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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. So it only gives hope, it says ‘tomorrow’. Tomorrow is the language of the body: it says ‘Tomorrow the happiness is going to happen. It has not happened today? Don’t be worried. Drag on somehow; tomorrow is a date with happiness’ – but it never comes because tomorrow never comes.
Bliss happens only today, right now, herenow, and that is the dimension of the spirit. The spirit lives in eternity. Eternity is not part of time: it is going beyond time or below time. Where there are two moments of time, just between those two moments there is a still, small gap. From that gap one drops into eternity.
‘Anand Tapesh’ means the bliss, the radiance that comes only when one has dropped out of time. Out of time, one is out of the mind; in time, one is in the mind. In the mind one is tethered to the body; out of the mind, one is simply free of the body, then there is no bondage. That’s what in India we have been calling freedom, moksha.…
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