Will I be left deprived of becoming a disciple?

Osho, have you now stopped giving initiation into sannyas and making disciples? Will I be left deprived of becoming your disciple?

A disciple is not made; one has to become a disciple. When you love someone, do you first ask, do you seek permission? Love happens. Love obeys no command, no permission, no method, no ordinance. What is discipleship? It is the highest, deepest name for love. If you want to love me, how can I stop you? If tears fall in love for me, how can I stop them? And if you wish to plunge into what I call meditation, how can I hinder you? One who is to be a disciple cannot be stopped by anyone. That is why I have dropped the formality of “making” disciples—because now I want only those who are coming toward me from their own being, for no other reason. Now the whole responsibility is yours. Just as in the first grade we teach children: aa for aam (mango), ga for Ganesh. It used…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN I BECOME A DISCIPLE? What is the need to become a disciple? Why should you ask such a question? Do you feel your life is meaningless, that you need some meaning? Do you feel your life is empty and you would like fulfillment? Do you feel you are in darkness and you would like to be in the light? The whole thing depends on you. If you are contented as you are, if you are not missing anything as you are, there is no need to be a disciple. Why bother a master, and why go into an unnecessary search? But if you have emptiness, meaninglessness, anxiety, anguish, confusion, darkness; if you feel your whole life is nothing but misery, then to become a disciple is very simple.

Beloved Osho, it seems to me that I don't understand anything

If I say something, there is no need to believe in it. There is no need to disbelieve either. Remain open. If I say something, then try it. Then look at the trees without any ideas whatever. Look at the birds and the sky with no knowledge. Drop language and see whether what I am saying gives you clarity. If you can drop the word "rose" and then see the rose flower, what happens? You will immediately feel a new kind of relationship arising between you and the flower. Don't even call it a flower; there is no need. Your language is not needed to support it; it exists without language. Why bring language in? Put language aside. Put aside your continuous gibberish that goes on inside the mind. Just look. In the beginning it is difficult -- the language will come up again and again, just out of old…

Osho, glory to you! Even in a thousand lives I could not have received as much as you have, unasked, given me. Please accept me as your disciple!

If you have taken, you have become a disciple. Being a disciple does not depend on my acceptance; it depends on yours. A disciple means one who is ready to learn. A disciple means one who is willing to bow down, to hold out his bowl to be filled. A disciple means one eager to listen with humility, to contemplate in silence, to meditate. You have become a disciple—if you have taken, in the very taking you have become a disciple. Being a disciple does not depend on my acceptance. I may accept you—but if you do not take, what can I do? I may not accept you—but if you keep taking, what can I do? Discipleship is your freedom. It is not anyone’s charity. Discipleship is your dignity. No certificate is needed for it. That is why Ekalavya went and sat in the forest. Look: Dronacharya had refused him,…

Osho, can I not be your disciple without taking sannyas?

Narayandas Tiwari! You can be a student, not a disciple. And the difference between a student and a disciple is as great as the difference between a poet and a seer—no less. A student means: someone who will walk away with bits of information, who will gather a little trash of knowledge, whose memory will be a little more stuffed, who will learn to repeat a few fine sayings. But you cannot be a disciple without becoming a sannyasin. For the first prerequisite of a disciple is: to drop curiosity. And not only curiosity—to drop inquisitiveness as well, and to take up mumuksha. What is mumuksha? Curiosity is a childish thing; small children have it—they go on asking and asking. “Why this? Why that?” They drive you crazy. Whomever they latch onto, they make his life difficult. Because before one question is finished, they have already posed another. They don’t…