How can we get connected with you?

Osho! We very much want to ask you, but questions don’t take shape; we want to meet you, but even meeting isn’t possible; we want to change, but no change happens. How can we get connected with you? Please tell us.

Bharat Rajguru! Meeting me is a simple, straightforward matter. Remember one small word: sannyas! Sannyas is the bridge. And now, apart from it, there is no other way to meet me. Gradually I will live only for the sannyasins. Now all my time, all my energy, and all my joy will be for those who have the courage to be moths. The flame burns for the moths. I too will burn only for them. When the judge asked the religious teacher Matkanath, “If you lie, where will you go?” he replied, “Child, straight to hell.” The judge was very impressed. He asked a second question, “And if you tell the truth, where will you go?” The brahmachari, in a disappointed tone, answered with a single word: “Jail.” I too answer you with a single word—sannyas. Gather that much courage. Without courage nothing is possible. People want cheap, bargain‑basement change; they…

all power is divine we are only vehicles, passages we are like a hollow bamboo flute our function is to allow god to flow through us the song is divine the song does not belong to the flute all that the flute can do is not to disturb it not to block it, not to hinder it, but to allow it the function of the flute is in a way negative just not to obstruct and then the song goes on flowing that's where our ego creates trouble the ego is a block it fills the hollow bamboo flute and stops the song from flowing through it then life becomes obviously a misery, an anguish it misses the song -- that song is our very life god is our very life god is not some person somewhere but our very heartbeat, our very existence and the ego is our enemy…

Osho, is sannyas essential in order to relate to you? I have not yet taken sannyas, nor have I met you personally. Yet I become filled with strange feelings toward you; sometimes I weep, and sometimes I just go on gazing at you. Osho, why does this happen? And what should I do? First, someone has asked: “Is sannyas essential in order to be related to you?” That is like asking whether, to be related, being related is essential.

Buddha called the state of samadhi “dharma-megha samadhi”—when one attains samadhi, one becomes a cloud. Dharma-megha samadhi! The water of dharma begins to pour from him, as rain falls from the cloud. Rise, O rise! For many lives to come, fill yourself today— the cloud has thundered. Do not let this time slip by. The call has arisen; do not suppress it. The attraction toward sannyas has arisen; do not miss it. Because if you wish to do the auspicious, do not delay. And if you wish to do the inauspicious, do not hurry. If anger arises, say, “Tomorrow.” If love arises, do it now—who knows of tomorrow! If you must make enmity, put it off—tomorrow, the day after, keep postponing. But if you are to make friendship, do not delay even a moment. Right now, here. Only then will friendship happen. If you think “again, sometime,” then never. I…

Osho, I feel that although I am of course very far from you, I am yet so close to you—perhaps hardly anyone is this close. I have neither taken sannyas from you nor received the blessing of your lotus-hands. Even so, what is the reason for such a feeling?

Salahuddin! The preparation for sannyas is underway. You are a little afraid. Don’t mistake the mind for yourself on this account. This is only the beginning. It’s just a drizzle; soon the flood is on its way. This is the first blossom of spring, merely the news that spring has arrived; now millions upon millions of flowers are yet to bloom. Don’t stop here, Salahuddin! From your question I feel you are thinking, “It’s done.” It has only started, and it is only the beginning—the A, B, C. Hold this thread. A long journey still lies ahead. What has happened is auspicious, is beautiful. To be near me does not require physical nearness, because nearness is a bond of love, not of the body. Nearness means simply that your heart is now beating with my heart. You may live a thousand miles away; if your heart is attuned with mine,…

Osho, sannyas was born in this land; it was granted the dignity of Gaurishankar (Everest). But today its honor has become merely superficial. Inside, the individual and society alike are afraid of it. Why have sannyas and the sannyasin lost their meaning? Please explain.

In my sannyas there is no prohibition—no “leave this, run from that.” Awakening is enough. Cowards run. Those who awaken remain where they are and are free there. My sannyas does not want to give you knowledge; it wants to give you meditation. Meditation means emptiness; it means: I do not know. Life is such an ultimate mystery that nothing definitive can be known about it. And I want to give sannyas a new posture—creativity. I will call him a sannyasin who sings a new song; who strikes a new music from the veena; who dances a new dance; who makes this world a little more beautiful, brings a little more blessedness to the earth. Then sannyas can regain its dignity. And I would have the sannyasin not imitate. Listen, understand, contemplate—but live from your own individuality. Therefore I give my sannyasins no codes of conduct—only processes to awaken the…