Witnessing : Osho.

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Osho: Yoga Alpha And Omega

Commentaries on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

 

Sutra 3 & 4.

 

 

 

3. Then the witness is established in itself.

 

4. In the other states there is identification with the modifications of

the mind.

 

 

 

Then the witness is established in itself.

 

 

 

When the mind ceases, the witness is established in itself.

 

When you can simply look without being identified with the mind, without

judging, without appreciating, condemning, without choosing -- you

simply look and the mind flows, a time comes when by itself, of itself,

the mind stops.

 

When there is no mind, you are established in your witnessing. Then you

have become a witness -- just a seer-a drashta, a sakchhi. Then you are

not a doer, then you are not a thinker. Then you are simply being pure

being, purest of being. Then the witness is established in itself.

 

 

 

In the other states there is identification with the modifications of

the mind.

 

 

 

Except witnessing, in all states, you are identified with the mind. You

become one with the flow of thoughts, you become one with the clouds:

sometimes with the white cloud, sometimes with the black cloud,

sometimes with a rain-filled cloud, sometimes with a vacant, empty

cloud, but whatsoever, you become one with the thought, you become one

with the cloud, and you miss your purity of the sky, the purity of

space. You become clouded, and this clouding happens because you get

identified, you become one.

 

A thought comes. You are hungry, and the thought flashes in the mind.

The thought is simply that there is hunger, that the stomach is feeling

hunger. Immediately you get identified; you say, " I am hungry. " The mind

was just filled with a thought that hunger is there; you have become

identified and you say, " I am hungry. " This is the identification.

 

 

 

Buddha also feels hunger, Patanjali also feels hunger, but Patanjali

will never say that, " I am hungry. " He will say " The body is hungry " ; he

will say, " My stomach is feeling hungry " ; he will say, " There is hunger.

I am a witness. I have come to witness this thought, which has been

flashed by the belly in the brain, that 'I am hungry.' " The belly is

hungry; Patanjali will remain a witness. You become identified, you

become one with the thought.

 

 

 

Then the witness is established in itself.

 

In the other states there is identification with the modifications of

the mind.

 

 

 

This is the definition:

 

 

 

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

 

 

 

When mind ceases, you are established in your witnessing self. In other

states, except this, there are identifications. And all identifications

constitute the samsar; they are the world. If you are in the

identifications, you are in the world, in the misery. If you have

transcended the identifications, you are liberated. You have become a

siddha, you are in nirvana. You have transcended this world of misery

and entered the world of bliss.

 

 

 

And that world is here and now-right now, this very moment! You need not

wait for it a single moment even. Just become a witness of the mind, and

you have entered. Get identified with the mind, and you have missed.

This is the basic definition.

 

 

 

Remember everything, because later on, in other sutras, we will enter

details what is to be done, how it is to be done -- but always keep in

the mind this is the foundation.

 

 

 

One has to achieve a state of no-mind: that is the goal.