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‌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. If we can make it actual, that is our gift to him. And unless it happens, that we can return the gift, making the potential actual, we remain unfulfilled. God has given you the seed; now return it as a flower.

Prem Hiromasa. Prem means love, hiromasa means intelligence. Intelligence without love becomes intellectuality. It is no more intelligence but only a pretension; it is dead. Intelligence is alive only when the heart of love is beating in it. Hence intelligence is closer to poetry than to logic – that is one of the most important things to be remembered. Intelligence tends to become intellectuality because that is cheaper and without risk.

Love is a risk, but unless love and intelligence meet, man remains divided. The meeting of love and intelligence integrates you. You become crystallised as one, and that oneness brings blessings and benediction.

Prem Yasunori. Prem means love, yasunori; means modesty, humbleness. Love is always humble; it can’t be otherwise, love cannot be arrogant. If it is arrogant it is not love. Then it is violence masquerading as love. Love is so humble that it is not even aware of its humbleness. Real humbleness is never self-conscious. Others know about it but you remain completely oblivious of it. It is not a cultivated Vesture: it is simply the shadow of love.

Learn love, and of its own accord humbleness comes to your being. And to be humble before existence is to be in prayer.

Anand Toshiko. Anand means bliss, toshiko means harvest. The time has come, something is already ready in you: the harvest time has come. Seeds sown in many past lives are ready to become actual. Just a little effort, a little more awareness, and miracles can happen. You are just on the verge. But many times people miss, even from the verge. Just one step wrong and one goes miles away. To miss is very easy, and the only cause of ever missing is the ego.

This is the time to drop the ego. Just go into deep trust and surrender; and that’s what sannyas is all about. Let your initiation be the dropping of the ego. Then just one step may be enough, or one never knows: even one step may not be needed.

Deva Neha. Deva means divine, neha means love.

Love is needed. Man is starving without love. His heart is sinking without love, his soul is hungry without love. And we go on preparing for war; our whole society is geared for war. And that is not the need of man: the need of man is love.

Man asks for love and we kill him. He asks for life and we give him death. Now it is the right time to finish with this whole nonsense that has existed up to now in the name of humanity. War has reached a climax; it has become total. Now there are only two alternatives possible: either war... and then it destroys the whole of humanity, not only humanity but the whole of life on this planet... or a transformation, a transformation of man. A totally new man is needed; the old man won’t do. The old man was rooted in war and the new man will be rooted in love.

Become the new man. My sannyasins have to become the heralds of the new dawn.

Deva Werner. Deva means divine, werner means protection – protected by the divine, under divine protection. Let that feeling become stronger and stronger in you, that there is no need to worry, that there is no need to be afraid, that there is no need to feel insecure; God is, and God is our protection. Even in death, he is. Even death is not death: death is only a door to immortality.

Once you start feeling more and more protected, tensions will drop of their own accord. Modern man is too tense because he feels that there is no protection, and he himself destroyed the protection; he himself has destroyed his roots in God. He himself declared “God is dead”, and now he is without a roof and without shelter. Now, suddenly he finds himself an alien, in a strange world, an outsider. This is our doing, and we have to undo it.

Trust in existence, feel protected, feel secure. Then insecurity itself becomes security and death itself becomes life abundant. Then thorns start turning into flowers.

That is the magical key that I want to give to each of my sannyasins. I teach you magic, not religion!

Anand Werner. Anand means bliss. Werner has two meanings: one is protection, another is friend; remember the second meaning. A blissful friend... and that’s the whole art of being religious. Befriend existence – trees, rocks, rivers, people. Create more and more bridges of friendship. The greater the kingdom of your friendship, the closer you are to God, because friendship is the purest form of love. In love there is some mud, because in love there is some quality of lust; in love there is something physical. Friendship soars very high. It is not under the law of gravitation. Friendship has no weight; instead, it has wings.

Become a friend to all – that is religion for you. That is worship, that is prayer.

[The new sannyasin says that he has seen a vision, a face, and since he saw that, something has changed in him.I feel that if I meet other people I enter them, without wanting to.]

Drop that idea of wanting or not wanting; just enter. Don’t be worried about trespassing, because in fact we are one. We are not islands, we are a continent; we are all joined together. Hence it is possible: if you become a little liquid, you can enter into others’ beings. And naturally, a man who thinks will become worried: “Is it right? Is it not interference? Is not entering into others’ beings without their permission wrong?”

There is no other, there is only one. He enters into himself!

So don’t be worried. Enjoy it, and enjoy without holding anything back. This is a beautiful experience that is happening. One day it is going to give you the ultimate experience of God, of oneness. This is how, slowly slowly, you will disappear. Get ready for it!

[A sannyasin, leaving, asks Osho to say something to him.]

Come back soon.and I will go on talking to you. Whenever you want to listen to me, just close your

eyes and become silent, utterly silent, and I will start speaking from your inner being. It is possible now. Just make a few efforts so that you can have an inner contact. Once you know that it is there, then it becomes very simple; it is just a knack. It has already happened, the connection is there; you just have to find it. So sit silently and wait and look in, with no expectation. Before you come back, something will happen...

And help my people there.

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I am very impatient about my inability to love, and I don’t know what to do about it.]

Nothing has to be done. If you do something you will

create more of a mess. Love is not a question of doing. Simply accept your helplessness and out of the acceptance of your helplessness love arises.

Love is not your power: love is your helplessness, utter helplessness. It is not an art to be learned. It is just a crying, weeping heart.

Just accept your helplessness, that nothing can be done, and then one day suddenly you will be surprised: it has happened. It always comes as an uninvited guest and at times when you w ere not expecting it at all. You were in such helplessness and suddenly the clouds disperse and the sun is there...

[A sannyasin had previously been given some exercises to overcome a sensitivity in his navel. Tonight he is leave-taking, and says: My navel is opening up.]

Very good! That’s what you wanted. It’s perfectly good. Come back forever, and help my people there.

Keep it (a box) with you, and don’t allow the navel to close again! Whenever you feel that it is closing, just put the box on your navel. But go on holding it, otherwise it will disappear into the navel! That has happened to a few people, so be aware! Good!

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I’ve lost my self-assurance I don’t know if I can remain a teacher in Germany after having heard your lectures.]

No, you will become a better teacher; don’t be worried. You will be more loving and you will start helping your children towards the real education of life.

Don’t be worried. You will not be the same, that is true; you will be different. You will not be able to move in the old rut, but that is good. You will bring something of me to your children.

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: I feel a bit sad to go away, and at the same time it’s okay to go back.] It is perfectly okay and sadness is also okay.

We should learn to okay everything! Okay everything – sadness, blissfulness; don’t choose. Choicelessly okay, go on okaying it. Slowly slowly one starts feeling that everything has its own beauty and its own significance and everything contributes to one’s growth; this sadness also will contribute to your growth. Growth is a multidimensional phenomenon.…

[A sannyasin, leaving, says: The other day you talked about energy and I understood that it’s very important to be here with you in this Buddhafield. How can I be close if I have to go to the West?]

No problem... space makes no difference. If you love me you are in my Buddhafield wherever you are. Love is my Buddhafield. Physical closeness is secondary; the spiritual closeness, that is the real thing.

Just be in love with me wherever you are. Find a few moments for me, just to be with me, wherever you are, and you will find me as close as I am here.

[To a sannyasin on her first visit here.]

Next time come for a longer period. It makes a lot of difference if you are here for at least three, four months: things go deeper. And once the heart has opened for me, then you can be anywhere. But first let me dig a little deeper, so that I can reach to your very core!

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