Core Insight:
According to Osho, viraha is a supreme affliction: the soul’s agonizing longing in separation, like a drop aching to become the ocean. One feels God’s nearness yet cannot grasp Him—so near and yet so far—provoking tears not of the eyes but of the being. These tears become alchemical: they lighten, refine, and cleanse the inner eye, ripening the devotee for supreme bliss.