In darshan, Osho speaks to the participants of the Arica group, asking them about their experiences. One of them is Bob, a film producer, who becomes Swami Prem Samvada.

Osho mentions Aruna’s letter about Vimalkirti’s death. “Be herenow, as if this is the last moment…”

“When the individual mind, the ego mind relaxes, the universal mind starts over-flooding you.”

“No analyst, nobody from the outside, can interpret, because each individual dreams in his own way.”

Osho talks in a darshan to a sannyasin; “Love is… very delicate. One has to be very very careful and cautious about it.”

Osho gives sannyas to Herke from Holland:

“That’s why so many people used to go to the Himalayas: not for the mountains – for the altitude,” says Osho in darshan.

In darshan, Osho speaks to a participant of a recent Tathata group and asks him, “What about you?”

“But only a man of deep surrender knows that god is our protector,” says Osho.

Osho says in sannyas darshan: “‘Latifa’ means the subtle one.”

“Surrender is only when even if you are right, you can give in,” explains Osho about work in the ashram.

“I am creating here an energy field, a sacred place, a place for pilgrimage,” says Osho.

Osho explains that the name ‘Chinmatra’ simply means: only consciousness is true.

Akhil and six-year-old daughter Premo are called up in darshan to come forward to sit in front of Osho.

Osho speaks in darshan to Dhyan Navya: Dhyan means meditation. Navya means new.

A sannyasin, arriving, says he feels simultaneously very young and very old; and he feels to be alone.

Osho answers in darshan to Nitya about her giving massages.

David came to darshan some weeks ago. A friend of the English novelist, Pankaja, David is a potter, and at his first darshan told Bhagwan that he has been involved in Subud, writes Maneesha.

In a darshan Osho explains a few points while being a healer.

An excerpt from a darshan: “Thought is a creative force; it is good not to think negatively.”

Osho says, “No man is an island.”

Osho speaks in darshan to Krishna Saraswati; “Jealousy can remain only if you are unconscious of it,” and to Leela; “he should observe – and for you, be involved in things and move moment to moment.”

In a darshan Osho says to Veet Asmi, “Make it a point to remember every day. Whenever you can find a place and a space to be silent, sit, relax the body, and just start going in.”

Answering a question in darshan, Osho declares with regard to saving the environment and ecology from the damages of technology that “the only way left is to go into technology far more deeply but with a new orientation.”

Osho talks in darshan to an art professor: about Objective Art and about banning tourists from sacred places, unless they meditate first.

“Man alone is misery. Man plus god, and all misery disappears; misery is transformed into ecstasy,” states Osho.

“No need to hide, no need to cover oneself. No need to be afraid: God is love and God is the judge,” says Osho to an initiate in darshan.

Osho gives the name Deva Prayoga to the new sannyasin, which means divine experiment. “From the known one has to go always into the unknown and one day from the unknown into the unknowable.”

Anshu and her three-year-old son Tosho are present in darshan. They have relationship problems.

Vipassana’s body died this afternoon. Most of this chapter contains a description of the death and sannyasins’ reactions to it. Then follows a description of the celebration and Osho’s discourse about her death.

“Anandi means blissful, cheerful, with laughter in the heart,” says Osho to a new disciple.

Osho speaks to a new sannyasin very supportively about hypnosis and declares that once a person is capable of going into the past, he becomes automatically capable of going into the future, because the process is the same: “…ordinarily everything about the past and the future of a mechanical man can be known.”

Osho gives Prabhupad, Parmartha’s brother, a name for a center in Ireland: “It is just as when the gardener sees that one of his trees has bloomed – he is tremendously happy.”

A sannyas darshan: “Shreyas … means ‘the ultimate good’ – and that’s the only approach towards God. If you become good you become godly, and when the good becomes total, you become God himself.”

Osho gives sannyas to Anutosh and says, “Nothing ever succeeds with the mind. It can’t afford it, it can’t allow it. It lives in the tension between that which is and that which should be. … To understand this is to get out of it.”

In Samvado’s sannyas darshan Osho says, “Becoming a sannyasin means that now the world of communion starts. Now you will not only be hearing my words but my silence too.”

Sannyas darshan of Veet Nisha, from Believing the Impossible Before Breakfast, Ch 27, dated 27 February 1978: “To open your eyes needs courage because you may have to see things that you never wanted to see in yourself.”

A sannyasin says: I’m going back to pursue my study of astrology and to try to use it as a medium to communicate with people – not for its predictative qualities but just as a psychological tool…. in pointing out blocks and indicating how best we can use our energy.

In darshan, Osho speaks to Prito: “One has to be two things: at the center, bliss, at the circumference, love; inside, bliss, outside, love.

Tonight Sagar came to darshan, telling Osho that Laxmi (the secretary of the organization) has asked him to leave the ashram. He asked Osho if he were really to leave or if this was a message to indicate that he should apply himself more to the work.

Osho gives sannyas to Prem Gathen and explains that his name means a beautiful love story. He then tells him about Tansen, an extraordinary musician in King Akbar’s court.

Anand Hasyo’s sannyas darshan.

Osho explains to a new disciple that the people who come to a master can be divided into four categories.

“Down the ages man has been searching to find how to conquer death. And in fact there is no need to search, because death is an illusion,” says Osho

In darshan, Osho says, “A man without meditation never comes to know the blessedness of life. He can only feel complaints against life.”

Osho says to a new sannyasin, “It is the greatest altruistic act one can do – to become aware – because by becoming aware you release awareness into existence…”

“There is only light, an immense ocean of light,” says Osho.

Osho explains to Diti the meaning of her name which she had received by mail.

Osho says in darshan, “Listen to people. You will learn much about them, about you. Listen to people and you will feel an opening.”

During sannyas darshan, Osho says to Anand Maria (Praveeta), “Rebel against all that is untrue, rebel against that which is imposed by others. Rebel against the status quo, rebel against all the vested interests. Rebel against the past.”

During a darshan Osho says, “Whenever you start thinking of the future and the past too much, just relax and pay attention to your breathing.”

Pravasi’s sannyas darshan on December 5, 1978.

In a darshan, Osho speaks about the different reflections of bliss that we know as pleasure, happiness and joy, and refers to Leonardo da Vinci and Pablo Picasso.

Deva Ashoka wrote the introduction to the darshan diary ‘The Open Door’. He elaborates on the two Bhagwans he perceives, the one who speaks in discourse and the other, in darshan.

Osho speaks to a sannyasin about the meaning of his new name and the human soul’s suffering and longing to go back to god.

When the tree is overflowing with vitality it blooms and flowers.

Samudaya’s sannyas darshan. “Sat means being, samudaya means arising. Up to now you have lived as a becoming, as a desire: doing this, doing that, trying for this, trying for that. You have never given yourself any rest in being.”

Satyananda’s sannyas darshan on July 10, 1977.

Gramya: I would like to ask about prayer, because I was taught as a child to pray and the prayer was of thanksgiving.

Neeraj is going back to Devon, England. She is unsure whether to spend her time travelling around England, or starting a meditation centre where she lives.