Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh baptised me

The Master chooses the disciple, not vice versa

I was 'with' Him with danish sannyasins in Copenhagen, Denmark, for years without taking sannyas (becoming a devoted disciple). My friends kept asking me: 'When you go to Poona and take sannyas?'. I told them: 'When He comes!'. I had several times heard Him saying: "It is NOT the disciple who comes to the Master, but vice versa: The Master comes to the disciple, when the disciple is ready."

One day in a meditation He came to me. I saw His eyes slowly lowering inside of me and saying to me: 'NOW is the time'. I knew immediately. One week later I flew from Denmark to India and 'took sannyas' in Poona 19. may 1980, 10 days before my 28th birthday.

He baptised me

19th of may 1980 I 'took sannyas' or I 'became a disciple of' Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh at the Chuang Tzu Auditorium of His ashram in Pune (Poona), India and stayed seven weeks in the Ashram.

He said to me (I was completely gone in tears and remembered nothing!)

(To Michael) - This is your name: Swami Dhyan Samarpano.

Dhyan means meditation. Samarpano means surrender.
Meditation is a way of surrendering your ego.
Meditation is surrender, The very essence of surrender.
Ordinarily we are clinging to our ego:
In every possible way we try to prove it.
Meditation means we drop the whole trip
We drop the whole number.
We are no more interested in proving the ego
Because we can see the falsity of it
And the whole absurdity.
Seeing it, one allows it to drop, seeing
The futility and the misery that it brings
One surrenders it and immediately
A transformation takes place.
Whenever you are emptied of the ego
Something from the beyond rushes in,
Immediately fills your inner vacuum.
That rush of energy from the beyond is god.
Meditation makes the way
For the rush of the beyond.
But we are so full of ourselves
That we go on missing.
We have to empty ourselves totally
And it has to be a total effort
Not half-hearted, not lukewarm
Because even if a part of the ego remains in
That is enough to keep the beyond away from you.
The ego has to be dropped in toto
The emptiness has to be utterly utterly empty
And then there is no barrier;
Then the guest comes in
The emptiness becomes the host for god
And there is no other way to know god.
Knowledgeable people never know god
In fact, they cannot know god.
Sinners can know, but not knowledgeable people.
Hence I love the biblical story
That the original sin was Eating the fruit from the Tree of Knowledge.
It is really of great insight
But Christians have completely missed it,
It had fallen into wrong hands.
If it had been in the hands of Zen masters
They would have made
Something beautiful out of it.
That is the original sin because
Knowledge fills oneself, feeds the ego.
One has to be innocent, one has to function
From the state of not-knowing,
One has to feel that 'I know nothing'
Then only one can feel the wonder and the awe.
And to stand in awe and wonder
Is to face god, is to encounter God
Is to be ready for God!
No Man is an Island

After my 'special experience' an early morning in Denmark on His 49th birthday 11. December 1980 I was no longer a disciple. Ref.: My second satori and God's reception of me - website not active !