According to Osho, no one has a separate light; the same luminous essence shines in all. Enlightenment is not 'my' light meeting 'your' light but the disappearance of the separate self, a non-dual nothingness radiant with awareness. Even 'oneness' is conceptual; the real is beyond one-and-two, a luminous nothingness.
No one owns a private light; deep down it's the same light in everyone, and when you truly wake up, the sense of being separate dissolves into clear, bright nothing.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Question: The first question: "DOES EVERYONE HAVE THEIR OWN SEPARATE LIGHT?" No, Maneesha. Everyone has light but it is not separate. We are all one continent. Nobody is an island. We are all together in our innermost being. Maneesha is asking, "I can see that in the physical world it is light that shows us the distinctions between two people, and that in darkness, definitions and distinctions are seemingly obliterated. But it seems to me it must be just the opposite in the metaphysical world -- that in the darkness or ignorance we have the illusion of separateness, while enlightenment brings the awareness that one is not separate from everyone and everything around one. What is your comment?" My comment, Maneesha, is that what you are saying is intellectually right -- "theoretically speaking" that nobody is separate. Enlightenment brings one and everything into oneness -- but this is all intellectual.
Question: BELOVED OSHO THERE IS NO SECOND PERSON MASTER CHANG CHING SAID, "THE ULTIMATE TRUTH IS WORDLESS. PEOPLE OF THE TIME DO NOT REALIZE THIS: THEY IMPOSE THE PRACTICE OF OTHER THINGS, CONSIDERING THEM ACCOMPLISHMENTS. THEY DO NOT KNOW THAT INHERENT NATURE HAS NEVER BEEN SENSE OBJECTS, THAT IT IS THE GATE OF SUBTLE WONDROUS GREAT LIBERATION, AWARE OF ALL THERE IS WITHOUT BEING STAINED OR OBSTRUCTED. THIS LIGHT HAS NEVER STOPPED: FROM AGES PAST UP TO THE PRESENT IT'S BEEN STEADY, NEVER CHANGING. THE SUBTLE ILLUMINATION OF THE SPIRITUAL LIGHT DOES NOT DEPEND ON BEING CULTIVATED AND REFINED. SINCE THEY DON'T UNDERSTAND, PEOPLE GRASP THE FORMS OF THINGS -- IT'S JUST LIKE RUBBING THE EYES, FALSELY MAKING OPTICAL ILLUSIONS ARISE. I am also a dewdrop in the same ocean in which you are a dewdrop. The moment the dewdrop falls in the ocean, all separation disappears.
Osho, just a small question. If truth is non-dual, then what is the point of calling apara and para different? And are apara and para interchangeable?
In the Vigyan Bhairava, Shiva tells Parvati: “Ask no more. The more will hinder. Let me tell you in little. In this Om—A-U-M—forget A, forget M; what remains in the middle—U—dive into that. Then I will be attained.” This is technique. If you can dive into U… If you utter U with force, you will feel the navel contract within. The more forcefully you intone U, the more pressure on the navel. And the navel is the root source of life-energy. One who can tap it rightly—Om is the hammer, the device to strike there. If one strikes rightly, the life-energy begins to rise; kundalini awakens; the journey upward begins. I have heard: In a small town a huge factory installed a new machine. For a month it ran well; then suddenly it stopped. No fault was found. The factory engineers tried and failed. A specialist was called from the…
Osho, we have fled from suffering and are standing in darkness. And you are the representative of that supreme light which burns without wick or oil. Is a union between the two possible?
Union is not possible. That is the dilemma. Darkness and light never meet. They cannot, because light is, and darkness is not. So how can that which is meet that which is not? Darkness is only lack, absence, the non-presence of light. Darkness is nothing in itself. Therefore, if you want to do something directly with darkness, you will not be able to. A room is filled with darkness and you want to remove it—what will you do? Give it a push? Tie it up in bundles? Scoop it out and throw it away? What will you do? No, you can do nothing directly. If anything is to be done, you will have to light a lamp. Whatever is to be done must be done with light. With darkness you can do nothing. And if there is light and you want to bring darkness, what will you do? Can you…
Question: HOME: NOTHING-NEST (Osho is talking to Shunyo Anne.) Shunyo means emptiness, nothingness, nobodyness, a state of utter silence where not even the idea of I exists; one is but with no idea of I. It is the state of egolessness, a perfect zero. That's what meditation is: creating a state of zero inside -- and out of that zero miracles happen. Anne means three things: prayer, grace, mercy -- and these are the most important miracles that can happen out of that zero-ness. The first will be prayer -- not of words but a prayer of silent gratitude, a gratitude that says nothing. Even to say something will be profane, will not be adequate enough. One has to be absolutely silent, but there is gratefulness, overflowing gratefulness, because for the first time one comes to experience the splendour of life.