< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, shakti means power – love’s power. And that is the real power in the world. It is very paradoxical, because love is very humble; it is not powerful. And that’s its power. Love is surrender, but that’s its victory. It is a very passive way of conquering, it is the feminine way of conquering....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 29 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sumitro means a good friend. Friendship is something immensely valuable. Love tends to be possessive; friendship is non-possessive love. Friendship is all that is good in love minus that which is not good. Friendship is the very essential core of love. To rise to friendship is really a great spiritual growth. People fall in love, and people rise in friendship....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sambhava means possibility, potentiality – the possibility of the divine. God is not something that is available ready-made; it is your potential. You can actualise it, but you can miss it also. Man is like a seed: the seed has the potential to become the tree, but only the potential. It is not yet the tree; it can miss also....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, sahaj means spontaneous. Love can only be spontaneous. If it is otherwise, it is something else, not love. Love cannot be calculated phenomenon. It happens of its own accord. You cannot do it, you cannot UNdo it. It comes from the beyond, hence it has the flavour of the divine. It comes from nothingness, hence its magical quality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Do you know what Joshua means?... It is the same as Jesus; the real name of Jesus was Joshua. It means for which the people have been waiting, the awaited one. Deva Joshua means the divine one for which the world has been waiting. Prem means love; lalit means beautiful. Love is beautiful, and anything else, that which is not love, is bound to be ugly....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, anadi means beginningless – the beginningless god. God has no beginning, no end. It is eternal. Prem means love, adi means beginning – beginning of love, and that is the beginning of sannyas. If you can help them to become more and more loving, that’s all, they will become perfect sannyasins....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium And there is not only the sound outside, there is also a garden within. There is a music inside too, and it is far more beautiful, because the outer is confined by time and space. The inner is completely free of all limitations. The inner is eternal music; once one has heard it, one goes on hearing it forever....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, agya means order or commandment – a divine order. Man cannot choose god; it is always god who chooses man. Man cannot enquire on his own, it is impossible. The desire to enquire into truth comes from the beyond; it is an order from above, it is a commandment. And to be initiated is not an ordinary matter....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, sugito means a song, a divine song. Life can become a divine song, it has the potential but the potential is not yet actual; it has to be actualised. That is the work of sannyas: to help the potential to come to a realisation. This is the most subtle art, because man is the most mysterious being on the earth....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 November 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, nikash means criterion. Love is the criterion, the touchstone. One has to test everything in life from the criterion of love. If love says it’s okay, then it is okay; if love says no, then you are going astray. If one simply follows the subtle indications of love one arrives at god naturally, without any effort....