< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium This will be your new name... and the end of the old life and the beginning of the totally new. Let it be totally new. Sometimes a thing is new, but not totally new – then it doesn’t work. Then it is just a modification of the old, a continuity with the past. Only the discontinuous works – absolute discontinuity with the past; only that is radical....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means the ultimate state of silence, peace, joy. It is all three together. It is not just joy, because joy can be very maddening. It is very clam and quiet; it has no excitement in it. Joy can have much fever, passion. So it is joy with a totally different quality to it – very silent joy, not like laughter but just like a smile....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and adarsha means the first-day moon. Literally the word means that which cannot be seen but yet is. The first-day moon cannot be seen. From the second day you can see it a little; by the third day it is very clearly seen; on the fifteenth day it is perfect. On the first day it is there but almost like a potentiality – not yet actual....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Shanti means peace and garbha means womb – peace womb. This name is a seed-meditation for you. Think of yourself as a womb which is going to give birth to peace. Imagine, visualise yourself as being a womb, and that the peace child is growing within you. Whenever you are sitting, not doing anything, just visualise it – just sit silently....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love and atharva means fire – love fire. And that’s the fire that keeps us alive, and that’s the fire that runs the whole existence. That’s the fire that one has to experience to know what god is. Physicists say that the existence consists of nothing but electricity, and they are approximately true, because electricity is a form of fire....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss and swantandra means freedom – bliss freedom. And they are both two aspects of the same phenomenon – on one side is bliss, on another side is freedom; they always come together. Attain to one and the other follows. So either become blissful, then you are free, or become free, then you are blissful....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A visitor said she was traveling in India because: it’s warm, and I like travelling very much and... of course there must be some other reasons too, but who knows?] Mm, there are! (a pause) There are layers and layers of reasons in the mind, and we are aware only of the first layer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, anada means soundlessness – loving soundlessness. And that is a map for your inner journey: become as soundless as possible. The inner chattering has to be completely dropped. The mind goes on creating sound, continuously – day in, day out; whether awake or asleep, the mind goes on creating more and more sounds, more words....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, anugita means a small song – a small song of love. That’s what life is meant to be. Life consists of small things, so I don’t call it a very big song – I call it a small song. Song, not with a capital ‘S’ – a lower case ‘s’. Life consists of very small things, and one has to learn the small song of life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 February 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, anakula means calm, quiet. Ordinarily love is hot, feverish, obsessive. Ordinarily, love is more like a disease than like health. It disturbs you... it distracts you from your centre. It helps you to become intoxicated, infatuated with the other – you forget yourself. In that very forgetfulness you miss the beauty of love....