< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, christopher means Christ-bearer. The story is that Saint Christopher bore the Christ child across the river. But it can become a tremendously significant metaphor for the inner journey. The meaning that I would like to give it is that each person, man or woman, is a Christbearer in the sense that everybody is pregnant with Christ, that we are carrying the child in our womb....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Veet means beyond, sandeh means doubt. To go beyond doubt is the most fundamental step towards god. Doubt is a tremendously important method of enquiry into matter, but not into consciousness. It is utterly valid as far as matter is concerned, and utterly invalid as far as consciousness is concerned. If you use trust in science, there will be no science at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss. Lotte is Teutonic; it means human being – a blissful human being. Man is not man just because of his physical shape and form. It has to be earned; one has to become human. Man is born only as a potentiality to be man; it is not already the fact, it is still to happen....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, anupam means uniqueness. It is a paradox – but existence itself is a paradox – that each individual is both universal and unique. It is very illogical, because if we are all one, then how can we all be unique? – we will be similar. But that is not the case....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss; mario can have two meanings, because it can either be derived from Latin or from Hebrew. In Latin it means god of Mars or god of war; in Hebrew it means rebellion. Choose the Hebrew meaning – god of war is ugly. If one wants to be a god, one should be a god of peace....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem Satish – god of love and truth. These are the two most significant things in life. Truth has to be realised and love has to be lived. Truth happens in the innermost core; love is the flow outwards of the same energy. When you are full of truth, you can’t help being loving; love starts overflowing, but the energy is that of truth....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine; petra is Greek, it means rock– divine rock. The temple of life has to be built on the rock of god. People build their houses either in the air or at the most on the sands. If one makes one’s houses in the air, one is simply wasting time, energy, life....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, carina has two meanings; one is a star, a star of the constellation Orion–a love star. Love is always a possibility, always a potential, and the potential is such that it cannot be actualised absolutely; it is inexhaustible. So it is always a far-away distant star; you are always arriving closer and closer, but you can never say ‘I have arrived....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss; giglio is from Latin, it means a lily flower. A blissful flower – that’s what man has to become. All the potential is there; it only has to be challenged, it only has to be remembered. It is a forgotten treasure. We have not lost it, it is still with us....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Antar is Sanskrit it means the inner, and Victoria is Latin; it means the victorious. The full name will mean: the inner victory, the victory over the inner. To win the other is not difficult it is not really a great challenge. The real challenge arises from the inner: how to win oneself, how to be a master of one’s own being....