< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, tarshito means thirst for – thirst for god. God is possible only when it becomes a thirst for each cell of your being, when one is afire, when it is not only curiosity. Because if it is curiosity it remains only in the head – it never reaches to the heart; it is superficial....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [To a new sannyasin:] You have come home! This was the search for your whole life – now the moment to fulfil it has come. And it is very rare, because many strive but very few reach. The desire to know, the desire to know the mystery of life is every heart’s desire, but very few fortunate people find a way to it, a door to it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, shankaro means conditionings. Man is born unconditioned, man is born as freedom... just an open sky, with no clouds, with no boundaries, with no adjectives, no definitions – neither Hindu nor Christian nor Communist – just pure existence, an emptiness. But immediately the society starts closing in on you, starts making boundaries; those boundaries are conditionings....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, gandhraj is one of the most fragrant flowers. Literally it means ‘the king of all flowers.’ Bliss, the king of all flowers – that will be the meaning of your name. Bliss is a fragrance – like musk. The musk deer starts searching for the source from where this fragrance is coming and starts running hither and thither in the forest not knowing at all that the fragrance is coming from his own navel....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Anand Rupen – Bliss beauty] Bliss is the ultimate state of consciousness. Bliss is not possible unless the mind is completely gone. It is the absence of the mind; it happens only in the absence of the mind. And the mind is the source of all ugliness, all negativities – hatred, anger, jealousy, possessiveness; all that comes from the mind....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sansar means the world, atosha means discontent – discontent with the world... that is the beginning of the search. Those who are contented with the world are unfortunate, they are contented with the trivia; they are simply wasting their opportunity to grow. They are contented with toys. The world consists of all kinds of toys; that is the meaning of the word sansar....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, dwabha means twilight – divine twilight... and that is the situation where you are. The past is gone, and the future has not come yet. The old is disappearing and the new has not come yet. Hence there is a chaos inside, a great confusion. You cannot go back to the old – the old mind is no more relevant – and you don’t know what the new mind is....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, nishkamo means desireless. Love with desire is lust. Love with a motive keeps one tethered to the body, to the mundane. Love without desire immediately frees you from the mundane and the door to the sacred is opened. Love without desire is no more lust; it is prayer. That is the only difference between lust and prayer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, samagro means totality. Perfection is not the goal of life, although the whole past of humanity has been teaching people that perfection is the goal. And because of that teaching they have driven the whole of humanity neurotic; nobody can be perfect. Except for the total, the whole, there is no possibility of anybody being perfect....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 October 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and halim should mean ‘no person’, not mild person. Even if you are a mild person, you remain arrogant in your mildness. It is hidden – it is not so overt, not so obvious, it has gone underground – but the mild person still carries the ego; maybe now the ego is that of mildness, humbleness....