< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 19 19 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium In fact there is no meaning to any word; all meanings are arbitrary. Language itself is arbitrary. It is a human invention. We give meaning to words; words don’t have any meaning. Mm? That’s why so many languages are possible. There are three thousand languages on the whole of the earth; and sometimes the same word means one thing in one language, another thing in another language....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 2 2 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means blissful, Sarmad is the name of a Sufi master, one of the greatest Sufis of all ages. He was also killed like Jesus. When he was being killed he said ‘I am god!’ That’s what he was saying again and again, and that was the cause of his death. Somebody said ‘You have not learned a lesson at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 20 20 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Vadano means music, melody, rhythm. The whole universe is a rhythmic pulsation of energy. Everything is pulsating in a tremendous synchronicity with everything else. Just as waves are pulsating in the ocean! deep in contact with each other – no wave can exist alone, it exists only in a pattern of waves; they all exist together, they are members of each other – so this whole existence is a pulsation of trees, rocks, men, women, stars, mountains, rivers....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 21 21 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [A sannyasin with her daughter, newly returned says she had much tension in her chest since her daughter’s illness when she had much anxiety and hatred for people and institutions... ] Every new relationship brings up many things which are repressed. To be a mother is a beginning of a totally different world. Many things that were never available to you consciously will become available to you when you become a mother....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 22 22 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, rito means the way – the way of love. There are two ways to reach to god: one is that of love, and the other is that of awareness. They are diametrically opposite to each other, but in the end they meet. In the beginning they are as far away from each other as possible, the distance is infinite in the beginning, but as one progresses, the distance becomes less and less....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 23 23 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, hiram is Hebrew: it means most noble. Bliss is noble when it arises spontaneously, without any effort on your part, when it is a sheer gift from god. You have not begged for it, you have not desired it, you have not asked for it. When it is given out of the overflowing energy of existence and you are only a passive receiver, just an empty vessel, just like a womb, feminine – waiting with great expectancy but with no expectations, ready to wait for infinity, for eternity, but not in any way in a hurry to snatch something from existence – that’s nobility of the soul....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 24 26 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, sufi has many meanings. One is wisdom, sufiya; philosophy comes from the same root. Another meaning is purity; it comes from sufa. And the third meaning is simplicity. The Sufis lived such simple lives that they used only one shirt made of wool; that was all. It might be summer, it might be winter; that was all that they had....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 25 27 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; persephone is Greek, it means goddess of spring – love, the goddess of spring. And it is only through love that spring comes into man’s life. Without love, life knows nothing of spring; without love, it is a long long wasteland. Weeds may grow but roses are impossible. Without love, life is a desert, and the oasis exists only in a dream....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 26 28 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love; sabine is a Latin word, it means an ancient Italian tribe. Your name will mean ancient love. Love is eternal, it is always. Lovers change, love continues. Love is the eternal drama of life: it takes many faces, many forms, but the essential core is the same. It is in the stars, it is in the flowers, it is in men and women, it is in animals, birds; and those who know say that it is even in a rock....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 27 29 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, atithi means a guest. Literally atithi means one who comes without informing, one who comes without announcing the date of his coming. That’s how it used to be in the past – there was no way of informing; the guest would suddenly come. And bliss is a sudden guest. When it comes, how it comes, why it comes – no questions can be answered....