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Chapter #2
Chapter title: None
2 October 1980 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 8010025
ShortTitle: THUNK02
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[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.]
(Her name means consecrated to god, Osho tells a social worker from Italy. And he adds the word 'anand' -- which means bliss -- to it.)
One can live one's life in two ways. One is that of fighting against the whole; it is the way of the ego. The other is surrendering to the whole; that is the way of love. And bliss happens only on the second path. The first path is full of misery, frustration, failure. It is bound to be so because the part cannot win against the whole. It is utterly stupid for a wave to fight the ocean, it is doomed to fail. Maybe for a few moments it can enjoy the idea -- and that's what happens to every man: we waste our life in enjoying the idea that we are separate from existence. Then life is tragic.
To be a sannyasin means to choose the other way, the way of love, surrender, let-go. One does not fight the river, one simply goes with it; one becomes more and more natural. And when there is no fight there is no tension, and when there is no fight there is no question of failure. One's victory is absolutely certain. Without fighting a battle one is victorious -- that is the miracle of love.
Isabella means surrendered to god. And bliss is the flowering of that surrender.
(Goldie means golden -- and that's just what love is, Osho begins in his address to the next for sannyas.)
Because gold is the most precious metal it represents the most precious treasure in you. It is only through love that one's life is transformed, transported from the dark valleys to the golden peaks, the sunlit golden peaks.
Without love a man lives in darkness, without love a man really does not live but only dies slowly, gradually. It is only through love that one becomes aware of what life is all about. It is a communion, it is a meeting and merging with the whole.
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