Turn On, Tune In and Drop the Lot

Talks given from 1/12/78 to 31/12 78 Darshan Diary

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Samvad means communion. Man is living as an island, and that’s from where all misery arises. Down the centuries man has been trying to live independently from existence. That is not possible in the very nature of things. Man can neither be independent nor dependent. Existence is a state of interdependence: everything depends on everything else....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Premendra. It means god of love. Love has to become the very centre of your whole life. Whatsoever you do, it has to be kept in mind that you are doing it out of love, that you are doing it for love. It has to be part of your growing heart, then only does one enter into the world of god....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 12 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [December 11th was Osho’s birthday celebration darshan in Buddha Hall.] Sourabh means fragrance. The seed and the flower and the fragrance – these are also the states of human consciousness. Man is born as a seed. There is no necessity that the seed will become the flower; the seed can die as a seed....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 13 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Niro means the element water. And water is very symbolic, symbolic of flow, symbolic of non- resistance, symbolic of let-go. And these have to become the qualities of a sannyasin. One should never become stagnant, because life is a process, a constant process; the moment you stop the process you are dead. Life is a river, on-going, from infinity to infinity....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 14 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sitaro. It is the root of the word ‘star’, the Sanskrit root. It means the star... Remember that the real star is within. And the real star is not even a whispering star: it is utterly silent, not even a whisper. And we reach it only when we are totally silent. Even if a little whispering remains, that is enough of a barrier, that is enough of a wall....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 15 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, iman means faith. Man can either live in belief or in faith. Belief is man-made: faith is a grace that comes from beyond. Belief is a thing of the mind: faith, a stirring in the heart. Belief is superficial, it never transforms anybody. Rather than transforming it only consoles. It is convenient to be a Hindu, to be a Christian, to be a Mohammedan, because the crowd is there, surrounding you in every way....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 16 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Darpano means the mirror. The moment one starts functioning as a pure mirror, god is revealed immediately. God is already here: we are just not a mirror to him. One need not search for god, because he is not far away: he is very close, he is closer to you than you are to yourself....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 17 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Sangit, means music; and music is something that is the most spiritual, religious, and the most expressive of the existence of god. Where words fail, music succeeds. Words can only describe god: they go round and round. Music can represent; it is very symbolic. So become more and more musical in your being. Life has to be treated as a musical instrument....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 18 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love. And only love brings victory; everything else brings defeat. Money brings defeat, power brings defeat, success brings defeat. Only love brings victory; that is one of the most fundamental laws of life. We try everything but we never try love. That’s why there is so much depression, despair in the world....

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< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 19 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, charitro means character. I don’t teach character: I teach consciousness. Character is a false phenomenon, imposed from the outside. It is fulfilling others’ expectations about you. It is not growth, because it has not arisen out of your own spontaneity. It is a conditioning, and all conditionings are slaveries, subtle strategies of the society to manipulate the individual, to destroy the individual....