< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Narayana means God – love is God. And all else is just pseudo. All that goes on in the name of religion is just counterfeit... except love. Love is the real phenomenon that transforms. All else is just ritual. The ritual pacifies, consoles, but does not transmute. People need it, it is a kind of tranquilliser....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Samarpano. It means absolute surrender, utter let-go. The mind is always in conflict with something or other; it needs conflict to exist. It can exist only in conflict and through conflict. It is a constant war, it is violence. It either fights with others or it starts fighting with itself, but one thing is certain about it, that it cannot exist without fight....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, Vivarta means argument. Truth is beyond argument. It cannot be proved, it cannot be disproved either. All argumentation about truth is utterly futile. Hence philosophy goes on missing the point. That’s the difference between philosophy and religion: philosophy argues, religion experiences. Through argument you go about and about, round and round in circles, but you never penetrate the core of the problem....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving, asks if Osho has anything to say to him. Osho asks him which meditation he likes best. He replies: Kundalini. Osho checks his energy.] Kundalini can still go very deep but you have not allowed it as totally as possible. You are enjoying it but you have not been allowing it totally....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says his wife, who was a sannyasin, is with a master they knew before, and he feels to join her. He has many doubts which he wants to expose... ] Nothing to be worried about. It is always good to be exposed to doubts. It strengthens you, it becomes a challenge. And if you trust because you are not exposed to doubts, that trust is not of much value....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of Swami Samma: one who comes to effortlessness through effort, one who comes to surrender through will.] First you will have to go deep in effort, you will have to do all that can be done, all that is humanly possible. Only when you have done all that is humanly possible will you be able to drop it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho explains the meaning of subiro: the courageous one. The inner journey needs great courage, first because you are alone there, you cannot take anybody with you. Secondly, the deeper you go inside, the more you start disappearing; it is a kind of death.] Devaraj means: the divine king. And I declare you, this moment, a divine king as everybody else is too....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Ramen. It is a name of God. Remember it: respect yourself, love yourself, worship yourself because deep inside God is residing. We are temples of God. Only the forms are different, the shapes and sizes of the temples are different, but the deity that resides inside is the same. There is only one God....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A mother and nine-year-old daughter are present. She tells Osho she has done a Woman’s Lib type group in the West.] I will take you out of your womanhood and manhood both! One has to go beyond both because both are imprisonment. One should not be so attached to the biology. One should start freeing oneself from biology, then from psychology and then ultimately even from spirituality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, Arpana means surrender – divine surrender. There is a surrender which one can manage; that is a human surrender. It is surrender only for the name’s sake because the door remains the human mind and anything that is done by the human mind cannot be surrender. Deeply hidden behind, the controller is still existing and if at any moment the mind decides it wants to, the surrender will disappear, it can be taken back....