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without seeking freedom. They will never find bliss; they will find more and more misery because in their search for bliss they will create many bondages, many prisons for themselves. There are also people who seek freedom without seeking bliss. They will not find freedom. Their freedom will be empty, kind of negative; it will not have anything in it. Without bliss it is just an empty well without any water. It looks like a well but it cannot quench your thirst. In seeking freedom without becoming aware and alert about bliss people go on missing all the possibilities where bliss could have been found; hence they become more and more miserable.
A sannyasin has to be alert that both things are not separate, that if you want to be blissful you have to be free; if you want to be free, you have to be blissful. Let them become one single goal. Search for them together -- that is the only possibility of ever arriving.
OSHO (TO CORDULA): A man without love is dead, is ice cold; his energies are frozen, not flowing. He is not really born yet.
Unless one becomes part of a loving experience, unless one becomes love itself, one is not really born, one remains cold and dead. With love comes warmth and with love life starts moving in you, that's why you become warm. Energies start flowing; you are no longer frozen, the ice starts melting.
Love makes you less and less material and more and more spiritual. Ultimately love brings you to a point where you are no longer a body but only a soul, just pure energy, vibrating, pulsating, in rhythm with the whole. That's the experience that religions have been searching for down the ages. You can call it God, enlightenment, nirvana, or whatsoever you like, but the experience is of pulsating with the whole; not lagging behind, not pulsating with your own personal rhythm but becoming part of the total so totally that you cannot say "I"; the word "I" becomes irrelevant. You are just a dewdrop falling into the ocean. In that moment bliss arises because you are at peace with the whole, in tune with the whole. This harmony is bliss, this accord is bliss. And then you are no longer just a small heart beating in your
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