< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 29 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Brigitta. Anand means bliss; brigitta means bridge. Bliss is the bridge to God. To be blissful is to be prayerful. To be blissful is to be religious, although just the contrary is the prevalent idea: religious people look very sad, they go on carrying long faces, they are haughty, egoistic. You can look in their eyes and you can see the holier-than-thou look....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 29 30 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Marjorie. Prem means love; marjorie means a child of light. The full name will mean a child of love and light Light is the physical expression of the energy love; love is unmanifest light. The physicists say the world consists only of light and the mystics say the world consists only of love... and both are not denying each other; they are simply using different expressions, different languages....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Inger. Anand means bliss; inger, in Norse mythology, is the god of peace. Your full name will mean god of bliss and peace, or goddess of bliss and peace. Bliss and peace have to happen together, only then does one realize the totality of life’s significance. Bliss can happen separately from peace; that’s what we know as pleasure, happiness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Paul. Anand means bliss; paul means small. The way to be great is to be small; the way to be superior is to be a nobody. The superior man is not aware that he is. He is humble, not even conscious of his humbleness. Then bliss is natural. Be a nobody, and you will be fulfilled....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet Roberta. Veet means going beyond; roberta means bright fame. The full name will mean going beyond all fame. The ego longs to be famous, to be well-known. The ego is afraid of being nobody, is scared of being anonymous, because if you are not known you don’t know who you are; if you are not known by others you don’t know who you are....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Kane. Prem means love, kane means beautiful. Beauty is not an objective quality; it does not belong to things. It is the loving eye that imparts it, that creates it. Beauty is a creation of love. Ordinarily people think they have fallen in love because the other person is so beautiful. The reality is just the opposite: the other person looks so beautiful because they have fallen in love; love is fundamental....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Lalirra means waterhole in Australian Aboriginal.] Deva Lalirra – a divine source of water. In all the primitive tribes water symbolizes life. Life is based on water: the human body is eighty-five percent water. And life depends – the life of animals and the trees and man and birds – all life depends on water....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Maryan. Prem means love; maryan is made of two words, mary and hannah. Mary means rebellion, hannah means prayer. Your full name will mean love, rebellion, prayer. That’s exactly my definition of the sannyasin: he has to be love, he has to be a rebel, and he has to be prayerful. Love alone, without rebelliousness, is impotent....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 July 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Miep. Deva means divine; miep means revolution, rebellion. Religion is divine rebellion. It is the greatest revolution there is – the greatest because it does not rebel against the formal, it rebels against the essential. It does not change the form, it changes the very content. It is not concerned with the outward, it changes the core, the very being....