Osho Quotes on Sannyas, Osho Insights on Neo Sannyas, Osho Sannyas Quotes

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Osho Quotes on Sannyas

My sannyas is not in any way imposing something on you. It is simply conferring freedom on you. By giving you sannyas I am not giving you an ideology -- I am just giving you courage to get free of all ideologies. By giving sannyas to you I am not giving you a certain religion -- Hindu, Mohammedan, Christian -- I am simply giving you courage to be an individual, to be a unique individual.
Sannyas is not something outward, it is something that arises in you, an urge, a deep longing.
SANNYAS is not a trip. It is an understanding in which you drop all the trips, in which you say,'Now I have arrived. Finished. Now I am not going anywhere. Now there is no future and no desire to go anywhere. Now I have to come to terms with the present, now I will be living in the herenow.'
Sannyas is nothing but learning the ways of love. God is another name for love. And sannyas is a readiness to dissolve into a loving universe. Fear is there because it is like death. Sannyas is suicide, death: the past is destroyed -- but only then the new is born. When YOU cease to be, you allow God to be. There is no other way.
You have to pour your life into him, you have to make God alive in you, so he can beat through your heart, he can pulsate in you, he can love through you, he can BE through you. That's what sannyas is all about: an effort to allow God to live in you, an effort to become a shrine of the divine.
Sannyas means dropping the mind! Mind cannot take sannyas because that will be suicidal to the mind.
Sannyas is a state of nonbeing. You drop yourself and you enter the realm of nothingness... and suddenly everything is beautiful -- because things were ugly because of you. They were not ugly in the first place, not ugly themselves, it was your interpretation; you were corrupting them. Now the corrupting agent is no more there, eyes are clear and one can see through and through; one's vision is transparent. YOU disappear in sannyas. And the moment you disappear, immediately, instantly, God appears. When you are not, God is.
Sannyas -- initiation into the world of truth -- is not for the cowards. Cowards can go on rationalizing, cowards can go on sleeping, dreaming. Cowards can even start dreaming that they are awake, but they will not risk. They will remain part of the mob, of the insane crowd. And of course their lives will remain of misery, of pain, of agony.
I give sannyas to you because I know that if you become a sannyasin, if this light enters into your being, then the darkness, whatsoever its name -- Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Mohammedan -- will go. But the darkness will be afraid, the darkness will not allow you to take the light in.