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‌CHAPTER 19

21 December 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium

Anand means bliss, ragen means the king of the harmony or god of the harmony. Bliss is a harmony. When all your being, all parts of your being are functioning in tune, when there is no conflict, when you are not at war with yourself in any sense, when your mind, your body, your heart, are all together, on one wavelength, that is the state of bliss, that is harmony.

This very rarely happens, but whenever it happens there is immense joy. It rarely happens because we have been brought up in such a way that from the very beginning we start becoming lopsided.

There are three types of people: people either leaning too much towards the body, or leaning too much towards the feeling, the heart, or leaning too much towards the intellect, the mind. And all are in a state of chaos, because the parts that remain unfulfilled take great revenge. And the part that becomes dominating, becomes dictatorial; that too iS ugly.

In a state of harmony when all these fragments of your being function together, there is no dictator. It is inner democracy, it is freedom. There is nobody like a gaoler, nobody ordering anybody inside you. There is spontaneity because no order is coming from anywhere. You act on the spur of the moment and because you act out of your totality, out of your harmony, no act can ever go wrong.

My definition of sin is: when you act out of disharmony then it is sin; when you act out of harmony it is virtue.

Anand means bliss, teera means an arrow – an arrow of bliss. Bliss has wings. It is a dynamic state, it is not a thing. t is a process, it is movement; it is not a noun, it is a verb. That’s why I call it an arrow. The arrow is never at the same place for two consecutive moments. So is the case with bliss: it is continuously moving, riverlike; that’s why bliss reaches to God.

People ordinarily think that when you attain to God you will be blissful. My own observation is just the opposite: if you are blissful you will attain to God. In your misery God cannot be received; only when you are flowing blissfully can you receive God. For that great gift you have to prepare yourself and the only preparation possible and. needed is to be blissful, to be cheerful, to be a smile all over your being.

Then immediately you turn into an arrow and you start moving towards the ultimate goal. You need not push the movement; it happens on its own. And you need not think of the goal either. The arrow of bliss reaches to God, the arrow of bliss necessarily reaches to God; it is necessarily fulfilled in God. It is inevitable: once you are blissful, God cannot avoid you, you cannot avoid God.

Prem means love, ashok means bliss. Love is bliss. If one can sing the song of love, then life is fulfilled. If you miss somewhere in the song of love, you will not be able to fulfill your life; there exists no substitute. Man has tried to find substitutes, but substitutes are substitutes; they are never the real thing. They can only give you the feeling of compensation. It is like artificial food: it may give you the taste of real food but it is not nourishing, it will not give you life. Love is nourishment.

I have looked into all the scriptures of the world.The Jewish Old Testament contains the greatest

message, the Song of Songs – that is of Solomon. No other scripture is so valuable. Become a song of songs! Think of Solomon, meditate on Solomon. He is the very source of wisdom. It is not just accidental that he is thought to be the wisest man in the world.

In India we have a proverb in the villages. If somebody tries to be very wise, people say, ‘Don’t try to be a Solomon.’ Think of love, feel love, act love, be love.

Deva means god, anudas means servant of servants – servant of the servants of God. It is very difficult to find God and to serve him... but we can find his servants and serve them. We can find a Christ, we can find a Buddha, we can find a Krishna. To find a god is very difficult, impossible really, because how to find the invisible, how to have a grip on the infinite? It eludes one; there is no way to address him. But we can find a Christ. Christ is mid-way; he is man and God. Half of him belongs to us and half to the unknown. He is a paradox, a bridge. If you can find a Christ, serve him! Through him and the service, you will start reaching the invisible. That is the meaning of anudas – servant of the servant of God.

[Osho asks a visitor if he has anything to say, and he replies: Just one word – yes!]

This is the right way to become a sannyasin! Just look at me.… Good! Yes has become so difficult for the modern mind. If one can say yes, then one has almost arrived, because the very courage to say yes is enough. The fearful mind always says no; in a thousand and one ways it goes on saying no. It may not exactly say no, but it will say, ‘I will think’ or ‘I am not ready right now,’ or ‘The time will come,’ or ‘There are a few problems that I still have to settle.’ These are just tricks, strategies, of pretending yes and saying no.

No is always cowardly, because through no you go on shrinking. The no brings more and more ego: one day you are left alone like an island. Yes is expansive: you start expanding and become a continent. To say yes is to become a theist. It is not necessary to say yes to God – just to say yes to life, to existence is enough. Yes is the only prayer there is. Much is going to happen out of this jump.

Ananda means bliss, asava means juice – juice of bliss. It will descend, it will fill you, it will flow in you! And it will flood your being. Just go on saying yes. Drop as many nos as possible and turn as many nos as possible into yes. Let this be your secret key, and the day will come when your whole life will be full of yes-ness, and that will be the juice of bliss!

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