Sannyas is being linked with my consciousness

AND IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO TAKE JUMPS - because you become new and everything becomes new with it. Otherwise, by and by, one gets bored. THE ROUTINE IS ALWAYS BORING; you cannot avoid it -- the same wife, the same house, the same job, the same you, the same children. THERE IS A LIMIT TO TOLERATING IT; then it becomes intolerable. It is like going to see the same movie again and again and again -- you will go mad. Or you will have to devise ways so that you can sit in the movie house without seeing it -- that will be your only protection.

    THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN MARRIAGE: the husband stops seeing the wife -- not that he does not look at her; he looks, but he doesn't see. The wife stops seeing the husband. Do you remember how long you have not seen your wife? And you live with her, day in, day out -- but can you remember how long it is since you have looked at her really? HUSBANDS AND WIVES GO ON AVOIDING EACH OTHER'S EYES. They look and yet they don't look; their look is just a pretension. Even when they look at each other, they are thinking of thousand and one things. THAT IS THE ONLY WAY TO AVOID GETTING TOO MUCH BORED: become closed, don't see what is happening. Don't taste what you are eating; then you can go on eating the same thing again and again.

    But if you taste, then sooner or later you will start feeling that this is too much. Even if you like a certain thing, if you eat it every day, soon the time will come when you will say, 'Now I am fed-up with it.' You like the woman, you like the man, you love -- BUT SOONER OR LATER, THE MOMENT COMES...

    THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO AVOID THAT MOMENT. One is, become dull. That's what people have chosen. Because TO BECOME DULL IS EASY, it needs no intelligence. To become dull is easy because it is a kind of fall, down-going.

    The other is: BECOME SO SENSITIVE that you can find in your wife every day something new. And become so alert that your very alertness keeps everything new, goes on making everything fresh. AND GO ON MOVING! There is no need to remain the same person forever -- go on moving!

    NOW IF THE DESIRE FOR SANNYAS HAS ARISEN IN YOU, take the jump, take the risk. That will help you. It will be a kind of renewal, a resurrection. The old will be gone and the new will be born. And if your wife loves you, she will come, she will understand. If she is not coming right now, don't be worried. Just for that, YOU DON'T STOP YOURSELF FROM SANNYAS -- because then your marriage will be on the rocks, more certainly on the rocks. By becoming a sannyasin, there will be a little trouble, but that trouble will soon settle -- because I am not anti-life. Your wife will understand that her fear was not true.

    BY YOUR MEDITATIONS, you will become a better person -- more loving, more affectionate, more caring. She will not lose anything. And sooner or later, the understanding will help her to also take the jump. If she is sensitive and loving, she will take the jump with you.

    Remember, LOVE KNOWS HOW TO GO INTO THE UNKNOWN. Love knows how to throw all securities. Love knows how to move into the unfamiliar and the uncharted. LOVE IS COURAGE. Trust love!

And you ask me, "Can you please help us? Because I cannot deny her doubts as I have no experience of sannyas."

    THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO KNOW ABOUT SANNYAS. One is -- the best -- BY BECOMING ONE. The next best is BY SEEING MY SANNYASINS, by watching my sannyasins. That is next best -- because that is from the outside; you will not have the inside experience. Watch my sannyasins: they are laughing, they are loving, they are dancing, THEY ARE CELEBRATING. What more you desire? They have thrown all kinds of burdens, and all kinds of inhibitions, and all kinds of taboos. They have fallen utterly in love with life. They have taken away all barriers.

    LIVE WITH MY SANNYASINS. Watch them, experience them, feel them. Empathize with them, so you call have a certain feeling of what it is. It is difficult to define, because it is a subjective change. The change on the outside is just a gesture. THE CHANGE IS INNER; it is being in personal contact with me. IT IS BEING LINKED WITH MY CONSCIOUSNESS; it is being committed. It is getting involved into some journey which leads you from one unknown to another unknown.

    IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO DEFINE SANNYAS. One cannot paint light... or love... or life -- only the things upon which it lights. The ten thousand lighted things, they can be painted. YOU CANNOT PAINT LIGHT DIRECTLY. You can paint a green leaf, upon which the light is falling and having a dance. You can paint a rock, upon which the light is falling. Or you can paint an eye which has got the light in it. But you cannot paint light directly, there is no way. You can only paint lighted things.

    IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT SANNYAS IS, there is no way to know directly. You can just see the people upon which the sannyas has happened. You will have to see the lighted things. One cannot speak of Tao or God, but only of the things that reveal it.

    Look at me, look into my eyes! AND IF THE DEPTH CALLS YOU FORTH FROM YOUR CAVES, then plunge in! By becoming a sannyasin, by and by you will come to feel what it is. Even then you will not be able to define it, but you will be able to know it. Sannyas is an experience -- just like love.

OSHO
The Revolution
Ch #4: Forth from your caves
am in Buddha Hall