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He starts worrying, anxiety always a question of whether to do this or that. He is always in a state of either/or, and then on and on.... Then he forgets everything of those nine months. But somewhere deep down that memory remains. It cannot be eradicated. It becomes burdened by other things, covered by other things, but it can be easily claimed.
Sannyas does not give you anything new -- there is nothing new under the heaven. And nothing is old either because if anything it new it can become old; if there is nothing new nothing can ever become old. The whole question is how to remember a forgotten language.
To become a sannyasin means to enter the womb of the master again. It is a subtler womb than your mother could have provided you. Your mother can give you a physical birth -- the master can give you a spiritual birth.'
[Just in case anyone had latched on to the idea that bliss didn't have to be achieved, striven for, Osho promptly told the next sannyasin that it could only be ours through concerted effort!]
Man may know many things but if he has not known bliss all his knowledge is futile. He has been simply collecting seashells and coloured stones on the shore of life; he has not been able to find a single mine of diamonds. It is only bliss that makes you aware for the first time that now you have known something worth knowing. Before knowing bliss don't deceive yourself that anything else is knowledge. Bliss is the only true knowledge. Let it become the goal, let all your energies be focussed on this single goal, that bliss has to be achieved. And it can be achieved. All that is needed is a total, intense effort.
It can be achieved in a single moment if you are ready to risk all for it. And it is so valuable that all can be risked for it. A single drop of bliss is enough because it transforms your whole being. You are no more part of time, you become part of eternity. You are no more a mortal, you become immortal. And that is the whole purpose of human life.
[And then he talked of innocence.]
Jesus says "Unless you are like small children you will not enter into the kingdom of god." He has asserted there something
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