Osho Sannyas

Osho on Sannyas – What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today?

Osho on Sannyas

Question – Beloved Master, What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today? Osho – The word `sannyas’ is one of the most significant in the human language. In the past it was given a wrong meaning. That wrong meaning destroyed its beauty, its joy, its laughter. The wrong meaning was renunciation. Renunciation of [...]

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Osho – Sannyas means living moment to moment, with no commitments to the past

Osho on Sannyas Initiation

Osho – That is why I can initiate anyone into sannyas. To me, initiation itself is a play. And I will not ask for any qualifications – whether you are qualified or not – because qualifications are asked when something serious is done. Just by existing everyone is qualified enough to play, and even if [...]

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Osho Sannyas – It is not in any way anti-life or anti-world. I am absolutely life-affirmative.

Osho Sannyas

[A visitor says: I don’t know if taking sannyas means something extra that doesn’t permit an equilibrium between work and a spiritual association.] Osho – No, nothing. It is a simple gesture of your trust in me. It is not in any way anti-life or anti-world. I am absolutely life-affirmative. I am as epicurean a [...]

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Osho – Visarjan means dissolution, dissolution into the divine, immersion in the divine

Osho - Visarjan means dissolution

Osho – Visarjan means dissolution, dissolution into the divine, immersion in the divine, the state of being lost…. One has to learn how to disperse oneself, how to come to a point where one is not. Only then god is. You and god cannot exist together; that’s not possible. That’s why so many people go [...]

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Osho on Sannyas – You have nothing else to lose except your head. So let me cut it

Osho on agreement of sannyas

[A visitor asked what the agreement of sannyas meant.] Osho – That you are no more. It is a total surrender. No agreement – because in an agreement there are two parties. You simply surrender. Much courage is needed… It is not an agreement because it is not a legal thing. It is just a [...]

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Osho – my sannyas, is a way of bridging, a way of rejoicing, a way of bliss

Osho Sannyas and Bliss

Osho – Bliss is a bridge, misery is a wall. It is everyone’s experience that whenever one feels miserable one does not want to relate with anybody; one wants to close one’s doors and hide somewhere. Just the opposite happens when you are blissful. You cannot hide somewhere; you would like to run under the [...]

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Osho – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow

Osho on Sannyasin

Osho – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow, to take a decision to go into dangers, to take a decision to live in indecision. This seems paradoxical. It is not. One has to begin somewhere, and even to live indecisively one has to have a decision somewhere. Even to go [...]

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Osho – Be courageous enough to live whole-heartedly

Osho on Courage to Live and Love

Osho – Love needs the greatest courage in life, for the simple reason that the basic requirement for moving into the world of love is dissolving your ego — and that is the hardest thing to do. We cling to the ego like anything. We are ready to die for it, but we are not [...]

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Osho – People cannot accept bliss easily; misery is okay

Osho on Bliss and Misery

Osho – Sannyas is not prayer with sadness, seriousness. It is not prayer as a ritual, as a formality. It is prayer as playfulness. It is prayer as cheerfulness. The birds in the morning singing — that is prayer. They are not Christians, they are not Hindus, they are not Mohammedans; they don’t know anything [...]

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Osho – When Joy is without any reason it is Divine

Osho on Joy and Divine

Osho – A few things about sannyas…. It is an initiation into the formless. It is not an initiation into some rigid form, it is not giving you a certain discipline — on the contrary it is an initiation into freedom, into a formless creative chaos. The old concept of sannyas all over the world [...]

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Osho – Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of sannyas

Osho on sincerity and sannyas

Osho – Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of sannyas. They are not different things but different aspects of the same phenomenon. One has to be utterly truthful about oneself. One need not hide, only cowards hide. The courageous person remains as he is, naked. He is ready to accept whatsoever the consequences, [...]

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Osho – Sannyas is not renunciation of life but a tremendous love affair with life

Osho on Sannyas and renunciation of life

Osho – Life is divine. In fact life and God are synonymous. There is no God except life, and there is no life except God; they are two terms for the same mystery. But for centuries religious people have been against life. They were living with the idea that if you want to choose God [...]

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Osho – Whenever the disciple is ready, the master appears

osho on master and disciple

Osho – Deva means divine, agya means order or commandment – a divine order. Man cannot choose god; it is always god who chooses man. Man cannot enquire on his own, it is impossible. The desire to enquire into truth comes from the beyond; it is an order from above, it is a commandment. And [...]

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Osho – My sannyas is not for the sad and the dead

Osho Sannyas Love Life

Osho – Meditation is a process of rebirth. The first birth is only physiological, biological material. Don’t think that that’s all there is to life. Coming out of the womb of the mother is only an opportunity for a second birth, for the real birth. The day you come out of the womb of your [...]

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Osho – Only the rebellious spirit comes to release its fragrance

Osho on rebellious spirit

Osho – Sannyas is the beginning of freedom: freedom from politics, freedom from religion, freedom from all kind of bondages. It is entering into universality, it is dropping the local boundaries. A sannyasin is neither an Indian nor an American nor a Greek, he is simply human. He is neither white nor black because he [...]

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Osho – my message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals

osho message to sannyasins

Osho – The word ’nija’ has many meanings: one is self, another is individual.When a person is just his own self, when a person has an individuality – when a person lives his way, in his own way, lives his life in his own way, when a person doesn’t try to fit with any mould, [...]

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Osho – Sannyas means getting rid of the whole past

Osho Sannyas

Osho – Man lives with a false idea about his being and it is that false notion that causes all the miseries, that creates hell. There is no way to get rid of miseries living within your world of the ego. You can change from one misery to another misery, you can divorce one misery [...]

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Osho – My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation

Osho

My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation He is in the world and yet not of it. He is like a lotus flower coming out of dirty mud, but transforming the mud into the beauty of a lotus, living in a lake yet untouched by the water, absolutely untouched. A true sannyasin should be [...]

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Osho – I teach you Responsibility, Responsibility makes you feel strong

Osho on Guilt and Responsibility

Osho – Christianity has made you feel responsible for two thousand years, has made you feel guilty, that you are the sinner. Now psychoanalysis goes to the other extreme: it simply says you are not the sinner, you are not to feel guilty — you are perfectly okay. You forget about all guilt and you [...]

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Osho on Sannyas – Move into a new dimension of great longing and passion

Osho on Sannyas and Passion

Osho – Sannyas is a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, a great courage to become discontinuous with your own past. It is a rebirth. It is a change so great… as if the old dies, and dies utterly and totally and the new comes into being from nowhere, from nothingness, out of nothing. [...]

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Osho – Sannyas is an effort to discover your intrinsic innocence

Osho on Sannyas and Innocence

Osho – Nirdosh means innocent. Sannyas is an effort to discover your intrinsic innocence. It is not an effort to gain knowledge. The knowledgeable person is always a stupid person. The knowledgeable starts depending on knowledge, he starts functioning through knowledge. Life goes on changing every moment and knowledge remains static and life is growing. [...]

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Osho – Love plus awareness is equal to sannyas

Osho on Love and Awareness

Osho – A life becomes really alive only when love blossoms, otherwise it is a tree with no flowers, it is a bird who is dumb, cannot sing, or a bird without wings. A life without love is crippled inwardly, paralysed, from the outside everything will be as it should be but from the inside [...]

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