You have been shouting and shouting and nobody hears. You have been groping in the dark and you never come across a hand to hold you. You have been in this cold aloneness - nobody hugs you, nobody is THERE to hug you. Nobody is there to warm you. This is the fear, the anguish of man. If love is not possible then one is alone. Hence love HAS to be made possible, it has to be created - even if it is pseudo, it has to be created. One has to go on loving, because otherwise it will be impossible to live. And whenever a society comes across the fact that love is false, then two things become possible: either people start committing suicide, or people start becoming sannyasins. And both are the same. Suicide is an ordinary effort just to destroy yourself: if you are not there then nobody will be alone. But that doesnt work; you are soon in another body. That has never worked. Sannyas is the ultimate suicide. If one is alone, then one is alone. It has to be accepted, it has not to be avoided: if one is alone, so what? If that is the fact, then that is the fact -- then one has to go into it. Sannyas means encountering ones aloneness, going into it. Going into it in spite of all the fear. Dying into it. If death happens through it, it is okay, but one is not going to shirk from the truth. If aloneness is truth, then one accepts and goes into it. Thats the meaning of sannyas. And one really commits suicide. One disappears. ~ Osho
Posted on: Wed, 05 Mar 2014 02:42:12 +0000