Core Insight:
According to Osho, the story contrasts Patanjali’s path of effort, method, and miraculous attainment with Lao Tzu’s effortless Tao: there is nowhere to go—the 'other shore' is this very shore. Enlightenment isn’t reached by crossing, seeking, or doing, but by resting in being, here-now. Chasing paths and powers becomes movement away from what already is; dropping effort reveals completeness that was never absent.