The "OSHO" - MANTRAS

“Mantra is good to make peace with your Mind.”~ OSHO

Osho never spoke against the use of mantra. Indeed he recommended chanting of mantra for a sannyasin who is starting with the meditation process. A mantra is like lighting your place with candles, scented sticks and flowers to create the right ambience to perform your own rituals. A mantra is having a vibrational effect on your mind and prevent the mind from wandering. Osho also emphasized that there is a time when you should eventually discard the use of mantra in your sadhana. This is necessary to get yourself free from any kind of attachment. He always suggested using mantra when your mind is wandering and you need some tool to stop mind wandering.

Osho very well described the effect of some mantra such as

AUM or OM, PURNAM, ASATOMA, SAT-CHIT-ANADA, HARI OM TAT SAT, SATYAM-SHIVAM-SUNDARAM, OM MANI PADME HUM, BUDDHAM SHARANAM GACCHAMI and OM SHANTI SHANTI SHANTI.

So these mystic sounds are for me THE OSHO MANTRAS!

OSHO said that he chose these mantras as the most significant, the most profound. He explained the meaning to us, because only the meaning will help that these mantras work deeper within us. These meanings will not only touch our hearts, but also our intelligence. And you need to be touched in your entirety to transform yourself.

ॐ पूर्णमदः पूर्णमिदं पूर्णात्पुर्णमुदच्यते पूर्णश्य पूर्णमादाय पूर्णमेवावशिष्यते ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः

Oṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate.
Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate.
Oṁ. Śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.

The "PURNAM MANTRA" is one of my favorite mantras that I sing or recite every day. Listen to Deva Premal's Youtube video and you can imagine why I like it so much.

Nobody explains this mantra in such a wonderful, understandable way as my beloved Guruji Osho. Here is his description:

"Om

That is the whole.

This is the whole.

From wholeness emerges wholeness.

Wholeness coming from wholeness,

wholeness still remains.

Today we are entering one of the most enchanting and mysterious worlds – that of the Upanishads. The days of the Upanishads were the highest as far as the spiritual quest is concerned. Never before and never afterward has human consciousness achieved such Himalayan heights. The days of the Upanishads were really golden, for many reasons. The most important of them is contained in this seed mantra:

purnam adah

purnam idam

purnat purnam udachyate

purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavashishyate

The emphasis of the Upanishads is on “wholeness”. Remember, it is not on perfection, but on wholeness. The moment one becomes interested in being perfect, the ego enters. The ego is a perfectionist, the desire of the ego is to be perfect, and perfection drives humanity toward insanity.

Wholeness is totally different, its flavor is different. Perfection is in the future, it is a desire. Wholeness is herenow, it is a revelation. Perfection has to be achieved, and of course every achievement takes time, it has to be gradual. You have to sacrifice the present for the future, today for tomorrow. And tomorrow never comes, what comes is always today. Existence knows nothing of future and nothing of past, it knows only the present. Now is the only time and here the only space. The moment you go astray from now and here, you are going to end in some kind of madness. You will fall into fragments, your life will become hell. You will be torn apart, the past will pull a part of you toward itself and the future the other part. You will become schizophrenic, split, divided. Your life will be only a deep anguish, a trembling, an anxiety, a tension. You will not know anything of bliss, you will not know anything of ecstasy because the past exists not. People go on living in their memories which are only footprints left on the sand; or they project a life into the future, which is also as nonexistential as the past. One is no more, the other is not yet, and between the two, they lose the real, the present, the now. Wholeness is of the now. If you can simply be here, then this very moment the revelation! Then it is not gradual, it is sudden, it is an explosion.

The word “Upanishad” is tremendously important. It simply means sitting down close to a master, it is a communion. The master is living in wholeness, he is living herenow, he is pulsating herenow. His life has a music, his life has a joy, a silence of immense depth. His life is full of light.

purnam adah

purnam idam

purnat purnam udachyate

purnasya purnam adaya purnam evavashishyate

That is the whole.

This is the whole.

From wholeness emerges wholeness.

Wholeness coming from wholeness,

wholeness still remains

This small sutra contains the essence of the Upanishadic vision.

“Om Purnam” is one of the most significant statements ever made anywhere on the earth at any time. It contains the whole secret of the mystic approach towards life. This small sutra contains the essence of the Upanishadic vision. Neither before nor afterwards has the vision been transcended; it still remains the Everest of human consciousness. And there seems to be no possibility of going beyond it.

The Upanishadic vision is that the universe is a totality, indivisible; it is an organic whole. The parts are not separate, we are all existing in a togetherness: the trees, the mountains, the people, the birds, the stars, howsoever far away they may appear – don’t be deceived by the appearance – they are all interlinked, all bridged. Even the smallest blade of grass is connected to the farthest star, and it is as significant as the greatest sun. Nothing is insignificant, nothing is smaller than anything else. The part represents the whole just as the seed contains the whole.” ~OSHO