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‌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. Everybody is trying to do the same, hence the great competition, the great conflict, that goes on and on. Each individual is fighting with all other individuals. We are living with enemies. We cannot befriend them because we are competitors.

To drop the desire to rule anybody is to become a sannyasin. To drop the total desire to dominate is to become religious. In that understanding one comes to know that God is the ruler of all. God is not a person but the ultimate principle.

Anand Ghoshen. Anand means bliss, ghoshen means declaration – declaration of bliss. My sannyasin has to become a declaration of bliss. His very being has to pulsate with joy, because joy is prayer. His very climate has to be that of celebration, because celebration is worship.

So let that be the basic key for you: in each moment of your life, in each act of your life, declare your blissfulness, your cheerfulness, your zestfulness, and you will come closer and closer to God. That’s the only way to come close to God; there is none other.

Anand Olaf. Anand means bliss, olaf is a form of olive. It has become a symbol of peace. In fact it should be the symbol of coming home, of arriving at the destination, because peace happens when you have arrived. When the journey is over one feels utter peace, hence it has become the symbol of peace. k is concerned with the ancient story of the flood.

For days and days Noah was searching for land Then finally he released a dove. They waited for the dove to come back, and the dove came with an olive leaf. That was the sign that land was very close

by – “so we have arrived” – hence there was great joy and great peaceLet sannyas become your

arrival.

Anand Ann. Anand means bliss. Ann is a part of hannah hannah means grace, mercy, prayer, but I would like you to remember prayer. Your full name will mean bliss prayer. Let bliss be your prayer, not words. Prayer cannot be in words; one can only live it. One cannot say it; one can only show it. One can be luminous with it, but there is no way to say it. Prayer has nothing to do with words, it is not a verbal communication, because God understands no human language. He understands the primordial language of existence – that is silence. But if silence is there and bliss is not there, there will be no prayer. Then the silence will be empty, then the silence will be simply negative, a kind of vacuum – the peace that is found in the cemetery. It will not have life.

If the silence is full of bliss it becomes prayer, because it becomes love. The meeting of bliss and silence becomes love. Where they meet, great transformation happens. Then there is no need to go to a church or a temple or to a mosque for prayer; you can be in prayer twenty-four hours a day. And prayer can only be of any use when it becomes like breathing. But then it has nothing to do with words; it is just the way you live.

Live blissfully, cheerfully. Live with laughter in your heart and your prayer will be heard. Without uttering a single word, it reaches to God.

Anand Phil. Anand means bliss, phil means love. Your old name, Philip, means a horse lover. Phil means love, and the remaining part comes from “hippos”, which means horse, and that is not of much use – to be a horse lover! Mm? that is almost like being a horse thief! So I will change it: Phil is enough. Just be a lover. Horses are included.there is no need to exclude them, but just be a

lover, and a blissful lover.

Love should not become a serious phenomenon. People make it too serious, then it brings agony. Take it easy, take it lightly. Love should be fun, and then it brings great freedom, and ultimately it brings you to God and God to you.

Prem Dorothea. Prem means love, dorothea means a gift of God – love, the gift of God. Love always comes from the beyond. It is not something that we can make, it cannot be manufactured by us. At the most we can receive it or reject it; we can say yes or we can say no. If we say no we remain in misery; and the ego tends to say no. If we say yes life becomes a joy, a rejoicing. But to say yes one has to drop the ego. Saying yes means surrendering to existence. That simple word “yes” contains the whole of religion. If one can say “Yes!” to existence with a total heart, then all is done. Yes means: Thy will be done. In that very surrender, love starts pouring in, love starts overflowing you.

That’s what everybody is seeking and searching for, but everybody is preventing it from happening. That’s the greatest dilemma that every human being has to pass through: we desire something but we destroy the bridge that can take us to it.

Anand Heiderose. Anand means bliss, heiderose means a rose.

What is “heide”? – heather?... A desert rose? Good. That’s far better! To be a rose in the desert is far better.

The world is almost like a desert. It is very difficult to be a rose here. A thousand and one difficulties are in the way, but those difficulties have to be accepted as challenges. Those difficulties have to be used as stepping stones. Then they don’t hinder you from growing; on the contrary they help. And it is because of so many difficulties in life that ultimately one comes to a ripeness, richness.

If there were no difficulties in life there would have been no possibility of growth. The whole situation of existence is helpful to growth. All its misery, all its agony, all its turmoil – everything helps the consciousness to grow, to become more alert, to become more aware, to become more integrated. And that integration is the inner rose. When that rose blooms one has become a Christ or a Buddha. Let that be the goal.

Deva Ron. Deva means divine, ron means power – divine power. All power is God’s. Life is his. He breathes in you; he circulates in your blood he beats in your heart: he is all in all. But we have created a very false phenomenon, the most dangerous lie – the ego – and we pretend that “The power is mine, I am powerful.” The idea that “I am powerful” disconnects you from the totality, from the whole.

A sannyasin has to learn that “I am not; I am not at all, so how can I be powerful? I am a nobody, just a vehicle of some unknown energy – call it God, tao, or whatever one wants to call it.” It has no name, but to know that “I am just an emptiness and some infinite energy flows through me” is to become a sannyasin. That is real initiation: when you disappear and only God is.

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