Freedom and responsibility are two aspects of the same coin. If you are not ready to feel responsible, you will never be free. You will remain in bondage, in the bondage of others. Psychoanalysis makes you feel in bondage; it can’t really help. Prayer makes you free. Prayer means religion. Prayer means: you are responsible, you have chosen a certain way of life. Now there is no need to make much fuss about it. If you don’t like it, drop it! It is up to you, it is ABSOLUTELY up to you. And you can drop it in a single moment of awareness. That’s what SATORI is, SAMADHI is: dropping the whole nonsense in a single moment of understanding. Seeing the point that ”I am carrying it, and if I don’t want, there is no need to carry it; nobody can force it on me – no fate, no society, no church”, it can be dropped. Your inner essence remains free of your personality. Personality is just like clothing: you can drop it, you can be naked any moment. Your essence can be naked any moment. And when the essence is naked, you are healed – because the essence knows no illness. The essence is always in the state of health, in the state of wholeness.
Osho
