< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; ida is Teutonic, it means happy– happy love. Love can be born either out of blissfulness or out of misery. When love is out of misery it creates more misery; it takes you deeper and deeper into hell. When love is out of blissfulness it gives you wings; you start soaring high....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss; sue is Hebrew, it means white lily. The full name will mean a blissful white lily. The lily is a strange flower, the poorest and the richest at the same time. Hence Jesus’ statement to his disciples: Look at the lilies – even Solomon was not so beautiful, attired in all his grandeur, as these poor flowers are....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, Odin means god of poetry – god of love and poetry. Good, Odin. Keep it with you. Anand means bliss, viresha means courageous. Bliss is only for those who are courageous. It needs tremendous courage to drop misery because we have invested in misery for so long. Our ego subsists on misery, our whole life is rooted and based in misery, so to drop it means to die as you have known yourself To drop it means to destroy the identity that you have always thought you are....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; almiro is Arabic, it means exalted. Love is the most exalted state of being. It is just next to God: one step more and God is reached. Love is the last thing; beyond that is the infinite, the eternal. Love is our boundary; if we remain on this side, we remain in the world....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Anand Yuri – farmer of bliss.] Gautam the Buddha used to say again and again: I am the farmer, I sow the seeds of bliss. There is a way of inner farming, of creating a garden of the inner. Many never become aware of it; they are the unfortunate ones. Otherwise it is just so close – just a one-hundred-and-eighty-degree turn and it is in front of you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; roger is Teutonic, it means spear. Love is like a spear: the moment it penetrates the heart it is the greatest agony possible, but beyond the agony is the ecstasy. Love is pain, pure pain, but out of the fire of pure pain, bliss is born. The pain is the price we pay for the bliss....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 24 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva is Sanskrit. it means god. Lars is Scandinavian, it means symbol of victory – god, the symbol of victory. Remember, unless god is achieved, nothing is achieved. Unless god is realised, we are failures, utter failures. It is only with the realisation of god that victory arrives; there is no other victory. All are cover-ups for defeats....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 25 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, vincent means victory – victory that comes through love, the victory that love is. Any other kind of victory is only apparent, only love gives you the real thing, because every other kind of victory is forced, violent; sooner or later there is going to be vengeance, revolt, reaction. Only love knows no revolt, because love is not an enforcement: it is a gift....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 26 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, regis means wise. Love brings wisdom. Wisdom is the shadow of love; without love there is no wisdom. Without love knowledge is possible, much knowledge is possible, but wisdom impossible. Wisdom is the function of the heart, and without love the heart remains dormant. It is the force of love that moves the dynamo of the heart and once the heart is stirred, the seed of wisdom that we are carrying within us starts growing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 27 February 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin arriving with her children says she doesn’t know how long she will stay here.] Be here. There is no need to know! Just be here. This is not a place to know anything! This is a place to become as ignorant as possible. There is a knowledge which is ignorant, and there is an ignorance which knows....