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poet; otherwise you will be frustrated. The poetry may be beautiful, but when you go to the poet you will find an ordinary human being -- even sometimes more ordinary than the ordinary ones. If you love a painting, love it and forget the painter. Never go to see the painter -- otherwise you will be frustrated. You may find a crazy man or a maniac... because they have been creating something, certainly, but they have completely forgotten that the basic and the most primary creativity has to be concerned with one's own being.
You have to be creative about your own being. You have to give birth to your self. That's what sannyas is all about.
[A sannyasin says: I am pregnant and I want to ask you if I can be a good mother and if the child can be okay.
... I wanted a baby so much; that's why I don't know. Maybe I'm not strong enough -- that's why I wanted to ask you.
Osho checks here energy.]
You have a very great desire to be a mother. So be, mm? But be knowing that you are taking on a great responsibility. To become a mother is one of the greatest responsibilities in the world. So many people are on the psychiatrists' couches and so many people are in madhouses and so many are out of the madhouses. If you go deep into the neurosis of humanity you will always find the mother, because so many women want to be mothers but they don't know how to be. Once the relationship between the mother and the child goes wrong the child's whole life goes wrong, because that is his first contact with the world, his first relationship. Everything else will be in continuity with it. And if the first step goes wrong, the whole life goes wrong.
The desire is there -- I can feel it... a tremendous desire to be a mother. Nothing is wrong in it, but one should knowingly become a mother. You are taking one of the greatest responsibilities that a human being can take. Men are a little freer in that way because they cannot take the responsibility of becoming a mother. Women have more responsibility. So become a mother, but don't take it for granted that just by being a woman one is necessarily a mother -- that is a fallacy. Motherhood is a great art;
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