Glimpses of a Golden Childhood

Talks given from 1984 Miscellaneous

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 46 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was talking about my primary school. I rarely went, and it was such a relief to everybody that I wanted to give it to them as much as possible. Why could I not give them one hundred percent relief? For the simple reason that I loved them too – I mean the people: the teachers, the servants, the gardeners....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 47 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was talking about my visits to school. Yes, I call them visits because they were certainly not attendance. I was only there to create some mischief. In a strange way I have always loved to be involved in some mischievous act. Perhaps it was the beginning of how I was to be for my whole life....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 48 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. I was just trying to remember the man. I can see his face, but perhaps I never bothered about his name so I don’t remember it. I will tell you the whole story. My Nani, seeing that I was unteachable, and sending me to school was just creating trouble, tried to convince my family, my father and mother, but nobody was ready to listen to her....

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< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 49 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA It is good that I cannot see, but I know what is going on. But what can you do? You have to follow your own technology, and with a man like me, naturally you are in a great difficulty. I am tied and can’t help you. Ashu, can you do something? Just a little laughter on your side will help him keep quiet....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I was talking about the death of my Nana, my grandfather. Just now I remembered that he never had to go to a dentist. What a fortunate man! He died with all his teeth intact. And look at me. When you were examining my teeth I heard you say that one is missing. That may be why I am so hard: thirty-one teeth instead of thirty-two....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Okay. My okay is a little sad because Ashu is sad, and the membership of this Noah’s Ark is so small that just one person being sad is enough to change the whole atmosphere. She is sad because her lover is gone and may not be back. Do you remember a few days ago I asked her, “Where is your love, Ashu?...

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Devageet, when you sometimes say “Okay” to Ashu, I misunderstand: I think it is okay to me. That’s why she laughs. But still I say, deep within me there is nothing but laughter. You can anesthetize my body, everything, but not me. That is beyond you. That is the case with you too. Your innermost core is beyond all chemicals and chemistry....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA I have been talking about an incident that is absolutely important in order to understand my life and its workings... and it is still alive for me.… By the way, I was saying I can still remember, but the word “remember” is not right. I can still see the whole incident happening. Of course I was just a young child, but that does not mean that what I said is not to be taken seriously....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 1984 in Lao Tzu House, Rajneeshpuram, USA Time cannot go back, but mind can. What a wastage – to give such a mind, which cannot forget anything whatsoever, to a man who not only has become a no-mind, but also preaches to others to drop the mind. As far as my mind is concerned – remember, my mind, not me – it is as much a mechanism as the one being used here....