If you drop Sannyas, it is your decision.
Basically, Sannyas is freedom from life.
Shankara's Sannyas will not take you very far.
Some day Sannyas will begin.
Sannyas to me is not a serious thing.
That love affair is prayer, meditation, Sannyas.- Osho.
Sannyas is not a duty, it is your love.
Shankara's Sannyas can be the beginning of the journey, not the end.
You can say something about Sannyas, but it will not be true.
I have not stopped the Sannyas movement; I have stopped it becoming a religion.
Sannyas is to live in such a way as if you have achieved everything.
That is why I
tell you that there is no need to go anywhere for Sannyas.
Today Osho's mother and aunt, who have arrived from Gadarwara,
will be taking Sannyas before discourse.
We count on our fingers and feel happy to know that our Sannyas family is getting bigger every day.
And that's how my concept of Sannyas arises: you live in the dream knowing it, that it is a dream.
If it is continuous, if YOU have taken Sannyas, you the old one,
if YOU have changed your robe and name, you have missed the point.
Unless you are one hundred percent open, unless the very word no
has dropped from your vocabulary, the great revolution of Sannyas will not happen to you.….
His wife predeceased him and as he had no other attachment,
he became free and accepted Sannyas before his death and realized the goal of his life.
And after my Sannyas, I gave this three year's period, a gap, that anybody who wants to leave
me, can leave- because I don't want to interfere into anybody's life.
Sannyas will be there when there is no name,
when you become nameless. Then there will be no rules. Then you will be so ordinary, you will not be recognized.”.
I wanted to destroy that traditional idea of Sannyas, because the Sannyasin has to be celibate,
the Sannyasin has not to touch a woman, not to talk to a woman.
Sannyas means that a person is becoming free of the family;
now the mother will not be the mother, now the father will not be the father, now the brother will not be the brother.