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Dance till the Stars
Come Down
from the Rafters
Darshan Diary
by Osho
individual talks with seekers   Jan. 1980
Pune, India
this volume has yet to be
published in book form.

    (To Susan)

    This is your new name: Ma Nartano. Nartano means
    dance and dance is the essential core of sannyas.

    I don't believe in renunciation, I believe in rejoicing. Life
    should be a song, a dance, not sadness. The so-called
    saints have been too heavy, sad, sombre, and they
    have created an atmosphere of sadness all over the
    world. Churches have become cemeteries, they are no
    more celebrations. Even if celebrations are arranged,
    they are done in such a way that they lose the very
    quality of celebration. They become formal. They are no
    more fun, they are serious. Holiness has become too
    identified with seriousness.

    My work is to destroy that identification totally. Holiness
    should be wholeness, and wholeness is always a
    dancing state, a state where the dancer disappears into
    the dance.... Dance your way to God.

    Dance till the stars come down from the rafters.

    Dance creates the fire in which all that is useless is
    burned, only the essential remains. Dance creates the
    fire in which gold becomes purer and purer and purer,
    and ultimately only purity is left...

                                                                  – Osho
                           Dance till the Stars Come Down
                          from the Rafters, ch. 1