< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, Madhyama means the middle – the divine middle. The extreme is the disease, and the mind lives through the extremes. The mind always thinks in terms of either/or, and reality is just exactly in the middle. It is never either/or; it is both/and. It is neither day nor night, neither life nor death, neither body nor soul....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says he has been on many paths and doesn’t know if he should follow the path of will or surrender – if it would help to clarify this.] You have not followed anything up to now. It was just a game that you were in. First pass through a few group therapies then I will decide what path you can follow....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Geet means song – a song of love. Life is barren unless the song of love arises in you. Life cannot become a fulfilment unless the song of love happens. Life in itself remains meaningless. It is love that gives meaning to it. Make love as deep as possible; that very depth becomes God one day....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, Kali is a name of the mother goddess. The name is very significant. It comes from the root ‘kal’; kal means time, and ali means one who eats time, who destroys time. And that is the whole process of meditation: to go beyond time, to go beyond the past, the present, the future....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A couple with their child take sannyas. The mother asks about her relationship with the child: I get very emotionally involved around him – I find it hard to remain in my centre.] Love is really going out of your centre. Love means getting involved, love means getting lost, love means losing yourself in the other....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin and her three-year-old son are present. She says her energy is divided between what she wants to do in the ashram and what her son demands. She says she is scared of some violence which is surfacing.] Love always contains some violence. The people who say ‘Make love not war’ are right, but when you make love, war comes in....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bodhi means enlightenment, awakening, awareness, intelligence, prem means love – love for enlightenment. And there is a deep search in you, very deep; you may not be even aware of it. It is not part of your conscious mind. Some rumours may be reaching to the conscious mind but it is rooted in the deep unconscious and not only in the unconscious but in what Jungians call the ‘collective unconscious’....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks if fasting would be of any valve to him.] No need for long fasts but small fasts will be good just once in a while for not more than twenty hours, not more than twice a month. Don’t go on long fasts – that is destructive to the body – but once in a while, after two weeks, you can go on a one-day fast....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Vasanto means spring – love spring. And the spring has come. That’s what sannyas is all about. In India orange is the colour of the spring. It is the colour of joy, youth, newness, love, life, celebration. In the spring nature celebrates, but it can celebrate only in spring. It is an unconscious phenomenon....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Jaya means victory, dip means light – light of victory. And it is not the victory that comes from the outside, because that victory brings only darkness and nothing else. The victory that brings light comes from within. It is not conquering the other, it is conquering oneself. And I use the expression ‘conquering oneself’ very hesitatingly because in fact it is not a conquering at all: there is nobody to be conquered, there are not two persons inside....