It is customary in India to take a bath, wear clean clothes before entering a temple or performing a religious ritual. This outer bath is symbolic; it is an indicator of the inner bath, the bath of the mind. Unless one goes inside and looks at the immense dirt the mind has gathered, one cannot conceive of the need of the inner bath. The human mind is a junkyard. There is anger, hatred, miseries, anxieties and all kinds of insanities buried in there. No detergent has been found to cleanse this inner filth!
However, Osho has found a highly effective method of cleansing the mind which is called catharsis.
He says, “Release your anger, your pain, your miseries, your anxieties into the emptiness. And do not do this only mentally. Let it be expressed by your whole body. If you can do it whole-heartedly then you will not only find your mind becomes pure but your body will also achieve new dimensions of health. Many illnesses get released by your catharsis. Diseases that had firmly gripped you will disappear.
It will be a real purification if one cleanses the mind by this meditation and then cleanses the body before entering any religious place. In fact, if the mind and the body are clean there will be no need to go to any sacred place as you become the sacred place.
Amrit Sadhana is in the management
team of Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune. She facilitates meditation workshops around the country and abroad.
