< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 1 1 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Bliss is not a result of prayer, it is not a reward: it is prayer itself. It is not that prayerful people become blissful; just the contrary: blissful people are prayerful. There is no question of becoming; bliss and prayer are synonymous. And once this is understood then the whole of life can be a prayer....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 10 10 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Atmo means the self, and volker means the master – master not of the people but master of one’s self. That is true mastery; to be master of others is really a poor substitute. People try to be masters of others because they are not masters of themselves. Once the self-mastery has happened, all desire to dominate, all desire to possess, all desire to be superior, simply disappears....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 11 11 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Samagra means total, catherine comes from a Greek root, catheros; from the same root comes catharsis. It means the process of purification. Your full name will mean total process of purification. And this is what sannyas is all about: a process of cleansing. The old religions used to repress. My approach is: instead of repressing, cathart, throw it out....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 12 12 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin explains her son’s name, Jolon: valley of the dead oak trees.] Prem means love. Love and death are very deeply related. Love is a kind of death: it is the death of the ego. Those who are not capable of dying cannot be capable of love either, because it is the same phenomenon looked at from different angles....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 13 13 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, yuuichi means strength – divine strength. Man in himself is impotent. All that is alive in him comes from god, all that is power in him is divine: man is only a vehicle. If one functions simply as a vehicle of god then one’s life is religious. And if one starts interfering in the flow of the energy and is no more just a vehicle but becomes a controller, then one’s life is irreligious....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 14 14 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, helga has three meanings. The first is holy, the second is pious, and the third is religious. They look alike, they are not; they look synonymous, they are not. There is a great difference between them, and the difference is of immense import. The religious is always a formal person, a pretender – a Christian, a Hindu, a Mohammedan....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 15 15 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Etyan: strong and stable.] Veet Etyan. Veet means going beyond, transcending – transcending the desire to be strong and stable. Man has always desired to be strong because he feels weak; the desire simply proves that man feels weak. Man is weak, because the part can never be strong; only the whole is strong....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 16 16 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, robbie means bright, shining one. God is the shining one. He shines through everything – through the flowers and through the stars and through the eyes of people. That which shines is divine, and the person is blind who cannot see it. Not to see god is the greatest calamity that can happen to a person, and that has happened to millions of people: people have become utterly incapable of seeing god....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 17 17 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, julian means youthful – divine youthfulness. To remain young forever is of immense importance. It is the past that makes one old. If one can go on dying to the past every day, one remains young. If one lives moment to moment then one never becomes old. The body will become old, certainly, but the body is not the question; the spirit is the question....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 18 18 March 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Deva means divine, karin means rejoice – rejoice in the divine. The world is full of god, each particle is overflowing with his existence, but we cannot see him unless we rejoice, because when we rejoice we function at the optimum. When we rejoice we become total, when we rejoice then we are not holding anything back....