Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy - Osho - Oshorajneesh.com

CHAPTER 22. SANNYAS IS OF THE HIGHEST
will be of those who will take sannyas, but remain wherever they are. They will continue to be in their
occupations as before, but they will now be actors and not doers, and they will also be witnesses to
life and living.
And the third category w ill consist of sannyasins who will go deep into the bliss and ecstasy of
sannyas that the question of their return to their old world will not arise. They will bear no such
responsibilities as will make it necessary for them to be tied to their families; nobody will depend on
them and no one will be hurt by their withdrawal from society. The last category of sannyasins will
live in meditation and carry the message of meditation to those who are thirsty for it.
It seems to me that never before was the world in such dire need of meditation as it is today. And if
we fail to make a large portion of mankind deeply involved in meditation, there is little hope for man’s
survival on this earth any longer; he will simply disappear from the earth. There is already so much
neurosis and insanity in the world, there is so much political madness all around, that the hope for
mankind remaining alive grows dimmer and dimmer with the passing of each day. And the sands of
time are running out fast. So it is urgent for millions of men and women all over the world to become
meditative in the short time that we have; otherwise man, with all his civilization, is going to perish.
Even if he survives physically, all that is good and great in him will perish.
Therefore a very large band of young men and young women who have yet no responsibilities on
their shoulders is needed. And we will include in this band those old people who have laid down
their responsibilities and are free. This band of young and old together will first learn meditation,
and then they will carry the torch of meditation to every nook and comer of the earth.
The meditation that I teach is so simple, so scientific, that if a hundred people take to it, seventy of
them are going to make it. There is no condition that you are qualified to do it; that you do it is all that
is needed. Besides, you are not required to owe allegiance to any religion, any scripture, or to have
faith and belief as a pre-condition to meditation. As you are right now, you can join it and do it and
go deeply into it. It is such a simple and scientific technique that you are not required to have faith
in it. All that is required of you is that you take it as a hypothetical experiment, as you do a scientific
experiment, to see how it works. And I assure you it works; you will make it.
I feel that meditation can he spread throughout the world as a chain-reaction. If a person decides
to learn meditation himself and then, within a week of his learning it, initiates another person into it,
we will cover the whole earth with meditation within ten years. No greater effort is needed. Then
all the lofty things of life that man is heir to, but has lost, call be restored to him in ten years. And
then there is no reason why Krishna should not play his flute amongst us once again, why Christ
should not come again and again, why Buddha should not get enlightened under the bo-tree over
and over again. Not that the same old Krishna or Buddha will he born again, but that in us we have
the potentialities of that meditation which can flower into a Krishna, a Buddha, a Christ over and
over again.
It is for this reason that I have decided to be a witness to your being initiated into sannyas. I will
be a witness for friends who are ready to join one of the three categories of sannyasins that I have
mentioned. I will not he their Master, but only a witness to their initiation into sannyas. In fact,
sannyas will be a matter of a direct relationship between them and God.
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 424 Osho