What Osho has spoken about "darshan" below:
"As far back as one can remember, people have gathered around masters, just to sit silently. In the East we call it darshan. The West has never understood the meaning of it. It looks stupid, that, "I am going to see the master." Why not have a picture in your house? And okay, go once and see and be finished - but going to the master every day? Are you mad or something?
The West has never understood that seeing - that is the actual meaning of the word 'darshan' - means being in the energy field of a man who has come to know himself, to drink out of his well, to look into his eyes, to feel his hands, to listen to his silences, to his words."
In a recent darshan, I heard this same message, of course not verbatim. Though I was sitting silently, inwards, I was shaking my head and saying to myself, "I'll be damned!"
I also had the opportunity to attend my first wedding at the Linga Bhairavi Temple. No, not *my* wedding - though I wish it had happened there! It was beautiful, just watching the marriage in that space in Her presence and the entire audience, about fifty strong, participating! Just after this wedding was done, another couple walked in - must have been wedding day that day!
"As far back as one can remember, people have gathered around masters, just to sit silently. In the East we call it darshan. The West has never understood the meaning of it. It looks stupid, that, "I am going to see the master." Why not have a picture in your house? And okay, go once and see and be finished - but going to the master every day? Are you mad or something?
The West has never understood that seeing - that is the actual meaning of the word 'darshan' - means being in the energy field of a man who has come to know himself, to drink out of his well, to look into his eyes, to feel his hands, to listen to his silences, to his words."
In a recent darshan, I heard this same message, of course not verbatim. Though I was sitting silently, inwards, I was shaking my head and saying to myself, "I'll be damned!"
I also had the opportunity to attend my first wedding at the Linga Bhairavi Temple. No, not *my* wedding - though I wish it had happened there! It was beautiful, just watching the marriage in that space in Her presence and the entire audience, about fifty strong, participating! Just after this wedding was done, another couple walked in - must have been wedding day that day!
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