https://www.facebook.com/212950351906826/

Osho MAD House, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

08/14/2026

आश्रमको विडम्बना — ओशो-दृष्टि

आश्रमको ढोका सबैका लागि खुला हुन्छ—
तर त्यहाँबाट साधक बनेर निस्कने विरलै हुन्छन्।
धेरैले संसार त्याग्छन्,
तर आश्रमभित्र आफ्नै नयाँ संसार खडा गर्छन्।

सौभाग्य उसको हो,
जो गुरुलाई केवल विश्वास गर्दैन—
आफ्नो अहंकार गुरुसामु समर्पित गर्छ।

दुर्भाग्य उसको हो,
जो गुरुको नाम बेचेर जीविका चलाउँछ,
गुरुका शब्दलाई आफ्नो प्रतिष्ठाको सिँढी बनाउँछ
र अन्ततः आफ्नै विश्वासलाई ज्ञान ठान्छ।

नायमात्मा प्रवचनेन लभ्यो
न मेधया न बहुना श्रुतेन।

आत्मा न प्रवचनले प्राप्त हुन्छ,
न बुद्धिको प्रदर्शनले,
न धेरै शास्त्र सुन्दैमा।

ओशो संन्यासी अझ बढी जोखिममा छन्।
किनकि ओशोले अनुशासन थोपरेनन्—स्वतन्त्रता दिए।
तर बेहोस मानिसको हातमा स्वतन्त्रता
मुक्ति होइन, मनपरी बन्छ।

आत्मअनुशासन संसारकै कठिन साधना हो।
त्यहाँ प्रहरी पनि आफैँ,
अपराधी पनि आफैँ
र साक्षी पनि आफैँ हुनुपर्छ।

ओशो सिद्धान्तबाट होइन, वर्तमानबाट बोल्थे।
एउटै प्रश्नमा एक व्यक्तिलाई “हो”
र अर्कोलाई “होइन” भन्न सक्थे—
किनकि उत्तर प्रश्नका लागि होइन,
प्रश्नकर्ताको चेतनाका लागि हुन्थ्यो।

त्यसैले ओशोका विरोधाभासी शब्द टिपेर
आफ्नो सुविधा र व्यापारलाई सही प्रमाणित गर्न सजिलो छ।
तर ओशोलाई बुझ्न कठिन छ—
किनकि त्यसका लागि शब्द होइन,
आफ्नै अहंकार त्याग्नुपर्छ।

आश्रममा शरीर पुर्‍याउनु यात्रा हो।
आफूभित्रको अहंकारबाट बाहिर निस्कनु—साधना।

07/11/2026

ओशोलाई clickbait बनाउने digital भिखारीहरूले कम्तीमा ओशोको आफ्नै उत्तर पढून् भनेर यो साझा गरेको हुँ।

खुलेर ओशोको व्यापार गर्नुस्—रक्सीको पसलभन्दा हजार गुणा राम्रो। तर जीविका चलाउन ओशोलाई गलत title, आधा-सत्य र clickbait को सामान नबनाउनुस्।

ओशोजस्ता गुरु समयभन्दा धेरै अगाडि आउँछन्। आजको digital फोहोर होइन, उहाँका मौलिक शब्दहरू हजार वर्षपछिको पुस्ताका लागि सुरक्षित राख्नुस्।

कर्मको हिसाब गहिरो हुन्छ। ओशोको नामसँग खेल्नुअघि ध्यान गर्नुस्।

The Divine Melody - Osho
Question 3
WHY ARE THE BOYS IN THE MUSLIM HEAVEN SO MUCH MORE NAUSEATING THAN THE GOLDEN APSARAS WITHOUT ANY PERSPIRATION, OF THE HINDU PARADISE? YOUR CONDEMNATION OF HOMOSEXUALITY, NOT ONLY IN THIS LECTURE, DOESN'T SEEM VERY COMPASSIONATE.
Truth is never compassionate or is always compassionate. It depends on you, how you look at it. One thing is certain: truth is truth -- compassionate or not. This has to be understood.
Homos*xuality has grown out of a male-dominated world. Homos*xuality is a disease because of male domination; it is not a natural phenomenon. And there is every possibility that homos*xuality is going to grow more and more -- the possibility that even states and governments and religions will start preaching homos*xuality. Within fifty years, you will see it happening. Just as governments are now preaching birth control, abortion, they will preach homos*xuality -- because the population is impossible, and homos*xuality is going to be one of the ways to prevent new people coming to the earth. Sooner or later, each government of the world is going to allow homos*xual marriages -- men marrying men, women marrying women. This is going to happen. Already, many more people are moving into homos*xuality.
The disease has come out of male domination. Just as I said the other day, all the cultures that have come out of the Judaic tradition are homos*xual: Mohammedan, Christian, Jewish. The reason is, Judaism is one of the most male-oriented communities -- it had to be. They have suffered so much; they have been wanderers, for centuries they had no nation, nowhere to live. Of course, the man became more and more powerful -- he had to protect the woman, the children -- and the society became more and more centered around the man. Only a relaxed society, when things are going beautifully and there is plenty of food and there is no war, becomes heteros*xual. Otherwise, when there is war, continuous struggle, the society leans towards male domination.
In the East, homos*xuality has never been a problem. In fact, it has existed only in rare cases. Particularly in India, homos*xuality has not been a problem at all. It has been so exceptional, it has not even been discussed. The reason? -- the country has lived in tremendous peace, well-being, satisfied. Wars have been there, but India has not fought any war on its own. Somebody came -- India was always ready to be conquered; it has not bothered much. Those who came were homos*xuals -- because the army has to be basically male, and all armies become homos*xual. Armies -- because only men are there -- where are they going to put their love, the energy? They are forced to go homos*xual. So any country that has been continuously in war becomes homos*xual. Or, male-oriented communities -- for example, monasteries: Buddhist monasteries, Jaina monasteries, Catholic monasteries, all became the breeding grounds of homos*xuality because only men were allowed. It has not been researched well, but if one goes deep into it, it will be found always that whenever men will be alone together, homos*xuality is bound to be there.
Now the same thing is happening in the world of women also, because the women's lib movement is the first thing in the world up to now where women are meeting with women and basically women oriented groups are being created. Lesbianism is happening. When women are together and against men, where are they going to put their love? The man is the enemy: they have to love women.
Homos*xuality and lesbianism both are growing; these are simple facts. A few things to be understood: I am not saying anything against homos*xuality -- because I know there are many homos*xuals around here. If you are not interested in any higher possibilities, homos*xuality is as good as heteros*xuality. There is no problem in it. If it is only a question of s*xual release, homos*xuality is as good as heteros*xuality. But if you are interested in higher growth, then you will be in trouble.
Each child born is masturbatory, because the child first learns to love himself. That is the only natural way. He knows nobody else, he plays with his own body. each child born is naturally masturbatory: that is his first love. The second stage of his growth is, he becomes homos*xual -- naturally so. He has loved himself: if he is a boy, certainly he starts loving other boys -- his love is spreading. Girls are very far away, a totally different kind of animal. He loves himself -- it is easier for him to love other boys. A girl loves herself -- it is easier for her to love other girls; the boys are a world apart. This is the second step, NATURAL step: masturbatory, then homos*xuality.
Then the third thing, the third wave, is when you start loving the other -- the opposite. Man and woman are polarities, and when polarities meet, only then is there challenge. Yes, there is conflict -- and that conflict is the challenge. A homos*xual love affair can be more convenient, true, because there is not much conflict. Both are alike: they understand each other, they know each other's ways and each other's mind. There is no polarity -- and if there is no polarity of course there is no conflict, but there is no growth either. With polarity, conflict arises, challenge -- to pe*****te and know the other, to understand the ways of the other. And it is part of spiritual growth that a man should come to know the woman and the woman should come to know the man.
Why do I say it is part of spiritual growth? Just the other day, I was saying that at the last moment, at the sixth chakra -- AJNA chakra -- one has to come to a tremendous meeting of the man and the woman. You are also divided inside into two: man and woman. If you cannot meet with the outer woman, it will be very difficult for you to make space for the inner woman. If you cannot love the other on the outside, it will be impossible for you to create a loving space for the other inside you. A man is not only man, he is man-woman together. He is born out of a man and a woman -- fifty-fifty percent he is, and so is a woman. and the ultimate inner meeting, the union, the inner alchemy, is possible only if you have learned the ways in the outside world.
When a man falls in love with a woman he is learning something. When a man falls in love with a man he is not learning anything. When a woman falls in love with a man she is learning something -- something of the unknown, something of the opposite, something of the quite other. Man and woman in love, means the right hemisphere in love with the left hemisphere.
So if you are interested in spiritual growth then you have to grow from homos*xuality towards heteros*xuality. If you are not interested in spiritual growth then there is nothing wrong. You can remain -- heteros*xual or homos*xual, it is all the same. I think I have made it clear. If you are not interested in spiritual growth, then there is no problem. I am not against homos*xuality, I am not against anything. It is your life -- you have to decide; who am I? I am simply stating a fact that ultimately, inside your being, a meeting is going to happen: be prepared for that meeting. And the outer love with the other prepares you.
The more you understand the woman and the man outside you, the more you will have an understanding of the inner polarity. And one day, at the sixth center of your being -- what yoga calls AJNA chakra, and yesterday I called "superconsciousness" -- there you will feel that your understanding of the woman and the man helps you tremendously. There, intuition and logic meet, imagination and will meet, initiative and reception meet. You will find it easy. You have learned the ways from the outside world -- now you can use them for your inner alchemy.
So let me repeat it. There are many homos*xuals here, le****ns too, and that's natural because there are so many Jews here. And in a way there is some relationship why they are here, why they are attracted towards me; there is some reason in it. Homos*xuals, le****ns, they are always inventive people... in fact, they have invented homos*xuality. They are always revolutionary people, they are never orthodox. They have discovered a new way in their s*xual life. Mm? -- they have improved upon nature, they have moved away from nature. They are inventive people, they are not traditional. Hence, more and more homos*xuals will be coming to me, because whatsoever I am saying is so untraditional, only very revolutionary minds can come to me. But then there is going to be trouble too. You become attracted towards me because my teachings are so untraditional, so rebellious; you become attracted. My teachings are rebellious, my teachings are unorthodox, but I cannot support any lie. I cannot say to you that your homos*xuality is as it should be. I cannot support it... and if you are really revolutionary, try to find out a way.
Go into nature and see. Animals become homos*xual only when they are put in a strange situation, otherwise not. In a zoo, animals become homos*xual, but never in nature -- rarely. In nature they always turn to be heteros*xual. In a zoo, they can turn homos*xual because they cannot find the female, or the female cannot find the male. That's an unnatural condition, an artificial condition.
Man also turns homos*xual when he is in an unnatural situation. It is not natural -- and that is why so many people are turning all over the world, because the whole human situation is very unnatural today; it has never been so unnatural. Everything is artificial. We have gone far away from nature in every other way, so we are going far away from nature in s*xuality also. Everything is interlinked and connected. You live in an artificial house, you live with artificial mechanisms, you live in an artificial world -- the asphalt roads, technology -- everything is artificial. Naturally, your s*xual energies will start becoming artificial too.
Man is living in a zoo; it is not a human society, because it is not natural. Hence, s*xuality is becoming more and more perverted, finding perverted ways -- and I can understand it. The more man has become intelligent, he wants to find new ways: and homos*xuality is a new way -- so contrary to nature; an invention, a discovery that you can relate man-to-man or woman-to-woman.
There are people who are even more revolutionary. They are relating to false toys. You can make a woman, a plastic woman, and make love to her. That is even more revolutionary -- and more convenient too. any moment you can pack her back in your bag, and you can carry her anywhere you want. Homos*xuality is more convenient than heteros*xuality because the language is the same. But convenience is not the goal: growth is the goal. Growth always happens through inconvenience. Growth always happens through pain, challenge.
If you are interested in spiritual growth, move towards heteros*xuality. If you are not interested in that, then there is no problem. If you want to go beyond, if you really want to search your innermost being, the inner space, then heteros*xuality will be helpful. Just as I said to you: first stage is masturbatory, second stage is homos*xual, third stage is heteros*xual, fourth stage is as*xual -- that is the state of BRAHMACHARYA, celibacy. And only when you have achieved to the fourth stage will you be able to pe*****te to the uttermost core of your being -- otherwise not.
A masturbatory person remains childish, a homos*xual person remains juvenile, a heteros*xual person remains animal. These stages have to be passed. Don't get stuck anywhere. And I am not condemning, remember always; I have no condemnation for anything. Sometimes homos*xuals come to me and they say, "But Beloved Master, we feel it is good." I say, "Okay. If you feel good, it is your life. Who I am to condemn it, and for what? Why should I condemn it? It is your life; if you decide to live it in this way, good. Live it with all my blessings." But I feel sorry, deep down -- sorry because their growth will be hindered, sorry because they will not know what great possibilities they were carrying within themselves.
S*x is not an ordinary thing. It is one of the most substantial parts of your being. One should not be so unalert about it. It is the foundation of your being: you are born through s*x, you live through s*x; your birth is through s*x, your youth is through s*x, your love is through s*x, and your death is going to happen through s*x. Your whole life is a s*xual affair. One should be very very alert and watchful of what one is going to do with one's s*x energy.

07/11/2026

नेपालमा निराशा बढ्दै छ—सरकार, गुरु, आश्रम र समाज अब मौन बस्ने कि जीवन जोगाउने?

Rajesh Thapaliya | California USA

नेपालका समाचार र social media का comment हेर्दा कहिलेकाहीँ लाग्छ—चरम निराशाले हाम्रो मानसिक स्वास्थ्यलाई गहिरो चोट पुर्‍याइरहेको छ। झन्डै हरेक दिन २० जना नेपालीले आफ्नो जीवन अन्त्य गर्ने अवस्था छ भने, यो केवल व्यक्तिगत समस्या होइन—यो समाजका लागि ठूलो चेतावनी हो।

मानव जीवन अमूल्य छ।

मनमा जीवन समाप्त गर्ने गलत विचार उठ्यो भने, एकछिन रोकिनुस्। १० पटक बिस्तारै लामो सास लिनुस्। अनि ओशोको यो वाणी सम्झिनुस्:

“Life is not a problem to be solved; it is a mystery to be lived.”
— Osho
Source: “Mind Is a Question-Creating Factory” (Osho discourse)

जीवन सधैँ सजिलो हुँदैन। कठिन समयबाट गुज्रिरहनुभएको छ भने पनि अगाडि बढिरहनुस्। आजको अँध्यारो नै भोलिको सत्य होइन। अर्को मोडमा केही सुन्दर कुरा, नयाँ मानिस, नयाँ सम्भावना वा नयाँ अर्थ तपाईंलाई पर्खिरहेको हुन सक्छ।

हामीमध्ये धेरैले नेपाल छोड्यौँ। परदेशमा शून्यबाट फेरि जीवन बनायौँ। आज आफ्नै जन्मभूमिसँग नागरिकताको निरन्तरताका लागि पनि संघर्ष गरिरहेका छौँ। लड्दा थाकिन्छ, कहिलेकाहीँ निराशा आउँछ—तर थाक्नु र हार मान्नु एउटै कुरा होइन।

नेपालमा गुरु, आश्रम, योग र ध्यान केन्द्रहरू धेरै छन्। अब तिनको सफलता केवल भीडको संख्याले होइन, कति निराश मनलाई जीवनतर्फ फर्काउन सके भन्ने कुराले पनि मापन हुनुपर्छ।

थाक्नुभएको छ भने केही समय रोकिनुस्। आराम गर्नुस्। तर एउटा कठिन क्षणलाई सम्पूर्ण जीवनको अन्तिम सत्य नबनाउनुस्।

गहिरो सास लिनुस्।
विश्वास लाग्ने कसैसँग बोल्नुस्।
सहायता माग्नुस्।
आज केवल आजलाई पार गर्नुस्।

रात जति लामो भए पनि बिहान आउँछ।
तपाईंको कथा अझै सकिएको छैन।
जीवनमा अझै धेरै कुरा बाँकी छन्।

07/03/2026

We often say, “I am living in the present.”
But are we really?
Rajesh Thapaliya California USA

What we see is light reaching the eyes, touching the retina, becoming a signal, and then being interpreted by the brain.

What we hear is sound reaching the ears, becoming vibration, becoming signal, and then being translated by the mind.

So most of what we call “the present” is already a delayed experience.

We are not directly meeting reality.

We are meeting the mind’s version of reality.

That is why silence matters.

That is why awareness matters.

That is why the gap matters.

The truth is not only in what is seen.
The truth is not only in what is heard.
The truth is in the space before reaction.

Before judgment.
Before opinion.
Before anger.
Before fear.
Before the mind says, “I know.”

When we learn to listen to that gap, life becomes deeper.

Because words inform the mind,
but silence awakens the being.

06/28/2026

The Algorithmic Colony: Why Nepal Is Losing Its Global Mind

The modern public square is no longer public.

It is a private toll road owned by an algorithm.

For Global Nepalis, social media looks like a bridge to Nepal. In reality, it has become a checkpoint. The diaspora speaks, the algorithm measures. The post rises, the platform smiles. Then the trap closes:

Pay to reach the people you already reached.

This is not free speech.

This is rented visibility.

A writer, journalist, activist, or ordinary Nepali abroad may raise a serious national question—citizenship continuity, remittance dependency, land rights, corruption, federal burden, migration collapse, or Nepal’s demographic future. At first, the content moves naturally. Then suddenly the reach dies. Sharing slows. Views disappear. The same platform that encouraged speech now quietly buries it unless money is paid.

This is not technology.

This is algorithmic feudalism.

And Nepal is walking into it blind.

The danger is not only fake news. Fake news is old. The deeper danger is that the algorithm now decides which truth becomes visible, which question becomes popular, which anger becomes profitable, and which national issue is quietly buried.

That is why Nepal’s dual citizenship debate is being distorted.

This is not just an emotional demand from people living abroad.

This is a cold national-security question.

Nepal’s educated, skilled, tax-paying, globally connected bloodline is outside the country. But instead of legally binding this global population to Nepal, the state keeps them emotionally attached, economically milked, and politically excluded.

That is not nationalism.

That is extraction.

Kathmandu wants remittance.

Kathmandu wants investment.

Kathmandu wants donations.

Kathmandu wants lobbying power.

Kathmandu wants foreign networks.

Kathmandu wants Nepali faces to promote Nepal abroad.

But when those same people ask for full legal continuity with their ancestral nation, the state suddenly remembers “sovereignty.”

What kind of sovereignty survives by disconnecting its own global citizens?

A poor country with a shrinking workforce, collapsing trust, fleeing youth, and rising dependency cannot afford to cut legal ties with its own global population.

Dual citizenship for Bamsaj Nepalis is not charity.

It is not a favor.

It is not emotional nostalgia.

It is national infrastructure.

Without it, Nepal becomes a country that exports its youth, receives remittance, loses its next generation, and then begs the algorithm to keep its national conversation alive.

That is the real trap.

When Nepal refuses to legally connect its diaspora, the diaspora remains connected only through platforms owned by foreign corporations. Then Nepal’s global mind is not protected by Nepali law. It is rented from Silicon Valley.

Think clearly:

A nation that cannot secure its people legally will lose them digitally.

A nation that treats its diaspora as wallets will lose their children.

A nation that blocks citizenship continuity will not protect sovereignty. It will shrink it.

The future war is not only fought with guns.

It is fought through identity, attention, data, migration, law, and memory.

If Nepal does not give legal continuity to its global bloodline, the algorithm will become the new border.

And this time, Nepal will not lose territory.

It will lose its mind.

06/21/2026

International Yoga Day and Nepal’s National Hypocrisy

How Can a Nation Talk About Union While Dividing Its Own People ?

By Rajesh Thapaliya
California, USA

On International Yoga Day, the world will once again see beautiful photographs: yoga mats on open grounds, leaders in white clothes, synchronized breathing, folded hands, spiritual slogans, and polished speeches about peace, harmony, and universal consciousness.

But beneath this public performance lies one uncomfortable question:

If yoga means union, why does Nepal still struggle to unite Nepalis themselves?

Yoga is not merely the bending of the body. Yoga is the alignment of life. It is the union of body and mind, inner and outer, individual and existence. If a nation cannot open its legal, emotional, and political door to its own bamsaj Nepalis living across the world, how can that same nation speak about opening the door to the infinite sky?

If Nepal cannot unite its own global Nepali family by honestly resolving the dual citizenship or continuity-of-citizenship issue, then much of its yoga-day language becomes public hypocrisy wrapped in spiritual costume.

You cannot preach universal union while practicing national exclusion.

Yoga Is Not Acrobatics. It Is Alignment.

True yoga is not an acrobatic exercise. It is not a social media pose. It is not a morning performance for cameras. Yoga is the science of alignment.

Think of the sarangi, the traditional stringed instrument. If its strings are too tight, they snap. If they are too loose, they produce no music. Only when the strings are properly tuned does music emerge.

The human being is no different.

If the body is overburdened, it becomes sick.
If the mind is scattered, it becomes restless.
If society is divided, the nation becomes weak.
If a country rejects its own children, its soul loses music.

Yoga is the master tuning of the human instrument. It teaches that body and mind are not two separate entities. The body is the visible mind; the mind is the invisible body. When the body is loaded with toxic food, stress, sleeplessness, fear, and disorder, the mind becomes heavy. When the mind is filled with hatred, insecurity, jealousy, and division, the body tightens.

This same principle applies to society.

A nation with a divided consciousness cannot produce harmony by chanting slogans. A society that divides resident Nepalis and non-resident Nepalis, homeland Nepalis and diaspora Nepalis, “pure” Nepalis and “less Nepali” Nepalis, is not practicing yoga. It is practicing viyoga — separation.

Nepal Wants Remittance, Not Relationship

Nepal wants remittance.
Nepal wants foreign currency.
Nepal wants foreign degrees.
Nepal wants global networks.
Nepal wants investment, technology, tourism, and international recognition.

But when the same Nepali-origin people ask for dignity, continuity of belonging, and a meaningful legal bond with their ancestral nation, the conversation suddenly becomes suspicious.

The question becomes: “Are they Nepali enough?”

This is not nationalism.
This is insecurity disguised as nationalism.

A nation cannot treat its diaspora as an ATM machine and then question their loyalty when they ask for belonging. If Nepal wants the labor, money, skills, and global influence of Nepalis abroad, it must also have the courage to recognize their emotional and ancestral connection.

A country that cannot decide how to honor its own bamsaj Nepalis has no moral authority to lecture the world about unity.

Before Nepal teaches yoga to the world, Nepal must practice yoga with its own people.

From Temple Beggars to Digital Spiritual Merchants

There was a time when beggars sat outside temples asking for a few coins to survive. True seekers, meanwhile, often moved away from noise — to riverbanks, forests, caves, silence, and contemplation.

But slowly, something changed.

Spiritual longing became profitable. The greedy discovered that human insecurity, fear, loneliness, grief, and search for meaning could be turned into a market. The beggar did not remain outside the temple. The beggar entered the sanctum, wore spiritual language, and learned how to sell holiness.

Today, this market has evolved.

The modern spiritual merchant may not always wear simple robes. He may carry a smartphone, use cinematic lighting, sell online courses, speak in polished English, quote neuroscience, mention energy fields, use words like “quantum,” “vibration,” “frequency,” and “cosmic alignment,” and package ancient truths into clickable content.

But truth does not need marketing tricks.

If you eat sugar, do you need a scientific committee to prove sweetness?
If you have a headache, do you need a guru to certify pain?
If you are hungry, do you wait for a spiritual influencer to validate your hunger?

No.

Truth is known by experience. Truth is lived. Truth does not need to be sold with thumbnails, emotional music, and artificial urgency.

Nepal’s Neo-Spiritual Circus

Nepal is full of temples, ashrams, yoga centers, meditation retreats, communes, spiritual camps, gurus, commentators, and social media philosophers.

Yet one has to ask:

Why is a land full of spiritual institutions producing such divided consciousness?

Why do people who speak of non-duality remain silent when Nepalis are divided by passport?
Why do people who say “the world is one family” hesitate to say that global Nepalis are part of Nepal’s living family?
Why do spiritual speakers talk about cosmic unity but avoid the practical unity of Nepalis across borders?

This is the tragedy of modern spirituality in Nepal.

There is too much talk of consciousness and too little courage.
Too much ritual and too little truth.
Too much performance and too little transformation.

Some spiritual circles have become comfortable bubbles. Some media platforms use spirituality as emotional entertainment. Some educators turn wisdom into a commercial commodity. Some political voices use identity only when it benefits them.

The result is a cynical cycle:

Export people.
Exploit their emotions.
Divide their identity.
Use their money.
Question their belonging.

That is not yoga. That is national fragmentation.

Food, Ego, and the Spiritual Superiority Complex

The same shallow thinking appears in the modern debate around food and spirituality.

Vegetarian versus non-vegetarian.
Pure versus impure.
Spiritual versus unspiritual.

But true Eastern wisdom was never so childish. Ancient spiritual understanding did not look at food merely through moral labels. It looked at food through energy, awareness, and its effect on consciousness.

Sattvic food was considered light, clear, and supportive of meditation.
Rajasic food was stimulating, active, and passionate.
Tamasic food was heavy, dulling, and sleep-inducing.

This was not about ego. It was not about declaring oneself superior. It was about understanding the effect of food on the body, nervous system, and awareness.

Even foods like garlic, onion, and tomatoes have been treated differently in contemplative traditions — not because they are “sinful,” but because of their stimulating or medicinal effects.

Yet today, in many modern spiritual spaces, people use food to build ego. Vegetarians mock non-vegetarians. Non-vegetarians mock vegetarians. Both sides often miss the point.

If your food habit makes you arrogant, your plate may be clean, but your mind is still polluted.

A spiritual ego is still ego.
A vegetarian ego is still ego.
A religious ego is still ego.
A nationalist ego is still ego.

Yoga is not about feeling superior. Yoga is about becoming conscious.

Osho and the Misunderstanding of Freedom

Osho remains one of the most misunderstood spiritual figures of the modern era because he refused to comfort social hypocrisy.

Some reduced him to indulgence.
Some reduced him to controversy.
Some reduced him to rebellion.
Some reduced him to lifestyle branding.

But his deeper message was not suppression, and it was not unconscious indulgence. His message was transformation.

Do not fight the mud. Grow the lotus from it.
Do not suppress energy. Transform it into awareness.
Do not pretend to be holy. Become conscious of your unholiness.
Do not wear spirituality as identity. Let awareness burn identity.

Osho held up a mirror to society. But instead of looking at their own faces, many people tried to break the mirror.

Today, many quote him, brand him, market him, and decorate their walls with his image. But very few carry the fire of inquiry he demanded. To understand yoga seriously, one must go beyond social media clips and return to deeper sources — including his discourses on Patanjali, such as Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega.

Yoga is not a trend.
Yoga is not a diet label.
Yoga is not a costume.
Yoga is not a national-day photo opportunity.

Yoga is an inner surgery.

The Real Question on International Yoga Day

So on this International Yoga Day, Nepal must ask itself a harder question.

Can a nation speak of universal consciousness while treating its own diaspora as outsiders?

Can leaders speak of unity while refusing to resolve the citizenship issue for bamsaj Nepalis abroad?

Can spiritual teachers talk about the union of body and mind while remaining silent about the separation of Nepalis from Nepal?

Can a country demand remittance but deny belonging?

Can a nation ask its children to carry Nepal in their hearts while refusing to carry them in its laws?

This is where the real yoga begins.

Not on the mat.
Not in the speech.
Not in the camera frame.
Not in the public ceremony.

Real yoga begins where hypocrisy ends.

If Nepal truly understands yoga, it must unite Nepalis across geography, passport, generation, and identity. It must create a dignified, practical, and emotionally intelligent solution for dual citizenship or continuity of citizenship. It must stop treating global Nepalis as useful outsiders.

A nation does not become stronger by disconnecting from its own children.

If you cannot open the door to your own bamsaj Nepalis, do not pretend you are opening the door to the infinite sky.

First unite Nepalis.
Then speak of yoga.

First open the national heart.
Then speak of universal consciousness.

First stop practicing exclusion.
Then preach union.

On this International Yoga Day, Nepal does not need another photo session.

Nepal needs inner honesty.

— Rajesh Thapaliya
California, USA

Osho MAD House

08/14/2026

07/11/2026

07/11/2026

07/03/2026

06/28/2026

06/21/2026

Address

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Share

Category

Listing takedown request