< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 23 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, and Hakima is a sufi name for God. It means: all-mighty, all-powerful, omnipotent. Deva Hakima will mean ‘divine power.’ Man in himself is powerless; all power is from God. Man is just a vehicle, a passage. The moment man starts thinking ‘This is my power’, he starts falling into sin. The ego is the original sin and it is the ego that separates you from reality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Hasiba. It means: one who satisfies. Without God there is no satisfaction possible. One can go on searching and one will find many things in life but nothing is going to satisfy. Just a moment’s illusion that one feels satisfaction, one has not even felt it and it is gone. Just a dewdrop slipping on the grass leaf: you have not even seen it correctly and it has disappeared, fallen....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 24 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives sannyas to a six-year-old.] Prem means love, Wahid is a sufi name for God – it means: the one – love for the one. Right now it may not be possible for you to understand, but let it become a seed in your heart; one day you will understand. There are two kinds of love: love for the many – and that’s where everybody lives and suffers – and there is another kind of love: love for the one; that’s where bliss happens....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 25 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says she doesn’t want to take sannyas because to wear orange and mala will be difficult at home. Then asks about her boyfriend, who is more spiritual and ascetic than her, which causes difficulties.] A relationship can never be without difficulties and if there is love, then there are more difficulties. This may look strange but it is one of the most fundamental facts of life to be understood: if there is no love, a relationship can move very smoothly Hence many societies in the past have decided for marriage without love....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 26 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shunya Wahido. Shunya means nothingness and Wahido is a sufi name for God – it means: the one. The one is achieved through being nothing. Unless we disappear, God cannot appear: the death of the ego is the birth of God. One has to efface oneself completely. Even if a little bit of the ego is left, that is enough – enough to remain a barrier between you and God....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 27 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin and child are returning to the west. Osho asks if things have settled. The man says not totally.] They never settle totally! And one should not think of total settlement. that will mean stagnancy. A little bit of conflict keeps the flow moving on. Too much conflict destroys the relationship – too much adjustment also....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 28 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Awwala is a sufi name for God. It means: the first, the alpha. Sufism has both names for God: one is ‘the first’ and the other is ‘the last’. God is the first and also the last, the source and the goal, the root and the flower. God is all – the beginning and the end....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 29 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, leaving, says: It’s been very good being here. I’ll be back.] Mm mm, you have to be back! Being here has done something, but much more has still to be done. Never be satisfied by the little that happens, because great is our destiny. And always remember that – less than God will not suffice....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 30 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, Khabiro is a sufi name for God. It means: one who sees, the cognizant one, the seeing one. The full name will mean: the divine vision, a divine way of seeing things. And it all depends on how you look at the world. It is your seeing that determines the world....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 27 31 May 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine; the word ‘divine’ comes from the same root as ‘deva.’ Basir is a sufi name for God – it means: all seeing. Your full name will mean: a divine way of seeing. Ordinarily what we see may not be there. It may be just our minds projecting something from the within. We see what we believe; our belief creates our vision....