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‌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. But both are the same, two aspects of the same coin. Both insist on war, and war is destructive: whether you destroy others or yourself does not matter. Man has to be creative. Man has to become love. War is no more needed – neither the war of the worldly nor the war of the other-worldly.

My sannyasin simply has to transcend all kinds of conflict. He has to learn to live without conflict. He has to learn to live in a relaxed way.

Anand Su. Anand means bliss; a pearl of bliss. Man has infinite capacities but is utterly unaware of them. He has tremendous treasures but they have completely gone into his unconscious, he is no more conscious of them. From the very childhood we are made to be extroverts; our eyes are trained to look outside. Slowly slowly we forget how to look in.

Sannyas is the beginning of looking inwards; I am not against the outside, but just to live on the outside is to live a very mundane life, is to live a very prosaic life. Unless one starts diving deep into one’s own being, the poetry does not arise, the song does not happen, life remains danceless; the juices do not flow.

And once you start looking in, it is not going against the world. In fact your eyes become so rich with the inner flavor that when you look outside, the outside is also transformed because your vision is transformed. Then the world is no more just the world; it is no more just matter. It becomes divine, it is God. But first God has to be known within, then only can he be known without.

Let sannyas be a great revolution – a revolution from the outside to the inside, a change of awareness, a change of focus. And that’s my work here: to help you to relearn the art that every child is born with; but the society somehow manages to mess up every child and his consciousness.

Then one becomes a pearl of great value, a pearl not of this world but of the beyond.

Prem Nicky. Prem means love, nicky means victory – victory of love; and that is the greatest victory in life. If one can be loving one becomes victorious, and without conquering one becomes victorious.

You have a beautiful name – it is not meaningless.

Prem Hans. Prem means love, hans means God is gracious. Your full name will mean God is love and grace. Love is part of his grace; grace is part of his love, and God is always gracious. It is not that he is gracious to somebody and not gracious to somebody else: to sinners and to saints alike he is gracious. In his eyes there is no saint, no sinner. He accepts all, unconditionally; that is his love.

If this is understood, you can start living in a totally different way. If God accepts you, you can accept yourself; if God loves you, you can love yourself. If God is gracious towards you, you can be gracious towards yourself too.

Do to yourself what God is doing to you and then automatically you will be loving and gracious to everybody else in existence; not only to people but to birds and animals and trees and rocks. And unless you start becoming something like God – grace and love – there is no possibility of knowing the truth.

God can be known only if you start feeling a little bit of godliness in your being. The same can know the same. Eyes can see light because there is something in the eyes which is similar to light; and ears can hear sound because there is something in the ears that is receptive to sound, that is similar to sound.

Unless man becomes a little bit divine he cannot know God; and the way to become divine is to be gracious, is to be loving, is to be compassionate.

[A sannyasin asks: I am wondering: Is it possible in the evolution of consciousness to be evolved without surrendering?

It is not possible.

[The sannyasin then asks: But what is surrender? – surrender to oneself or to an institution?]

Surrender to oneself does not mean anything: that oneself has to be surrendered. Surrender means dropping the ego. If you surrender to me, you are not really surrendering to me, because you have nothing to surrender. You are simply dropping the false notion of the ego. k is not something substantial that you are surrendering; it is just a dream.

And I am just an excuse. You will have to find some excuse to surrender. Without an excuse it will be impossible for you to drop the ego.

[The sannyasin asks: Is this a logical reason?] No! It is an illogical reason...

And keep this magic box – it is very illogical! Whenever you feel the need to surrender, put it on your heart! Good!

[A sannyasin says that Osho had told him to find bliss in every situation, good or bad. However his therapist says he is repressing his suffering.]

You forget about your therapist... because sooner or later he will need me! Persuade him to come here! Because all therapists are neurotics! They are systematically neurotic – they have some systems. Their madness has a method in it, that’s all. Bring him here! I send my sannyasins to therapists just to bring them here! Good... good!

Prem means love, mudito means joy – a loving joyfulness, a loving cheerfulness, a constant feeling of celebration.

Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated. Those who only live don’t live in reality – only those who celebrate live. And each moment has to become a celebration. Whatsoever you are doing, do it with the spirit of celebration, bubbling with joy, overflowing with joy. Slowly slowly one becomes attuned to the celebration of the universe that is constantly going on. k is only a question of attunement.

You discover a secret key: that if you are in the mood of celebration you disappear and the whole existence explodes in you as celebration. Those are the moments of ecstasy, and slowly slowly they become your very life. Then not only when you are awake, but even when you are asleep you are in a kind of celebration; that continues, day in, day out. And that’s what the ultimate goal of being a sannyasin is; that’s the meaning of your name: a loving celebration, a loving joy, a loving dance.

[A sannyasin says that strange things are happening to her body, fear, heat, lights. Osho checks her energy.]

It will all disappear; no explanation is needed! It will all disappear and it is all good. Whatsoever is happening is very beneficial.

Enjoy it – while it is there enjoy it; soon it will be gone. Good!

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