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The Message
Beyond Words

talks on the Kathopanishad

translation from Hindi
कठोपनिषद
Kathopanishad

by Osho

17 talks given live   Nov. 1975
Pune, India

    The Upanishads are unique scriptures on this
    Earth about the mysteries of life, and the
    Kathopanishad is unique amongst all the
    Upanishads. Before we enter into this
    Upanishad, it will be good to understand the
    inner current that is underlying this
    Kathopanishad.

    The first thing is that in this world, one who
    wants to know life must himself go through the
    experience of death. Except for this there is no
    other way.

    To know life one has to learn the art of dying.
    And the one who is afraid of death will remain
    unacquainted with life also, because death is
    the innermost and the most mysterious center of
    life. Only those who enter into death
    consciously, with awareness and a welcoming
    heart, can know this life.

    Everyone dies, but not everyone is able to know
    life just by dying. You have also died many
    times, and there is the fear that you will still be
    dying many times more. But death happens to
    you involuntarily: you do not want to die but you
    have to die. That is why death is a sorrow, a
    pain, an anguish. And the pain of death is so
    intense that the only way to bear it is to become
    unconscious. Hence, just before dying, you
    become unconscious, you go into a coma...

                                                      – Osho
                       The Message Beyond Words, ch. 1
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Chapter Titles

Chapter 1: Death Is the Master

Chapter 2: The Thirst for the Deathless

Chapter 3: Worthy of Truth

Chapter 4: Alight with the Inner Fire

Chapter 5: Never Born, Never Dies

Chapter 6: The One, Indivisible

Chapter 7: The Flowering of Godliness

Chapter 8: Dissolved in the Universal Soul

Chapter 9: This, Is That

Chapter 10: The One Reality

Chapter 11: None Can Transcend It

Chapter 12: This Direct Knowing

Chapter 13: Freedom From Birth and Death

Chapter 14: The Great Death

Chapter 15: Religion Is Desirelessness

Chapter 16: A Trusting Heart

Chapter 17: The Deathless One