< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, rupesh means god of the form – the full name will mean god of the form of love, god of love. And once you recognise something in you, it starts happening; that is the miracle. If you think of yourself as being depressed, you remain depressed. If you think of yourself as being unhappy, you remain unhappy....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: For these last two years I was a musician... I play the piano.] Very good. So my meditations will fit you; they will go very deep in you. If somebody has been interested in music he has already been in meditation unknowingly. Now the effort will become deliberate and conscious....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, neeten means morality – divine morality. And there is a morality that man can create but that is worthless; it is only an imposition from the outside. There is another kind of morality which man cannot create, which is beyond man, which comes from the above. Man can only be the receiver of it, not the creator: that is divine morality....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, preeti means love. And one has to be constantly alert, only then does love flower. Much awareness is needed, otherwise int he name of love many other things go on. So if one is very alert then only can pure love flower, otherwise the name remains love but sometimes it is jealousy, sometimes it is domination, sometimes it is just pure animality, just sexuality; these things continue....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, pratibodha means awareness . . . And become more and more aware of whatsoever you are doing. Just keep one thing in mind continuously: that you have to be aware. Eating, be aware of it; talking, be aware of it; listening, be aware of it. Let awareness become a substratum of each and every activity so each activity becomes just a wave on the deeper substratum of awareness, and that very thing changes the quality of all actions....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, blissful, and shailendra means god of the mountains. God of the mountains of bliss; this will be the whole meaning. And bliss is a mountain because it is a peak, it is a peak experience. Ordinarily we live in the valleys... the valleys are dark and dismal: we live on the lowest rung of our consciousness....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Maitri means love, friendship, and friendship has a higher quality than love. The next step of love is friendship. Not that it is lower, as it is understood ordinarily; it is not. In love there is passion, lust; love is more rooted in the physical. Friendship is purer, not rooted in the sexual at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 17 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shunya means the ultimate experience of nothingness, of non-being, of no-self, and jiten means conqueror – conqueror of the no-self. It is very paradoxical but life is paradoxical, truth is paradoxical. If truth is not paradoxical you can be certain that it cannot be truth. Life exists only through death; that is the paradox....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 18 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Satya means truth and mitra means a friend – a friend of truth. And that’s the most difficult thing to be because our so – called society, civilisation, culture all exist on lies. That’s why we go on missing god, because we are trained for lies, we have been conditioned to be liars, to never be true, to never be authentic....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 19 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Pari means ultimate, nirvana means enlightenment – the ultimate enlightenment. It is a buddhist term of tremendous significance. The ultimate enlightenment means the ultimate dissolution of the ego, the ultimate disappearance of the individual. When you become a non-being, when you are not, then god is, because when you are not the whole is....