Why is the ego's effort encouraged if truth is attained by the Master's grace?
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"Effort and grace are two wings: your total effort prepares and empties you, while grace fulfills the journey of surrender."
According to Osho, although realization comes only by the Master’s grace, your total effort is indispensable because it ripens you, brings you to the Master, and exhausts the ego’s claim to do. When you have staked everything and find you cannot cross, authentic surrender arises; then grace descends. Effort and grace are two wings: effort prepares and empties you; grace fulfills.
Try your very best until you see you can’t do it alone—then real help can reach you.
Why this matters practically
- Balances discipline with humility—avoids egoic striving and passive fatalism.
- Turns effort into readiness: you become fit to meet the Master and receive guidance.
- Fosters genuine surrender when your limits are seen, inviting transformative grace.
- Turns effort into readiness: you become fit to meet the Master and receive guidance.
- Fosters genuine surrender when your limits are seen, inviting transformative grace.
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