< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Maria comes from Hebrew; it means rebellion. And rebellion is the very flavor of sannyas, rebellion is my message. But remember the distinction – and the distinction is great – between rebellion and revolution. Revolution is an organized effort; rebellion is individual. Revolution becomes automatically political; rebellion remains religious, rebellion is part of spirituality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Gudrun means divine wisdom. Wisdom is not knowledge. It has nothing to lo with knowing. It is a feeling, and ultimately it is being. These are three planes: knowing, feeling, being. Knowing is the most superficial, feeling is in the middle, and being is at the very core. Ultimately wisdom is being, but in the beginning it is feeling, moving towards being....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Vedant means that which is beyond scriptures; Satyam means truth. The full name will mean truth which is beyond scriptures. Truth is not something that can be described. Truth is not a theory: it is an experience, an experience so deep, so tremendously intense, so infinite, so mysterious, that no word is adequate to explain it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he is trying to live up to his new name: Now I feel very happy and hope I am strong enough to do it in Germany.] Good! Sometimes small changes can bring great changes. Just a small pebble in the lake can create millions of ripples. Life is so interconnected that they say if you destroy a small leaf of grass even the faraway stars are affected....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium First a few words to the mediums and the others also... Albert Einstein is reported to have said that life’s most incomprehensible thing is that it is comprehensible. Yes, there are moments when life is comprehensible – very rare moments, peaks of consciousness. Ordinarily life is incomprehensible. There is no way to figure it out, you cannot make any head nor tail of it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Derek means ruler. Let love rule your life, let love be the ruler. Let everything else be just the supreme God of love. There is no other God. All other gods are just myths, inventions of man out of fear and greed. All other gods are false, fictitious. But love is not man’s invention; love is natural....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, Shastro means scriptures. Truth is beyond all scriptures, beyond all words, beyond all theories, philosophies. That is one of the most fundamental things to remember because man gets lost in words, and words can prove very dangerous, very fascinating, very alluring, very hypnotizing. The word “God” has become so important that people are ready to die for it or to kill for it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium This is your new name: Swami Anand Prartho. Anand means blissful, Prartho means prayer. The word “prayer” comes from the same root as Prartho – a blissful prayer. And that is the most incredible thing that can happen in life to a man. Even love is not that far out; even love falls short, even love remains human....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Enough of war! Man has lived too much in violence. The time has come, it is absolutely the right time to take the quantum leap from war to love. Either man decides to take the quantum leap or he’ll have to commit suicide. Only love can save him. War is utterly meaningless today. In the past it was not so meaningless because it was not total....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Man is a bridge, a bridge between the animal and God, a bridge between two infinities – matter and consciousness. Man is not a being but a bridge. A being is complete; man is not complete. Man has to become bridged, man has to go a long way yet. Man is only a passage to be passed over, to be surpassed....