10/07/2025
Guru Purnima
In India today is a day and night of celebration with the full moon for your Guru, your spiritual teacher.
Do you recognise the feeling of being part of something bigger and greater? I have such moments connecting with nature, camping and stargazing under the milkyway with falling stars, sunsets and the moon.
Yoga and meditation helps me to feel this more often and more consciously. Beloved Osho became an important teacher for me, guiding me into more and more surrender, love and becoming a part of the whole.
This was a special place I visited in India, near his childhood home. It was where he used to swim and float.. in this river.
Like tonight, it was a beautiful day to meditate and celebrate🌟😇🎶💜
Osho "In my childhood I used to love swimming, and my village river becomes very dangerous in rainy season, it becomes flooded.
It is a hilly river; so much water comes to it, it becomes almost oceanic. And it has a few dangerous spots where many people have died. Those few dangerous spots are whirlpools, and if you are caught in a whirlpool it sucks you. It goes on sucking you deeper and deeper. And, of course, you try to get out of it, and the whirlpool is powerful. You fight, but your energy is not enough. And by fighting you become very much exhausted, and the whirlpool kills you.
I found a small strategy, and that strategy was that – everybody was surprised – that I will jump in the whirlpool and come out of it without any trouble. The strategy was not to fight with the whirlpool, go with it. In fact, go faster than it sucks you so you are not tired, you are simply diving in it. And you are going so fast that there is no struggle between you and the whirlpool.
And the whirlpool is bigger on the surface, then it becomes smaller and smaller and smaller. It is difficult to get unless it is very small. At the very end, rock bottom, it is so small you are simply out of it. You need not try to get out of it, you are simply out of it. I learned my art of let-go through those whirlpools. I am indebted to my river."
