< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Karin. Anand means bliss, karin means pure – pure bliss. Bliss can exist in many forms. When it is physical we call it pleasure; when it is psychological we call it happiness; when it is spiritual we call it joy. But when it transcends all these three, then it attains to perfect purity; then it is pure bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Nozomi. Prem means love, nozomi means hope. Love is the only hope because only love can become a bridge between man and God, because only love can be the boat between this shore and that. Except for love there is no hope. A man without love lives in hopelessness. With love enters the ray of hope....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Kees. Anand means bliss, kees means tree – a tree of bliss. Man is also a tree; man also has roots. They are invisible but man is not without roots. Man is constantly being nourished by existence. Each of the senses is a root into the universe. From the eyes we are nourished, from the ears we are nourished; from each pore of the body we are nourished....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Debbie. Deva means divine, debbie means bee – a divine bee. The bee is always searching for the lotus, hence it is a symbol of the seeker of truth. The lotus is the ultimate symbol of one’s flowering, hence in the East the ultimate state of samadhi is called the one-thousand-petaled lotus. Once the bee has entered into the lotus it never comes back....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Julia. Deva means divine, julia means youthful. God is always young. The idea of an old God is just rubbish, because existence is always young. To be in God means to remain fresh and young, and the way towards God is being more and more youthful. The body will become old – that’s the nature of matter; matter is always old because matter is dead....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Chris. Anand means bliss, blissful, chris means a follower of Christ. Christ is not a personal name; it has nothing to do with Jesus as such. Jesus is a Christ but not the Christ. Buddha is also a Christ, so is Zarathustra. There have been many, there will be many. Nobody is the Christ, and everybody can become a Christ....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Hock Hoe. Hock means prosperity, hoe means peace. Peace should be the center of life, then prosperity becomes the circumference automatically. If one is really peaceful, one prospers, one succeeds. Then whatsoever one does is bound to bring fulfillment. Then the man of peace has such an alchemical touch that whatsoever is touched by him turns into gold....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Andre. Prem means love, andre means courage. Courage without love is dangerous, because courage without love is bound to turn towards destruction. Courage with love is creative, is a blessing. So love should be the very foundation of one’s courageousness. Courage only creates a warrior. With love, courage creates a sannyasin, a seeker of God, a lover of God....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Annette. Anand means bliss, annette means mercy, compassion. It comes from the Hebrew, hannah; from hannah it became anna and from anna, annette. Compassion comes as a shadow of bliss. It is a by-product; one cannot cultivate it. There is no way to go to it directly; it comes via blissfulness. If one is blissful, one is compassionate....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Sylvia. Prem means love, sylvia means goddess of the forest. Your full name will mean love goddess of the forest. Love has something to do with nature. Love can never be artificial, it can never be synthetic. If it is artificial it is not love; it is just politeness, a formality, an empty gesture with no meaning, with no significance....