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if you don't become alert and aware.
There is another kind of death. The quality is totally different: a voluntary death, not a natural death. Not that the body dies, but that you take the jump -- that you die. You don't wait for the death. This is sannyas. This is taking a voluntary jump into death itself.
Through death, the deathless is achieved
THIS IS THE MEANING OF THE CRYPTIC PHRASE `MAN MUST DIE BEFORE HE DIES.' THE GIFT COMES AFTER THIS `DEATH' AND NOT BEFORE. AND EVEN THIS `DEATH' IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT HELP.
That's why I am here. Alone, you will not be able to even die. Such a simple thing you cannot do alone. It is so simple -- it will be difficult for you to do it alone. A great help is needed of someone who has died before you. He can pull and push; he can create a situation in which, unknowingly, you are caught. A Master throws a net, catches hold of many fishes. Those who are ready to die will be chosen. Those who are not ready to die yet will be thrown back into the river.
You have come to me from many parts of the world. You can go on thinking that you have come to me -- that is again a deception of the ego. I have caught hold of you, that's why you are here -- not that you have come. You think you have come and you are wrong. I have been calling you in many subtle ways, pulling you towards me. And you have come. Now you are caught in the net. Still many of you are trying not to be caught.
Sannyas is just a surrender on your part, that you allow me to do whatsoever I want to do. Surrender is a trust: `I leave -- now you do whatsoever you want to do. Now I will not interfere.' It is just like when you go to a surgeon and leave yourself in his trust, because if you don't and you say, `I have to watch what you are doing,' then surgery is not possible. You have to become completely unconscious -- and in unconsciousness, there is total surrender. Even if the surgeon kills you, you will not be there to object.
Trust means that you leave yourself in the hands of someone -- even if he is going to kill you, you are ready to pass through it. Sannyas means laying yourself down before me on the surgical table,
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