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‌CHAPTER 15

15 May 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

[To Bob, Osho adds Anand – making him the blissful and shining one.]

Bliss has its own luminosity, it shines forth. You cannot hide it: it is like a lamp lit; it will show, it will shine, it will declare itself. Of course, utterly silent is its declaration. Non-aggressive is its declaration. but it cannot remain unmanifested. It has to be manifested; that is inevitable.

That is one of the most essential qualities of bliss. Misery you can hide; bliss you cannot. And there is no need to either – it has to be shared, it has to be danced, it has to be sung.

[Zarl is just fourteen.]

Veet means going beyond, transcending, surpassing. Zarl comes from Persian: it means thunder. Going beyond all thunder, all storm – that is the meaning of your name. Mind is constantly in a state of storm, turmoil; it is never silent. And because it is always noisy, always cloudy we go on missing the still, small voice within. God does not shout, he whispers, he speaks in silence.

Silence is the only way to commune with God, and one has to put all the storms, turmoils of the mind aside. One has to learn the art of turning the mind off. It need not be on for twenty-four hours a day. One has not to destroy it – it is a beautiful instrument to be used – but one should be the master; the machine should not be the master. And mastery means that you should be capable of turning it on and off. If you cannot turn it off then you are not the master. Then it goes of its own accord; it doesn’t care about you.

The whole art of sannyas is in creating the mastery, the inner mastery. One has to become so masterful that when one wants immediately one can say to the mind “Keep quiet” and it keeps quiet. Once you know the art the mind becomes very obedient.

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And this is the right time to start learning because when people start late in life first they have to unlearn many things. You are young enough; you have not yet learned many stupid things, so much garbage is not there. You can easily move into meditation.

Dance, sing, and try to lose yourself, try to become one with the dance. Then suddenly there will be moments when you see that you are capable, you are infinitely powerful. There will be moments when you know that you are the master. You are not and the mastery is. You are absolutely not there, no ego exists, but now if you say “Shut up” the mind immediately disappears. You can call it forth, it comes back.

Once vou know how it happens... it is a knack; one knows only by knowing, there is no other way to know it... once you have known it your life will have a totally different flavor, a different meaning. You will not miss the beauty, the benediction, of life.

Anand means bliss, Anna has many meanings: grace, mercy, compassion, prayer, but I will choose compassion for you. That has to become your path: be a blissful compassion to each and everybody. On all that exists just shower your compassion, on the trees and on the rocks, on the animals and on people, with no discrimination of good or bad, on the sinner and on the saint, with no judgment of right and wrong, because compassion cannot judge, because compassion cannot condemn.

Compassion is unconditional. It only knows how to give. It never thinks to whom – whomsoever is available, whomsoever is ready to take, whomsoever is receptive. It goes on sowing seeds of love, of bliss, of godliness, all around, utterly unconcerned about the results.

Once one can get in tune with such a state of compassion one falls in tune with God because God is such a compassion. Hence I say that this is your path: be compassionate, blissfully compassionate.

[A sannyasin says: I don’t totally trust anybody except for you, and I’m leaving.]

I will be coming with you! You can go but you cannot leave me because I will not leave you even if you try to leave. Don t be worried, no need to worry.

Even if you can trust one person in your life that’s enough. That is enough of a door for God. One need not have a very big door; just a small door will do. And when you have tasted the nectar of trust you will start trusting many many more people. Even unawares you will start trusting people who are going to deceive you and you know that they are going to deceive you. But when one knows the beauty of trust one does not bother about whether people will deceive or exploit or take advantage; one does not care. Trust in itself is such a joy, an end unto itself.

This is enough: if you trust me, that is enough. And miracles are going to happen through it! [A sannyasin says she has started working in the ashram.]

Working? That’s very good! Just get lost in me. Don’t leave even a trace behind; simply evaporate. That’s the only way to be with me and that is the only way of finding yourself. By losing oneself one finds; by trying to save one loses.

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