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Osho : There is an episode in Ramakrishna\u2019s life…. For his whole life he had been worshipping Mother Kali, But at the very end he began to feel,\u201dIt is duality; the experience of oneness has still not happened. It is lovely, delightful, but two still remains two.\u201d Someone loves a woman, someone loves money, someone politics; he loved Ma Kali \u2013 but love still was divided in two. Still the ultimate nonduality hadn\u2019t happened and he was in anguish. He began looking out for a nondualist, a Vedantist \u2013 for Some person to come who could show him the path.<\/p>\n

A Paramahansa named Totapuri was passing. Ramakrishna invited him to stop with him and asked, \u201dHelp me to have darshan of the one.\u201d<\/p>\n

Totapuri said, \u201dWhat\u2019s difficult in that? You believe there are two, so there are two. Drop the belief!\u201d Ramakrishna replied, \u201dBut dropping this belief is very difficult \u2013 I have lived with it my whole life. When I close my eyes the image of Kali is standing there. I drown in that nectar. I forget that I am to become one; as soon as I close my eyes there are two. When I try to meditate, it becomes dual. Help me out of this!\u201d<\/p>\n

So Totapuri said, \u201dTry this: when the image of Kali is before you, pick up a sword and cut her in two.\u201d Ramakrishna said, \u201dWhere will I find a sword?\u201d<\/p>\n

What Totapuri said is the same as what is said in Ashtavakra\u2019s sutra*. Totapuri said, \u201dFrom where did you bring this Kali image? \u2013 bring a sword from the same place. She too is imaginary. She too is an embellishment of your imagination. Through nurturing it for your whole life, through continuously projecting it for your whole life, it has become crystalized. It is just imagination. Not everyone sees Kali when they close their eyes.\u201d<\/p>\n

After years of effort a Christian closes his eyes, and Christ comes to him. A devotee of Krishna closes his eyes and Krishna comes to him. A lover of Buddha closes his eyes and Buddha comes to him. A lover of Mahavira closes his eyes and Mahavira comes to him. Christ doesn\u2019t come to a Jaina, Mahavira doesn\u2019t come to a Christian: only the image you project will come. Ramakrishna\u2019s effort was with Kali, and the image became almost solid. It became so real from constant repetition, from continuous remembering, that it seemed Kali was standing in from of him. No one was standing there. Consciousness is alone. There is no second here, no other.<\/p>\n

\u201dJust close your eyes,\u201d Totapuri said, \u201draise the sword and strike.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ramakrishna closed his eyes, but as soon as he closed them his courage vanished. Raising his sword to strike Kali! \u2013 the devotee has to raise his sword and strike God \u2013 it was too hard. To renounce the world is very easy. What is worth holding onto in the world? But when you have established an image deep in the mind, when you have created poetry in the mind, when the mind\u2019s dream has become manifest, then it is very difficult to renounce it. The world is like a nightmare. A dream of devotion, a dream of feeling is not a nightmare, it is a very sweet dream. How to drop it? how to break it?<\/p>\n

Tears would start flowing from his eyes and he became ecstatic… his body would begin shaking. But he didn\u2019t raise his sword \u2013 he would completely forget about it.<\/p>\n

Finally Totapuri said, \u201dI\u2019ve wasted many days here. It\u2019s no good. Either you do it or I\u2019m going to leave. Don\u2019t waste my time. Enough of this nonsense now!\u201d That day Totapuri brought a piece of glass with him, and he said, \u201dWhen you begin to be absorbed in delight, I will cut your forehead with this piece of glass. When I cut your forehead, inside gather courage, raise your sword and cut Kali in two. This is the last chance \u2013 I am not staying any longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Totapuri\u2019s threat of leaving… and it is difficult to find such a master. Totapuri must have been a man like Ashtavakra. Ramakrishna closed his eyes and Kali\u2019s image appeared to him. He was about to bliss out \u2013 tears were ready to flow from his eyes, overwhelmed, joy was coming \u2013 he was about to become ecstatic when Totapuri held his forehead and, where the third eye chakra is, made a cut from top to bottom with the piece of glass. Blood began to stream from the cut, and this time<\/p>\n

Ramakrishna found courage. He raised the sword and cut Kali in two pieces. When Kali fell apart he became nondual: the wave dissolved in the ocean, the river fell into the ocean. It is said that he stayed immersed for six days in this ultimate silence. He was neither hungry nor thirsty \u2013 there was no consciousness of the outside, no awareness. All was forgotten. And when he opened his eyes six days later, the first thing he said was, \u201dThe last barrier has fallen!\u201d<\/p>\n

Source: \u201cThe Mahageeta Vol 1\u201d – Osho<\/p>\n

*Ashtavakra\u2019s sutra \u201cO son, long have you been caught in the noose of body consciousness. Cut this noose with the sword of knowing \u2019I am awareness\u2019 and be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In Ashtavakra\u2019s vision \u2013 and this is the purest vision, the ultimate vision \u2013 bondage is only a belief, bondage is not real.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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