Decide to take sannyas today & live material life too.

Meditation is the only possibility of knowing that you are deathless. The body dies but not you, the body is born but not you, so decide

Once it becomes your commitment — a deliberate, conscious commitment, a decision that whatsoever happens I have to find myself, my nature, my being, ‘that I am not going to miss this opportunity of life‘ … once this decision is clearly there and your energies start pouring into it, there is no reason why one should fail. Nobody has ever failed.

Whosoever has put his energies into the inner search has always found himself.

So let your initiation into sannyas be a great decision, the greatest of your life.

From this moment onwards withdraw your energies from all that is non-essential. Yes, the essential has to be done and fulfilled, but that is not much. It is the non-essential that destroys life. Withdraw your energies from the non-essential and put that energy into the inner search.

And it is a promise that once you go totally into it there is no reason why one should fail; nobody has ever failed. Without any exception, those who have entered inwards with intensity, with passion, have always reached to their innermost core.

And there, light explodes. One suddenly comes to know that this is what life is for, this is the meaning of life.

Meditation is the only possibility of knowing that you are deathless. The body dies but not you, the body is born but not you. You have been before birth and you will be there after death. Hence life is not just an episode between birth and dearth, on the contrary, there are many births and many deaths in a long, long eternity of life. Birth and death are just small events, just like bubbles in the river, waves which come and go, but the river remains … and the river goes on and on. Unless this becomes your experience one cannot live life joyously because the fear of death contaminated everything. We may not be conscious of it but it is always there like a shadow following us.

Meditation means becoming aware of ‘Who am I?

Am I the body or the mind or am I something more, something different?’

Meditation means becoming aware inside your being, becoming alert, watchful, witnessing.

And then those things are very simple: you can see that you are not

the body, because one day the body was a small child, then it became a young person, then it became old — and you are the same. The body has been going through a thousand and one changes and you are exactly the same, nothing has happened to you.

That’s why if you close your eyes you cannot exactly say how old you are. It is in looking in the mirror that you become aware that you are

becoming old,’ otherwise with closed eyes you cannot feel any age. Nobody can feel it, nobody can see any change inside; consciousness remains unchanging.

‘Hence the changing is not me and cannot be me.’

And the mind is even more changing than the body. Even the body stays the same for a few days, a few months, even a few years, but the mind is verymomentary. One moment there is anger, another moment there is no anger, one moment there is sadness, another moment there is joy — it is continuously changing.

You are a witness of it all, and the watcher cannot be the watched. You are the subject and all these things are the objects.

As this becomes your deep experience a realisation, a great freedom arises in you.

The body is there and it has to be used; it is a beautiful house to live in. The mind is there and it has to be used; it is one of the most beautiful mechanisms given by nature to you — use it to its fullest capacity.

But remember, don’t get identified with any, neither the body nor the mind. Remaining unidentified one becomes aware of eternity, of deathlessness. That is amrit, that is nectar. To taste it, even just a drop of it, is enough and your whole life takes on a totally different perspective, a different vision. Suddenly you are transported. men you live in the same world yet you are no more the same.

That’s what sannyas is: being in the world yet being in such a totally different way. Being in the world as a witness — that defines sannyas precisely.

In your remaining unidentified with everything that goes on, remaining centred in your consciousness, unwaveringly centred, slowly slowly it becomes a crystallised phenomenon.

Then even when death really happens you will be able to see it happening. Y ou will be able to see that the body is dropping; just like a dead leaf dropping from the tree, the body is dropping from you.

The greatest experience of life is to see death clearly, alert, aware. It is the greatest experience, because one who can see it happening is never born in the body again. Then he becomes part of the eternal flow of consciousness, of the universal consciousness, then he becomes part of god.

Unless this experience happens you will have to come back again and again into the body. The body is just like a school: if you fail you have to go back; if youpass then there is no need to go back.

My observation is that everyone can pass in this experience, everyone has the potential, we just never try to actualise it. (So only intelligent and courageous can take this decision) Now this has to be your goal.

— Osho, The Golden Wind, #16 Copyright Osho International Foundation, Pune, India

My suggestions:-

Awareness Meditation is the way worked for me and I tried it first during brushing my teeth in the morning after trying 8-10 meditations over period of 15 years! So there is no need to reinvent the circle for you. May be you too find it suitable otherwise with Dynamic meditation and/or Kundalini in the evening it is suitable for most of the people. There are 110 other meditation techniques discovered by Indian Mystic Gorakhnath about 500years before and further modified by Osho for contemporary people that one can experiment and the suitable one could be practiced in routine life.

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My suggestions:-

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