given from 07/11/87 am to 21/11/87 pm
English Discourse series
CHAPTER 1
Satyam, Shivam, Sundram
7 November 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
WHAT IS THE MYSTIC CONCEPTION OF ULTIMATE REALITY?
Maneesha, the mystic’s conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic, real experience. It is not a thought or a concept, but an existential experience.
But the mystic does not deal with the mind. His whole effort is to get rid of the prison of the mind.
The mystic is not a philosopher; his world is beyond all philosophies. Philosophies are simply byproducts of mental processes. They do not reflect the reality, they only reflect you. That’s why there are so many philosophies in the world, contradicting each other.
The reality is one. How can there be so many philosophies? – there are not so many mystical experiences. There is only one experience; neither time changes it, nor space. Since millennia, the mystic in every country, in every race, in every age has experienced the same reality. The philosopher thinks about reality; the mystic simply drops all thinking. In his silence, utter silence and serenity, he becomes a mirror, and the reality reflects itself.
The mystic is the greatest flowering of human consciousness. His ultimate vision can be described in three beautiful words which have been used for thousands of years and there has not been any improvement on them. They are three words from the ancientmost sources: Satyam, Shivam,
Sundram.
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CHAPTER 1. SATYAM, SHIVAM, SUNDRAM
Satyam means the truth – not what you think about it, but what it is; not your idea about it, but its reality. To know this truth you have to be utterly absent. Your very presence will distort the vision, because your presence means the presence of your mind, your prejudices, your conditionings. You are nothing else but a bundle of all that has been forced upon you by
Truth Godliness Beauty
Talks given from 07/11/87 am to 21/11/87 pm
English Discourse series
CHAPTER 1
Satyam, Shivam, Sundram
7 November 1987 am in Gautam the Buddha Auditorium
Question 1
BELOVED OSHO,
WHAT IS THE MYSTIC CONCEPTION OF ULTIMATE REALITY?
Maneesha, the mystic’s conception of the ultimate reality is the only authentic, real experience. It is not a thought or a concept, but an existential experience.
But the mystic does not deal with the mind. His whole effort is to get rid of the prison of the mind.
The mystic is not a philosopher; his world is beyond all philosophies. Philosophies are simply byproducts of mental processes. They do not reflect the reality, they only reflect you. That’s why there are so many philosophies in the world, contradicting each other.
The reality is one. How can there be so many philosophies? – there are not so many mystical experiences. There is only one experience; neither time changes it, nor space. Since millennia, the mystic in every country, in every race, in every age has experienced the same reality. The philosopher thinks about reality; the mystic simply drops all thinking. In his silence, utter silence and serenity, he becomes a mirror, and the reality reflects itself.
The mystic is the greatest flowering of human consciousness. His ultimate vision can be described in three beautiful words which have been used for thousands of years and there has not been any improvement on them. They are three words from the ancientmost sources: Satyam, Shivam,
Sundram.
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CHAPTER 1. SATYAM, SHIVAM, SUNDRAM
Satyam means the truth – not what you think about it, but what it is; not your idea about it, but its reality. To know this truth you have to be utterly absent. Your very presence will distort the vision, because your presence means the presence of your mind, your prejudices, your conditionings. You are nothing else but a bundle of all that has been forced upon you by