The Rainbow Bridge

Talks given from 1/7/79 to 31/7/79 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 20 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Naoko. Prem means love; naoko means straight. Love is simple and straight. Because it is not cunning, it does not go roundabout, it does not move in circles; it goes like a straight arrow. It is innocent, hence it is straight. And only love can reach to the ultimate source of life, because the ultimate source has to be penetrated like an arrow....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Erik. Anand means bliss; erik means brave, courageous. The root cause of misery is fear: we are too afraid of the unknown. We remain confined in the known, and because we remain confined in the known, life becomes a repetition, a circle; one goes on moving in the same circle again and again and again....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 21 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Patrice. Anand means bliss; patrice means noble. Bliss makes a person noble, not birth, not education, not morality: only an overflowing bliss brings grace, and grace is noble. The miserable person is bound to be mean. He cannot afford to be noble. It is impossible for him. He cannot give that which he has not got himself in the first place....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 22 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet Cyrena. Veet means beyond, cyrena means one who can take control. My teaching is that one has to go beyond all control, one has to learn to be free, one has to exist as freedom, not as control. Control is not beautiful; it is ugly, it is repressive. You have to force things on yourself....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 23 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Patrizia. Prem means love; patrizia means of noble birth. Love comes from God; it is not only noble, it is divine too. Love is not something human, it is not something of the earth; it comes from the beyond. Hence the uplifting force of it: the moment it starts touching your heart it gives you wings....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 24 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Joke. Prem means love; joke means God’s gift. Love cannot be manufactured; there is no way to create it; either it is or it is not. Man is utterly impotent as far as love is concerned; it is beyond human creativity. We can only receive it from the above. There is no way to invent it, no way to make it....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 25 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Ursula. Anand means the state of ultimate bliss, a state from which one cannot fall – it is impossible. Once gained it is not ever lost, once gained it is forever. It is not a momentary phenomenon, it is not a changing phenomenon; it is the only constant factor in existence. Everything else changes, but not bliss....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 26 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Dorian. Anand means bliss; dorian means bountiful, overflowing, abundant. The full name will mean bliss overflowing, bliss in a flood. Bliss always comes in a flood. Bliss is not miserly. God is not miserly; only man with his cunning mind is a miser. God gives, and goes on giving for no motive at all; he does not desire anything in return....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 27 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand, Ria Anand means bliss. Bliss does not mean only happiness or joy; it is something more than that Happiness is a state of excitement; that excitement is missing in bliss. The ecstasy is there, but the excitement is not there. Happiness has something feverish in it; that fever is completely absent in bliss....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 28 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Genevieve. Deva means divine; genevieve means a white wave. The wave can exist in two waysOne: thinking of itself as separate from the ocean; the other: just as an organic part of the whole. The first is the way of the ego and the second is the way of the sannyasin. The sannyasin has to imbibe the spirit of being one with the whole, just a wave of the ocean....