< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Krishna Venu. It means krishna’s flute. Krishna is the only person in the whole history of human consciousness who is tremendously in love with life, with the poetry of life, with the music of life, with the dance of life. He is not at all life-negative, he is very affirmative. And he accepts life as it is; he does not put god and the world as opposites....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and bhaven means feeling. Feel it and you will have it. You are missing it only because you have not looked at it through feeling. And feeling is real life. Thinking is phoney because thinking is always about; it is never the real thing. It is not thinking about the wine that can make you intoxicated, it is the wine....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva Rahi: It means a traveller to the divine, a pilgrim of the divine – deva means divine, rahi means a traveller. You are a traveller and you have been a traveller for a long time, many lives. This is not the first time that you have become interested in it; you are an old one....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, sudheer means wisdom. And I make it a condition that wisdom is significant only when it is blissful, and blissfulness is meaningful only when it has wisdom in it. Both can exist separately but then they are not meaningful. A person can be very happy and foolish – maybe happy because he is foolish, maybe happy because he cannot understand the complexity of life, because he is below understanding so he is not aware that misery is implied in life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Annapurna: It means the goddess of nourishment. India has many symbols and thousands of god. Each symbol ultimately has to become the symbol of god. So about the goddess of nourishment they have a very beautiful concept; they call her ‘annapurna’. ‘Anna’ means food, ‘purna’ means perfect. And the mother is annapurna, the woman is annapurna; she is the goddess of nourishment....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine and raga means melody – a divine melody. And each heart is carrying a melody in it just as each bud is carrying fragrance. Man’s heart is a bud and carries a melody in it. And unless this bud opens and flowers man is never happy, cannot be happy before it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Osho tells a sannyasin couple that through sexual freedom within the community here, people would naturally find the sexual need dropping and a spontaneous celibacy arising. The swami says: I feel more and more that in me the suffering that’s happening is getting smaller and smaller.] It is... it is! The more aware you become, the more childish and stupid it looks....