According to Osho, taking sannyas doesn’t demand prior authenticity; it welcomes your hypocrisies, masks, and ‘sicknesses.’ The master accepts you exactly as you are to begin a therapeutic, alchemical process. By entrusting your inauthentic parts to this relationship, falseness can be exposed and dropped, allowing healing—and even ‘resurrection’—into your real being. Sannyas is the path from pretense to authenticity, not a reward for the already true.
You don’t need to be perfect first; sannyas lets you bring your pretend parts so they can heal and you can become your real self.