What is sannyas and what is neo-sannyas? Sannyas is a disciplehood. This word has an usual meaning which is not the original one – we use to call students disciples, and teacher, master – the result is an ugly distortion we ordinarily commit, in the West. Master is someone who points out a way of understanding and creates new means to help people to understand the good news he is upbringing - Osho has created meditation techniques adequate to the modern man, this stressed one. And disciple, what is it? Disciple is someone who gets the understanding and follows his own comprehension. If you think you are ready to be a disciple, know this can only happen if you give yourself up at first hand – what is very rare to see nowadays since even the women require their rights not to yield. The interesting thing is: I don’t bow down either. But when I first faced a real Master, to whom I had been looking for so many lives, my head bowed down and a surrender happened. But why “neo-sannyas”? That’s the question. Osho is a revolution in the world of initiation. And this is related to the fact that He is not a yogi but a Master of relaxation – of let-go. There are two methots of evolution: Yoga’s and Tantra’s – the effort way and the relaxation, let-go way. According to my own understanding, after much effort one reaches relaxation, that is Tantra. Osho has reversed this teaching because He found out that it has not given man many chances for man to evolve. Then He started by the end or by Tantra: “Since we have to relax, why shouldn’t we begin by relaxing?” – He used to say many times. Here is another big question: who or what prevents man from relaxing since he was born relaxed? How come we could forget our very nature? Which interests have turned us into machines? Which are the interests that have made us tense and sufferering beings? Will this be the only possible way of educating people? What is the missing element that could make us human and adult people? It seems to me that it is time to solve these questions, because we are already 6 billion people in this small planet, today. Thus we can count on the clarity of vision of the Master Osho to help us seeing in the dark. As people start to find out what the real source of the great ideas which have been captivated and propagated by some people all over the world is, maybe our intelligence opens up to be filled up with the heart of the man who best loved men in modern age – He devoted His whole life to this research and fortunately has been very successful. People from all over the world are rejoicing in his teaching – the witnessing.
My wish is that every ordinary person, like me, can get in touch
with their real being inside themselves. There is nothing outside, all
is inside, good or evil.
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