Osho on Fear and The urge to become a Sannyasin
Question: The last few years i have often thought of taking sannyas, but i am afraid. Why? Osho : It is not only your question; there are millions of people…
Osho Sannyas and Career, Sannyas is costly — particularly my sannyas
Question : Osho, i would very much like to take sannyas but it will be totally ruinous for my career as orange clothes will not be accepted at my place…
Osho on Sannyas – What is the meaning of sannyas in the world today?
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…
Osho on Sannyas Initiation – Sannyas means living moment to moment
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…
Osho Sannyas – It is not in any way anti-life or anti-world. I am absolutely life-affirmative.
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…
Osho – Visarjan means dissolution, dissolution into the divine, immersion in the divine
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…
Osho on Sannyas – You have nothing else to lose except your head. So let me cut it
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……
Osho – my sannyas, is a way of bridging, a way of rejoicing, a way of 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…
Osho – To be a sannyasin is to take a decision to grow
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…
Osho – Be courageous enough to live whole-heartedly
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…
Osho – People cannot accept bliss easily; misery is okay
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…
Osho – When Joy is without any reason it is 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…
Osho – Earnestness, sincerity, authenticity — these are the foundations of 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…
Osho – Sannyas is not renunciation of life but a tremendous love affair with 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…
Osho – Whenever the disciple is ready, the master appears
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…
Osho – My sannyas is not for the sad and the dead
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…
Osho – Only the rebellious spirit comes to release its fragrance
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…
Osho – my message to my sannyasins is: be unique, be individuals
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…
Osho – Sannyas means getting rid of the whole past
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…
Osho – My sannyasin represents togetherness of action and meditation
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…
Osho – I teach you Responsibility, Responsibility makes you feel strong
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…
Osho on Sannyas – Move into a new dimension of great longing 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…