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he living books that remain alive down the
centuries were never written. They were weeks or months. He never wrote a book and yet has
spoken. The Song Celestial or the Bhagavad over 600 titles in print. His books are available in over
Gita, the Bible, the Dhammapada, 2,000 translations in over 40 languages, up loaded on
Mahavir's sayings, Lao Tzu's websites for electronic access,
insights, the Koran… all these Osho spoke over 13,000 published as paperbacks and can
be heard on audio tapes, on MP3
books were never written but first words estimated to total
spoken. The enlightened masters or CDs or watched on video or
never wrote down, they just
33,000,000 words in his VCD speaking his original
spoke what they experienced. daily discourses. discourses. As one of the best
Later, their disciples wrote down selling non-fiction authors,
During this period, he publishers keep releasing Osho
their sayings in book form, says
Osho in his talks on the Gita. also answered over titles every month that are getting
increasingly popular now more
One can add Osho to this list. 10,000 questions from
Osho spoke over 13,000 words than ever. Why? Because he was
estimated to total 33,000,000
his disciples during his far ahead of his time and now
words in his daily discourses. discourses people are beginning to
During this period, he also understand him and appreciate
answered over 10,000 questions how his insights can help them in
from his disciples during his discourses. These were their daily lives today.

Masters Never Write Books

Remember, these Upanishads were not written by the Masters themselves; these are notes of the disciples. The
Masters have always believed in the spoken word; there are reasons for it. The Masters have never written books.
The spoken word has a lively quality to it; the written word is dead, it is a corpse.
When I am speaking to you it is a totally different thing than when you read it in a book, because when you
are reading in a book it is a only a word; when you are listening to the Master it is more than the word. The
presence of the Master is overpowering! Before the word reaches you, the Master has already reached; he is
already over flooding you. Your heart is breathing with the Master, beating with the Master in the same rhythm.
You are breathing in the same rhythm. There is a communion, an invisible link. The presence of the Master, his
gestures, his eyes...the words spoken by him are ordinary words, but when spoken by a Master they carry
something of the beyond; they carry some silence, some meditativeness, some of his experience, because they
come from his innermost core.
It is like passing through a garden: even though you have not touched a single flower, but when you reach
home, you can still feel the fragrance of the garden; your clothes have caught it, your hair has caught it. The
pollen of the flowers was in the wind. You have not touched anything, but the fragrance was in the air; it has
become something part of you.
-Osho: I Am That #9
 The Book of Secrets
Vigyan Bhirav Tantra
The Book of Secrets contains Osho's
guidance for 112 meditation techniques,
and responses to questions from
meditators. This book is a contemporary mystic's
commentary on Shiva's five-year-old technique for going
beyond consciousness.
“This is not religion, this is science. No belief is needed
only a daringness to experiment is enough.”
The Book of Secrets is not a series of answers, it's a set of
keys. Osho promises at the very beginning that this set of
keys is complete, not missing even one pattern for even a
single door. The key to your own door is in here
somewhere. All you have to do is try the keys, one after
the other, until you find one that fits. Then open the door
and see for yourself what lies within.
Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
A practical how-to guide, spotlighting over sixty
meditation techniques-from Zazen, the ancient Buddhist
practice of sitting, to Osho's techniques designed
scientifically for the modern-day seeker. In addition,
Osho answers questions about the obstacles meditators
can meet along the way.
My Way: The Way of the White Clouds
Osho has chosen the symbol of the white clouds to
represent the way a seeker moves on the path. The
white clouds have nowhere to go. They move
everywhere in all directions. Nothing
is rejected. Everything is accepted. This book addresses
all the situations faced by the clouds - the storms, the
winds, the sun, the rain and the rainbow - that are part
of the adventure called 'life'. The questions and answers
that make up this book have been selected by Osho to
introduce his work to those looking for a new way of
life. Tibetan mystics and Zen Masters have all talked
about 'the while clouds' as a symbol to guide people
into meditation so that many more things are revealed
to you.
Now Osho uses the same symbols. Life is not a problem
but a mystery and this book does not give solutions but
shows the pathless path for people to realize
themselves.
From Sex to Super Consciousness
One book became world famous, world notorious. This
book is not for sex; it is the only book in the whole existence
against sex, but strange…
The book says that there is a way to go beyond sex; you can
transcend sex that's the meaning of “from sex to super
consciousness.” You are at the stage of sex
while you should be at the stage of super-
consciousness. And the route is simple: sex
is just something sacred.
Sex has to be something not obscene, not
repressed but immensely respected, because we are born
out of it. It is our very life source.
Sufis: The People of the Path
This book is the living, beating heart of the
mystic, Osho. His words are the very life-
blood of existence.
Sufism is a special kind of magic, a rare kind
of magic. It can be transferred only from person to person,
not from a book. … It is also just like Zen a transmission
beyond words. The Sufis have a special word for it, they call
it silsila. What Hindus call parampara, they call silsila.
Silsila means a transfer from one heart to another heart,
from one person to another person. It is a very, very
personal religion.
India My Love
India My Love is a mystery tour. Our guide
on the journey is Osho, a man with an
extraordinary gift for storytelling and a
mystic who brings a uniquely
contemporary freshness to the tales of
India's golden past. He introduces us to beggars and kings,
wise men and fools, lovers and warriors, artists and
scholars and they come alive on the page, animating the
enchanted landscape of an India that even today continues
to intrigue and attract the seeker and adventurer within us
all.
By reading this book, one will discover just what it is about
India that has made it a magnet for seekers for centuries
and the importance of India's unique contribution to
human search for truth.
 Yoga: The Science of the Soul
In this book Osho talks about the scientific
approach to yoga as expressed by
Patanjali. Osho calls him the greatest
scientist of the inner- his mind is scientific
but his journey is inner. He became the
first and the last word; he is the alpha and
omega. He cannot be improved upon
because the very combination to have a
scientific attitude and to be able to enter into the inner is
impossible. Yoga explains the basic truth, the breathing is
deeper than thinking - you can create the climate that you
want, it depends on the way you breathe. In this book
Osho explains the meaning of samadhi and the obstacles
to meditation.
The Secret of Secrets (Vols. 1 & 2 in One Volume)
Osho describes The Secret of the Golden
Flower as very ancient,”…a great
synthesis of all the great religions.” He
also says, “This book, The Secret of the
Golden Flower, is one of the most esoteric
treatises in the world. It will show you the
way to become more than the body. It will show you the
way to go beyond death.”
Among many valuable techniques, Osho gives specific
instructions to harmonise the male and female elements
and transmute sexual energy. The day you are able to
circulate energy in a circle you will not need another
woman; you will not need another man, because your own
man, your own woman will meet and merge with each
other. You will be whole and to be whole is to be holy.
Tantra: The Supreme Understanding
Nothing much is known about the Indian master Tilopa,
yet his mystical insight into Tantra in the form of a song
passed on to his disciple Naropa, has lived on through the
ages.
In this series of discourses, Osho speaks on Tilopa's verses
which contain many significant meditation techniques
that are still as helpful and powerful today as when Tilopa
first sang his song.
The Inner Journey
Love is not something to be obtained from the outside.
Love is the music of your being. Nobody can give you love.
Love can arise within you, but it cannot be
obtained from the outside. There is no shop,
no market, and no salesman from whom you
can purchase love. Love cannot be
purchased, at any price.
Love is an inner flowering. It arises from some dormant
energy within, yet all of us search for love on the outside.
But all of us search for love in the beloved...
Ancient Music in the Pines
What is this ancient music? Osho says it is
the soundless sound, the sound of
existence itself and it is surrounding us
all the time but we just cannot hear it. He
tells us that meditation is about how to
listen to that which is already there.
A fascinating collection of talks on Zen stories. The stories
by themselves are profound, at times tantalisingly
mystical, but the commentary upon them by Osho is
stimulating in its originality. His deep perceptions into the
psychology of man, his devastating wit and merciless
exposure of the countless hypocrisies that do duty for
social norms and traditions are captivating.
The Book of Wisdom
Like all Osho’s books, this one whispers
the truth. Wisdom is in the words, but the
truth is in the gaps between the words, in
the spaces between the lines. It is a silent,
unspoken whisper: I love you. Existence
loves you.
Osho says here, that it takes courage to find the truth.
“Only a few people have ever dared to discover the
truth…. It is risky; it may shatter all that you have known
before and you will have to rearrange your whole life. It is
dangerous; it may destroy all your illusions, it may shatter
all your dreams.”
Last Morning Star
Talks on the enlightened woman mystic, Daya
“The last morning star” symbolises all that
is ephemeral in the world. Talking on the
playful and provocative poetry of Daya,
Osho takes us on a journey from the
transient, from our world outside, to the eternal, our
boundless world within. This is a journey of the heart, the
joyous, spontaneous, and at times uncompromising way
of the enlightened woman mystic.
Osho takes up various topics in his own unique manner,
speaking intimately as a friend, and a master to daily
existence.
The Great Secret
The book contains discourses that are
commentaries on Kabir's poems in which
Kabir sings of his love for God. Love is the
subject. These commentaries take us back to
a calmer world, before society had felt
Osho's power and reacted violently, to a
world filled by these great subjects of Kabir's songs love,
truth, death, enlightenment.
Sufis: The People of the Path
This book is the living, beating heart of the mystic, Osho.
His words are the very life-blood of
existence.
Sufism is a special kind of magic, a rare
kind of magic. It can be transferred only
from person to person, not from a book. … It is also just
like Zen, a transmission beyond words. The Sufis have a
special word for it they call it silsila. What Hindus call
parampara, they call silsila. Silsila means a transfer from
one heart to another heart, from one person to another
person. It is a very, very personal religion.
Come Follow to You
This book is filled with Osho's insights on the
sayings of Jesus, he rescues Christ from the
dead religion that has been created in his
name. Osho resurrects the teachings of Jesus
from dead scriptures and makes them alive
again.
This book is an invitation for you to do the same: to
discard everything dead and dull that has been imposed
on you by social programming and to explore the living
flame of consciousness that is really you.
The Dhammapada (Vols. 1-12)
The Way Of The Buddha
The Dhammapada is the largest collection
of Gautam Buddha's most significant sutras, and as such
through the years, has generated countless
interpretations by exponents of Buddhism. What makes
this collection rare is that it contains the commentaries
by enlightened master, Osho, on another master, Buddha
or at least on Buddha's words.
This twelve-volume commentary is not just a selection of
words. Beautiful though Osho's words are, he is the first to
remind us that at the most they function as wings to
convey the more intrinsic part of what he is trying to share
that which can't be said, that which lies between the
sounds; silence.
The Hidden Harmony
The Fragments of Heraclitus
Through this series of eleven discourses,
Osho acts as a via media to the
philosophies of Hercalitus, a mystic of the
Western world. Though only fragments of
his words remain, Osho finds in them a
poetry that is refreshing in its simplicity
and clarity.
Osho says, if Heraclitus had been born in India, or in the
East, rather than Greece, he would have been recognised as
not simply a philosopher but as a mystic. He would be
known as a Buddha. If he had been accepted, the whole
history of the West would have been totally different; but
he was a stranger, an outsider, in Greek history.
The Beloved (Vol. 1)
This book will introduce all of us to Osho's
vision of the body and of human
consciousness. Osho brings to life the
profound love and awareness of the Baul
mystics from Bengal, some sane and crazy
poets, singers and dancers.
The wisdom contained here, is atomic…. If one plays with
these rebellious concepts and goes inside with the many
meditative secrets, one will find in oneself “the beloved.”
This vision has already helped transform many thousands
of people's attitudes and inner awareness about the body,
inner sensitivity, love, music, sexual energy, and
spontaneous living. The Beloved is a vast well of inner joy
 Zarathustra: God That Can Dance
The book documents Osho's discourses that are a lesson
on a very specific theme, and each theme
is a step deeper into the journey. He
speaks to us man to man, teaches us as a
friend, sorting through the ins and outs
of the path of truth, leaving it utterly up
to us whether we agree or disagree.
In this book, Osho talks about Zarathustra, not the
ancient, original one, known as “Zoroaster”. He talks
about the one that, Friedrich Nietzsche, a dedicated
philosopher, uses only as a symbolic figure. Nietzsche
has used a historical name but in a very fictitious way.
Osho is commenting on the fictional “Zarathustra,”
using the clarity of his own enlightened vision to
indicate where Nietzsche's vision came close to the truth
and where it fell short.
The Mustard Seed
What happens when a seed becomes a
tree? The seed has to die, only then does
it become a tree. ...don't cling to the seed,
because the seed is a bridge. Help it to
die, dissolve, so that the inner life hidden
in it is freed and the seed becomes a great
tree.
I don't want you to become Christians - that is useless,
that's a lie. I would like you to become Christs. And you
can become, because you have the same seed.
Commentaries on the teachings of Jesus as recorded by
the Apostle Thomas.
Osho takes these sayings out of their narrower Christian
context, and blends their wisdom with rich threads of
Eastern traditions of mysticism, thereby showing the
truly universal nature of Jesus' original teachings.
Zen: All the Colours of the Rainbow
Zen has nothing to give to you, but has something to
take away - your personality, your mask, your false
identities. Zen has to rip you away, so that only the
existence, pure existence, remains unpolluted in you.
Zen does not bother about philosophising. Its concern is
experiencing, its concern is existential. That's why I have
called it "the language of existence."
The Zen master, or Buddha, does not speak, he only
allows existence to sing its song. The Buddha is just a
flute a bamboo with holes. Existence can sing any song
that it wants; the flute does not interfere. The flute
,allows existence to commune with those who are
capable of listening to the music that is flowing through
it.
The Voice of Silence
In this book, Osho says of Light on the Path,
“It is born out of those few essential words
that man discovers again and again and
loses again and again. Mabel Collins says
that she is not the author of the words that
are collected in this booklet, that she has
only seen them in the depths of meditation. She says,
and rightly so, that these words are from a lost Sanskrit
booklet.”
There are man passages that will be of particular interest
to those who know 'something of Osho's work and want
to know more about it…
He tells many stories about his early work with
individual and shares thoughts into the work of other
mystics and teachers, including Ramana Maharishi and
Shri Aurbindo.
In Search of the Miraculous
What does it mean to receive Shanti path from a master?
What is God? How does a movement of Kundalini
energy different in men from women? How does it
manifest as it moves through seven charkas? What does
it really mean to talk of merging with the inner man, the
inner woman? What is the meaning of Tantra, and how
can lovers help each other move from the lowest centre
to the highest?
Meditation: The Art of Ecstasy
In this book Osho clears up misconceptions
about what meditation is playful and what
it is not serious. He answers fundamental
questions about meditation and gives a
detail description of each stage of his most
revolutionary meditation technique, Dynamic
Meditation.
It also contains description of many more techniques:
traditional ones reinvented by Osho, as well as original
Osho meditations that begin with activity and lead to
the stillness of a no-mind consciousness.
The Path of Meditation
The culture that will arise in the future, if
it is truly to be for the evolution of
mankind, will be a balance of science and
religion. This culture will be a synthesis
of religion and science. It will not be only
religious or only scientific: it will be either scientifically
religious or religiously scientific.
Yaa-hoo! The Mystic Rose
This book will take the reader on a step
by step, on enchanted journey of words,
sil ence and pictures. The story has to be
savored page by page. The photographs help the reader
penetrate deep inside. And when the reader has
finished the book, with closed eyes…they will beable to
hear the laughter, the roar of the mighty Yaa-Hoo! The
voice of Truth resounding in an empty hall, full of
people.
A Cup of Tea
This book, 'A Cup of Tea' is filled with awareness and
love the love and compassion of the enlightened master
for anyone who is thirsty for a spiritual life. Osho
encourages us to move more into meditation, as He
shares the insights and experiences that He has had on
the path.
In this book are 395 letters that Osho wrote to disciples,
friends and lovers while he was traveling. Each letter
has to be savored, sipped, and pondered upon- for each
contains a great teaching, a key to inner mysteries.
He answers questions like, “What is mind? How to
become free of thoughts?”
Hidden Mysteries
There are many keys in life which can open
the doors of treasures even today, but
unfortunately we neither know anything
about these treasures nor about the locks
which may be opened. And if we do not
know either about the treasures or the locks, then what is
left in our hands cannot even be called a key. It can only
be a key if it opens a lock.
The key has left a sort of lingering fragrance in the
unconscious mind of man.
Seeds of Wisdom
120 letters written by Osho to a beloved
disciple, Ma Anandmayee. In a
meditation camp in Mt. Abu, Rajasthan,
India, Osho announced that she had also
been His mother a previous incarnation.
Whatever I have, whatever I am, I want to give away as
seeds of wisdom, of divine conscious-abundance. In
knowledge one knows of God; in love one becomes.
Knowing is the spiritual discipline, love is the
fulfillment.”
The Perfect Way
In this a rare book of meditation, Osho carefully guides us
through the maze of our own minds, through our process
of creating thoughts, toward a zone of silence. His genius is
in full flight. And the subject couldn't be more mysterious
nor important: one's own self.
“I cannot give you any dreams. I cannot give you any basis
for self-deception. I am a dream-breaker and I want to wake
you from your slumber.”
The Diamond Sutra
A contemporary Buddha speaks on Buddha, once again
bringing these beautiful words to life and illuminating
the meaning inherent in them. The Diamond Sutra is one
of Gautama the Buddha's most powerful teachings, and
here Osho brings a modern-day clarity; to these
mysterious sutras.
 [Osho's] greatness is that he doesn't give solutions, only
tools for people to realize themselves.
This book is an invitation to all those who, feeling the
truth of Osho's words deep in their hearts, understand
that it is time to awaken as spiritual beings and begin to
claim their long-forgotten buddhahood.
The Discipline of Transcendence (Vol. 3)
This book is not about Buddha. Three hundred frames
of truth per page, and the space between. Here is a
photograph of footprints on the beach, washed out by
old sea.
By presence he conveys the mysterious, and the beat of
the ordinary.
Here rigorous logic and jokes make love. Ordinary facts
transform into visions of transcendence, but both are
here and equal together. Both are seen and felt and
loved together. Be with Bhagwan in this caress: Buddha
caressed by Bhagwan. Be Bhagwan. Love.
The Heart sutra
In this book of ten discourses Osho is speaking against
the backdrop of Buddha's Heart Sutra. It
is an invitation to celebrate the pure
nothingness of our innermost being, your
essential Buddha-nature. Something
funny, something tough, always lucid,
Osho takes everybody directly to the
experience of that primary subjectivity.
Osho and Buddha both address that nothingness. The
masters say that the root of our troubles, is in ignoring
the basic fact of our aloneness. This book gives various
moods of exploration by which we learn little by little to
lose ourselves, to find ourselves.
These are the most important Sutras in the great
Buddhist literature. Hence they are called The Heart
Sutra; it is the very heart of the Buddhist message.
Absolute Tao
The Tao that can be told of is not the Absolute Tao. “Tao is
totality. Totality is not perfect; it is always imperfect
because it is always alive. Life exists through the tension
of opposites. If you deny the opposite you can become
perfect, but you will not be total, you will miss
something.”
With this book Osho brings new life to Lao Tzu's famous
“Tao Te Ching”
Einstein : The Buddha
No other mystic, since the beginning of
time, has spoken so extensively, so deeply
and so beautifully on most of the scriptures
and spiritual masters included here but also
on Greek, Hindu, Christian, Buddhist, Sufi,
Tao and Zen masters and paths with equal brilliance and
deep spiritual bending. Osho dusted the scriptures of
yore, made them relevant for this day and age for the
complex modern man.
In addition to the millions of words Osho spoke, he also
devised a number of meditations for the modern man in
the 21st century for inner growth and knowing the
unknowable. Thus he has been called the master of
masters.
The wonderful message of Osho is that, we want a
Buddha who is also an Einstein. If we look at the origins
of knowledge in India and many parts of the world, it
was the philosophy that led to the seeking of
knowledge. Science followed much later.
If you look at the last four centuries when science has
moved ahead, the philosophy or the religious people or
thinkers have not been able to understand what science
is talking about. And there is a gap, there is a chasm that
scientists say something, the philosophers say
something. Osho tells us now that gyan or spirituality
and vigyan or science must be brought together.
We require a Buddha, we also need an Albert Einstein.
Otherwise science cannot solve the problem. We have
seen that how the technology can be used in an entirely
different way. We saw a new kind of war, which is being
created because of totally new kind of weapons.
Biological weapons and chemical weapons!
What we want is a deeper dialogue between science and
spirituality.
-Padmashree Dr. Vijay Bhatkar
Contd. on page 27
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