According to Osho, after Saint Peter’s earlier episode, three “goddesses” arrived: a French model, a Rajneesh sannyasin, and a Jain nun. Peter sent the model to hell for blind indulgence, liberated the sannyasin for transforming sex into samadhi, and returned the nun to India for sterile repression—heaven, he quips, isn’t a urinal—underscoring intelligence, transformation, not denial.
Osho jokes that heaven favors turning desire into awareness, not wild indulgence or dry suppression.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, yesterday you told the story of Saint Peter and the three women. Please tell us what happened after that?
Saint Maharaj! Do use a little of your own intelligence. No story is ever told in full, because some trust must also be placed in your imagination—that you, too, can think a bit. You could have figured out for yourself what would happen next. The matter was so clear. My friend, what else could happen! What had to happen is exactly what happened. Saint Peter had barely dealt with those three women when three goddesses arrived. One had a white mouth-cloth tied over her face—she was a Jain nun. The second was a beautiful French model, and the third a Rajneesh sannyasin. Saint Peter first pointed toward the part below the French girl’s waist and asked, “What did you use this for?” Preening, the beauty replied, “I used it to revel with my eight wedded husbands and about a hundred and fifty lovers. I also used it to earn money…
Question: BELOVED OSHO, I AM A CATHOLIC NUN. CAN I ALSO BECOME A SANNYASIN? Mary, certainly! I am here just to destroy monks and nuns; that's my very purpose for hanging around. It is to sabotage the old idea of monks and nuns, it is to bring a new kind of sannyasin into the world. The monks and nuns of all the religions -- Catholic, Protestant, Hindu, Mohammedan, Jaina, Buddhist -- have all been escapists. They are people who are basically afraid of life. I teach you fearlessness. Live as totally and passionately as possible, because it is through intense living that you will find God. God is nothing but life lived at the optimum, with total abandon, a dance danced so totally that the dancer disappears; only the dance remains. Then you have found and you have come home. Mary, if you are a Catholic nun, then be quick!
Osho, I would like to meet a woman and marry her, who does not flirt, giggle, gossip, smoke, drink, pet or kiss. Is this possible?
Michael Potato-Singh, Sir, just one question: Why? For what? The seventh and the last question: OSHO, HAVE YOU REALLY BEEN WAITING FOR ME? I HAVE COME NOW. I WANT TO ASK YOU CAN YOUR HUGGING, KISSING SANNYASINS EVER ENTER HEAVEN? I AM HAPPY THAT YOU HAVE COME. Welcome home. So now the whole trinity is here: Banana, Potato, Tomato. This looks far more delicious than God the father, and Jesus the son, and holy ghost. The writings of all the three persons is exactly the same. So it is more like trimurti, three faces of one God, rather than trinity, rather than three persons. It is not three persons but one person with three faces. Moreover, the writing is not that of a man but that of a woman, which makes it even more mysterious. Just this morning I asked Vivek to bring one banana, one tomato, one potato, so…
He asks further, "aren't you speaking in one way and living in another way? I feel much more free, joyful than you, your sannyasins -- yes, everyone in rajneeshpuram. When I see you, I see a prisoner imprisoned in your own prison." 6 6
The same tactics have been used by Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin, but the whole credit goes to Christianity. Torture a person -- there is a limit, and then the person thinks, that there is no point in being tortured and again and again with the same question. It is better to accept it and be finished with it. They were tortured and asked, "Have you had any intercourse with the devil?" Now nobody today can even imagine that there is a devil and women are having intercourse with him. Of course because the devil is a man -- and he is not a homosexual -- that's why women were tortured. And they were told, "You have to confess the reality." Finally they confessed; and their confessions are very significant to remember. Mr. Clergyman, please remember what those nuns confessed. After the confession they were burned, because they had admitted,…
Maneesha's question:
Those six others said, "What is the matter? That phony fellow has been taken out. We are the real Churchills -- not one, six! -- but nobody takes any care..." It has been the experience in many countries. Ego is insane. If there is no God, the egoist can think of himself as God. But this can happen only if you are not acquainted with meditation. Meditation simply dissolves you into the cosmos. You are no more, only existence is. It is time for Sardar Gurudayal Singh. A new young priest, Father Fever, has just arrived at the "Holy Saints of Sack-cloth" monastery. After a couple of weeks he is feeling so disturbed by sexual fantasies that he goes to see the father superior, old Father Fornicate, aged ninety-five. "Ah, Father," cries Fever, "I am deeply troubled by impure thoughts, and sexual temptations come crowding into my mind -- things…