< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 28 30 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love. Love is the only real strength; all other strengths are only pretenders. But love is a paradox too – its strength is not that of violence, that of aggression; its strength is that of receptivity, vulnerability, openness. Its strength consists in surrendering, yielding, giving way. In the world there is a possibility of two kinds of strengths....

< Previous | Contents ‌CHAPTER 29 31 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, the ultimate state of joy – ultimate in the sense that one cannot fall back, ultimate also in the sense that it has not anything in it which opposes it. It is not a composite experience. Ordinarily your happiness contains something of unhappiness in it, and your unhappiness also contains something of happiness in it; they are never pure....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 3 3 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, garima means glory, splendour, grandeur. Love is the only glorious phenomenon on the earth. It is only through love that we become aware of god. Those who miss love are bound to miss god, because there is no other way to become aware of the presence of the divine except through love....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 4 4 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium [Premdipa:] Man remains an unlit candle unless love comes and engulfs him, overpowers him. It is only the light of love that takes away the inner darkness. Without love the inner world is utterly dark; not even a ray of light is possible without love. And it is not accidental that people don’t look inwards: there is nothing to see; it is all dark, it is frighteningly dark and it is very lonely....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 5 5 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Love is the only true prayer. Prayer is not something formal, it can never be formal; if it is formal it is not prayer. Prayer cannot be taught. and if you learn a prayer you will miss the whole dimension of prayer for your whole life. That’s how people have been mis-educated. All religious education is a mis-education, because religion cannot be taught....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 6 6 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anurago means pure love, with no desire, with no expectation, with no idea of any return. Then love is pure, then love is god. And the more you give, the more you become capable of giving: it is an inexhaustible source in your being. Empty yourself in love, and when you have emptied yourself in love, in that space god descends in you....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 7 7 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Prem means love, amal means pure. Love is love only when it is pure, when there is no other motive in it, when it is just itself, when it is not caused by anything, when it is not a means for something else but the end itself. Love is pure when it has an intrinsic value, when it serves no purpose but is a joy unto itself, when it is a simple overflowing exultation, when it is not part of the world of business – motive, profit, gain, goal – when it is so simple like a rose flower, exulting, exuberant, overflowing, for no other reason, for no reason at all....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 8 8 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Anand means bliss, and Francis represents a few things. One: the childlike quality, and that is the most fundamental requirement for going into truth. The knowledgeable never enters; he goes round and round. Only the wondering heart can penetrate to the core of reality, only innocent eyes can see truth. The more learned one is, the less is the possibility of knowing: the more knowledge there is, the less knowing....

< Previous | Contents | Next > ‌CHAPTER 9 9 January 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium Udgeya means that which has to be celebrated, that which has to be sung. Life is a celebration, and unless one understands it as celebration one goes on missing god. To connect with the divine, the only bridge is celebration. It is only in the moments when you are utterly drunk with joy that you are close to god....