Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast

Talks given from 1/2/78 to 28/2/78 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, ullas means celebration. And that has to be the key for you: celebration has to become your religion. Misery is sin; sadness, seriousness, are companions of misery. Joy is virtue, and all that helps joy should be nourished, cherished, invited. Let your life be integrated at the centre of celebration. Only choose that which is celebrating, joyous....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, niyati means destiny – bliss destiny. And that is everybody’s destiny: the destiny of rocks, of trees, of animals, of birds, of man, of stars. We arise out of bliss; that is our source, and we are searching for the source again. Everything moves back to its own source because only back in the source is there rest....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, narangu means the orange colour – blissful orange (a wave of appreciative laughter). And orange is a very significant metaphor. It means many things, but the most fundamental is that red is the colour of life, yellow is the colour of death, and orange is just in the middle of both....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, satori means insight – insight into love. And the insight into love is the window into god. If one can understand what love is, one has started moving towards god. Love is the first glimpse, the first flower of spring. The coming of the first flower heralds the spring, announcing that it will be here soon....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A couple and their baby are present. The mother says: I feel much more relaxed. In the last ten days or so I realised how much tension I usually carry and I just keep telling myself I need to relax more and more.] Mm, if one starts taking note of the tension it starts disappearing....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, mouna means silence. And silence is going to help you tremendously, so drop as much inner talk as possible. Start renouncing thoughts, don’t get identified with them. Start creating a distance between you and the constantly moving traffic of thought. Neglect, ignore, be indifferent to them. Let them be there as uninvited guests if they want....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The tantra group is present. One participant said she was sick and had many pains. She had been a devotee of a swami in Rishikesh for three years. She had served him, become pregnant by him and had an abortion. She still loves him and is afraid of him. She would prefer to remain in Poona....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god, surati means remembrance – remembrance of god. God has not to be searched for but only remembered; because we have not lost him, he is not to be found. We have simply forgotten him; he is just to be remembered. God is there within you, but you are asleep. The moment you awake, you are god....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, girisha means of the mountains – bliss of the mountains. Mountains represent that which is natural, that which is ancientmost and yet as fresh as dewdrops. Mountains represent the silence, the eternal silence, of existence, the height of ecstasy and a depth. Mountains are the most mysterious things in the world; and those mountains exist within you....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 February 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, nisha means night. The night is just ending, the dawn is entering. The night is taking itself away. We cannot do anything to disperse it; it comes and goes on its own. But we can do one thing: even when the morning is there, already there, and the sun has risen, we may not open our eyes; then inside us the night still continues....