< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Remember only one thing: the past is a hindrance, the greatest hindrance. It has to be completely dropped, utterly dropped. To be with me is to be in the now – no past, no future. This moment is all there is and just this moment is god. Everything else is just the mind dreaming, desiring, imagining....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, prasthano means beginning – a divine beginning. Sannyas is a beginning, not the end – the first step but the most vital, the most radical. Even the last step will not be so radical, because the last comes of its own accord – the first has to be taken. It needs your decision, your commitment, your involvement....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine or godly, and kalyani means one who brings blessings. The full name will mean: one who brings divine blessings... and each of us has the power to become a blessing to the world. The same energy can become destructive and a curse. The energy is the same; whether it becomes destruction or creation depends on one’s choice....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A ten-year-old sannyasin says: I always feel that this is a dream, life is a dream.] It is a dream, and your feeling is perfectly right. Don’t forget it! It is a dream, and every child knows it in the beginning. Slowly slowly one forgets it and starts thinking it is very real......

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, samapatti means richness, wealth, treasure – divine treasure. It is there – and you have not claimed it yet – and it is yours, just for the asking. You need not spread your hands anywhere before anybody. The treasure is hidden within your own heart. And people go on searching everywhere else except in the heart....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I haven’t really got any problems or anything but I feel that I’d like some advice.] There is no need. It is good to be without any problem. And if one can live without any problem, one knows how to live. All problems are unnecessary. We create them because we cannot live without problems, because we cannot allow ourselves to be without problems – we cannot allow that much freedom and that much joy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, veenu is a musical instrument – a musical instrument of love. And man is a musical instrument. If we allow god, he can create much music in us. But we don’t allow it; we resist, we fight. Hence our life remains musicless, and that is the misery. Unless great music is born in the heart one cannot feel any significance, any splendour in life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, neelambar means blue light – divine blue light. And the blue light represents infinity; it is the colour of the infinite, the colour of the sky. It is not really a colour. The sky has no colour; it appears blue because of its infinity. The sheer vastness, the depth makes it appear blue....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, vatayana means now, the present moment – love now. And my whole emphasis is on this moment, because this moment contains all. Now is the only reality – all else is either memory or imagination. And even for the past to exist as memory, now is needed. It doesn’t exist as the past; it exists as a thought in the present....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 June 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god, bhumika means introduction – introduction to god. And life is an introduction to god. It is not against god, as the old religions have been teaching again and again. It is not antagonistic to god – it can’t be. It is god’s extension, it is his manifestation, it is his song....