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fight -- and they are bound to lose, because how can the part win against the whole? It is like a leaf fighting with the tree itself.
If the leaf has consciousness it may start thinking it is separate, that it has nothing to do with the tree, that it will have its own way. And then immediately there will be trouble, there will be conflict. It will become more and more alienated from its own sources of energy. The tree is its mother, and the tree is not only a tree, it is rooted in the earth; it represents the whole earth. It breathes the air, it represents the whole atmosphere. It is connected with the sun and with the farthest star. To fight with the tree is to fight with the universe. Just a poor, tiny leaf trying to fight with the universe -- the whole idea is stupid. But that's what man goes on doing: he goes on pushing the river.
Sannyas means dropping the fight with the river, going with the river, allowing the river to take you, learning the art of let-go. Those two small, simple words 'let', 'go', define the very spirit of sannyas. Then one can say 'Let thy kingdom come, thy will be done.' Then one withdraws one's will, and the moment you withdraw your will your life becomes immensely rich. Suddenly the whole is with you, and we can be victorious only when the whole is with us.
Yogi means one who is practising the art, the science of becoming one with the universe. Except for the ego there is no other problem in life; all other problems are offshoots. But people go on trying to solve other problems which are offshoots. You can go on pruning the leaves and the branches, but unless you cut the root new leaves will come, new branches will come. In fact the more you prune the leaves and the branches, the thicker will become the foliage of the tree. That's what happens: the more you try to solve your problems, the more you become entangled in them. You solve one problem and your solution brings ten more problems in the wake of it, and life goes on becoming more and more complex.
The child comes into the world without any problems, and every old man, almost every one, except for the few Buddhas, die burdened with problems. And they
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