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5 May 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been copy-typed. It is for reference purposes only.]

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(To Dolf) -- This is your name: Swami Anand Dolf. Anand means bliss. Dolf means courageous spirit. Bliss is only for the courageous

The coward is destined to live in misery. He cannot get out of it

Not that misery clings to him

But just the contrary: he clings to misery.

The coward is a clinger

He always clings to whatsoever it is He is afraid to let go anything

Even though it is misery. His reasoning is that

Whatsoever is known, will-known is good and whatsoever is unknown is fearful, makes him scared. He always chooses the known

And rejects the unknown.

Misery is known, bliss is unknown. Matter is known, god is unknown. Science is known, religion is unknown. It is only for the courageous spirit

To go beyond the known

And to have a taste of the unknown.

(To Uli) -- This is your name: Swami Svatmo Uli. Svatmo means of the self. Uli means a noble ruler. To rule others is ignoble

To rule others is violence

The rule others is inhuman because

It destroys the other, his freedom, his dignity

Because it reduces the other From a human being into a thing.

Unless you reduce the other into a thing You are never in the possession of him. To be in total possession

You have to destroy his soul.

This is the ugliest act in life one can do Hence the real ruler never rules others.

He rules himself, he is a master of himself. His kingdom is not of this world

His kingdom is not of the outside His kingdom is of the inner.

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(To Renate) -- Your name: Ma Renate. This is a Beautiful name. It exactly defines sannyas,

Renate means born anew -- and that's what sannyas Is all about.

It is a process of rebirth

Of becoming twice-born. The first birth only gives you

A possibility, a potential, an opportunity. The second birth makes the potential actual Transforms the possible into the real.

Only the second birth

Makes the first birth meaningful. Without the second

The fist is a lost opportunity.

With the second the opportunity is fulfilled You have risen to the occasion

You have accepted the challenge of life. The first birth ends into death

The second birth knows no death at all. It leads you into eternal life.

It is the real birth because

It is the beginning of real life.

(To Adelheid) -- This is your name: Ma Abhinava. Abhinava means the new one.

From this moment

Disconnect yourself from the past.

Start counting your life from this moment. After one year you will be only one year old. The life that has passed before

Was just a dream phenomenon. Now you have to awaken

You have to become more alert

More watchful, more conscious -- that's the work A sannyasin has to do upon himself;

It is the most beautiful work. Incredible are the results of it The rewards are unbelievable. Once you have started moving Towards being more conscious

You become more loving, you become more blissful You become more divine!

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And a great thankfulness arises in the heart.

That is true prayer.

(To Thomas) -- This is your name: Swami Tathagato.

Tathagato is one of the names given to Gautam the Buddha. It means one who lives in the suchness of life, who accepts whatsoever is the case. who accepts everything totally.

Even death is absolutely accepted because His trust in existence is infinite --

It knows no bounds, it is unconditional. It is the highest peak of meditation.

To accept all -- all the sweetness of life And all the bitterness of life

With equanimity, choicelessly With no like, no dislike --

Once this starts happening you become a rejoicing You become a serenity, you become utter silence; And a silence which is not dead

A silence which sings, a silence which dances. A silence which is not empty.

A silence which is over full. This is going to be your method: Learn to accept life as it comes.

When something happens, accept it.

When it disappears, accept it. When pleasure comes, accept it. When it evaporates, accept it.

And the same with pain: remain non-judgmental, Just a silent witness to all.

This is the most profound secret

Of all the buddhas, of all the awakened ones.

(To Kathleen) -- This is your name: Ma Arihanto. Arihanto is also a name of Gautam the Buddha.

Arihanto means one who has conquered all his enemies. There are two kinds of enemies; the first category Consists of enemies who are outside you.

Buddha conquers them.

The awakened person conquers them:

Because he drops his enmity

Because he no more thinks of them as enemies -- That is his victory.

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For him there is no enemy at all in the world. He is friendly to everything.

That's why Jesus could say

In the last moments of his life 'Father, forgive these people

Because they know not what they are doing.' He is praying for those who are crucifying him. This is the meaning of Arihanto, first meaning: Conquering the outer enemies

Not that they are conquered in the ordinary way Not in the way of Alexander the great

But in a totally different way They are no more enemies.

The enlightened person

Has no enmity towards anybody. And there is a deeper meaning also The second category:

He has conquered all his inner enemies -- The ego, the greed, the anger, the jealousy, All those inner enemies.

They consist in fact of one

And the name of that one enemy Which is hidden behind all these faces

Is unconsciousness -- He has conquered it By becoming absolutely conscious.

He is full of light

There is no darkness any more. He is only consciousness There is no unconscious in him

Hence inside all the enemies have disappeared. From the outside he has dropped all enmity.

He is arihanto -- he has conquered all the enemies. The whole existence is his friend

And he is a friend to the whole of existence. He is a lover hand he loves unconditionally.

(To Sylvie) -- This is your name: Ma Vijayo. Vijayo Means the victorious one. There is only one victory worth achieving

And that is of becoming conscious

Of becoming more meditative, of becoming More silent, calm and quiet and collected.

All other victories are false, pseudo.

They don't have any meaning.

Money, power, prestige -- they are all playthings They are not for people

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They are for the stupid ones: Stupid ones Also need few things to keep them occupies Otherwise they will create more nuisance.

But the really intelligent person soon becomes Disinterested into all that nonsense.

He starts moving inwards

He starts enquiring 'Who am I?'

He starts digging deep within his own being To find his center.

And the day the center is found

One is victorious because one has overcome death. Once you know who you are there is no death -- That is true victory.

(To Kirsten) -- This is your name: Ma Samudro. Samudro means the oceanic.

One should not think in terms of limits one should get rid of all ideas of limitations, that's the whole phenomenon of sannyas. Knowing that "I am not the body," is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. Then knowing that "I am not the mind either," is a further step; then finally knowing that "I am not even my feeling," is the last step. In these three steps the journey is over because on the fourth step you discover your being. And that is vast, infinite as vast as the ocean, as vast as the sky. To experience it is to experience god.

And to experience it is to exercise bliss, ecstasy. That is the only experience worth trying for; all else is just sheer wastage, wastage of a great opportunity in which one can find the real treasure. And one goes on collecting seashells and colored stones on the seabeach while the treasure is within you, the kingdom of god is within you.

So drop thinking in terms of limitations so that you find more and more that you are closer to the unlimited being, to the infinite being.

(To Frederike) -- This is your name: Ma Arpano. Arpano means the surrendered one.

All that I ask is -- give your ego to me -- nothing else. And the ego is your misery, your problem, your anguish. Just give it to me and forget all about it. Once you can gather the courage to give the ego to the master, all the problems that have been following you; and you have never been able to solve any of them, simply evaporate because the very root is cut. That is the meaning of Arpano; let it also become your experience.

Sannyas is true only when you are ready to offer your ego to me. And I don't ask for anything else, I am asking only for the ugly in you, the pathological in you, the psychotic in you, the mad in you. The real master only demands your madness, and once you have given your madness, sanity arises of its own accord.

It is your self-nature, nobody can give it to you. Just the arbitrary has to be removed and the natural starts growing of its own accord. Only the rocks have to be removed and the stream of your consciousness starts flowing.

(To Johan) -- Just look at me. Good.

-- Osho, just now I have so many resistance.

-- Mm?

-- Just now I have so many resistances happening.

-- They all will disappear -- everybody has them!

No need to worry about them. When you are ready to take sannyas, that means you have already overcome a great resistance, one of the greatest. The remaining one are small ones, they are not that big. And once you are a sannyasin, then I stat hitting you. Unless you are a sannyasins, I resist myself! I am very polite!... very loving, seductive! Once you are a sannyasin, then I come into my true colors! -- you don't be worried.

This is your name: Swami Anandmurti. Anand means Bliss; Murti means image of -- image of bliss.

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That's what we are potentially bound to be. But we go astray, we become something else. We become that which we are not

We become that which nature has not provided for Hence the misery

Because we become schizophrenic, we become double. One is our natural self

Which remains hidden behind the artificial self. The artificial self is the ego and the real self We have completely forgotten.

We have become so much identified With the artificial.

Once in a while we have glimpses of the real Because howsoever we forget it

We cannot destroy it -- the artificial is artificial And the real is real. The real is going to abide

The artificial is just a make-believe.

We are miserable because of the artificial self Otherwise we are pure bliss

But we are living double lives.

A schizophrenic fell in love with a woman And asked the woman, 'Kiss me twice --

I am schizophrenic!'

But that is the situation of everybody. And even if you go to the psychiatrists They are even in a far worse mess.

One schizophrenic went to a psychiatrist And he said, 'Help me! I am always thinking

I am two persons.'

The psychoanalyst looked over the room And said, 'All four of you?'

Everybody is split

And the split is there for the simple reason that

We have become too much identified with the false And the false is the top layer,

Easily available, just on the circumference. And the real is far deeper -- you have to dig it It needs effort, arduous effort, patient effort. And grat insistence, determination, resolution That 'I am bound to find it,'

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That 'I have to find it,'

That 'I cannot live without finding it.'

Unless it becomes a question of life and death One never finds it.

But you have some in the right hands.

Nothing to be worried.

-- How long will you be here?

-- I go home about three days and then I will come back in November or December.

-- Come back in November, December. And by that time I will be sharpening my sword and ...

(inaudible) Come back! Good.

No Man is an Island

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