LOVE AND SURRENDER…. Once you are surrendered, a totally different world opens between me and you….OSHO

Sannyas has to be a real break away. A loving surrender to the new....

LOVE AND SURRENDER.... Once you are surrendered, a totally different world opens between me and you....

LOVE AND SURRENDER…. Once you are surrendered, a totally different world opens between me and you….OSHO

Sannyas is not denied to anybody, because sannyas is an opportunity. A few people surrender even before taking sannyas, a few surrender after taking sannyas, a few surrender after being sannyasins for months or for years. Hence sannyas is not denied; it creates a space, a context, for surrender.
But as to who is really received, who is really accepted, it is a totally different matter. It is not declared; it remains esoteric. Only I know. And, slowly slowly, the person who is accepted starts knowing it — but very slowly. Sometimes it takes years for the person to understand that he has been accepted. It is never said; not even to the person is it said that he has been accepted. It has to be understood; that is the beauty of it. Only then is it significant. OSHO

 

Many people come to me and they say,

"Is there any difficulty if we don't become SANNYASINS,

if we are not surrendered to you?

And still, we love what you say.

Still we want to listen to it. Is there any problem? Can't we do that?"

 

I say, "You can do that; the problem is not there. But then you will collect only the superficial. You will collect the words. Then you will collect only the fallen dregs from the table. You will not really be a guest to me. You will miss all that is essential; only the non-essential wi!l be your fate. You have to decide.

 

"Once you are surrendered, a totally different world opens between me and you. The heart-to-heart communication starts. Then you can listen to my words, but you listen in such a different way, with such deep sympathy and love, with such gratitude and receptivity, that those words are no longer words; they start becoming alive. You have made them alive with your receptivity. You become pregnant with what I am saying to you, with what I am communicating to you. Then, there happens a transfer; then words are just excuses. Hanging around the word, I send you something which cannot be managed in the word. Then not only is the word reaching you, but the climate that it carries through my heart.

 

If you are in love with me, then there is a totally different kind of understanding between me and you. If you are not in love with me, then we are far apart. Then you are on some other planet, thousands and thousands of miles away from me. I may shout: you may hear a few words, but nothing special is going to happen that way.

 

You may become more knowledgeable, but that is not the point. You should have more being, not more knowledge. If you are really becoming richer here, in close contact with me, then your being is growing. Then you are becoming more and more crystallized, more and more authentic, more and more alive, more and more divine. That is not possible without love.

 

And what is surrender?  Surrender means surrendering the ego, surrender means surrendering all that you know. Surrender means surrendering your knowledge, your mind, your intellect. Surrender is a suicide, a suicide of the past.

 

If you carry your past within you in a secret way, then your gesture of sannyas is impotent. You can take sannyas and still go on carrying your past, hiding and guarding it like a treasure. Then just on the surface you will be a sannyasin, but not surrendered to me. And then if you are not fulfilled, nobody else is responsible but you.?

 

OSHO

 

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