Osho on Swami Ramtirtha

Question - It's the brilliance and cleverness, that which thinks and judges. What is the unfamiliar? It's enlightenment, nirvana, true thusness, the buddha-nature -- where there is no thought or discrimination, where figuring and calculating cannot reach, where there's no way for you to use your mental arrangements.

Osho - Ta Hui is important for you to understand, because he is a representative of thousands of intellectuals in the world who go on deceiving themselves because they can consistently, logically, think about experiences that have not happened to them. Perhaps they are influenced by people who have actually experienced, and that impact is so great that they start believing that certainly such things happen. Then they are capable of intellectual systematizing -- and they can go on systematizing -- but underneath they don't know a thing.

These people are the theologians, these people are religious heads, these people are philosophers, these people are great professors. These people dominate humanity, and they are the wrong people -- wrong because they are dishonest, wrong because they don't accept that it is not their experience. They simply go on fabricating beautiful words and theories and creating an illusion in the minds of people that perhaps they are authentic seers, enlightened people.

Osho on Nisargadatta Maharaj

Osho - There was a man in Bombay, Nisargadatta Maharaj. Nobody knew this big name; he was known to the masses as "Beedie Baba" because he was continuously smoking beedies. You can find in every village such kinds of beedie babas. I think India has seven hundred thousand villages and each village must have at least one; more is possible. And Amrito wrote a few days ago to me, because another young Dutchman became very much involved with Beedie Baba... The man seems to be very sincere, but the trouble is that the people who come from the West have a very childlike heart, very trusting, and they are unaware that in India spirituality is just a routine.

Everybody talks about great things and their lives are as ugly as possible. When Beedie Baba said that he would speak only to this young Dutchman, naturally his ego must have felt tremendously vast. The crowd that surrounded Beedie Baba was also of the same quality... rickshaw wallahs waiting for their passengers, sitting by the side of Beedie Baba. And when he said he would not speak to anybody unless it was this Dutchman... So he spoke to the Dutchman, who has now compiled books on Beedie Baba.

Now in India it is almost parrot-like, but to the Westerner it seems to be a tremendous revelation -- when Beedie Baba said, "Aham brahmasmi; I am God, I am that" the young Dutchman immediately wrote a book: I AM THAT! Because for the West, spirituality is a foreign affair, just as for the East, science is a foreign affair.

Osho on Ram Dass and Vishnu Devananda

• Osho - Just the other day somebody wrote me a question about one of the disciples of Shivananda. He is well known in America, in Europe -- Vishnu Devananda is his name. Up to now he has been claiming that he goes on receiving messages from his late Master, Shivananda. Only recently he has confessed that somebody in his own organization was deceiving him, giving him messages as if they were coming from the late Master, Shivananda.
• In the first place Shivananda was not a Master at all; he was only a teacher and a very ordinary teacher, a third-rate teacher. He was talking old rubbish. But a man like Vishnu Devananda who is worshipped by thousands of people in Europe and America -- particularly in Spanish countries he has a great following -- he can be deceived by someone in his own organization. Somebody was playing tricks on him. And these tricks are not new.
• Madame Blavatsky used to play the same trick upon the Theosophists, and great Theosophists like Colonel Olcott and others were deceived. It was found out only later on that she had managed it through a servant; a servant used to hide on the roof. Just think... the roof of Buddha Hall and a sannyasin hiding there, and in the middle of the discourse a letter drops! And Madame Blavatsky used to claim that these letters had come from divine Masters, particularly from Master K. H., Kuthumi, who is the head of all the Masters, who is a direct mediator between God and the earth. Only later on did the servant confess before the court that he was hiding on the roof where there was a small place from which to drop the letters, and those letters were written by Madame Blavatsky herself. And then the experts on writing found out that that was true -- all the letters were written by Blavatsky herself.
• Now somebody in Vishnu Devananda's own organization has been deceiving him for years. But these are the foolish people...

Osho on Swami Vivekananda and Ramakrishna mission

• Question - But Ramakrishna Mission.... Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda...
• Osho : Just wait a minute. Don't use those two names together, because to me those are totally different names, of different qualities of man. First, Ramakrishna mission: Ramakrishna mission is not created by Ramakrishna; it is Vivekananda's creation. So one thing, it does not come out of an enlightened mind.
• Vivekanand is a very clever politician. If he is speaking amongst Christians, he will praise Christ. He has not the guts to criticize on any point. I cannot do that. If I see that something is wrong, I have to say it. If there is something good, I praise it, but I keep the right to criticize also. If he is speaking amongst Buddhists, he will not speak anything against Buddha or Buddhist scriptures. He created Ramakrishna mission as a synthesis of all religions.
• Now, for me the very idea of synthesis of all religions is like synthesis of all lies, which will be far bigger a lie. There is no need of so many religions -- all that is needed is a certain quality of religiousness, which is neither Hindu nor Mohammedan nor Christian. When you are truthful you are religious; when you are loving you are religious; you are respectful of life, you are religious.
• That does not mean you are Hindu, does not mean you are a Buddhist. I want the whole world to be religious, but not a synthesis of Christianity and Judaism and Mohammedanism and Hinduism -- and what kind of synthesis that will be? If you just conceive the idea, it will be such a hodgepodge.

On Mother

1. In the human experience, the relationship between a mother and her child is the closest to compassion. People call it love but it should not be called love. It is more like compassion than love because it has no passion in it. A mother’s love for the child is closest to compassion. Why? Because the mother has known the child in herself; he was a member of her being. She has known the child as part of herself and even if the child is born and is growing the mother goes on feeling a subtle rhythm with the child. If the child feels ill, a thousand miles away the mother will immediately feel it. She may not be aware of what has happened but she will become depressed; she may not be aware that her child is suffering but she will start suffering. She will make some rationalization about why she is suffering — her stomach is not okay, she has a headache, or something or other — but now depth psychology says that the mother and the child always remain joined together with subtle energy, waves, because they go on vibrating on the same wavelength. The telepathy is easier between a mother and the child than between anybody else. Or, between twins — between twins telepathy is very easy.

On Frustration in Life

1. It is your expectation that carries the seeds of frustration.
2. Remember, frustration is out of expectation, and ego is always expecting. The ego is a beggar.
3. Don’t try in any way to be special because all those trips are ego-trips and lead you into frustration and worry and fear.
4. Frustration is nothing but the ego feeling bad — it could not make it; the ego is hurt, wounded.
5. You can choose: either frustration, suffering, misery — then go on holding the ego, nourishing it. Or peace, silence, bliss — but then you have to recover your innocence.
6. If you listen to me you will never again be in the same boat. It is the boat of expectation. Frustration is a by-product. You want to get rid of the frustration but you don’t want to get rid of the expectation. Then it is impossible.
7. If you expect, there is frustration. If you don’t expect, there is no frustration. You expect because you think that things are permanent. Nothing is permanent.

On Love and Sex

Love makes you more of an individual. It does not efface your individuality, it gives you individuality, it gives you uniqueness. Love is very respectful.

In sex, the breathing is chaotic. In love, the breathing is musical. In prayer, it almost stops.

As your silence and joy deepen, you start feeling that there is no death for you.

In love, drop the object. In meditation, don’t meditate upon somebody or something — drop the object.

Meditation begins only when there is nothing to meditate upon, when there is simply consciousness — you are aware — but you are not concentrating on anything.

Meditation begins only when there is nothing to meditate upon, when there is simply consciousness — you are aware — but you are not concentrating on anything.

Become individuals, the first thing. The second thing: don’t expect perfection, and don’t ask and don’t demand. Love ordinary people . Nothing is wrong with ordinary people. Ordinary people are extraordinary. Each human being is so unique. Have respect for that uniqueness.

On Old Age

1. This is the whole art of life! You enjoy your youth, and when you become old you enjoy your old age. Old age has its own beauties; no young man can have those beauties. Youth is shallow; full of energy but shallow. Old age is not so full of energy, but things are settling and depth is arising. If you miss your youth, you will miss your old age also — remember. So I am not saying become old while you are young. I am saying be whatsoever you are; let that moment be your totality. When a child, be a child; never enforce your wisdom on any child because that is a crippling thing. Don’t try to make a child old before he is old, don’t crush him.
2. Identifying yourself with the body, you become the body. Then you are a mortal. Then there is fear of death. Non-identifying with the body, you are just a watcher, you are just a pure consciousness, a no-mind. And there is no death and there is no disease and there is no old age. As far as your witnessing is concerned, it is eternal and it is always fresh and young and the same. The authentic religion does not teach you to worship. The authentic religion teaches you to discover your immortality, to discover the god within you.
3. The child is innocent, that is his core. The youth is overflowing with energy, that is his core. And the old man has seen all, lived all, known all; wisdom has arisen, that is his core. But his wisdom contains something of his youth; it is also overflowing, it is radiant, it is vibrant, it is pulsating, it is alive. And it also has something of the child; it is innocent. If the old man is not young also, then he has only aged, he is not old. He has grown in time, in age, but he is not grown-up. He has missed. If the old man is not innocent like the child, if his eyes don’t show that crystal clarity of innocence, then he has not yet lived.

On Gratitude

1. Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must celebrate. After you have been silent you must enjoy it, you must have a thanksgiving. A deep gratitude must be shown towards the whole just for the opportunity that you are, that you can meditate, that you can be silent, that you can laugh.
2. God has given you this life, this tremendously valuable gift, and you cannot even appreciate it. You cannot welcome it, you cannot feel any gratitude for it. On the contrary, you are complaining and complaining and complaining. Your heart is full of grudges, not gratitude.
3. The Baul lives in tremendous gratitude. He sings and dances — that is his prayer. He cries. He simply wonders why, for what has life been given to him, for what has he been allowed to see the rainbows in the sky, for what has he been allowed to see flowers, butterflies, people, rivers and rocks? For what? Because life is so obvious you tend to forget the tremendous gift hidden in it.
4. The only way to show our gratitude to the Master is to help others. If it has been a gracious gift to you, give it to others as a gracious gift. Give it without any idea of giving only then is it gracious. Give it without any idea of reward only then is it gracious. Simply give it for the sheer joy of giving It.

If You are living Joyously, You are a Holy Man.

1. According to me, if you are living joyously, you are a holy man.
2. That is the sign of wisdom: freedom from desire. Only fools desire. Wise people live and live joyously, but without desire. Either you can desire or you can live, you can’t do both. If you desire, you postpone living; if you live, who bothers about desiring? Today is enough unto itself.
3. Life is purposeless. Don’t be shocked. The whole idea of purpose is wrong — it comes out of greed. Life is a sheer joy, a playfulness, a fun, a laughter, to no purpose at all. Life is its own end, it has no other end. The moment you understand it you have understood what meditation is all about. It is living your life joyously, playfully, totally, and with no purpose at the end, with no purpose in view, no purpose there at all. Just like small children playing on the sea beach, collecting seashells and coloured stones — for what purpose? There is no purpose at all.
4. My effort here is to help you to worship life, to live so joyously, with such humor, that your life becomes a dance. I don’t want you to become sad and serious — sincere of course, but serious, never. I would like you to go deeper into existence. Dance with the flowers! Have dialogues with the stars! Look into people’s eyes and love and don’t hold back. The only unspiritual people are those who are holding back, who are living in a miserly way, who are living only partially, fragmentarily, who are not integrated.

Drugs cannot give you reality

1. Drugs cannot give you reality. They can only give you very beautiful dreams.
2. With meditation, whatsoever is attained remains with you. If you stop the technique you will not proceed further, but whatever you have attained will remain with you. It cannot be lost; a real growth can never be lost. It is not something added to you that you can lose. It is you who has grown.
3. This beingness is the vertical dimension. Through this beingness, you jump into the unknown, into the divine. And unless one jumps into this non-historical, non-temporal moment, one has not known what life is.
4. Life is not serious. You are serious. Life is not anything serious; nothing can be more nonserious than life. Life is absolutely nonserious!

osho quotes and sayings

1. If one can know what god is, one need not know anything else, and if one knows everything else and has not come across god, all that is just absurd, meaningless; it is not going to take you anywhere.
2. Only silence communicates the truth as it is.
3. It is only out of totality that suddenly you feel the presence of God all around you. But the irony is that the split has been created by your so-called saints, priests and churches. In fact the priest has been the greatest enemy of God on the earth.
4. Don’t have likes and dislikes. Be just, be fair, don’t decide through your prejudices, your likes and dislikes. Just decide the case on its own merit, and your life will have the beauty of truth, your life will have the strength of truth.

If you do it totally, it becomes meditation

• Osho – Be total in everything that you are doing. What you are doing is immaterial. Cleaning the floor, cooking the food, taking a shower — it doesn’t matter what you are doing. My emphasis is not on what you have to do, my emphasis is on how you do it. If you do it totally, it becomes meditation. Even if you do meditation half-heartedly it is not meditation.
• Chopping wood can be meditation if done totally, carrying water from the well can be meditation if done totally. Otherwise one can go on sitting in a Buddha posture for years — if it is not total it is useless; one is simply wasting time. Spring will come but the grass will not grow. The grass does not grow because of spring, it grows because of your totality. What can the poor spring do to it?

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Adalah Evely Paswall yang berani menuntut perusahaan sebesar Apple dengan jumlah nominal hingga USD 1 juta atau sekitar Rp 9 miliar. Alasannya? Karena Nenek Paswall harus mengalami patah hidung saat masuk ke dinding kaca di Apple Store yang terletak di Long Island, Amerika Serikat.

Pintu kaca yang berkesan futuristik di toko Apple itu sebenarnya bukan kali ini saja memakan korban. Dua orang sebelumnya juga mengalami hal serupa. Apple sendiri sudah memperingatkan akan bahaya di pintunya itu dengan menempelkan sebuah stiker peringatan. Sayangnya itu belum berhasil.

10 Alasan Blog Lebih Penting Daripada Facebook

Facebook mungkin menyenangkan, namun ngeblog jauh lebih bermanfaat. Bagaimanapun bila anda seorang pebisnis, membentuk brand melalui blog lebih aman ketimbang hanya mengandalkan Facebook. Berikut ini alasannya: 

10. Stabilitas

Tampilan Facebook berubah sangat cepat yang membuat anda pusing karena harus menyesuaikan diri lagi. Sedangkan blog lebih stabil, tampilannya dapat anda sesuaikan sesuai yang anda inginkan.

9. Resiko  

Memasarkan produk di Facebook terasa lebih beresiko. Misalnya saja TOS Facebook bisa saja berubah dan tiba-tiba saja produk yang anda jual melanggar peraturan dan hilang sudah investasi kita di Facebook.

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Uddhava Gita Quotes

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  When a person worships Me by his prescribed duties with the hope of gaining material benefit, his nature should be understood to be in passion, and one who worships Me with the desire to commit violence against others is in ignorance.
   
• Work performed as an offering to Me, without consideration of the fruit, is considered to be in the mode of goodness. Work performed with a desire to enjoy the results is in the mode of passion. And work impelled by violence and envy is in the mode of ignorance.
   
• Because of absorption in sense gratification, one cannot recognize himself or others. Living uselessly in ignorance like a tree, one is merely breathing just like a bellows.

Uddhava Gita Quotes

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  One who has transcended material good and evil automatically acts in accordance with religious injunctions and avoids forbidden activities. The self-realized person does this spontaneously, like an innocent child, and not because he is thinking in terms of material good and evil.
   
• When a person living in a temporary material body tries to construct a happy home, the result is fruitless and miserable.
   
• Whoever indulges in praising or criticizing the qualities and behavior of others will quickly become deviated from his own best interest by his entanglement in illusory dualities.
   
• Those ignorant of their real self-interest are wandering on the path of material existence, gradually heading toward darkness.

Uddhava Gita Quotes

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  Actual heaven is the predominance of the mode of goodness, whereas hell is the predominance of ignorance
   
• The yogi who has taken shelter of Me remains free from hankering because he experiences the happiness of the soul within. Thus while executing this process of yoga, he is never defeated by obstacles.
   
• The material universe that you perceive through your mind, speech, eyes, ears and other senses is an illusory creation that one imagines to be real due to the influence of maya (illusion). In fact, you should know that all of the objects of the material senses are temporary.

Ribhu Gita Quotes and Sayings

• Abide as That in which there is neither desire nor anger, neither greed nor delusion, neither ill-will nor pride, no impurities of mind and no false notions of bondage and liberation - and be always happy, free from all traces of thought.
   
• Abide as That in which there are no concepts or anything else whatsoever, the ego ceases to exist, all desires disappear, the mind becomes extinct and all confusions come to an end - and with the firm conviction that you are That, be always happy.
   
• Abide as That in which there are no Holy Scriptures or sacred books, no one who thinks, no objection or answer to it, no theory to be established, no theory to be rejected, nothing other than one Self - and be always happy, free from the least trace of thought.

Upanishads Quotes and Sayings

• Knowing that great and all-pervading Self by which one sees (the objects) both in the sleep and the waking states, the intelligent man grieves no more. - Katha Upanishad
   
• In order to realize the Self, renounce everything. Having cast off all (objects), assimilate yourself to that which remains. - Annapurna Upanishad
   
• Dissolve the self in the supreme Self as the pot-space is dissolved in infinite space; then, as the Infinite be silent for ever, O sage! – Adhyatma Upanishad
   
• Liberated from the grip of egoism, like the moon (after the eclipse), full, ever blissful, self-luminous, one attains one’s essence. – Adhyatma Upanishad

Membangun Harmoni ?

Harmoni, pada hakekat nya merupakan suasana yang menggambarkan keselarasan atau keserasian dalam proses kehidupan. Sebut saja antara Pemerintah dengan rakyat. Bangsa yang menjunjung tinggi nilai-nilai keharmonian tidak mungkin akan terjadi "perbedaan sikap" antara Pemerintah dengan warga bangsa nya. Tidak akan ada juga aksi unjuk rasa yang menuntut agar Presiden nya mundur dari jabatan, karena dianggap tidak mampu lagi menjalankan amanah rakyat. Bahkan tidak perlu terjadi perdebatan kusir diantara sesama "wakil rakyat" di televisi, yang semakin membuat bingung masyarakat.

   Lalu, kenapa hal-hal yang digambarkan diatas malah terjadi dalam kehidupan kita sehari-hari ? Mengapa para mahasiswa kita terekam begitu getol melakukan aksi demonstrasi ? Protes keras mahasiswa menolak kenaikan harga bahan bakar minyak (BBM) yang bakal diberlakukan mulai 1 April 2012 misal nya, ternyata tidak hanya marak dan berlangsung di ibu kota negara semata, namun hal yang sama berlangsung pula di ibu kota Provinsi. Hebat nya lagi, mahasiswa yang kuliah di kampus-kampus yang berada di ibu kota Kabupaten/Kota pun terlihat tidak mau ketinggalan.

Ambivalen ?

Ambivalen seringkali dimaknai sebagai "dua perasaan yang bertentangan". Sebagai sebuah sikap, ambivalen kerapkali dilekatkan terhadap orang yang dinilai tidak memiliki prinsip. Menclak-menclok. Mendua. Tidak mempunyai jati diri. Bahkan tidak salah juga jika dikatakan "kanan-kiri OK". Seorang sahabat pernah menyatakan orang yang ambivalen cenderung ingin enak nya saja, namun tidak mau menanggung kerugian nya. Hal semacam ini biasa nya akan tampak jelas jika kita kaitkan dengan fenomena yang sekarang ini tengah menjadi perbincangan publik, yakni soal surat Partai Keadilan dan Sejahtera (PKS) kepada Presiden Sby yang dinilai sementara pihak sebagai sikap yang tidak konsisten dari salah satu anggota Koalisi Partai pendukung Pemerintah.

   Apa sebetul nya isi surat yang cukup menghebohkan itu ? Benarkah PKS menolak rencana kenaikan harga Bahan Bakar Minyak (BBM) yang sekarang ini sudah ditetapkan Pemerintah dan tinggal meminta persetujuan DPR ? Atau kah ada persepsi lain dari perancang yang mengirimkan surat kepada Presiden Sby diatas ? Lalu, mengapa ada petinggi Partai Demokrat yang seolah-olah terkesan kebakaran jenggot dengan manuver politik nya PKS tersebut ? Lebih aneh lagi, ternyata ada pula yang meminta agar PKS keluar saja dari Koalisi sekira nya tidak mau untuk taat asas atas keputusan yang telah ditetapkan Koalisi.

Nasib Nelayan ?

Di negeri ini, total jumlah nelayan tercatat sekitar 2,7 juta jiwa dengan jumlah kapal 590.000 unit. Sebanyak 99,4 % atau 586.000 kapal berbobot mati di bawah 30 GT. Meskipun jumlah nelayan dengan kapal diatas 30 GT hanya 0,6 % hal itu dapat mempekerjakan puluhan ribu buruh nelayan. Dibandingkan dengan warga bangsa lain nya, kaum nelayan merupakan kelompok masyarakat yang kondisi kehidupan nya sangat memilukan. Bukan saja kaum nelayan dianggap sebagai warga bangsa yang kehidupan nya masih terjerat suasana hidup miskin, namun sebagai resiko dari posisi nya yang demikian, nelayan pun terbilang sebagai warga bangsa yang tingkat pendidikan nya relatif rendah, derajat kesehatan nya lemah dan daya beli ekonomi nya pun tercatat rendah.

    Di sisi lain, nelayan sering dijadikan potret warga bangsa yang pantas disebut "korban pembangunan". Dengan posisi tawar nya yang lemah terhadap berbagai akses kehidupan, kaum nelayan cenderung terposisikan menjadi obyek ketimbang mampu tampil menjadi subyek dalam proses pembangunan. Oleh karena itu, kalau saja kita sudah berani bicara soal nasib nelayan, maka yang sangat penting untuk dilakukan adalah mampukah kita merubah nasib kaum nelayan ke arah yang lebih seirama dengan cita-cita kita memproklamirkan negeri ini ?

Petani dan Panen Raya ?

Petani, kini sedang nelangsa. Saat panen yang dinantikan, sungguh di luar bayangan nya. Ini sebetul nya yang paling ditakutkan. Panen raya padi berlangsung diiringi hujan. Petani pasti akan menjerit. Bila panen diiringi hujan, tentu akan menyebabkan kadar air gabah menjadi tinggi. Padahal, pada waktu panen berlangsung, para petani sangat berharap agar cuaca sedang cerah-cerah nya, sehingga para petani dapat menjemur gabah agar diperoleh gabah kering panen dan gabah kering giling yang diimpikan. Gabah dengan kadar air yang rendah, jelas  akan membuat harga di tingkat petani menjadi tinggi. Syukut-syukur harga nya dapat jauh di atas Harga Pembelian Pemerintah (HPP).

   Bulan Maret dan April 2012 adalah saat-saat puncak berlangsung nya panen padi. Petani senantiasa berpengharapan agar cuaca yang ada senantiasa menunjukkan keberpihakan nya. Sebab, walau pun iklim ekstrim yang terjadi selama ini sangat sulit untuk dikendalikan, bukan berarti kita tidak memiliki solusi. Salah satu langkah yang dapat disiapkan dengan cerdas adalah sampai sejauh mana kita mampu mengoptimalkan dukungan teknologi pengeringan dengan optimal ? Persoalan ini sangat penting untuk dicermati, karena kalau kita berkehendak untuk melakukan perlindungan dan pembelaan terhadap petani, maka pada kondisi seperti inilah keterlibatan kita sangat dimintakan.

Silence is the Language of God

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  As your remembrance deepens, as your awareness becomes clear, as you dissolve into your witnessing, the buddha spontaneously arises -- in your actions, in your words, in your silences.
  
• Bliss is eternal; it is not a temporal phenomenon. Bliss does not happen in time; it happens beyond time, thousands of miles away from time.
  
• if you love silence
  if you love aloneness
  if you love just to be within yourself
  if you want and desire to forget the whole
  and all its worries
  if you feel the world is too much with you
  then meditation is your way

Ogo-ogo

• Ogoh-ogoh are statues built for the Ngrupuk parade, which takes place on the eve of Nyepi day in Bali-Indonesia. Ogoh-ogoh normally have form of mythological beings, mostly demons. As with many creative endeavours based on Balinese Hinduism, the creation of Ogoh-ogoh represents spiritual aims inspired by Hindu philosophy.

• The main purpose of the making of Ogoh-ogoh is the purification of the natural environment of any spiritual pollutants emitted from the activities of living beings (especially humans). The forms of Ogoh-ogoh represent the Bhuta-Kala (Bhuta: eternal energy, Kala: eternal time), according to Hindu teachings. The imperceptible potentials of nature cannot be thoroughly explored by anyone. Philosophically, civilized men are required to manage the natural resources without damaging the environment itself.