OSHO Courage

THE MOMENT YOU TAKE SANNYAS YOU ARE PART OF ME – YOU ARE LOST.

YOU WILL BE KNOWN BY ME, YOU WILL NOT BE KNOWN BY YOURSELF. That is courage.

By taking sannyas you are simply merging into a totally different kind of existence – because you are merging into me. Sannyas is your death and rebirth – death as an ego, and rebirth as a consciousness.

But if the small river thinks, “I am not ready to lose myself in the Ganges,” then the river will be lost in a desert – and that will be suicide. With the Ganges it is not suicide. With the Ganges, the river becomes the Ganges. It is only a question of how you look at it. If you look positively, the river becomes bigger. It is no longer small, no longer confined to its own small banks. Now the Ganges is what she is, now the Ganges' being is her being. That is another way of looking at it – and that should be the attitude.

WHEN YOU JOIN ME AS A SANNYASIN, YOU ARE DROPPING YOURSELF, DISAPPEARING. WHEN YOU JOIN THE COMMUNE THEN YOU HAVE TO UTTERLY EFFACE YOURSELF. If a little bit is hanging there, then you will be a trouble to yourself and to the commune too – and you will not be benefitted by me.

This is happening, and this is going to happen more and more. Be prepared for it.

OSHO
Sufis: The People of the Path
Vol 2, Ch #10: Out of the Mud and the Mire
Buddha Hall