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Evolving Creativity
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Evolving Creativity The Story of Our Universe
Anand Rishi
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With Loving Gratitude To Osho
In Loving memory of my father
To my Mother and my beautiful children,
To my dear friend and wife,
Through her, I have known love.
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About the Author
Anand Rishi is as spiritual seeker. He is a disciple of the modern
mystic Osho. The name Anand Rishi is not his name by birth but
was given to him as his Sanyaas Name by Ma Yoga Neelam,
Osho’s secretary and long time disciple.
He is an Engineer by qualification and profession. In the last
decade of the 20th Century, he became interested in Osho and his
works. In turn this fuelled his interest in Meditation and
Spirituality.
He has always been an avid reader. He has read the words of
Osho extensively as well as the works of other spiritual masters.
He has been on a meditative journey for the last 25 years.
Based on his explorations, he has published a couple of books
on the subjects of spirituality with a view to share the insights that
he has gained and also to give creative expression to his inner
experiences.
This book is also part of a continuing effort in this direction
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Foreword
I am a seeker of Truth. I seek the truth both from the Mind and
from the No-Mind.
I believe that no longer can we separate the world of the Mind
and the world of the No-Mind; no longer, the division between
Science and Religion is feasible. For far too long we have believed
that science and religion are diametrically opposite lines of
enquiries. We have always believed that science investigates the
truth about the outer world and religion investigates our inner
world.
However the reality is one; the outer and the inner are nothing
but utilitarian divisions. In the end they describe the same reality
from different perspectives.
The recent development in Science has started blurring even
these different perspectives. The language that science is now
using is becoming closer to that of Religion.
I can see that both Science and Religion are now on inevitably
converging paths.
The life of a modern man is so much rooted in Science that the
experiences of Religion alone will not satisfy his being. Unless
Religious experiences are endorsed by scientific analysis, they will
never be able to penetrate the being of the modern man. For
religion to retain its place, it has to search for an expression which
is scientific.
On the other hand, it is also a fact that Science alone is not
enough to fulfil the needs of humanity. We need to be happy and
peaceful and blissful. Science has provided us with conveniences
on our outer periphery but without a blissful interior they remain
meaningless.
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What is now required is an amalgamation of Science and
Religion.
Science has to use the ‘Why’ provided by Religion to
investigate the ‘How’ of the Universe.
I believe the ‘Why’ will provide us with clues about the ‘How’
and the discovery of the ‘How’ will further clarify the ‘Why’. From
now on both the ‘Why’ and the ‘How’ will have to move hand in
hand.
To accept and aid this reality, humanity has to alter its
perception about how it views Science and Religion. Time has
come for us to nurture people who have the hearts of a Mystic and
the Minds of the Scientist; these are the people who can reveal the
entire mystery of this Universe to us.
These are the people I would like to call as the spiritual
scientists.
Although I am an engineer by profession, I can see that being
a scientist is not about the study of the ‘Subject of Science’ but it is
about having a scientific attitude. This attitude is about looking at
Existence with awareness; it is about trying to find the cause and
affects that work behind this mysterious world; it is about trying to
experiment with life itself, in an effort to unveil its secrets.
Therefore there is no intrinsic relation between being a student
of the ‘Subject of Science’ and having a scientific attitude; we all
live life and it is about experimenting and learning from life.
This quest for experimenting and learning gives one a
scientific attitude. That is what is required by a spiritual scientist.
On the other hand, everyone is born with a spirit; so naturally
we are all spiritualists. Normally we are so much engaged in the
activities of the Mind that we forget all about the spirit; but nobody
can forget himself for very long. A little shift of focus away from
the world of the Mind and towards the inner voice that beckons us
is all that is required.
So the dawn of the spiritual scientists is not a utopian dream
but a viable and necessary reality that is required if we are to be
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grow as a humanity and understand our role in the Grand Design
of Existence.
I am reminded of pictures which are called ‘Gestalt Figures’.
They are figures in which two pictures are hidden in one sketch.
The most famous of Gestalt figures is the picture of a Vase.
Seen from one angle it looks like a Vase but seen from another
angle it transforms itself into a profile of two faces looking at each
other.
It is said that it is impossible for one to see both figures
together; they can be seen separately but never together.
This is the task that confronts us. We have to see both of the
Gestalt pictures together. We have to see both Religion and
Science as one.
I believe this seeming paradox is possible for the geniuses of
humanity to execute. Hence I invoke the advent of Spiritual
Scientists.
The book is a small attempt to create an environment where
both, Science and Religion can co-exist in the same person; the
book attempts to show what is possible, if we are able to live this
paradox.
Hence to me Swethketu (the main protagonist in the book) is
not a fictional character; he is very much alive in my heart and in
my mind. I have fallen in love with what he IS and I hope that after
reading the book you will also fall in love with what we all can BE.
Swethketu is the New Man, who embraces life as a whole unit;
who does not deny any facet of it. To him joys and sorrows,
success and failure, love and hate, the inner and the outer are not in
opposition but are complimentary; they are like the two opposite
poles of electricity, both are required for the energies of life to
flow.
Swethketu is a spiritual scientist, who not only endeavours to
know himself but he also endeavours to know how this gigantic,
ever expanding Universe functions. In the end he finds out that
both his quests leads him to a common reality. The entire Universe
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is an organic whole; it is a living entity and we are the very soul of
this living Universe.
The story of our Universe is about continuous ‘Evolving
Creativity’ and I hope that like Swethketu, we will all learn to fall
in tune with it.
GAGAN GUPTA
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PART-1 (Page- 1- 94)
This part deals with the initial life of Swethketu. How he was given
his name and what thoughts governed his life as he grew up.
This part discusses mainly the concepts and happenings
related to the outer world, like ‘The meditation of Ananda’, ‘The
Milk Miracle’, ‘Gandhi- his philosophy and impact on India’&
‘International terrorism’.
This ends with the process of Swethketu’s enlightenment; here
he describes the entire journey of how the Universe had evolved.
The entire story of the Universe has been described in details in
ten stages.
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1 What is in a Name?
W Shwetketu lay on his back on his comfortable 75 inches long bed;
he had laid out specially designed mattresses on it in order to
protect his back from the stress arising out of long hours of lying
down in a single fixed position. His lean and thin body had become
covered with a thin layer of sweat. He had turned the air
conditioner off as the noise sometimes caused disturbance to his
meditations. As the world of no-mind took hold of him, his
physical and mental activities settled to a minimum level and as a
consequence his body temperature dropped down. Even then, the
intense heat caused some levels of sweating, although he was not
at all aware of it.
He had even put his cell phone, which was normally a constant
companion, to off position. This was rare, as he normally liked to
be connected with the world and its machinations and his
understanding was that the real test of the silence achieved through
meditation lay in its continuance through the chaotic cauldron of
noises the physical world provided.
He was naked, except for his underwear and was lying flat on
his back, almost in a spread-eagled position. His body was
motionless; his face, normally playful and full of expression, was
relaxed; his eyes, intelligent but very soft, were closed and pupils
under his closed eyelids were still and his breathing was regular
but extremely slow. The only discernable movement, a small
almost imperceptible one, was the up and down movement of his
belly in tune with his breathing.
Most meditation techniques make use of the sitting lotus
posture, however Swethketu had always favoured the floating or
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the lying down position. All the meditation techniques that he had
practiced, he had improvised their methods into the floating
position. Most of the sources from where he had learned about
these techniques, advised not to deviate from the set patterns. Even
the meditation groups he was occasionally part of, strongly
suggested to stick to the conventional ways of execution. However,
he had never cared about convention and experimented with the
techniques to mould them closer to his natural sensibilities.
He had a confident and a rebellious nature. After being
exposed to the great modern mystic Osho’s discourses, he had
developed disaffection, almost a disdain towards blindly following
traditional ways. Also his love for Osho had inculcated in him a
non-serious and a playful approach towards everything in life.
More often than not his experimentations led him to a dead
end. Swethketu did not find it in any way discouraging. To him
meditation was not a conquest over his mind and senses but an
experiment to find out what secrets existence possessed; what
wonders nature hid beneath its layers; what energies made up his
being.
He approach was not philosophical but exploratory. He
viewed life like a maze. His interest was to map the pathways of
the maze. To him, even the dead ends were beautiful as they served
a purpose of hiding the right way. ‘Life is a maze and a maze is a
chase to find the right way. A maze wouldn’t be a maze if it just
had ONE RIGHT WAY. The so many-many wrong ways make the
maze a maze. That’s the beauty of it and the challenge. This is
what he had told the audience once in a spiritual conference where
he was invited to speak and this was the mantra of his life.
In this spirit of exploration, Swethketu had toyed with many
meditation techniques. These included meditation techniques
suggested by Buddha, Mahavira, Osho, Gurdgjieff, Lao Tzu and
even some whirling techniques practiced by Sufi mystics. To try
out different traditions seemed to be his passion more than actually
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trying to go really deep into one particular method (although he
himself would never admit this).
There would be a relatively small number of people in the
world who would have read as many different scriptures and had
developed an in depth understanding on as many diverse religious
and spiritual traditions as Swethketu. However, there would be
even smaller number; almost miniscule souls alive who would
have not only read but also practised them and fallen in tune with
their core message.
His father had gifted him his first challenge in his life, his
name itself.
He was on a constant lookout to expand his comfort zone, to
push his boundaries. He loved new challenges and took them head
on. That’s how he was initiated in the world.
His father was a bit of an eccentric, otherwise toward the end
of the 20th century who kept his son’s name as Swethketu?
No one could pronounce it right the first time. Its meaning was
not very clear and had multiple connotations. It was difficult to
spell both in English and Hindi. Last but not the least it was totally
out of trend.
It had caused him immense chagrin.
He had questioned his father about the choice of his name. His
earliest memories were of heated arguments with his father on this
issue.
‘Why Papa? Why Swethketu? Nobody can say it properly.
People look at me as if I have come from some sort of an outdated
village. No one cares about who I am, but only about what
Swethketu means’, an agitated young Swethketu had asked his
father.
His father replied, ‘Son, a name is very important. Swethketu
was one on of the greatest saints in our history. Forget what people
say, one day you will understand and you will be proud of this
name’. It never cut any ice with the young Swethketu.
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One day a particularly annoyed young Swethketu came back
from school and hurled his bag down. He took out all his books
and tore the front pages apart.
‘This is it. I have had it. I WANT A NEW NAME. They did
not select me in the school cricket team because the coach could
not pronounce my name. I hate Swethketu, whoever he was’, he
hollered.
His father laughed loudly. ‘Ok sonny boy, I think you are now
old enough to hear this story. If after that you want to still change
your name then it is your life and I will not interfere’.
Swethketu- The Ancient Sage His father told him the story of Swethketu- an ancient sage.
There was an old Brahmin of ancient times, who had a son
named Swethketu.
Normally by Brahmin, one understands a man born in the
Brahmin community in India. His father explained that simply
being born in a Brahmin family has no real significance. A true
Brahmin means the one who had become totally in tune with the
Brahman (the existence); who had existentially become one with it.
The old man was an authentic Brahmin.
He sent his son for learning about spiritual practices from a
famous teacher of their times.
The son spent 12 years with the teacher and learned about all
the Vedas and the Upanishads and many other scriptures. He
mastered all of them. He became famous for his thorough
knowledge and understanding. It was said that he could instantly
answer any spiritual question and even quote the scripture and the
exact verse whose reference he had used. He was a star student.
After his graduation, he returned to his house. His father was
aghast. He could immediately see that although his son had
mastered the words, he had not tasted anything of the knowledge
that can be known only if one has gone beyond words. He had
become pompous and full of himself and his bookish knowhow.
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