Does shaktipat lead to spontaneous realization, or is effort still required for practices like intense breathing and self-inquiry?
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outcome
"Realization makes all practices irrelevant once it begins to happen naturally, but until that dawn, immerse yourself fully in effort and inquiry."
According to Osho, realization makes all questions and practices irrelevant only once it begins happening naturally—then walking, sitting, speaking, even fighting are meditation. Until that dawn, don’t stop: continue intense breathing, self‑inquiry, and total effort, despite the mind’s urge to ‘drop it.’ Shaktipat may catalyze the natural happening, but before it flowers, stake everything in practice; afterward, doing or not-doing no longer matters.
Keep practicing with all your heart until realization happens by itself; then everything you do is meditation and effort naturally drops.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you persist through doubt and the mind’s excuses to quit.
- Clarifies that techniques are dropped only after effortless awareness is stable.
- Turns ordinary actions into meditation once realization dawns.
- Clarifies that techniques are dropped only after effortless awareness is stable.
- Turns ordinary actions into meditation once realization dawns.
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