Glimpses of a Golden Childhood

Talks given from 1984 Miscellaneous

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 37 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. We are only at the second day of my primary school. It is going to be like that. Every day opens up so many things. I have not finished even the second day yet. Today I will do my best to finish it. Life is interlinked, you cannot cut it into neat pieces. It is not a piece of cloth....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 38 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. I wanted to tell you a simple truth, perhaps forgotten for its simplicity; and no religion can practice it because the moment you become part of a religion you are no longer simple nor religious. I wanted to tell you just a very simple thing which I have learned the hard way. Perhaps you are getting it too cheap, and the simple is generally mistaken for the cheap....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 39 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Devageet, I think you are being affected by something. You have to be unaffected. Right? “Right.” Otherwise who is going to write the notes? The writer has to be, at least, the writer. Okay. These tears are for you, that’s why they are on the right side. Ashu missed. A little one is coming on the left for her also....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was telling you of the moment when I met the astrologer who had now become a sannyasin.… I was nearabout fourteen at the time, and with my other grandfather, that is, my father’s father. My real grandfather was no more; he died when I was only seven. The old bhikku, the ex-astrologer, asked me, “I am by profession an astrologer, and by hobby a reader of many things – lines of the hand, of heads, of feet, and so on....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 40 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Chapter 41 Chapter title: None 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. I could not even begin to tell you what I wanted to tell you. Perhaps it was not meant to be, because I tried so many times to bring myself to the point, but in vain, and then everything went sane. But it was a most fruitful session, although nothing was said, and nothing was heard either....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 41 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. What was I telling you? I cannot remember it, remind me. “We were talking about how Morarji Desai and Satyabhakta became your enemies, and the last thing you said was that Morarji Desai had something in his eyes that was slimy and slippery, which you remember.” Good. It is better to not remember it....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 42 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. I have always wondered how God could manage to make this world in only six days. And this world! Perhaps that’s why He called His son Jesus! What a name to give to your own son! He had to punish somebody for what He had done, and there was nobody else available. The Holy Ghost is always absent; he is sitting there on the horse seat, that’s why I told Chetana to vacate it, because to ride a horse with somebody already riding on it is not good....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 43 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was wondering yesterday how God created this world in six days. I was wondering, because I have not yet been able to even go beyond the second day of my primary school. And what a world He created! Perhaps He was a Jew, because only Jews have circulated the idea. Hindus don’t believe in a God, they believe in many gods....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 44 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. The story of Mahatma Gandhi’s death, and Jawaharlal’s bursting into tears on the radio, stunned the whole world. It was not a prepared speech. He was just speaking out of his own heart, and if tears came, what could he do? And if there was a pause, it was not his fault but his greatness....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 45 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. I can begin with the second day in my primary school. How long can it wait? It has already waited too long. The second day was my real entry into the school, because Kantar Master had been thrown out and everybody was joyous. Almost all the children were dancing. I could not believe it, but they told me, “You did not know Kantar Master....