< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium And remember that sannyas is a new birth, the beginning of something mysterious in life, something that is very elusive. There is no way to argue it, to prove it, but it is. And unless it starts having its impact on you, your life goes on missing the meaning. Once the unknown has penetrated you, life has meaning, and only then....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, virochan is one of the names of Gautam the Buddha. Literally it means ‘the shining one’. Love radiates, love is light. Whenever there is love in the heart, it shines like a sun inside. And it is not only that you can see the light, but anyone who is ready to receive it will be able to see it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 21 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Nirvana means the ultimate enlightenment, the state when the ego disappears, when man is no more separate from existence – not even a thin curtain separates him, not even a transparent glass separates him – when all separation disappears. That meeting with the total, that merger with the whole, that melting into the absolute, is called nirvana....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 22 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, sadhano means on the path of. It is a very pregnant word – it can mean the form, the practice, the discipline, and all the three are involved. Love is a path to be followed, to be lived. Love is a practice, an art to be imbibed, a knack to be grown....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 23 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, nitamo means virtue – divine virtue. There is a virtue which is nothing but a social formality, it is just social convenience. It differs from age to age, country to country – it has nothing to do with the ultimate law; it is arbitrary. It is just like the rules of the game – if you want to play the game you have to follow the rules – or like the rules of traffic: ‘Keep to the left....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 24 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, amito means limitless, infinity, unbounded – divine unboundedness. And that’s how existence is. All limitations are our imagination, because things are not separate; things are parts of each other. You see the tree – it seems so separate standing there alone in the field; it is not. Its roots are in the earth, it is part of the earth....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 25 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, nartaka means dancer – a divine dancer. Dance, to me, is closest to the divine, because dance is the most existential activity. Thinking is farthest from existence. Dance is closest. And between the two is singing – singing is half- half; half thinking, half dancing. Thinking creates a barrier between you and existence; dancing dissolves that barrier....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 26 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, vidroha means rebellion – divine rebellion. Religion is rebellion, and if it is not rebellion, then it is not religion. It is never conformity, it is never convention. Christ is religious because he is a rebel. Christianity is not religion because it is nothing but conformity. Buddha is a rebel, but Buddhism is not....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 27 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, anupa means unique. And each individual is unique; they are not a repetition of anybody else. And one should not ever imitate. Learn but never imitate. Learn from the whole existence, but never try to become a carbon copy. That is the only way to reach to god. Only when you are yourself can you reach....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 28 July 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Krishna is one of the incarnations of god. The Hindu concept of god coming to earth is not like the Christian – not that god has only one son, not that god only comes in one form, as Christ: god comes in many forms, god comes in every age. God comes in every country, every time, because god is not yet in a state of becoming careless towards man, and will never be....