< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 8 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, nirvesha means enjoyment, joy, bliss, happiness, divine joy. And to me, all joy is divine. Joy as such is divine. If one can be joyful, one is in prayer. Then there is no need to do any other prayer. Then you are constantly offering yourself to God. We cannot offer anything else....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 22 August 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [The Tathata group was present. A group member says: People tell me that their first impression of me is that I’m angry or aggressive or detached, and usually I’m feeling the opposite. It seems that usually I’m saying one thing and my body and face are saying something else.] How do you yourself feel?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 9 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a sannyasin, whose son had just been initiated into sannyas, Osho said that one should respect one’s child, and that now her son was a sannyasin, she should regard him as a brother... A child is born to you, but he does not belong to you. Always remember that he has come through you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 10 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A new sannyasin says: I’m a nursery school teacher, I teach children of four-and-a-half to five years old.] Very good work. To be with children is one of the most beautiful things. But one has to learn it, otherwise it can be the most tedious thing in the world. One has to love it, otherwise it is one of the most boring things....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 11 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, and tarpana means sacrifice – divine sacrifice, or sacrifice to the divine. And that’s what life really is. Unless it becomes a sacrifice, an offering, you go on missing it. Unless you give your life totally, you miss it. And there is no way ordinarily to give it totally except to give it to God, because only the total can become the receptor of a total gift....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 12 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, and bhavana means feeling – the feel of bliss, the feeling of bliss. And remember that blissfulness has nothing to do with thinking. It is a feeling. People who are stuck in their heads can only be unhappy and miserable. For them there is no other way. The head is hell, the very centre of hell....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 13 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and vishwa means the universe the divine universe. And that’s exactly how it is. God is not separate. It is not a separate reality. The whole world is divine. The creation and the creator are not two things. They are one, a single unity. So remember it, and start looking for God everywhere....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 14 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said three years of Freudian psychoanalysis helped her, but also made things difficult.] That too is true, because all the analytical methods are in a way incomplete. They help you only to a certain extent and then they leave you in a limbo. One feels that something has happened, but much is missing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 16 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin had previously written to Osho about her sexuality, which seemed to have become more intensified lately – mainly been through auto-erotic activity. Guilt feelings surfaced from childhood, about its being a perversion. Osho checked her energy.] I told you to remain celibate for a few days specifically for this purpose, because once you are celibate for a few days, energy pools; it becomes a reservoir....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 17 September 1976 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and pankaj means lotus – a divine lotus. The lotus is very symbolic in the East because it comes out of dirty mud, and yet so beautiful, so graceful, so other-worldly... is born of the earth but does not belong to the earth. It is unearthly. So one has to be like a lotus – rooted in the earth but not defined and confined by the earth....