< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 22 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Franz. Anand means bliss; Franz means freedom. Bliss is a state of freedom; misery is a state of bondage. The more limited we feel, the more miserable we are. The more unlimited we feel, the more blissful. Freedom means a state of no limit, a state which has no boundaries, no China walls surrounding it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌2 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Ellen. Prem means love; Ellen means light. Love is the only light there is in life. Love is the inner light. It needs no fuel; it is eternal. It is not caused by anything, hence it cannot be turned off. Anything that can be put on can be turned off. It is simply there; you cannot put it on, you cannot put it off....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 23 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Ron. Anand means bliss; Ron means power. Bliss has a power of its own, very different from any other power, qualitatively different from any other power. All other powers are destructive, violent. Bliss has a non-violent power, the power of love. Bliss has the power to bless others. It is not destructive, it is creative energy; it only creates....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 24 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Louis. Deva means God; Louis means victory. God is our only victory. Nothing else can make us victorious. Everything else ends in failure, unexceptionally. Without failure, everything falls into failure. There are many illusions in life, very attractive, but they are attractive only from the distance. As you come closer you become disillusioned....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 25 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Dhamma Klaus. Dhamma means the ultimate law, the law that keeps the whole universe together, the very core of existence, the center, the soul. And Klaus means victory. The only way to be victorious is to be with the law and not against it. One can choose to be against it – that freedom is ours – but if we choose to be against the law, we are committing suicide....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 26 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Marion. Prem means love; Marion means rebellion. Love is the greatest rebellion in the world. It is the greatest rebellion because love is not part of this world; love belongs to the beyond. Love is God’s nature. To be in love is not to be of this world. To be in love is to transcend the world....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 27 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Carolina. Prem means love; Carolina means freedom. And hitherto man has not been able to synthesize these two ultimate elements of life: love and freedom. Those who have chosen love have lost their freedom, and those who wanted to be free had to sacrifice their love. That has been the history up to now and because of this, life has suffered very much, because life can grow only when both are available....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 28 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Faina. Deva means divine; Faina means freedom. Freedom is the most divine thing in existence. Everything can be sacrificed for it, but it cannot be sacrificed for anything else. Even love, if it goes against freedom, becomes worthless. Love has value only if it protects freedom, nourishes freedom, if it helps freedom. Otherwise it goes ugly, nauseating....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 29 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Come here. Close your eyes. Listen to the sounds... I am sorry that you had to wait so long to get in, but I am also happy that you waited with love, prayer, hope. Those are the basic qualities of a sannyasin: to wait patiently, to wait with trust. Even if it takes infinite time, love knows how to wait....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 27 30 June 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Nimus. Anand means bliss. Bliss does not mean happiness; it is something totally different. It is not only quantitatively different, it is qualitatively different. Happiness always has unhappiness as the other side of it, as a shadow to it. It is never alone. Even when you are happy you know that unhappiness is just close by....