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#9
Chapter title: None
9 April 1979 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
Archive code: 7904095
ShortTitle: BAMBOO09
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Anand Manuel. Anand means bliss, manuel comes from the Hebrew, emmanuel. Emmanuel means "God, be with us." It is the essence of prayer; and blissfulness arises only when this prayer is fulfilled. When God is with us then there is bliss. To be without God is to be in misery; to be with him is to be in a rejoicing. And these are the only two alternatives: either be with God and let God be with you, or be alone and deny God and ignore God.
The first creates heaven around you, the second creates hell. heaven and hell are not geographical -- they are psychological states. Heaven means when we feel that God is with us, and hell means when we feel that we are utterly lonely and there is nobody with us. Hell means that existence is alien, foreign, that we are outsiders, that we don't belong to it, that it doesn't belong to us. That state is isolation, is hell. But when you see that the trees are with you, and the moon and the stars, and the mountains and the people and the birds -- all are forms of God -- when you feel that existence is with you, when you start pulsating in oneness with existence, you are in paradise, you are in heaven. That's what bliss is all about.
Sannyas is a prayer, a prayer to existence: Be with us.
[Osho addresses a new sannyasin.]
You have been coming and coming for a long time -- now you have come. It has been a long journey, arduous too, but the more the journey is arduous, the more fulfilling; and the longer one has to wait, the deeper is the ecstasy. It is through pain that we earn being close to truth, to God, to that which is. Pain is the price we pay for it. It is only through great agony that ecstasy is born.
But now you have come home.
Now your life will take a totally new turn. It will no more be a journey; it will become a rejoicing. It will no more be a search. From now onwards God has not to be searched for but lived. And the paradox is: those who seek and search will never find, and those who start living have
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