< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 20 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, nirvana means enlightenment – enlightenment through love. And that is going to be your way: love, devotion, feeling, through the heart. So don’t bother about the mind; by-pass it. Let it be there, it’s okay. It’s need is there in the world, but it has nothing to contribute in the other world....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means god, anuneeta means disciplined by – disciplined by the divine. There are two types of discipline in life: one discipline that you can manage – but that is very ordinary discipline, man-made, home-made, and naturally cannot lead you very far. It is also repressive because you have to continuously fight and you have to repress many things in your being....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌22 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and tapesh means radiance. There is a radiance of the body and there is a radiance of the spirit. The radiance of the body shows the youthfulness, the health of the body, and the radiance of the spirit shows the youth and health of the spirit. Bliss belongs to the second. The body can only promise but it cannot deliver: all its promises are impotent....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌23 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin asks: How it is possible to perceive the egoless state if you’re using this brain which is full of memories and full of ego, full of preconceived ideas?] You don’t perceive it as a presence, you perceive it as an absence. For example, this chair is here: you look at the chair, mm? Then the chair is gone....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 24 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin says: I’ve been avoiding you for a year now.] That’s a good indication!... That means that something is going to happen so the mind is afraid. The mind is never afraid without any real cause, so the people who avoid me are the people who are going to be transformed by me....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 25 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Ma Anand Kosha. Anand means bliss, kosha means body – body of bliss. In the East we have discovered that man consists of five bodies. Five layers of bodies are there; we don’t have one body, we have five bodies. And the first, the most superficial body, is the physical body, and the last, the most subtle body, is the body of bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 26 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and prayaga means the meeting of the three. Just as in christianity there is a concept of trinity – that god is three and yet one, three aspects of one reality – in the same way in Hinduism there is a concept of the meeting of the three; that concept is called prayaga....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 27 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho gives a name for a new centre in america] This will be the name: Mahaprasthana – it means the great departure. Prasthana means departure and mahaprasthana means the great departure. It is a one hundred and eighty degree turn; you are never the same again. Even if you want to be the same, you cannot be, because once your vision has absorbed some meditative energy, your world changes....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 28 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and arudha is the last stage of sannyas, the perfect renunciation, where one transcends all disciplines, where one goes beyond all rules, where one follows no code, where one lives absolutely spontaneously, where one lives moment to moment not thinking of the consequences at all. That is the last stage of sannyas, renunciation....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 29 31 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and aranya means wildness – divine wildness, divine chaos. Chaos is the source of all, and the moment we become capable of entering chaos we become capable of entering god. God is wild: he is more like a forest than like a garden. The very disorder of it is its order, the very chaos of it is its cosmos....