< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 29 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, dipa means an earthen lamp – a small lamp of love. Love’s small lamp is far more significant. far more powerful, than the whole darkness of hate, anger, greed. The darkness of the centuries is not so powerful, so potent, as just a small flame of love. Darkness has no power, it is impotent; in fact it does not exist, it only appears to exist....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 29 30 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, sahaja means spontaneous. Love is true only when it is spontaneous, unplanned, unpracticed, uncultivated, unthought. Whenever you plan for love, whenever deliberateness enters into it it becomes phony and false. And that’s why people go on loving yet it never satisfies, because no phony food can be nourishing. True love has to be spontaneous, it has to happen without any preparation preceding it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Svadesh means homeland. Man’s search is for his real homeland. In this world man is a stranger, a foreigner; he lives a kind of uprooted life. Something essential is missing: he is missing the soil where he can grow his roots. His life remains an empty gesture. a constant occupation just so he remains occupied, so that he can forget, forget the longing for the homeland....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 30 31 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Darpana means a mirror. Thinking is a barrier: mirroring is the way. To think is to miss: to reflect is to get. Truth has not to be invented but only discovered. And the veil is not on truth; it is on our mirror. Truth is utterly naked, it is not covered. So when I say ‘It has to be discovered’ I mean that we have to open up to it....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin mother with her exuberant child, says: Sometimes his energy is too much and I don’t know what to do with him.] It’s perfectly good; this is the time he should have more energy. Don’t repress his energy. Each child brings great energy into the world but we repress it; that is a kind of crippling....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, pravasi means a stranger – a divine stranger. Man is a stranger on the earth; this is not his true home, hence the search. All search is basically the search for the source, the true home. And whatsoever we make here on the earth disappears: all these palaces that we make are made of playing cards....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Madhuma means absolutely sweet – that’s the taste of god. Buddha is reported to have said: Truth is sweet in the beginning, in the middle, in the end; truth is sweet all over. If it feels bitter to us, and sometimes it does, that simply shows that we have become too accustomed to the lies....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, subhadro means grace. There are things which man can do and there are things which man can never do. There are things which only god can do; and all that is great comes into that category. Man can do only mundane things which have no ultimate value. Utility they have but value they don’t have....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, sambhavo means potential. Love is not an actuality, it is only a seed, and the seed can die without ever becoming the actual. That’s the risk of life: every man is born with a possibility but it is only a possibility – it may be actualised, it may be missed. If it is missed then life remains futile, meaningless, a tale told by an idiot, full of fury and noise signifying nothing – because love is the significance, love is the meaning....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 December 1978 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veeto means transcendence; and that’s the secret of all meditation. It is the very foundation of all religion. That which we know as the world is only the periphery; the centre is hidden. The centre is transcendental. It cannot be seen by the eyes, it cannot be heard by the ears, it cannot be touched by the hands, yet it is, yet it can be experienced....