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but not seriously. Be involved in it, but very playfully. Let it be a joy and a fun... and god is not very far away!
And don't try to escape! Because I see something in you which can seduce you into escaping. Escape is very easy; growth is difficult. So I can see that part inside you that will tell you to go here and there or will say, 'Why bother? Why go into such pain? Why make so much effort?' Beware of it!
Only the first few weeks are difficult then things start flowing smoothly. My work is that of a surgeon, mm ? In the beginning it is painful, so don't escape from the operation table! Sometimes a few people escape and then they repent very much!
[Osho tells an initiate to feel as if he is dying, to allow the body uncontrol and imagine it is falling apart. Osho then talks about the significance of being able to move into that space of dying. Sannyas is a process of dying, he says -- dying to the past, to the ego, to time -- and it is only through death that one is reborn. So my first thing for you is to drop the fear of death... and you can.]
Anand means bliss and chandresh means god of the moon. And the moon is very symbolic. In the east the moon represents the feminine, the soft, the yin energy. It also represents the non-logical, the poetic mind; that's why poets are all 'lunatics'.
The moon represents the intuitive part of your being. We can say the right hemisphere of the brain is represented by the moon and the left hemisphere of the brain is represented by the sun. The left-side brain is male: aggressive, logical, prosaic, mathematical. Science comes out of it. The right-side brain is intuitive, illogical, aesthetic, mystical. Religion comes out of it.
So become more and more moon-orientated. Whenever there is a moon in the night, never miss meditating on it. Just lie down on the grass and look at the moon... just look at the moon. Let there be a communion. a dialogue, and sometimes if you feel it coming, you can actually have a dialogue. Start talking to the moon.
In the beginning it will look a little foolish, crazy, but soon you will get the knack of it and the beauty of it. A moment comes when not
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