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CHAPTER 22. SANNYAS IS OF THE HIGHEST
all, of the whole, of this world and God together. I am for total acceptance of all that is. And there is
no place for negativity in my vision; I am absolutely against renunciation. Shankar’s bliss lies in the
renunciation of the world; his bliss is limited. For me bliss is so immense, so infinite, that it includes
the world and God and everything else in it. For me bliss never negates anything.
The last thing. When I said, ”my sannyasin” it was not a slip of the tongue. My tongue is strange, it
rarely slips. The first time one friend referred to someone as my sannyasin I asked him not to. But
I said it for a reason: that a sannyasin cannot be mine or anybody else’s. But when I use the term
”my sannyasin” the second time, it was certainly not a slip of my tongue. No sannyasin belongs to
me, but I can belong to all sannyasins whose witness I have consented to be. And I have a special
relationship with the sannyasins of bliss I have been talking about. I don’t expect them to be attached
to me; I have no expectation from them that they should relate with me in any manner. But I do have
a relationship with them, because I see in them the future of sannyas. It is only through the kind of
sannyasin they are that there is hope for sannyas in the future.
Question 5
QUESTIONER: YOU SAID THAT SANNYAS IS A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN A
SANNYASIN AND GOD, AND THAT YOU ARE JUST A WITNESS TO IT. BUT THEN THE
QUESTION ARISES IF YOUR WITNESSING WILL NOT CREATE A KIND OF DISTRUST IN
SANNYAS. PLEASE EXPLAIN.
You are right when you ask: If sannyas is a matter between you and God, what is the use of my
being witness to it?
There is no use if you really understand that sannyas is a matter between you and God, but the very
fact that you have come to me says there is no relationship between you and God yet. At least you
are not aware of it; otherwise you would not have wandered to this distant place.
Then I am going to be your witness.
Question 6
QUESTIONER: DON’T YOU THINK THAT INITIATION INTO SANNYAS WILL LEAD TO THE
FORMATION OF A SECT AROUND YOU?
You think it will lead to the formation of a sect. No, it will not. To form a sect certain things are
essential. To form a sect one needs a Master, a scripture, a doctrine and an adjective for the
sect. Besides these, one also needs a blind, dogmatic belief that one’s doctrine alone is right and
everything else is utterly wrong. None of these things are here.
The sannyasin of my vision is not going to have any adjective like the rest of the sannyasins, who
are either Hindus, Christians or Buddhists. And a sect cannot be formed without such an adjective;
it is extremely difficult. I call a man a sannyasin who does not have a religion, who does not belong
to any religion. And you cannot organize a sect without a religion. I call a man a sannyasin who has
no scripture like the GEETA or the Bible, and who does not belong to a temple, church or gurudwara.
And without them a sect becomes impossible,
Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy 433 Osho