Come, Come, Yet Again ComeResponses to Disciples QuestionsTalks given from 27/10/80 am to 10/11/80 amEnglish Discourse series15 ChaptersYear published: 1980Come, Come, Yet Again ComeChapter #1Chapter title: Whoever Knocks is a Welcome Guest27 October 1980 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 8010270ShortTitle: COME01Audio: YesVideo: NoLength: 0 minsThe first question:Question 1BELOVED OSHO,I AM A SINNER. CAN I ALSO BECOME YOUR SANNYASIN?Govind, yes, absolutely yes! In fact, only a sinner can become a sannyasin. Those who think themselves saints, holier-than-thou, they are the closed people, they are the dead people. They have become incapable of living, incapable of celebrating.Sannyas is celebration of life, and sin is natural: natural in the sense that you are unconscious - what else can you do? In unconsciousness, sin is bound to happen. Sin simply means that you dont know what you are doing, you are unaware, so whatsoever you do goes wrong. But to recognize that I am a sinner is the beginning of a great pilgrimage. To recognize that I am a sinner is the beginning of real virtue. To see that I am ignorant is the first glimpse of wisdom.The real problem arises with people who are full of knowledge. All that knowledge is borrowed; hence, rubbish. The people who think they are virtuous because they have created a certain character around themselves are the people lost to God. Your so-called saints are the farthest away, because God is life, and your saints have renounced life. In renouncing life they have renounced God too.God is the hidden core of THIS life. This life is just the outermost part, the circumference; God is the center of it all. To renounce the circumference, to escape from it, is to renounce the center automatically. You will not find God anywhere. The farther away you go from life, the farther away you will be from God. One has to dive into life, and of course when you are unconscious you will miss the target many times.The original Hebrew word for sin is very beautiful. By translating it as sin, Christians have missed the very message of Jesus. The original Hebrew word for sin is so totally different from your idea of sin that it will be a surprise to you. The root word means forgetfulness; it has nothing to do with what you are doing. The whole thing is whether you are doing it with conscious being or out of unconsciousness. Are you doing it with a self-remembering or have you completely forgotten yourself?Any action coming out of unconsciousness is sin. The action may look virtuous, but it cannot be. You may create a beautiful facade, a character, a certain virtuousness; you may speak the truth, you may avoid lies; you may try to be moral, and so on and so forth. But if all this is coming from unconsciousness, it is all sin.It is because of this that Jesus has a tremendously significant saying. He says, If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away. It is much better for you to lose a part of your body than to have your whole body thrown into hell.Now, if you dont understand the real meaning of sin, you are bound to misinterpret the whole statement and Jesus will look too harsh, too hard, too violent. Saying, If your right eye causes you to sin, take it out and throw it away, does not look like a statement of Jesus. A man of profound love and compassion - he cannot say it, he cannot be so violent. But this is how Christians have interpreted him.What he means is: whatsoever causes you to forget yourself, even if it is your right eye. That is just to emphasize the fact. It is simply a way of talking, an emphasis: If your right eye causes you to forget yourself, then take it out and throw it away. He is not saying anything which has to be taken literally; it is a metaphor. He is saying that it is better to be blind than to be forgetful of yourself, because the blind man who remembers himself is not blind, he has the real eye. And the man who has eyes, if he has forgotten himself, what is the use of having eyes? He cannot see himself - what ELSE can he see?Govind, your question is beautiful. You say, I am a sinner. Everybody is! To be born in this world means to be a sinner. But remember my emphasis: it means to forget oneself.Thats the whole purpose of the world: to give you an opportunity to forget yourself. Why? - so that you can remember. But you will ask - and your question will look logical - If we already remembered before, then why this unnecessary torture that we have to forget ourselves and THEN remember again? What is the point of this whole exercise? It seems to be an exercise of utter futility! It is not; there is great significance in it.The fish in the ocean is born in the ocean, lives in the ocean, but knows nothing about the ocean - unless you take the fish out of the ocean. Then, suddenly, a recognition arises in the fish. Only when you lose so