Osho Sannyas

Beloved Osho, What is Sannyas

Question – Beloved Osho, What is Sannyas? Osho – Moses, sannyas is a crazy way of living life. The ordinary way is very sane, mathematical, calculated, cautious. The way of sannyas is non-calculative, beyond mathematics, beyond cunningness, cleverness. It is not cautious at all; it is knowingly moving into danger. Friedrich Nietzsche says, “Live dangerously.” [...]

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Osho – Before death happens, Let Sannyas happen

Question – Beloved Osho, I am seventy-five years old. I want to become a Sannyasin, but I don’t know why i am hesitating. Osho – Prakash Chandra Sethia, I think you should wait a little more! Let death come first, then I can initiate you into sannyas…because when death has already happened, there will be [...]

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Osho – On the one hand you address me, “Beloved Master” — and you cannot have the mala and the locket

Osho on Mala

Question -Beloved Master, A few people are feeling not to wear their Malas or Red clothes, But they consider themselves Rajneeshees and want to live here. How does this fit your vision? Osho – There are no Rajneeshees, and there is no Rajneeshism. That was also part of this fascist regime. You cannot be Rajneeshees [...]

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Osho – Become riverlike. Become a white cloud floating in the sky, and let the winds take you wheresoever they take

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Question – Beloved Osho, In place of the ten commandments, with which i was brought up, i have given myself a new set of rules — be alert, be patient, be spontaneous, accept myself. Osho – All questions are mind questions — no question comes out of no-mind — and all answers are no-mind answers. [...]

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Osho – Sannyas movement simply means the movement of the seekers of truth

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Question – What do you, you foresee as the future of your Sannyas Movement? Do you see it as prospering, even when you’re not here? Osho – Sannyas movement is not mine. It is not yours. It was here when I was not here. It will be here when I will not be here. Sannyas [...]

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

Osho Sannyas

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 – My sannyas is to accept this challenge. To live dangerously is what my sannyas is all about

Osho Sannyas

Osho – Challenge brings integrity; otherwise a person remains hollow, empty. If all facilities are provided for you and there is no danger in your life, you will remain hollow and empty. God gives life with all its dangers. My sannyas is to accept this challenge. To live dangerously is what my sannyas is all [...]

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Beloved Osho, I am a sinner. Can I also become your Sannyasin?

Osho Sannyas

Question – BELOVED OSHO, I AM A SINNER. CAN I ALSO BECOME YOUR SANNYASIN? Osho – Govind, yes, absolutely yes! In fact, only a sinner can become a sannyasin. Those who think themselves saints, holier-than-thou, they are the closed people, they are the dead people. They have become incapable of living, incapable of celebrating. Sannyas [...]

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Osho – Love knows no distinction and love never gives itself with any condition attached to it

Osho – To be a sannyasin means to be surrendered, seeing ’I am part of the whole. It is ridiculous to fight, so l surrender.’ And in that very surrender you are victorious; now you cannot be defeated. There is no one to defeat you and there is no one inside you to be defeated: [...]

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Osho – Sannyas is a new birth, the beginning of something mysterious in life

Osho - Sannyas is a new birth

Osho – Remember that sannyas is a new birth, the beginning of something mysterious in life, something that is very elusive. There is no way to argue it, to prove it, but it is. And unless it starts having its impact on you, your life goes on missing the meaning. Once the unknown has penetrated [...]

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Osho on Discontent – One who has divine discontent is the most Fortunate

Osho on Divine Discontent

Osho – Deva means divine, atosha means discontent. One who has divine discontent is the most fortunate, because only those who are afire with a desire to know god will be able to know him. And the fire has to be a total fire; one has to burn at the optimum. Just a little holding [...]

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Osho – Surrender to the universe, Surrender to the cosmic principle

Osho - Surrender to the universe

Osho – Dhamma Klaus. Dhamma means the ultimate law, the law that keeps the whole universe together, the very core of existence, the center, the soul. And Klaus means victory. The only way to be victorious is to be with the law and not against it. One can choose to be against it – that [...]

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Osho – Taking sannyas means that you will be entering an Identity Crisis

Osho – Taking sannyas means that you will be entering an identity crisis. For a few days you will not know who you are any more, because you are not the old one – that is finished; you have moved out of it, that belongs to you no more. It will go on receding, fading, [...]

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Osho – Love is the last stage of sannyas because love also knows no laws, no rules

Osho – Prem means love and arudha is the last stage of sannyas, the perfect renunciation, where one transcends all disciplines, where one goes beyond all rules, where one follows no code, where one lives absolutely spontaneously, where one lives moment to moment not thinking of the consequences at all. That is the last stage of sannyas, [...]

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Osho – Nobody can call My Movement a Cult, Sect or Religion.

Osho Movement and Cult

Question – WHAT HAS GROWN AROUND YOU HAS BEEN PRESENTED BY NEWSPAPER AS A CULT, AS A SECT, AND I WONDER IF YOU CAN NOW EXPLAIN WHAT IT IS AND WHAT IS THE FUNCTION OF SANNYASINS IN THIS MOVEMENT. Osho – It is simply a movement, neither a cult nor a sect nor a religion [...]

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Osho why sould i Take Sannyas, reason for Sannyas

Question – OSHO, WHY SHOULD I TAKE SANNYAS? Osho : Because tomorrow you may not be. The next moment you may not be. And sannyas is nothing but a vision of living this moment utterly, totally, absolutely. Sannyas simply means that you will not postpone life anymore. Sannyas simply means that you will not live [...]

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Osho Mala, Osho on giving Mala with Osho picture

Osho on giving Mala with Osho picture

Osho : Another point: the mala with a picture has so many reasons behind it. One, the picture is not mine. Had it been mine, I would have hesitated to put it there. No one would be courageous enough to put his own picture. Everyone will think of putting it there, but no one will [...]

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Osho on Sannyas, Sannyas is not Negative

Osho on Sannyas

Osho : Sannyas is not negative. The very word denotes negativity, but it is not a pure negativity. It means to leave something, but it is only leaving something because you have gained something else. Something has to be left. It is not that leaving anything is meaningful in itself, but that it creates a [...]

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Osho – How to know that Sannyas is Good

Osho on Sannyas

Question : How is One to know that Sannyas is Good? Osho : Sir, the proof of the pudding is in its tasting. Become a sannyasin: there is no other way. It is an experience; you have to know it through your own experience. And it is such an interior experience that nothing can be [...]

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Osho Sannyas – My Sannyas is Freedom, My sannyas is spontaneity

Question – What I mean by Sannyas is a spiritual discipline so that one becomes a Religious person, but it is not happening to me. What to do? Osho – My sannyas is not a discipline. My sannyas is freedom, freedom from all control – even from self-control. A controlled man is a dead man. [...]

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Osho on new man – A new man is emerging

Osho on new man

Osho – A new man is emerging. The image of the new man is not yet clear, but the horizon is becoming red and the sun will soon be there. The morning mist is there and the image of the new man is vague, but still a few things are very crystal clear about the [...]

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Osho Neo Sannyas, Osho on What is Neo Sannyas

Question – What is Neo – Sannyas all about? Osho – Neo-sannyas is an effort to introduce the concept of ’sannyas without any renunciation of the world’. To me, India has given only one thing to the world, to human consciousness, and that is the concept of sannyas the concept of renunciation. But this renouncing [...]

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