Is it possible to have a master without taking sannyas?

Beloved Osho, is it possible for a man's mind to become like the mind of the newborn baby?

Definitely. A lake is absolutely calm, peaceful, but with the incoming breeze the waves start rising. But if the breeze stops, the waves will also stop and the lake will become calm. It will again become like a mirror. The lake is clean; with the falling of the leaves it becomes dirty, but when the leaves settle down the lake will again become clean and fresh. A child is born -- the lake was still clean, there were no ripples, there were no leaves of thought, no waves of desire. Then with the advent of youth storms arose, strong winds blew and the lake was full of waves. The mirror got lost. There was a terrific onset of passion. Then old age came and the storm was over -- the lake was calm again. A little understanding -- let the leaves settle down. A little understanding -- let the winds…

Osho, can I not be your disciple without taking sannyas?

Narayandas Tiwari! You can be a student, not a disciple. And the difference between a student and a disciple is as great as the difference between a poet and a seer—no less. A student means: someone who will walk away with bits of information, who will gather a little trash of knowledge, whose memory will be a little more stuffed, who will learn to repeat a few fine sayings. But you cannot be a disciple without becoming a sannyasin. For the first prerequisite of a disciple is: to drop curiosity. And not only curiosity—to drop inquisitiveness as well, and to take up mumuksha. What is mumuksha? Curiosity is a childish thing; small children have it—they go on asking and asking. “Why this? Why that?” They drive you crazy. Whomever they latch onto, they make his life difficult. Because before one question is finished, they have already posed another. They don’t…

Osho, why does the heart love you?

I cannot say. I have kept you before my eyes, kept you in my heart of hearts; why I myself became the prey—that I cannot say. I have reached your ghat; from you, may I find the refuge of the boat called sannyas? Manhar has asked. When he asked, he was not yet a sannyasin. Now he is; he has boarded the boat. But what he has said is right. There is no way to explain or say what the relationship between disciple and master is! It is one of the most tangled riddles in existence. Why? All other relationships in this world—mother, father, brother, sister, husband-wife, friend—are worldly. They are all of the body-mind, of matter. They belong to maya, to dream, to sleep. In this world there is only one ray that is not of this world: the master–disciple relationship. Though it happens here—on this very earth, under…

People want to know truth but without any risk, hence they go on missing. People want to know what love is, but only to a certain extent so that they can manage, control, manipulate. But these things are such that you cannot stop anywhere -- you have to go the whole way. If you go the whole way, only then do you go. And going the whole way is difficult because the ego has to be left somewhere far behind. The ego has limitations. You don't have any limitation -- the ego has limitations. You can go to the very end of existence, but the ego cannot; it will cling to its small world. Let this initiation into sannyas become an involvement, a commitment. Only a person committed to truth comes to know it. Don't be just curious -- be involved.

Osho, even after arriving at the camp why does a divide still appear? Does the distance vanish the moment one takes sannyas? Is your blessing only for sannyasins? Is it not for all living beings?

Blessing is for everyone. But it is not that just because I give it you will receive it; you will receive it only if you take it. The river is flowing—flowing for all. Trees will drink, animals and birds will drink, humans will drink. But only the one who drinks will be quenched. If you stand stiff on the bank, the river will not jump into your cupped hands. You will have to bend, you will have to form your palms into a cup—only then will you be able to drink. If you do not drink, if the water is not drunk, then do not complain about the river. The river was flowing. But man is very upside down. If he does not receive blessing, he thinks the blessing must not have been given. But do you have the capacity to receive? Will you accept blessing? Blessing is not a…