< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means God, Gulam means a slave – a slave of God. And that is the highest peak of freedom. When one disappears into God, one becomes a slave on the one hand and on the other one becomes God Himself. Looked at from the human standpoint it is a slavery because you don’t have a will of your own any more....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had previously written to Osho about getting money from her parents to be financially viable while in the commune. Osho tells her to go back and play the game with them. She says sometimes she is afraid of them.] No, I will help you. Once you understand that something is a game, it is never heavy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A woman, with a six-year-old child, takes sannyas. She says she is worried about her child who is very closed.] She is a born meditator! Don’t make a problem out of it. Allow her her own space. Let it be so: if she enjoys being inside herself, allow it. Don’t force and drag her out, that will be destructive....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means God, Viramo means interval, pause, period. God is in the interval, in the pause between two words, two thoughts, two desires, two emotions, two feelings – wherever there is a pause: between sleep and waking or between waking and sleep, in the pause; between body and soul, in the interval. When love turns into hate, the pause when it is no more love, it is not yet hate....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin is leaving with her two children. She says: I really love you, and I feel a lot has happened here.] And this love is such that it is going to grow every day – it knows no end. Love remains only if it goes on growing. Remember, the moment it stops, it starts dying....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin was leaving to start a new job but wonders if he should finish things there and return as soon as possible.] Just finish things there and come back, because things have started moving. Now much more is on the way; it is not the time to get into anything else. You have come to the final trip so there are no other trips left!...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Nasim means the morning breeze, just before the sunrise – that particular breeze. It is a metaphor for purity, freshness, aliveness. And a man has to be that purity, that aliveness, that early morning freshness. Only through that freshness can God be contacted. People are very very dusty: they go on gathering dust, they are dust collectors....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, Mudra has many meanings. The most fundamental meaning is gesture, the literal meaning is gesture. God happens in a certain gesture, in a certain state of mind, in a certain state of body when everything is in tune and all is harmonious, when there is no conflict within and no fragmentation either....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, who is leaving with his wife and child, says he has been feeling negative about India and the ashram – maybe because he just recovered from hepatitis.] It is natural: sometimes the negative comes. In fact, it is a miracle that the positive also comes sometimes, because the negative is the natural state of the mind....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 April 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Veeno means a musical instrument – a musical instrument of love. Man’s heart is a musical instrument, it contains great music. It is asleep but it is there, waiting for the right moment to be struck, to be expressed, to be sung, to be danced. And it is through love that that moment arrives....