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Part VI : Neo-Sannyas International Movement
Neo-Sannyas International is set up as world movement. Osho
appoints presidents, vice presidents and secretaries for continents,
countries, and for provinces in India.*
*Note: (see Sannyas Magazine January-February 1972, and a lecture
given in August 1971 to NSI organisers (early11.doc), which are
complex and too long to include here.)
A sannyasin is not a member of a group—it is not a Rotary
Club! A sannyasin is directly in tune with me. It is a love affair—not
even a marriage, just a love affair, very delicate. The organization
that you see is just arbitrary, to make things easier for you.
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You ask: What you talk about can mean so much to so many people.
Your message has to spread, it has to bring about a spiritual
explosion. That seems to be the only hope there is for us today.
How do you intend to let your ideas grow and spread and blossom,
flower, into something more universal, more accepted, more usual?
That is a very difficult question. Difficult because, as I see
it, the moment you begin to organize a thing, it begins to die.
The moment you begin to propagate a thing, it becomes a dead dogma.
The moment you say that everyone should try to live according
to this principle or that, you become an enemy, despite your good
intentions.
So as far as I am concerned, I just go on living the way I feel
is right. I go on saying what I feel is right without any intention
of turning the whole world on to my way. I have no plans to try
to influence the whole world. In that respect, I am an anarchist.
No religious person can be otherwise.
The moment a religious person is followed by a group to whom
he can tell what to do and how to live, the whole thing becomes
not only nonreligious but, ultimately, antireligious. This has
always happened. Every religion has done this, but no religious
person has ever intended it to happen. It is a necessary evil.
Whenever there is someone who has something to say, something
to show, this comes to our minds very easily: how people can be
benefitted by it. And this is good; it is done with compassion.
But the very nature of things is such that the moment you begin
to organize, it becomes a mission. The thing that you were trying
to do dies in the process. But this is the very nature of things.
You cannot do anything about it.
As I see it, religious people will be needed in the future, not
religious organizations. Unless we discard organizations altogether,
the spiritual explosion that you are talking about will never
come. It cannot be brought, it can only come by itself. But we
can help it to come by not organizing according to ideologies.
Every ideology is good when it begins, but by and by it has to
compromise. To compromise for the sake of the organization.
Sooner or later, the means always become the end. You begin to
organize for the sake of the ideology, but ultimately the ideology
begins to exist just for the sake of the organization. The organization
becomes more important. You have to compromise for the good of
the organization. Ultimately, the idea dies and only a church
remains.
There are so many churches that no new church is needed. I am
against churches. Really, I am against the very spirit of a missionary.
As I see it, if I begin to be too concerned with you changing,
I have begun to be violent. If I am too concerned with making
someone else good then I have begun to be violent. And the violence
that happens with good intentions is more dangerous than ordinary
violence. All your so-called mahatmas are very violent people.
They will not allow you to be yourself.
So what am I to do? It is a problem. I feel that something can
be done, I feel that much is needed to be done, but it must be
done in such a way that, in doing it, the quality of the thing
is not going to change. If the quality changes, then I am for
the quality not for the doing.
So I will go on talking. My talking is more or less directed to
the individual. If something has to be done, the organization
to do it will just be functional, utilitarian. I have to behave
not like a missionary but like a poet. A missionary is more concerned
with you, with your changes. A poet is more concerned with himself,
with his own expression. If something happens to you through it,
that is not the point. I can only say what is right as I see it.
If something happens to you through my words, it is okay. If nothing
happens, it is also okay. I have said what I had to say as best
as it was possible for me to say it. It is enough; I should not
be concerned with the result.
To be too concerned with the result is what is known as a worldly
mind. Why should I be concerned with the result? I have said what
I felt, I have lived what I felt. If you feel I am saying is worth
trying, you can choose to do it. the choice must be yours. It
must not be enforced in any way; it must not be manipulated in
any way. Even you yourself should not be convinced about it. No
conviction is good.
You can choose. This choice will remain alive because, in choosing
it, you remain yourself. It becomes part of your greater unity.
It is bound to undergo a deep change in you, it will be a different
flowering. If I force it upon you then it will just be an imitation.
Then you will be a follower, not an authentic being. And followers
are not good, not good at all. They are dangerous people!
So what can I do? I can do only one thing: I can communicate my
knowing to you. If I am not concerned at all with converting you
to my way, communication is easy communication is heart to heart.
But if at any moment you feel that I am concerned with changing
you, you will become defensive. Then I will have to fight. It
is a fight, not a communion.
So I will not organize. The only spiritual explosion that can
happen in the world will be through individuals, not through organizations.
All organizations have failed: political religious, social. The
world is the most ill it has ever been because of these organizations.
Every organization was created around a very good idea, a very
good, alive thing. It may have been around a Buddha or a Zarathustra
or a Jesus—a very alive person with something revolutionary,
something essential to give….
Whenever we organize, the whole mechanism of organization is such
that a church results, not a religion. And once a church is there,
it is always against religion. Any church is against religion,
it cannot be otherwise, because religion means rebellion; religion
means individuality; religion means freedom. The church cannot
mean these things. The church means something else: a deep slavery,
a spiritual slavery, a following; a dead dogma, a creed, a routine
of ritual. The church can never mean freedom because it cannot
survive freedom. But this has always been so.
Now I think, the human mind, human consciousness, has come to
a point where we can begin to be individually religious. There
is no need to be a Jew, no need to be a Hindu or a Christian.
Being religious must be enough. That means, religion must be freed
from all social phenomenon. It must become an individual existence.
If this is what I think, then what can I do? I can only go on
communicating—not waiting for any results, not waiting for
any continuity of my thoughts, not hoping, that what I'm saying
will be preserved for centuries. It should not be; this is a very
wrong conception.
A flower has flowered. By the evening, it must die. Just like
this, any idea that has flowered must die. lt must not try to
be permanent. lt must allow other flowers to flower; it must die
so that the next day something else can flower. If I create an
organization, then I am creating a hindrance of my own that will
prevent something new from arising.
So I am not intending to create an organization at all. I have
no plans for the future. This moment is enough. If I am able to
communicate something to even one single individual, it will be
worth everything, in the world. A mass movement may happen around
me, but it will have to happen as a chain reaction. We will have
to be patient. A missionary is never patient, he can't be. Otherwise,
he would never be a missionary. quest05
You ask: When I go back to my own country, what plan should I
follow in trying to teach your methods to others?
Do not plan anything. Just go on digging within yourself. Things
will take their own course.
Planning always presupposes frustration. When you plan, you create
the seeds of frustration. Do not plan, just go on working. Let
it come. It is always beautiful when it comes by itself. It is
always fulfilling, never frustrating, because there has been no
expectation. And when there is no expectation, you are never disappointed.
The less you are disheartened, the more you can do. The more you
are disheartened, the less you do.
So I say again: do not plan. Just go on. Let it come by itself.
When we plan, we hinder the way of its coming. Because of the
plans we make, life cannot work. Our plans come in the way.
I lead my life with no plans and I have never been frustrated.
There is no question of frustration so I am always successful.
I cannot be a failure because there is no plan against which I
calculate.
No failure, no success is a success—only our conceptions
and predetermined plans make them so. If you fail in your plan,
you feel disappointed; the ego is hurt. If you succeed, the ego
is strengthened and it will plan more, ceaselessly, causing perpetual
strain and burden on the mind. The ego is always afraid of life.
In life we never know what is going to happen so we make plans
for our security. But life continually disturbs our plans because
we are not the whole and sole of life. We are only a negligibly
small part of the infinite existence.
The moment you start planning, you begin to compare and contrast.
Doubts and fears catch hold of you: will I succeed? Is it possible?
What will happen, what will people say? The moment you plan, the
seeds of frustration take root. Now anxiety will follow. We make
plans in order to be free from anxiety, but the plan itself creates
anxiety. We become anxious because of our plans, our expectations
So do not plan. Just go on. You do not plan your breathing, you
just go on breathing. Let it come to you easily. All that comes
easily becomes divine and nothing that comes with effort can be
divine. The divine comes effortless! It is, in fact, coming all
the time. Let it come! Just let go of yourself and see. Things
will begin to move. You will find yourself in the midst of movement,
but there will be no anxiety. Then there will not be any trouble
created for the mind. If something happens, it is all right. If
nothing happens, then too it is all right. Everything is all right
when a mind that does not plan, that accepts life as it is.
Only then can meditation happen, otherwise not. Meditation is
not a business, it should not be made a business. If it is, you
will not be able to help others toward meditation much less yourself
Rather, you will be suicidal to your own meditation because it
will be a burden to you.
If meditation has come to you, if something has flowered in you,
the perfume will spread. It will work in its own way. Something
has happened to you. You are calm and at ease, tranquility has
been achieved. That will do the work; you will not have to work.
What has happened to you will draw people to you. They will come
by themselves; they will ask about what has happened to you.
Let others plan, and you just go and meditate. Things will begin
to happen, they must happen. Only then do they have a beauty of
their own, otherwise not.
Business is always tiring. It has no beauty, no joy. Meditation
is not a business, but it has been converted into a business in
India, a flourishing business. There are shops and there are factories.
Do not take meditation in this way. You have experienced meditation,
you have come to the door. You have seen something, you have felt
something. Let it go on—let God work.
When you leave here, go completely without planning. Do not
even plan not to plan or it will be the same thing. Don't think
at all about what you are going to do when you return home. Just
be there. Your very presence will begin to work. Only then will
it be my work. If you plan, then it will not be my work at all.
You will merely be distracting yourself and others. You cannot
help others to meditate if you yourself are tense. You cannot
help! You will be helpful only if you proceed without plans.
Just go. Sit there, meditate and see what happens. Things are
bound to take their own course. quest05
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