< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, elli is Hebrew; it means goddess – goddess of love. In fact God and love are synonymous. To be in love is to be in God. To know love is to know God. There is no other proof for God except love, and there is no other worship either. All other temples and churches are false, pseudo, except for the temple of love....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Joseph. Anand means bliss, joseph is a blessing; it means may God increase. Your full name will mean may God increase your bliss. It is always a possibility, a hope, a dream. The dream can be fulfilled, the hope can become reality, the possible can be actual; but between the two there is a great gap....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Sybrand: It means burning iron or flaming sword. It’s actually the sword of the guards who protect paradise.] Prem Sybrand. Prem means love – the fire of love, a burning love, a flame of love, or love aflame. Man is alive only when love is aflame, when the heart is hot, otherwise man lives in a kind of ice- coldness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Christopher. Anand means bliss, christopher means Christ-bearer. Each human being is a christopher, because each human being is a bearer of Christ-consciousness. Everybody is carrying the Christ within his soul; it has only to be uncovered. It is a hidden treasure: a little digging in the interiority of one’s being is needed....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet Gunther. Veet means going beyond, surpassing, transcending, and gunther means war. Man has been in war continuously. The war has been of two kinds: on the outside with others and on the inside with oneself. The people who have been fighting with others are known as soldiers, and the people who have been fighting with themselves are known as monks....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Lennart. Prem means love, lennart means brave as the lion. Love needs the heart of a lion – the courage. The greatest courage in life is to dissolve yourself in love; there is no other bravery greater than that. Everybody is a coward as far as the death of the ego is concerned because the death of the ego seems to be, appears to be, our death....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Allene. Deva means divine, allene means harmony – divine harmony. The only secret worth learning in life is the secret of being in harmony with oneself, with others, and with the existence itself. Ordinarily people are constantly in conflict; they are in conflict with existence, with others, and with themselves. This triple conflict is their whole life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Bram. Anand means bliss, bram is a form of abraham. Abraham was the first prophet, the father of religion, hence abraham became synonymous with the father. Your full name will mean: become a father of bliss. Father bliss, give birth to bliss. It is a potential. God gives us the potential; that is his gift....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Curtis. Deva means divine, curtis literally means court-bred, brought up in a king’s court; but that is only a literal meaning. Essentially it means graceful, gracious. Your full name will mean divine gracefulness. Man can live in a violent way. That’s how many people live: aggressive – aggressive with others, aggressive with themselves....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Tallis. Anand means bliss, tallis is the name of a poet. Your full name will mean a poet of bliss. And that you have to become. Be as happy as possible. This is the right age – one can learn how to be happy or one can learn how to be unhappy, and then those patterns persist for the whole of life....