Sannyasa: An innovation of the Indian Sub-continent

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 God is the representative of the only "non-transactional relationship" there is of man with oneself. 

And since the truth remains the same, that there is no such thing as God, Man finds himself continuously in a market of relationships full of transactions happening now and then. Sometimes latent so that he may not find about it, sometimes in the garb of familial love, sometimes in the garb of friendship, but when this latency fades away and the truth is released, Man shocks himself every time thinking when did all his relations turn into transactions? The truth is there always were only transactional relationships mistaken as unconditional ones. 

Escaping truth is not the route of a dharmic man. A Dharmic man confronts it. For once, when he finds that there is no God, he no longer fools himself into believing that. But, also, at the same time, a true Dharmic is one who understands the myth of worldly relationships to be good and attaching as false. 

Then he turns into a Sannyasi. 

Sannyas is the declaration of the Dharmic man that there is no God and hence no-non-transactional relationships in this world and hence, to attach oneself with God (which isn't there) is the only way to live and no other. 



Here we see, an amalgamation of the atheist and the theist thoughts. To conclude, Religiosity and Atheism should not be seen as distinct truths but rather dialectically intertwined truths. Yes, There is no God, and that is the reason one should turn into a Monk. To say, The post of God is empty, one needs to fill it. 

Or rather, go the other way, Yes, There might be a God, all the more reason to turn into an atheist, Because To be religious in the worldly sense is to expect from God something beneficial. God gave you consciousness and hence freedom, all he wants is freedom in exchange. No expectations is freedom. 

Atheism is declaration of God's freedom. 


The dialectics of religiosity is a unique Indian thought to be found in texts if Nagarjuna and repeated by Osho. 


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