Desire Means A Great Longing To Expand
Talk: Osho

The energy called desire has been condemned for centuries. Almost all the so called saints have been against it, because desire is life and they were all life-negative. Desire is the very source of all that you see, and they were against all that is visible.

Desire without any object, desire without being goal-oriented,
unmotivated desire, pure desire, is godliness. Desire is not to be
destroyed; it is to be purified. Desire is not to be dropped; it is to be transformed.

Your very being is desire; to be against it is to be against yourself and against all. To be against it is to be against the flowers and
the birds and the sun and the moon. To be against it is against all
creativity. Desire is creativity.
   

The Eastern scriptures are perfectly right when they say that God
created the world because a great desire arose in Him – a desire to create, to manifest, a desire to make many from one, to expand.

But these are only metaphors; God is not separate from desire. Desire means a longing, a great longing, to expand, to become as huge as the sky.
   

What the man who wants to have more and more money really wants is not money but expansion, because money can help you expand. You can have a bigger house, you can have a bigger garden – your territory will be bigger, your freedom will be bigger.
   

The man who is after money may not know why he is after the money. Go deeper into his unconscious, help him to meditate, and he will be surprised
to find that the desire for money is not really the desire for money, it is the desire to expand.
   

The same is the case with all other desires. People want more power, more fame, longer life, better health, but what are they desiring in these different things? The same, exactly the same: they want to be more. They don’t want to remain confined; they don’t want to be limited.

It hurts to feel that you are definable, because if you are definable then you are just an object, a commodity. But all these objects of desire, sooner or later, disappoint.

Money becomes possible one day, and yet expansion has not happened; you may have a little more freedom of choice, but that does not satisfy. The desire was for the infinite, and money cannot purchase the infinite.
   

If you watch carefully, money, power, prestige – nothing satisfies. On the contrary, they make you more discontented. Why? That’s because when you were poor there was hope that one day the money was going to happen and then you would relax and enjoy. Now that has happened, and there seems to be no sign of any relaxation. You are even tenser than you were before, you
are even more anxiety-ridden than you were before.
   

Desire in itself is not wrong. Money, power and prestige are wrong
objects of desire. You can have a sword and you can kill somebody – that does not make the sword faulty. You can also save somebody with the sword.
   

Desire has to be purified and transformed, because it is your energy –you don’t have any other energy. The mediocre way to transform desire is to
change the object. Don’t go after money, start going after God…
   

There is no seed of desire because desire is the seed of all. Desire is the ultimate seed of everything. To transform your energies, be creative.

Slowly, you will see transformation happening of its own accord.

Excerpted from The Book of Wisdom. Courtesy: Osho International
Foundation. www.osho.com

Bhoto Jatra

                                                                                                              Last Updated Jun 7, 2013 8:00am
                                                                
             Bhoto Jatra, ends the month-long celebration of Rato Machhendranath Jatra. The chariot with an idol of Rato Machhendranath deity resembles the god of rain, according to local beliefs. It is taken to Lagankhel via Pulchowk, Gabahal, Mangalbazar and Sundhara.

           This is the longest as well as the most important festival of Patan that begins with several days of ceremonies and fabrication of a wooden wheeled chariot at Pulchowk. The chariot carries a 60-feet tall spire fabricated from bamboo poles raised from its all four ends.

           With the beginning of the month-long ritual, the chariot is paraded through the streets of Patan for  several weeks. The procession moves to Gabahal, Hakha, Sundhara and many other places in Patan. It is taken to Lagankhel, where it rests for over 4 days, finally to Jawalakhel.

             According to a legend, Yogi Gorakhnath came to seek alms in Patan but did not receive any from the locals. The furious Yogi forced all the rain-showering serpents under his seat and started meditating. There was no rain in Patan for ages and on the advice of the astrologers and pundits, the king of Patan invited Machhendranath, Gorakhnath’s teacher, in Patan. Learning that his teacher was in Patan, the Yogi went to see him freeing the rain showering serpents from his seat, which led to plenty of rain in the town. Thus, culture experts claim that this festival symbolizes rain and fertility.

              The fourth day of the chariot’s arrival at Jawalakhel is celebrated as Bhoto Jatra on Jawalakhel ground. On the day of Bhoto Jatra a bejeweled bhoto (vest) of Machhendranath is displayed before the public and other dignitaries.

Shangri-La Hotel blaze contained

Last Updated: Wed, 05.06.13 18:44

Shangri-La Hotel blaze contained A fire that broke out at the Hotel Shangri-La located at Lazimpat, Kathmandu has now been contained. Fire fighters and police personnel trying to extinguish a blaze at Hotel Shangri-La ... The fire started from one of the buildings of the five-star hotel at around 4.15 pm and was brought under control at 6 pm, a security guard involved in the fire-fighting operation told Nepalnews. All guests at the hotel were evacuated following the fire. The exact damage caused by the fire is yet to be ascertained. According to the guard, the blaze started from the bar in the hotel's casino. Half a dozen fire engines, local police, army personnel and firefighters were involved in fighting the inferno. As the fire broke out at an area that is not easily accessible, firefighters had a tough time taming the blaze. He said that according to preliminary reports the fire started due to an electric short circuit at the casino's bar. source: nepalnews.com