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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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. [Continue]

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 [Continue]

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 [Continue]

Osho Sannyas – Osho Sannyas Quotes: Osho: To be a sannyasin is the beginning of the gamble. You are risking your life, you are risking your ego. You are risking because you are dropping all your securities, all your safety arrangements. You are opening windows…who knows who is going to come in — the friend [Continue]

Osho Discourse: Osho on being a Good Sannyasin Question: Once at Darshan I heard you say of a visitor that he would be a good sannyasin. What is a good sannyasin? Osho : First, what is a sannyasin? A sannyasin is one who has come to understand the futility of so-called worldly life. A sannyasin [Continue]