< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Michael means one who is godlike, and anando means blissful. One is basically divine because all is divine. To exist is to be divine, to be alive is to be divine, to breathe is to be divine. Hence trees are divine and the rocks and the birds and the people – whatsoever is. Divinity is another name of isness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Kaela. Anand means blissfulness; and if kaela has no meaning, then your name will mean a blissful meaninglessness. And that’s exactly what life is: it is utterly blissful but it has no meaning. It is blissful because it has no meaning. To have meaning means to become a commodity, to have meaning means to become a thing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 12 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Ciska. Anand means bliss; ciska means freedom. Bliss is freedom and vice versa: freedom is bliss. In fact they are two sides of the same coin. Misery arises out of limitation. Bliss is to know that we are infinite, that even the sky is not our limit, that we are one with the whole....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 13 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin, leaving, asks: How do I find when I am the witness?] It is something self-evident: when you are, you know it; no extemal proof is needed. If the question arises that means that you are not, otherwise the question does not arise at all. It is like having a headache: nobody asks, “How am I to know whether I have a headache or not?...

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 14 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Saoirse. Anand means bliss; saoirse means freedom. Bliss is possible only in freedom; freedom is the right space in which bliss grows, the right soil. Without freedom there is no possibility of bliss growing. One cannot be happy without freedom, one can at the most pretend to be happy. As the society is, everybody exists as a slave....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 15 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Francesco. Prem means love; francesco means freedom. Love is the ultimate form of freedom; if love cannot bring freedom then nothing else can. If even love becomes a bondage then everything else is going to become a bondage. Love is the only hope of salvation. It is through love that we become able to see something of the beyond....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 16 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Elles. Anand means bliss; elles comes from the Hebrew root el; el means God. Bliss is God. God is indefinable, but if any definition is possible at all, then bliss is his definition. The definition that comes closest to define God is bliss. Even that falls short but it is the most approximate....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 17 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Yoshiro. Deva means God; yoshiro means favorite – God’s favorite. Everyone is, but very few people become aware of it. Those who become aware become full of gratitude. And to be grateful, to feel grateful for all that is, is to be religious. And it is really a tremendously beautiful existence; it cannot be improved upon, it is perfect as it is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 18 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Constantinos. Deva means God; constantinos means constant. Only God is a constant factor in existence; everything else is always changing, moving. Everything else is a process; only God is a being. God is the very center of all this movement, and the center cannot move, only the wheel moves. The world is a wheel and God is the center of it – the center of the cyclone....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 19 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Matthew. Prem means love; matthew means a gift of God. There are things which we can attain to, which can become our achievements – money, power, prestige – and there are things which we can never attain, which can never become our achievements: life, meditation, love. The things that we can attain are ordinary....