< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 28 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium John Satyam. John means a gift of God and satyam means the ultimate truth. To know the truth is to attain the ultimate fulfillment. That is the greatest possible gift. God makes it available to everybody but very few people receive it. God is not at fault. People are very miserly in opening up, in opening their heart lotuses....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Akiko. Prem means love, akiko is the name of a famous poem. Your full name will mean: love, the poem. Life can either be prose or poetry: these are the two possibilities. If someone lives through the mind, life becomes prose, and if someone lives through the heart, life becomes poetry. When life is poetry, life is religious....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 30 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Ineke. Anand means bliss, ineke means meek. Blessed are the meek, for theirs is the kingdom of God. To be humble, to be meek, is to be ready to receive God. God cannot be attacked and conquered. One cannot be aggressive about God: one can only be feminine. And that’s what meekness basically is – the fundamental quality of the feminine mind: to be ready to yield, just like the grass....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Helen. Deva means divine, helen means light – divine light. Light represents the manifest part of God; darkness represents the unmanifest part. Both are divine, but darkness is the seed and light is the flower; darkness is the womb, light is the child. Meditate on light, and the more you meditate on light, the more you will be surprised that something inside starts opening, as if a bud is opening and becoming a flower....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he would like to spread Osho’s message in Japan. He may not have an opportunity to come here again.] Don’t be worried, I will follow you! Just continue to meditate, help my people, help the center there; and many things are going to happen. It will not be long before you are back....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, nirup means formless. Bliss is not an object, so it can’t have a form. Bliss is an experience, hence it is invisible, intangible. You cannot hold it in your hand; you cannot give it to anybody. Nobody can take it away from you. It cannot be stolen, it cannot be robbed....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Ralph. Anand means bliss, ralph means wolf. The wolf is an ancient symbol for courage; and bliss needs courage. Misery needs no courage, any coward can be miserable. In fact to be miserable simply means that you are a coward and nothing else. Misery is nothing but an aspect of inner cowardliness, and bliss is the flavor that comes with courage....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Uli Narayano. Uli means ruler of all, narayano is a name of God – God, the ruler of all. Only God can be the ruler of all; man tries but fails, is bound to fail. The very desire to become ruler of all is ugly. The desire to dominate is irreligious. The desire to be higher than others is the root cause of human misery....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Manuel. Anand means bliss, manuel comes from the Hebrew, emmanuel. Emmanuel means “God, be with us.” It is the essence of prayer; and blissfulness arises only when this prayer is fulfilled. When God is with us then there is bliss. To be without God is to be in misery; to be with him is to be in a rejoicing....