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is without light, without love, without God. It is bliss, the milieu of bliss, that makes all great things possible.
Bliss creates a citadel around you. It protects you, and it protects you in such a way that it never hinders your freedom. Otherwise protection can be had at a great cost. One can be protected but one may lose one's freedom. One can be secure but one may be dead because of the security arrangement.
Bliss keeps you alive, more alive than ever, flowing, more flowing than ever. Bliss is a very paradoxical state: it is security in insecurity. It is action in inaction. It is love without love falling to the state of relationship. It is joy unmixed with unhappiness. It is pure paradise. It is innocence that knows; it is ignorance that is full of light.
The whole effort of sannyas is to help you discover your bliss. It is there inside you. You have not lost it, nobody can lose it; it is our intrinsic nature. We are born with it but we have forgotten it, we have lost track of it. We don't know where we have hidden it. It is hidden somewhere inside us, in our deep unconscious. It is hidden like a treasure -- it has to be unearthed.
That's the whole process of sannyas: unearthing the treasure that you are and that you are meant to be.
OSHO (TO LEELA DEVI): The Western idea of God is that of a creator, a serious creator. The Eastern idea of God is that of a player, a nonserious player. Existence is a play of consciousness. It has not to be taken seriously, it is fun. That's why in Eastern religion there is no idea of original sin. There cannot be, they won't fit together. The idea of leela and the idea of original sin cannot fit with each other.
Original sin means God is very serious about things. If he is disobeyed he is going to punish you. It is not fun, it is serious work. And it is not only that he punished Adam and Eve, he has been punishing humanity since then. He must have felt really offended, the wound has not healed yet. It seems he cannot forgive, it seems that he cannot even forget. The whole concept is ugly, and because of that concept Western religion and the saints that it has created are very serious,
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