< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 29 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says he will be away one year because he has to go in the army.] Finish it, mm? And it is good in a way. Don’t take it like a burden, rather enjoy it... and it makes a lot of difference. The same thing can be a great misery if you go into it reluctantly, if you go against yourself, if you go unwillingly....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 30 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem sandurga – love context. Man is the opportunity for love to happen, the occasion for love to happen, the context. And if love does not happen, the opportunity is lost. Then you didn’t use it rightly; you were not creative in it. Love is the flower of human consciousness. A tree is unfulfilled if it doesn’t come to fruition and flower....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, bodha means awareness – divine awareness, an awareness that cannot be cultivated; it can only be received as a gift. Man cannot create it, man can only become a receptacle. There is another kind of awareness that man can create by friction, by struggle, by conflict! but that remains very ordinary, naturally, because man-created things cannot be very extraordinary....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 31 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and veeta means that which transcends – love that transcends all – conditions, demands, expectations. It is not only that love transcends those things but finally love transcends itself too. Only then does it arrive, because unless love transcends love itself, it remains mingled with hatred. It remains poisoned with anger, possessiveness; it carries the colour of violence....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Gyan anala: knowledge fire] Knowing is fire. You can use knowledge. Knowledge is something dead in your hands; you can possess it, you can control it. But you cannot possess knowing; knowing is fire, it consumes you. In the knowing the knower disappears: in knowledge the knower remains in control. When you are in the moment of knowing, you are not....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a new sannyasin Osho says:] This is not for the first time that you are becoming a sannyasin; many times before in many lives you have been attracted again and again and you have followed many paths... but it was never completed. You were never totally in it, so you have tried many times and you have failed many times....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, and anjana literally means ‘eye ointment’ – love, the eye ointment: because love gives you new vision. It cleanses your eyes of the old, makes available to you the present and the future. It transforms your eyesight. In fact, it gives you eyes, otherwise one is blind. So anjana means an ointment that can restore the sight of a blind man....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand Indira. It means god of bliss; anand means bliss, indira is a name of a god. And a few things about you... There is great potential; you can explode, but you are holding it. You have great energy but it is suffering. You have been repressing and repressing; you don’t allow yourself. You have learned a very dangerous trick of control....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shubha means good, virtuous; anand means blissful, happy – goodness and blissfulness. And virtue is virtue only when it brings happiness; if it brings sadness and seriousness then something has gone wrong. Then it is the worst kind of sin. And that’s what generally happens: it is very rare to find good and happy people....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 January 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, gireesh means a mountain – a mountain of love. And we carry that much love in our hearts, that’s why love always remains dissatisfied. It is always hankering for something bigger; nothing seems enough, everything falls short, because we have as much love as the whole universe can contain and unless we start showering our love on the whole of existence it remains dissatisfied....