Is there really an absolutely no place of renunciation
in your religion? The question arises because since I came in your contact many things in my
life has dropped away I cannot even relate to my old self.
There is really
and absolutely
no place
for renunciation in my religion.
I can understand
the question and the difficulty of the questioner.
He has not been able to
make a distinction between dropping things
and things dropping by themselves.
Renunciation is
enforced dropping of things
and whenever you do
anything with force
nothing really drops away.
It simply goes deeper into your unconscious.
It becomes more of a problem than it was before.
Now it will try to come up
in different ways, garbs, masks,
and you may not be able even to recognize it,
but it is going to assert and with force.
You have given that force by enforcing it
deep down into the unconscious.
When you force something you are giving force to it.
You are making it stronger
and you are making the enemy
hide within you in the darkness,
from where you become more vulnerable.
If it was in the conscious,
it was in the light, you were less vulnerable.
Renunciation is repression.
To use the right psychological word for it is repression.
How can you renounce sex,
except repressing it.
And repressed sex becomes perverted.
And it is easy
to understand sex,
become more aware of it,
and let it drop by itself,
than to understand when it is perverted;
because now it comes in an unnatural form.
First it is difficult to recognize it that it is sex.
A person too much greedy for money,
can you think
this greed for money
can have anything to do with suppressed sex?
It is so far-fetched
it needs a Sigmund Freud to see it.
An ordinary person will not be able to connect them at all.
How money and sex seems
to be so far away.
They are not so far away.
If you repress sex,
it comes as ambition.
It can become your politics.
The politician can completely forget about sex,
because all his sexuality
his sex energy is now
converted into his political ambition.
He will have the same kind of enjoyment
by reaching higher and higher in the hierarchy.
The higher he reaches,
the more he will feel a kind of sexual pleasure,
which you cannot understand.
Only one thing
I want my sannyasins to learn
and that is awareness.
And it will take care of all your problems.
Without it whatsoever you do, you will create more and more problems
and they will be farther and farther away from your nature
and it will be very difficult to solve them because they are phony.
Even if you succeed to solve them,
you have not solved anything.
Your perversion will start moving into
another direction, it will take another shape.
It may not come from the same door
it will find another door, your house has many doors,
of which many are not even known to you.
But with the light, with the flame of awareness inside you
you know your house for the first time.
With all its doors and with all its windows
and when the house is lighted.
Then I don't say do this, do not do that.
There is no need.
You will do only whatsoever is right.
People ask me continuously what is right and what is wrong?
My answer is, that
which comes out of awareness is right.
And that which comes out of unawareness is wrong.
Actions are not right and wrong,
it is the source from where they come.