According to Osho, sannyas is Buddha’s radical middle alternative to both worldly attachment and life‑negating suicide: a conscious ‘death’ of ego while remaining fully alive. Monastic life (sangha) is a supportive laboratory for meditation, awareness, and compassion, helping the seeker transcend the mind’s swing between indulgence and despair, and discover freedom and bliss here‑now without escaping life.
Sannyas means not running from life or destroying it, but dropping the ego and learning—within a mindful community—to live awake and peaceful.