According to Osho, God cannot be proven or disproven; God is not an object but lived subjectivity—the fragrance of love, truth, beauty, bliss. Demands for proof are a mind-trick delaying meditation and prayer. Forget proving God; clarify your inner being through meditation. Transformation births godliness within; then life itself reveals the divine—only God is seen. Practice matters; proof does not.
You can’t be convinced about God like a math fact; try meditation and open-hearted living, and the divine becomes a felt experience inside you and in life.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
The Dhammapada The Way Of The Buddha Vol 7 · Discourse 8
1979-12-18 · Buddha Hall · English
Question: BELOVED MASTER, CAN YOU CONVINCE ME ABOUT THE EXISTENCE OF GOD? Sargam, why are you worried about God? What wrong has he done to you? Why can't you forgive him and forget him? Why remain so concerned about God? Be concerned more with life, with existence, and you will know God! In its right moment, life itself becomes luminous, existence itself becomes divine. It all depends on your inner clarity. If you can see clearly, ONLY God is. No proof is needed. If you can't see clearly, then no proof is going to be of any help. There have been philosophers arguing for and against God for centuries, at least for five thousand years, with no conclusion in sight. They have not been able to come to any conclusion. Five thousand years of constant speculation, thinking, argument, logic, and what is the result? What is the outcome?Read the full discourse →
Sapna Yeh Sansar · Discourse 4
1979-07-14 · Pune · Hindi · English translation
Osho, can the existence of God be proved?
You rose from that side, we rose from this world on this side— Come, we too sit ready to go along with you. Who has the leisure to fulfill love’s duty of service? Neither you sit idle, nor do we sit idle. If we rise, we rise in the fever of seeking the Friend; If we sit, we sit absorbed in the longing for the Beloved. Such is the station of succor that your travelers on the path of love, After a thousand quests, have lost heart. Ask not who we are, what our claim is—nothing, dear sir! We are beggars, sitting under the shadow of a wall. It cannot be that the tavern is empty of “Azad”— Look there! Who sits? The very sovereign sits. Courage has been lost. We have become helpless. The feet will not lift to go within. Ask not who we are, what our claim…Read the full discourse →
Mare He Jogi Maro · Discourse 4
1979-11-14 · Pune · Hindi · English translation
Osho, what is the proof of God’s existence?
And you still ask for proof? There have been people who offered proofs, and all their proofs are futile. No proof works. All the proofs for God so far are not worth a penny. Someone says: everything that is made must have a maker; such a vast world—surely it must have a maker. But that proof commits suicide; the moment it meets an atheist, it goes lame. The atheist says: If every made thing must have a maker, if God is needed to make the world, then who made God? With that he tightens the noose around your neck. Who made God? You protest: No, no one made God. Then the atheist says: If God can be without being made, why can’t the world be without being made? The argument collapses; it falls flat. You say: just as the potter makes the pot, so that Great Potter made this world.…Read the full discourse →
Death Is Divine · Discourse 4
1978-10-04 · Buddha Hall · English
What proof is there of the existence of god?
There is no proof. Or everything that exists is a proof. From the standpoint of logic there is no proof, because god is beyond logic. No one can prove or disprove him through argument. And take note, what can be proven by logic can also be disproven. God is not proven or disproven. God simply is. Perhaps it is not correct even to say god is. To say 'god is' seems like a tautology. 'Is' means only god. Whatever is is god. So when we say a tree is, it is correct, because one day the tree will no longer be. One day it was not, and one day it will not be. It's being was only in between. Hence a tree is, a man is, a house is. But to say god is is not correct, because god never was 'not' and will never be 'not'. Hence the meaning…Read the full discourse →
God S Got A Thing About You · Discourse 22
1978-09-22 · Chuang Tzu Auditorium · English
Yes, there have been proofs of God -- they are not logical, syllogistic arguments but men -- a Buddha, a Christ, a Ramakrishna, a Raman. These are the proofs. Even they cannot prove logically. Existence is too big for logic to comprehend it. Logic is the function of the small mind inside you. It is not your totality, just a part, and the part cannot prove the whole. Only the whole can prove the whole. You can become the proof of God. Each man has to become a proof of God... by his living, by his being, by his silence, by his love, by his peace, the way he is, the vibe that he creates, the presence that he brings to the world. No person can be a proof of God, but the presence of a certain person can be a proof. God can be proved only through existential valuation.Read the full discourse →