< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 If you can accept your ignorance your life will have the quality of magic 4 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, and agyana means ignorance; divine ignorance. And this has to be understood. All knowledge is superfluous. Knowledge as such is superfluous. And all knowledge creates only an illusion that we know – we don’t know. You can live with a man your whole life, and you can think that you know him – and you don’t know him....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 Only the Innocent can be Blissful 14 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, happiness, and abodha means innocence; innocent bliss. And remember this – that bliss is never knowledgeable, and a man of knowledge is never blissful. Only innocent people can be blissful, only children can be blissful. Those who don’t know, only they can be blissful. The more you know, the less is the possibility of being blissful....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 Just have a Taste of Ignorance and You will have a Taste of Me 15 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, and prateeka means symbol; beyond the symbol or beyond the symbolical. And it has to be understood. Ordinarily people live through the symbol, they have forgotten the real. They cling to the symbol, so much so that the symbol becomes the barrier to the real....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 The Deeper you go into Feeling the Deeper you Understand the Language of God 16 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and bhavana means feeling; feeling of bliss. And it has to be remembered that bliss is not a thought, but a feeling. It has nothing to do with the head – it has something to do with your totality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 Nature Can Become a Stepping Stone to God 17 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, manglam means blessing... and that’s how I look at life – it is a divine blessing. Many people think so negatively about life that it almost looks like a curse. And there are philosophies that think that life is an accident... meaningless. If one starts looking that way, life becomes that way, because your outlook is going to become your reality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 Knowing is not of the Mind It is an Experience or rather, Experiencing 18 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and sita means coolness; divine coolness. So become cool, and just surround yourself with the feeling of coolness. Don’t get heated up. Whenever you catch yourself getting heated up, relax immediately. Exhale deeply and you will suddenly feel cool....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 Only you can give the Gift of Bliss to yourself 19 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Atma means self, and anand means bliss; self bliss. And by self is not meant the ego. By self is meant your innermost core which is absolutely egoless – your pure self, uncontaminated by the idea of ‘I’... undefined by the idea of ‘I’....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 If you Know how to Receive the Answer then just Being Close to me the Question Diappears 21 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A therapist says that the psychiatrist he works for in the West will not accept Osho’s techniques in his groups. He will talk to him about it again on his return.] No, that won’t help your work, and that won’t help you, because then your work is completely destroyed....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 There is no Need to Renounce Anything if You can Renounce Knowledge 22 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, prashna means question – the divine question or the divine quest. And remember that the question is the most important thing. The answer is futile, foolish, false. The question is real, because behind your question is hidden the real answer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 If you are Interested in your Total Transformation I am Totally Available 23 December 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, god, and arpitam means surrendered to – surrendered to god. And the meaning of surrender is not that you surrender your self – you surrender only your ego. The self cannot be surrendered – only the ego, the false entity that appears to be you, has to be surrendered....