According to Osho, neither "needs" nor a guru's aura predetermine your life; outcomes arise from your own trust, love, and receptivity. His energy is simply available—overflowing yet neutral—but it is your openness that draws and transmits it, even for healing. Do not project responsibility onto the master. The essence is doing without doing: allow, receive, and let action arise from your inner yes.
Energy doesn’t push you; your openness pulls it—so what happens through you depends on your trust and love, not a guru’s aura.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, is psychic exploitation possible in the name of shaktipat? How is it possible, and how can a seeker avoid it?
It is possible; in the name of shaktipat a great deal of spiritual exploitation can happen. In fact, wherever there is a claim, there will be exploitation. Wherever someone says, “I will give you something,” he will also take something—because giving, as such, does not happen without taking. If someone says, “I am giving,” he will also take back from you. The coin can be anything—he may take it as money, as respect, as reverence—in some form he will take. Where there is giving—insistently, claimfully—there will be taking too. And the one who claims to give will take more than he gives. Otherwise, why would he need to shout in the marketplace? In truth, he is “giving” the way a fisherman puts dough on a hook—because fish won’t eat a bare hook. Perhaps some day fish can be persuaded to swallow a naked hook; so far, no fish eats a…
Beloved Osho, gurdjieff calls whatever is happening between master and disciple "objective doing" as far as the master is concerned. He says that only a master can do something.
Gurdjieff remembers later on that that simple statement of his father changed his whole life. He started behaving objectively: emotions, sentimentality disappeared. Because you cannot remain for twenty-four hours angry; these things are momentary. And most often it happens that somebody insults you and you become hot and you become angry and you do something, and later on you repent: it was not worth it, you unnecessarily made a scene. It would have been better if you had remained calm and quiet; it would have shown your integrity, your strength. You proved to be very weak. Gurdjieff divided everything into subjective and objective. For example, all the paintings and music of modern times he calls subjective. His statement is that the modern paintings are like vomiting: you are subjectively filled with a certain idea and you paint it. You are not concerned with the people who will see it and…
Beloved Osho, after leaving rajneeshpuram in november last year, I experienced that it became nearly impossible for me to find out what I was going to do. In the beginning it was a bit frightening, but very soon I saw more and more that just waiting was enough, and many beautiful things started happening to me, without my going for it. Is this how being with you works?
It is not only the way things happen around me. It is the way of the whole existence. You just wait, and everything happens at its right moment. Wait and watch. Don't fall asleep -- because in waiting that is very natural, to fall asleep. Nothing to do, one falls asleep. Then things will be happening but you will not know. So wait and watch. Life has been disturbed by the so-called do-gooders, who are continuously preaching around the world, "Do this, do that, do service to the poor." Doing has been raised so high that we have completely forgotten the art of waiting. And, certainly, there are things which can happen only if you do them. For example, you cannot simply wait and grow rich. There are people who even teach that. One American thinker, Napoleon Hill, has written beautiful books, a master writer. I have always liked one…
Osho, even after the attainment of the Great Nirvana, in what way do the enlightened and the masters, merged in the Whole, help us? Please make it clearer.
It is not right to say “they help.” Help happens. The doer does not remain. It is not right to say the river quenches your thirst; the river simply flows. If you cup your hands and drink, the thirst is quenched. If the river itself quenched thirst, you would not need to drink; the river would make the effort. But the river moves on, inactive. The river goes on being itself; you can stand on the bank for lifetimes and still remain thirsty. Bend down, fill your cupped hands, drink, and the thirst will be gone. The enlightened do not help you either before merging into the Whole or after merging into the Whole. Because only when the sense of “doership” disappears does knowledge arise. As long as the sense of doership is there, one is not enlightened but ignorant. I am not helping you, nor serving you. I cannot…
Osho, but what if it is attained?
If it is attained, that is another matter. If it is attained, that is another matter. If I, by my own resolve, do anything within you, I will harm your resolve. But I am like a catalytic agent: in just my presence you can do something within yourself—in my presence! I do nothing. I sit among you utterly vacant, blank, empty—like a void, as if not there at all. If you could take it that I was not, it would make no difference; only your believing would find it difficult. Because you see a body, you feel that I am. If there were no body, it would be hard for you to accept. I am so empty and so void before you that even if you go a thousand miles away, it makes no difference. For here too, when you were five feet from me, I was just as much…