Why does not everyone taste the sweet fruit of sannyas?

Osho, the fruit of sannyas is sweet; then why does not everyone taste it? Please tell.

Therefore Paltu says: Even if you get a boat, what will you do with it? You need a boatman. Where is the ferryman? Even if you have the scriptures, what will you do? You need a master. Where is the one who will take your hand? A scripture you can hold—but you yourself are going to drown; the scripture will drown with you. You need someone who can hold you—then perhaps you can be saved. Someone who can swim himself can save you. And once you spend a little time with him, you’ll gain the feel of swimming. Swimming is not a very difficult thing. The truth is, in swimming we don’t really learn anything; only self-confidence grows. That’s all; we learn nothing else. It isn’t learning in the usual sense. That’s why, if you learn to swim once, even if you don’t swim for fifty years you won’t forget.…

Osho, how do I take sannyas? I keep thinking and then I stop. What is this hesitation?

One night a thief broke into Mulla Nasruddin’s house. While the thief gathered things, Mulla quickly spread his blanket on the floor. When the thief, ready to tie up the loot, looked for a sheet to wrap it in, he found a blanket laid out. He was a bit scared—when he had entered, there had been no blanket on the floor. He’d seen a man sleeping under it; now that man lay on the bed without the blanket, and the blanket was on the floor! But it wasn’t the time to ponder. He tied his bundle and set off. Mulla got up and followed. Hearing footsteps, the thief turned and saw the same man who had been on the bed—first under the blanket, then without it. The thief got nervous and said, “Why are you following me?” Mulla said, “Why not follow? I was the only one left back there!…

There are many things about your sannyas that I don 't understand. I want to be a sannyasin, but before I take the jump I want to understand everything about it.

THAT MEANS YOU DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE JUMP. If you have understood everything before taking the jump, it is not a jump at all -- it is a conclusion. Your mind is convinced of it. You have arrived at it through a logical process. A jump means something illogical. A jump means: CREDO QUIA ABSURDUM. A jump means: I have fallen in love -- not in logic. The logical process is an ego process -- you decide, and then, certainly, you follow your decision. It is not a jump. A jump is going into the dark; a jump is going into the unknown; dropping the known and going into the unknown is the meaning of a jump. And the greater it is, the better -- because in the VERY jump you are reincarnated, in the very jump the old disappears and the new arrives. A jump has to be…

Osho, I am not superstitious. For the last five years I have been in your company through discourses and books, yet nothing has happened. I have come with the desire to take sannyas. In such a state, wouldn’t taking sannyas be self-deception? Please guide me rightly.

And I tell you: even if faith were blind, it sees farther and deeper than logic’s eye. If you had to choose between logic’s eye and the blindness of faith, I would tell you: choose the blindness of faith. If you had to choose between the eye of mathematics and the blindness of love, I would tell you: choose the blindness of love. For what will you gain by mathematics? You will gather rubbish and shards. You will become crafty, clever, skillful. But you will miss life’s ultimate treasure. Only the lover knows and attains that treasure. So my request is: before you have the experience of faith, do not name it, do not label it. Once we stick a wrong label on something, we stop going toward it. Imagine: if a temple door bears the label “Toilet,” you will not enter; what need remains? Finished. And if the toilet…

Osho, I am very afraid to drink the nectar you are offering. What could be the reason? Why am I afraid? And what should I do?

Look carefully: what you have attained in life—is it poison or nectar? If it is nectar, my blessings—then don’t trouble yourself here. If it is poison, the journey can begin. The one who has seen poison as poison has already completed half the work; half the journey toward nectar is done. To see darkness as darkness is the first step toward seeing light as light. If “I am ignorant” becomes visible, the first ray of knowledge has dawned. If “I do not know” is known, the beginning has happened. The pilgrimage has begun. The first step is taken. And only the first step is difficult. The second is easy, for it is like the first. The third is easy, again like the first. Then all steps are easy. You say: “What you are offering is nectar, but I am afraid to drink.” For you it is not yet nectar. What…