What should I tell a sannyasin about the impact of your teachings when I return?

One of your sannyasins, anubuddha bharti, stays with us in chicago. His entire life has been transformed by you. He is concerned about you leaving him soon. What can I tell him when I go back?

Tell him that even if I leave the body I am not going to leave my sannyasins. I will be as much available as I am right now. But the only thing to remember is -- are you available to me? I am available to you, and I will remain as available forever. If you are available to me then there is no need to be afraid, then a link exists. And with my sannyasins I am individually linked. It is not a question that you belong to an organization, it is not an organization at all. It is a personal relationship, it is a love affair. If you are open to me, even if this body disappears, it is not going to make any difference. I will be available to you. Tell him that he need not be afraid. He can remain in trust and in love.

Beloved Osho, I received a letter from one of your sannyasins in europe. She says there is nowhere to go except to be with you. Meanwhile she enjoys being alone and doing small things and is grateful that at least we are all under the same sky. Can you please say something to all your sannyasins who are silently waiting?

But now Ramakrishna was gone, and she was the oldest companion. They started asking her advice, and her advice was so perfect on every matter that it was impossible for her to be mad. But as far as Ramakrishna was concerned, she continued to feel his presence to the last breath of her life. Before dying... that was the only time that she started crying. Somebody said, "You didn't cry when Ramakrishna died. Why are you crying?" She said, "I am crying because now who will take care, who will prepare the food? Nobody knows what he likes, what he does not like. Who will make his bed? And the place is so full of mosquitoes that if the mosquito net is not put rightly, if just a small place is available for mosquitoes to enter, the old man will suffer the whole night -- and I am dying. I…

Beloved Osho, you have just been saying that the words of the master become mere words after the master is gone. What will happen after you are gone?

For a simple reason I have been able to contact millions of people around the world: I am not confined to any tradition. I am not burdened by the past, I am completely weightless. So anybody who is burdened -- and who is not burdened? -- becomes interested in me, particularly the young people who are fed up with all the nonsense that is being taught in the churches and the synagogues, in the temples, in the mosques. All these people, these churches, synagogues and mosques, are trying to bridge the gap. You have heard the phrase "generation gap." Between you and the church, between you and the synagogue, there is not just a generation gap, there is a gap of hundreds of generations. And in trying to bridge it, they are proving themselves buffoons, because truth never compromises. It cannot -- with whom will it compromise? Compromising truth means…

What to do when you die? Stay together and run the risk that the movement will turn into a stale sort of religion, or dissolve and be open for the call of another living master?

The second thing: each religion becomes a Church by and by. It has to, by the very nature of things. While the Master is alive it is one thing; when the Master has gone it is quite another. But for those who loved the Master, the Master is always there. For the people who loved Raman Maharshi. the Master is there. They still have the same feeling. when they go to Arunachal, his place, his mountain, and when they sit near his samadhi, it still has the same fragrance, the same freshness, the same presence, the same radiance. And Raman still answers and Raman still instructs and Raman still comes into their dreams, into their visions. For them there is no need to go anywhere; they have found their Master. There are others also who go to Raman's place -- but he is no longer present there. They think that…

Osho, if his personality is no more, how will answers be available?

Just as the amulet was linked with the trance as a code, in the same way each teacher who wishes to remain helpful even afterwards, and whose guidance you may seek after he is gone, leaves behind organized sutras—codes—by using which he will become present again. There was a yogi in the South, a Brahmayogi, only some years ago. Paul Brunton first went to him. The yogi gave Brunton his photograph and said, “I will accept you as a disciple, but I shall go to London.” Brunton said, “What difference will that make?” The yogi replied, “London is not very far. Take this photo. Sit in this posture, place the photo in this way, and gaze at it with one-pointed attention for a minute or two. Then ask whatever you wish to ask—the answer will come to you.” Brunton was astonished. How could this be? But such arrangements can be…