The Journey from Despair

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"Baby, the honeymoon has not even started!
"First, the honeymoonand then I will discuss your question.
"I have heard a story. A young man got married. He was known in the university as 'a mama's..."
The Journey from Despair
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"Baby, the honeymoon has not even started!
"First, the honeymoonand then I will discuss your question.
"I have heard a story. A young man got married. He was known in the university as 'a mama's..."

Osho continues:
"My mother has said, 'Don't miss a single moment of it, the honeymoon happens only once in a lifetime.' You can go to sleep, I will enjoy my honeymoon.' The full moon was in the sky, and he enjoyed the honeymoon!

"Our honeymoon was of the same type. Now what you are feeling is your reality.

"The day you took sannyas, two-and-a-half years ago, it was just excitement; something new was going to happen. Your heart was throbbing with a hallucinatory idea of sannyas.

"You had seen sannyasins dancing, enjoying, blissful, laughing, and you were also becoming part of their laughter, their joy; so you imagined. It was all illusory, it was not a honeymoon.

"After two-and-a-half years of hallucinating, waiting, naturally you have come to your reality. All hopes have disappeared. What was so positive has become negative. What was so beautiful is now just a negativity, a despair.

"You think the honeymoon is over? The true honeymoon is never over; it only begins and never ends. That which ends is simply hallucination. But still there is time.

"The blissfulness is not going to descend upon you from somewhere: you have to go through a transformation. Just taking sannyas does not mean that you are a new being. It simply means a commitment to yourself, a decision that, 'I am going to transform myself.' Your red robes, your mala, will remind you continuously of the commitment that you have made to existence, the declaration of transformation, the decision.

"Rather than transforming yourself, you started hallucinating, which is very easy for women to do. Now get back to the ground and the reality.

"You are a negative person, just as everybody is before transformation. You are full of despair, just as everybody else is full of despair before the inner revolution that takes you from darkness to light and from death to eternal life, which frees you from all bondage and gives you wings and the whole sky. But you have not done anything; you have simply waited, expecting that it is going to happen. You have to prepare the ground, the house, for the guest who is coming.

"In a negative mind it is impossible."
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Publisher Osho International
Duration of Talk 93 mins
File Size 26.47 MB
Type Individual Talks