From Ignorance to Innocence - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 5. ECSTASY IS NOW – WHY WAIT?
called sannyas renunciation, meant by sannyas ”the right way of renouncing life”. By sannyas, I
mean ”the right way of living life.
The word sannyas can mean both. When it can mean the right way of living, why cripple people, cut
their life, destroy their naturalness, their spontaneity? Why not help them to have as many aspects
to their life as possible, as many dimensions open to them as possible?
My sannyasin is multidimensional.
The whole of life is yours. Love it, live it to the fullest. That’s the only way to get ready for death.
Then you can live death too, to its fullest; and it is one of the most beautiful experiences. There is
nothing comparable to the death experience in life, except deep meditation.
So those who know meditation, they know something of death – that’s the only way to know before
dying.
If I am saying there is no more significant experience in life than death, I am saying it, not because I
have died and come back to tell you, but because I know that in meditation you move into the same
space as death – because in meditation you are no more your physiology, no more your biology, no
more your chemistry, no more your psychology. All those are left far away.
You come to your innermost center where there is only pure awareness. That pure awareness will
be with you when you die because that cannot be taken away. All these other things which can be
taken away, we take away with our own hands in meditation.
So meditation is an experience of death in life.
And it is so beautiful, so indescribably beautiful that only one thing can be said about death: it must
be that experience multiplied by millions.
The experience of meditation multiplied by millions is the experience of death.
And when you pass on you simply leave your form behind. You are absolutely intact, and for the first
time out of the prison of physiology, biology, psychology.
All the walls are broken and you are free.
For the first time you can open your wings to the existential.
From Ignorance to Innocence 68 Osho