They tell you, “Just go to church every Sunday and you need not worry. People want everything without risking anything, and because of this, there are so many exploiters. It is a tremendously beautiful passage for every seeker of truth, every searcher for the ultimate mystery of existence: shallow waters won’t do. “And we will risk the ship” - if the worst comes to the worst, we are ready to “risk the ship, ourselves and all.” But we are determined to explore the unknowable. Our goal is where no one has ever dared to go. RECKLESS O SOUL, EXPLORING I WITH THEE, AND THOU WITH ME,įOR WE ARE BOUND WHERE MARINER HAS NOT YET DARED TO GO… Those who want to know their own depths have to steer into deeper waters. And the risk is not small because the challenge is “Steer for deep waters only”… leave the shallow waters for shallow minds. He is saying that a spiritual seeker needs to be aware that he is going into unknown waters where no mariner has ever dared to go. This small piece that Turiya has sent is from his long poem, PASSAGE TO INDIA. He should have been born somewhere in the East - and he was immensely interested in the East. Walt Whitman seems to be a rare individual to have been born in America. Three years seems to be long enough: something new is needed.
It has been calculated that in America, every person changes his job every three years, changes his wife every three years, changes his town every three years. During these twenty years, many musicians and many dancers, many singers, have risen to the heights and disappeared. What happened to those poor fellows? Now you hear about the Talking Heads the same is going to happen to them.
Just twenty years ago, they were on top now, nobody even cares who they are. Now you don’t hear anything about The Beatles. That is the usual limit for any fashion - a certain toothpaste, a certain soap, a certain shampoo, a certain hair conditioner, a certain guru - they all come into the same marketplace. The psychologists have found that in America, everything lasts not more than three years. It goes on searching for answers at the farthest end of the world - but everything remains almost like a fashion. It goes from one religion to another religion, from one master to another master. It is not much interested in the answer it is just curious, it wants to know everything simultaneously. It is a child’s mind which is curious about everything: it goes on questioning this and that and even before you have answered it, it has moved to another question. It is bound to be very superficial because it is only three hundred years old. Otherwise, the American mind is very superficial. Prem Turiya, Walt Whitman is perhaps the only man in the whole history of America who comes very close to being a mystic. O DARING JOY, BUT SAFE! ARE THEY NOT ALL THE SEAS OF GOD? RECKLESS, O SOUL, EXPLORING I WITH THEE, AND THOU WITH ME,įOR WE ARE BOUND WHERE MARINER HAS NOT YETĪND WE WILL RISK THE SHIP, OURSELVES AND ALL. I THOUGHT YOU WOULD LIKE THIS - FROM WALT WHITMAN’S PASSAGE TO INDIA. They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God.” They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins They do not sweat and whine about their condition. “I think I could turn and live with animals, they ar so placid and self-contained Osho also spoke on few lines by Whitman that Please meditate on these words of Walt Whitman:
You will have to ask others to come and participate. But how will you celebrate? You will have to invite others. That’s what a mystic has always been supposed to do, that’s what a mystic’s function is: to celebrate himself. He says: I celebrate myself, I sing myself. America has not given birth to many great mystics Whitman is really one of the most precious gifts of America to the world. He should be counted with the ancient RISHIS of the Upanishads. This man Whitman is really a mystic, not just a poet. Osho has said in one of his discourse that Walt Whitman says I celebrate myself, I sing myself. Whitman wrote in the preface of the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass, “The proof of a poet is that his country absorbs him as affectionately as he has absorbed it.” He believed there was a vital, symbiotic relationship between the poet and society. Whitman’s work breaks the boundaries of poetic form and is generally prose-like. Whitman’s own life came under scrutiny for his presumed homosexuality.
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Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse.His work was controversial in its time, particularly his poetry collection Leaves of Grass, which was described as obscene for its overt sensuality. Along with poet, he was also the essayist and journalist. Walt Whitman was the American poet born on 31 st of May 1819.
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