Why do people feel afraid of taking sannyas?
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"Fear of taking sannyas arises from the ego's resistance to transformation; it prefers the safety of concepts over the risk of genuine experience."
According to Osho, people fear taking sannyas because it demands a living, irreversible shift from words to transformation. Near a living master, the ego, conclusions, and borrowed knowledge cannot survive, so the mind invents distances, conditions, and scriptures as safe substitutions. Sannyas threatens control and identity; thus cleverness with concepts replaces the risky, immediate jump into being and experience.
We’re scared of sannyas because it means really changing now, not just thinking about it, and that feels like losing our old self.
Why this matters practically
- Move from reading to direct experience: meditate, participate, show up.
- Notice rationalizations and conditions you use to delay real change—and drop them.
- Take small, courageous steps that challenge ego-comfort and invite authentic transformation.
- Notice rationalizations and conditions you use to delay real change—and drop them.
- Take small, courageous steps that challenge ego-comfort and invite authentic transformation.
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