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word means one thing.
Old languages -- Arabic, Sanskrit, Hebrew, Greek -- are all poetic. Every word is fluid, not very fixed. You can make it mean anything -- just a slight change, and it can change much. Then every word has many meanings, so there is much more freedom with old languages.
Otherwise it will be very difficult for me to find out new names. I can give new meanings to the same word; there is no problem in it. I have given twenty-five thousand names; it will be difficult to find new names! and I am to convert the whole earth so... That's why I have to use Sanskrit; that is very fluid.
The Zero Experience
Chapter #6
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6 March 1977 pm in Chuang Tzu Auditorium
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Anand means blissful, sudheer means wisdom. And I make it a condition that wisdom is significant only when it is blissful, and blissfulness is meaningful only when it has wisdom in it. Both can exist separately but then they are not meaningful.
A person can be very happy and foolish -- maybe happy because he is foolish, maybe happy because he cannot understand the complexity of life, because he is below understanding so he is not aware that misery is implied in life. He is happy because he is ignorant... just like children or like animals.
Idiots are happy; there is no worry, there is no problem because they don't have yet the mind to worry. To worry one needs intelligence. Animals don't worry and don't go crazy and don't need the psychiatrist's help; for that intelligence is needed. So a fool can be happy but his happiness is not of much worth.
On the other polarity is a so-called wise man -- very knowledgeable, very serious, very intellectual, even intelligent, but now happy. Then what is the point of being wise? The whole point misses! Then your wisdom is far worse than the foolishness; at least the foolish are happy! What can one gain out of knowledge if there is no bliss in it? And this is what happens almost always.
My whole approach is to create a synthesis: one should be wise and happy and blissful,
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