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Does shaktipat lead to spontaneous realization, or is effort still required for practices like intense breathing and self-inquiry?

Synthesized from Source outcome

"Realization makes all practices irrelevant once it begins to happen naturally, but until that dawn, immerse yourself fully in effort and inquiry."

Core Insight:
According to Osho, realization makes all questions and practices irrelevant only once it begins happening naturally—then walking, sitting, speaking, even fighting are meditation. Until that dawn, don’t stop: continue intense breathing, self‑inquiry, and total effort, despite the mind’s urge to ‘drop it.’ Shaktipat may catalyze the natural happening, but before it flowers, stake everything in practice; afterward, doing or not-doing no longer matters.
Keep practicing with all your heart until realization happens by itself; then everything you do is meditation and effort naturally drops.
Why this matters practically
- Helps you persist through doubt and the mind’s excuses to quit.
- Clarifies that techniques are dropped only after effortless awareness is stable.
- Turns ordinary actions into meditation once realization dawns.
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