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Kashi – Eternal Tirtha
Last updated on: September 23, 2015 at 5:35 pm by Sunil Daman
Kashi – Eternal Tirtha 2015-09-23T17:35:01+05:30 Sunil Daman
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Here’s a wonderful bit from Osho’s book about Kashi. Since a few people asked, I’m trying out Google Translate into hindi and have put the output below the English one.
There has never been a time on earth when Kashi – Varanasi – was not a tirtha. It is man’s oldest place of pilgrimage, so it has a greater value. So many people have been liberated, experienced peace and sacredness there, the sins of so many have been washed away there – a long, long continuity, and so the suggestion that one can be freed of sin has gone deeper and deeper. To a simple mind this suggestion becomes faith. When so much trust is there, the holy place becomes effective; otherwise it is useless.
Without your cooperation, a tirtha cannot help you. And you will be able to give your cooperation only if the holy place has a continuity, a history. Hindus say that Kashi is not a part of this earth, but a place apart; the city of Shiva is separate and indestructible. Many towns will be built and will be destroyed, but Kashi will remain forever. Buddha went to Kashi, all the Jaina tirthankaras were born in Kashi, Shankaracharya also went to Kashi, Kabir went to Kashi: Kashi has seen tirthankaras, incarnations and saints, but all are no more. Except for Kashi, not one of them remains. The saintliness of all these people, their spiritual merit, their vibrations, their collective fragrance, have been absorbed by Kashi and it still exists.
This makes Kashi separate from the earth, at least metaphysically. It stands out – it has acquired an eternal form of its own, it has acquired a personality of its own. Buddha has walked on this city’s roads, and Kabir has given religious discourses in its lanes. Now it as all become a story, a dream, but Kashi has assimilated all this within itself and it goes on living. If someone with absolute trust and faith enters this city, he will again see Buddha walking on its roads, he will again see Parshvanatha walking on its roads, he will see Tulsidas and Kabir…if you approach Kashi sympathetically, then it is not just an ordinary city like Bombay or London: it will take on a unique spiritual form.
Its consciousness is ancient and eternal. History may be lost, civilizations may be born and destroyed, may come and go, but Kashi’s inner life-flow is continuous. Walking on its roads,, bathing near the banks of its river, the Ganges, and sitting in meditation in Kashi, you also become part of its inner flow.
वाराणसी – एक तीर्थ नहीं था काशी जब पृथ्वी पर एक समय ऐसा कभी नहीं किया गया। यह तीर्थ यात्रा के आदमी की सबसे पुरानी जगह है, तो यह एक बड़ा मूल्य है। एक लंबे, लंबे निरंतरता है, और इसलिए एक पाप से मुक्त कर दिया जा सकता है कि सुझाव गहरा और गहरा चला गया है – इतने सारे लोगों के अनुभवी शांति और वहाँ पवित्रता, तो कई के पापों को देखते धोया गया है, को मुक्त कराया गया है। एक सरल मन को यह सुझाव विश्वास हो जाता है। इतना भरोसा होता है, पवित्र स्थान प्रभावी हो जाता है; अन्यथा यह बेकार है।
आपके सहयोग के बिना, एक तीर्थ तुम्हारी मदद नहीं कर सकते हैं। और तुम पवित्र जगह एक निरंतरता है ही अगर आपके सहयोग, एक इतिहास देने के लिए सक्षम हो जाएगा। हिंदुओं काशी के अलावा इस धरती का एक हिस्सा है, लेकिन एक जगह नहीं है का कहना है कि; शिव के शहर अलग और अविनाशी है। कई शहरों का निर्माण किया जाएगा और नष्ट हो जाएगा, लेकिन काशी हमेशा के लिए रहेगा। बुद्ध काशी के लिए गया था, सभी जैन तीर्थंकरों काशी में पैदा हुए थे, शंकराचार्य भी काशी के पास गया, कबीर काशी के लिए गया था: काशी तीर्थंकरों, अवतारों और संतों को देखा है, लेकिन सभी नहीं कर रहे हैं। काशी के अलावा, उनमें से एक बना हुआ नहीं। इन सभी लोगों को अपने आध्यात्मिक योग्यता, उनकी कंपन, उनके सामूहिक खुशबू, की साधुता काशी द्वारा अवशोषित कर दिया गया है और यह अभी भी मौजूद है।
इस काशी में कम से कम, पृथ्वी से अलग बनाता है। यह बाहर खड़ा है – यह अपनी खुद की एक शाश्वत फार्म हासिल कर ली है, यह अपनी खुद की एक व्यक्तित्व का अधिग्रहण किया है। बुद्ध इस शहर की सड़कों पर चला गया है, और कबीर अपनी गलियों में धार्मिक प्रवचन दे दी है। अब यह सब एक कहानी, एक सपना हो जाते हैं, लेकिन काशी के भीतर ही यह सब आत्मसात किया है और इसे रहने पर चला जाता है। पूर्ण विश्वास और आस्था के साथ किसी को इस शहर में प्रवेश करती है, तो वह फिर से बुद्ध अपनी सड़कों पर चलने देखेंगे, वह तुम्हें फिर से सहानुभूतिपूर्वक काशी दृष्टिकोण है, तो यह नहीं है … वह तुलसीदास और कबीर देखेंगे, पार्श्वनाथ अपनी सड़कों पर चलने देखेंगे सिर्फ बंबई या लंदन की तरह एक साधारण शहर: यह एक अनूठा आध्यात्मिक फार्म पर ले जाएगा।
अपनी चेतना प्राचीन और शाश्वत है। इतिहास के आने और जाने सकता है, सभ्यताओं का जन्म और नष्ट किया जा सकता है, खो दिया जा सकता है, लेकिन काशी के भीतर के जीवन-प्रवाह निरंतर है। ,, अपनी सड़कों पर चलना अपनी नदी के किनारे, गंगा के पास स्नान, और काशी में ध्यान में बैठे हैं, आप भी अपनी आंतरिक प्रवाह का हिस्सा बन जाते हैं।
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