What happens after taking sannyas?

Sannyas is a quantum leap, a jump into the unknown, a great courage to become discontinuous with your own past. It is a rebirth. It is a change so great... as if the old dies, and dies utterly and totally and the new comes into being from nowhere, from nothingness, out of nothing. If the new comes from the old it remains the old. If the new is continuous with the old then it is only a modification of the old -- maybe a little bit colored and decorated and changed, with a new dress, with a new mask, but it is not a revolution, it is not a conversion. And sannyas to be true has to be a revolution so total that the old identity is simply dropped -- just as the snake slips out of the old skin and never looks back.

Osho, ever since I took sannyas the very color of life has changed. I feel your hand in my hand. Sometimes in meditation the hairs on my body stand on end, the body begins to take flight, and a shower of tears starts. Seeing my state people call me mad. How can I make them understand that in these ochre robes there are rich strands of joy? Let us remain mad; we are better as mad.

Krishna Bharti! The color of sannyas begins from the outside, but it is fulfilled only when the inside too is dyed. And those who are willing to be colored on the outside have given the invitation, opened the doors. They have signaled that now we are ready to be dyed within as well. This color of gulal, this saffron glow will gradually spread, deepen. And a moment will come—outside and inside will be of one color. When no difference remains between outside and inside, then know that true sannyas has happened. That moment is drawing near. And whenever such a moment draws near, people will call you mad. Because people live by logic, by mathematics; they keep accounts. The outside should remain outside, the inside inside. Body, body; soul, soul. Intellect, intellect; heart, heart. They keep everything divided, cut into fragments. The very meaning of sannyas is totality. You will…

And sannyas is exactly like that in the inner world. It is a dawn, the early moments, the interval between the night and the day, the gap. Hence the orange color has been chosen. It is the color if the morning sun. It is the color of the flowers, it is the color of blood, of life. It is the color of the spring in the East because the whole of nature become so colorful... and so many flowers. There are forests which look as if they ar on fire... so many red flowers. Make as much use as possible of these potential moments. These are very pregnant moments. The sun is not very far, but the night also has not gone very far away. One can turn back and move into the dark night again, one can close one's eyes and may not see the sun.

Osho, after sannyas it is as if everything has changed. I have changed, the world has changed. The birds’ voices have turned into music. The drops rising and falling in the fountain appear to dance. When I sit in Sufi meditation, it seems as if everything is happening to please me. Inside, an unprecedented bliss is felt. It seems the outer music is arising from within me. As if, become a goddess, I am seeing everything. Is this some new direction of madness, or tiny steps moving toward light? Please shed light!

Asha Satyarthi! When sannyas happens, of course everything changes. Sannyas is not just changing clothes. Sannyas is an inner transformation. It is a new way, a new method of seeing life. It is a new dimension of living. The old sannyas was anti-life. So it brought no benefit to the world. It harmed the world—certainly harmed it. Who knows how many homes were ruined, how many families destroyed. Who knows how many women became widows while their husbands were still alive. Who knows how many children became orphaned while their fathers still lived—fatherless. Surely, millions of children must have begged. And who knows how many women became prostitutes. The burden of all this lies on old sannyas. On the head of old sannyas is a large bundle of sins. And the irony is: in return for so much sin, what did old sannyas gain? Dry, shriveled people, devoid of the…

But for that moment to come, continue to be alone a little longer. And this is the criterion: if this mind of "I would like to be loved by others" continues then you still have to remain alone. One day this desire will disappear and another desire will take its place; that will be a transformation in you. From that moment onwards there is no need to be in seclusion; then start moving. You are no more dangerous; to others and to yourself you are no more dangerous. Your being alone has helped you. It has settled you -- it has made you calmer, quieter. Just a little more... a little patience. Veet means beyond, martyo means death. The really real within you is beyond death. The one that dies and is born is not your reality.