< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 15 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and ayama means dimension, the divine dimension. And that is the goal. One has to move into the divine dimension by and by. So become less and less interested in things. Become more interested in persons. Even while relating with things, relate to them as if you are relating with persons....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 29 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and divya means divine, divine love. Remember it. It should not be just a name. It should become a remembrance – that love is divine and that only love is divine, and there is no other door to the divine than love. The more you love, the closer you are to god....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 16 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss or blissful, and sugatta is a name of buddha. Literally it means well gone, because in india we call those people well-gone who are not going to come back again, who are gone forever. They have gone so well that they will not be returning. It is a beautiful term, very significant....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 17 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Someone asks: I feel that different centres have opened in part, but I don’t know which one to go with, to live with. I don’t know which one is best to put more time and energy into.] Think more about love, about the heart. We call that chakra ‘anahata’ in yoga psychology. There are seven chakras, and the anahata is just in the middle; three below it, three above it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 18 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and madira means wine, divine wine. And become that! Be so ecstatic – because if one is not ecstatic, the same energy tends to become negative. If you don’t move into happiness, the same energy becomes unhappiness. It is the same energy. Either you change it into ecstasy or it becomes a depression, a load....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 19 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, the ultimate state of consciousness when there is nothing to be blissful about... just pure bliss, uncaused. That is the difference between bliss and happiness. Happiness needs a cause for it to exist. Bliss needs no cause. And when happiness needs a cause, it can create unhappiness, because the cause is always beyond you; you cannot do anything about it....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 24 20 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin who is an artist, was leaving for a few months to organise some exhibitions for his work. Osho said that his meditation was going well, but into his work he should also try to bring a meditative dimension.] ... just paint with the idea that if somebody looks at the painting, he feels awe, reverence, silence....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 30 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Through a translator, a visitor said he had come to Osho because he needed a friend.] Good... but coming to me is dangerous because it means going away from the personality that you have been up to now. The only way to come closer to me is to die in a certain way. Only then is one reborn....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 31 July 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and bhagwatam means divine, godly. And love is always godly. Howsoever imperfect, it is always godly. You may understand it, you may not understand it, but it is godly. Love is the only proof of god – that he exists. And people who don’t know what love is can never know what god is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 1 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin said he did not want to push himself as Osho had suggested: But I know I have to take risks, I know I have to try new things but... ] If it comes – this urge to try new things, to venture into new styles of being, to go on a journey of the unknown – then follow it!...