Why Osho’s Sannyasins Didn’t Wake Up

“They wanted to have an after-enlightenment. But there is no after-enlightenment for you.”

– Vishrant

Why didn’t Osho’s sannyasins (disciples) wake up?

The question hangs heavy, and Vishrant doesn’t dodge it.

In this intimate Satsang, he speaks to the core issue with radical clarity:

Most seekers aren’t actually willing to die.

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Why Didn’t Osho’s Sannyasins Wake Up?

Thousands followed a master.

Thousands meditated, practiced, danced, and surrendered, or so it seemed.

But very few woke up.

Vishrant doesn’t offer philosophy.

He offers laser-like insights: Osho’s sannyasins simply weren’t willing to die.

To wake up fully means the end of you.

No identity left. No enlightened version of the ego.

No personal future. No story to continue.

“Enlightenment is the end of you. It’s termination. Annihilation.”

Most sannyasins wanted an after.

An enlightened life. A wiser self.

A beautiful continuation, but living as truth doesn’t offer continuity.

It offers the death of the “I”, the psychological self that believes it’s someone.

The one who’s been somewhere and is going somewhere.

The seeker. The controller. The narrator of your life.

That one doesn’t survive enlightenment.

Surrender Isn’t Optional

Vishrant shares his path:

Early on, he chased higher consciousness for business success.

It was clever. Strategic. And all about ego.

But when he met Osho and took sannyas, something shifted.

He realised: true awakening isn’t a climb, it’s a collapse.

The path isn’t about success in the usual sense.

It’s not about becoming bigger and better.

It’s about giving up everything.

Your mind. Your beliefs. Your imagined future.

Your self.

“You can begin partial. But if you really want to wake up, you have to give your whole life to truth.”

Nothing less will do.

Seeing Through the Lie

What stops people?

It’s simple. Fear of losing control.

Fear of vanishing.

The lie that you can awaken without disappearing.

But the I seeking enlightenment doesn’t survive it.

And somewhere, the seeker recognizes this.

And pulls back.

Still plays the game of seeking. Still gathers knowledge.

But won’t walk through the fire.

“They were happy to get high on Osho’s energy… but they weren’t willing to give their life to truth.”

The Heart Before Truth

Before he surrendered to Truth, Vishrant surrendered to heart.

That was the entry point.

The path of love opened him.

A softening. A service. A falling in love with all of life.

And as the openness grew, the “I” got smaller.

Vishrant served the animals. The plants. The people.

Because separation wasn’t seen anymore.

And from that love, truth was irresistible.

All Belief Systems Are Prisons

As the journey deepened, Vishrant began stripping away every belief system in the way of higher consciousness.

Belief systems around religion, society, culture, and identity.

“You start to examine belief systems you’ve been brainwashed with… and you get to see that all of them are prisons.”

What remained wasn’t meaning or a grand purpose.

It was presence.

And a way of living that is extraordinarily beautiful.

Not because it has a point.

But because it is motivated by love.

Totality or Nothing

There’s only one way through:

Totality.

You can’t do this halfway.

You can’t keep a piece of yourself and cross over.

Enlightenment isn’t about becoming something.

It’s about awareness becoming aware of itself and staying aware of itself.

Silent. Free. Boundless.

And in that there is no more fear. Because the “I” that feared is gone.

An Invitation to Die Before You Die

This path is not for everyone.

It’s not safe. Not cosy. Not about self-improvement.

It’s death.

If there’s something in you ready to die for truth.

To let go of all that is false and fall into what is real…

The door is open.

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