< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 7 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and vandan means blessing. Bliss is a blessing – it is not something that you can do anything about. It is not something that depends on your effort – it is a gift. One has just to open towards it, that’s all. One has just to be available to it. If you don’t create any barriers for it, it will reach you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 20 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I choose to be on my own to work, but then when I am alone I can’t bear it. I’m just tension and terror. I’ve struggled for so many years with my neurosis, trying to survive, trying to make creative use of it – and everything’s gone.] Your problem is that you don’t have any problems – you create them....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 8 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and shraddhan means trust. But remember that it doesn’t mean belief. Belief is a pseudo substitute for trust. Belief in fact is just the opposite of trust – notwithstanding what the dictionaries say. Belief is a head thing, and trust is of the heart. Belief is dead and borrowed – trust is alive and kicking....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 9 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and mansukh means that your mind is your happiness. Manu means mind and suhka means happiness. So heaven is not somewhere else, it is just within you – and so is hell. They are not two geographical situations – they are inner attitudes... you create them. They are not things – they are just your mind trips....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 10 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says about taking sannyas: That’s the big fear – not the fear of being a sannyasin, but the fear of the betrayal of my previous initiation. It’s still there lingering on and I feel like a Judas or something.] Not at all... not at all. That’s a very wrong attitude to take about things....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 23 11 October 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and chitsukha means consciousness in bliss. Chit means consciousness, sukh means bliss; divine consciousness of bliss. And this you have to imbibe by and by into your being – the spirit of it – that just to be conscious is blissful. Whenever you lose consciousness, you descend into misery. Whenever you are unaware, you are miserable – or vice versa....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 21 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and moradhi is one of the names of the god, Krishna. It means god, god of love. And to me the god of love is the only god. In fact love itself is the only god – all else is ritual. Love is the only true religion; and if you can love, you start growing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 22 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and Bharat is the real name of India. It means divine India – and I give you this name because you have been in India in your previous life. India is not this country’s real name; it is a given name – the real name is Bharat. The name comes from a very great emperor who renounced his kingdom and became a sannyasin....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 23 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor says: The way I feel at the moment there is that there is no such thing as sannyas... Who is there to be a sannyasin?] That’s the point to be understood. If you can understand that you are also not there, then you have understood rightly. But if sannyas is not there, religion is not there, meditation is not there, and you remain there, then you have not understood at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 24 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said she had never meditated before.] Never? Then you can become a very good meditator! People who are never interested are very clean, and there is no loadedness in their mind. They can simply go into it. People who have been interested in meditation, who have been doing this and that, reading and philosophising, going to this guru and that, become too confused....