According to Osho, sannyas is not renunciation but a courageous remembrance: you are already whole, lacking nothing. The master’s function is to awaken this awareness, as the old lion leads the young to its reflection. Sannyas marks the resolve to stop returning to borrowed identities and live from your own center—alert, loving, and free.
It’s choosing to remember you’re already complete—like a lion who stops believing it’s a sheep.