That powerful feeling doesn’t come from a magic God; it’s your own inner strength waking up.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
When power arises, does it mean it is the God of our imagination?
God has nothing to do with it. It will arise within you—absolutely it will. And from that, it will seem as if we are receiving power from God. But it is your own power, your own will-force.
प्रश्न: शक्ति आ जाती है इसका माने यह है कि कल्पना के भगवान हुए?
भगवान का कुछ लेना-देना नहीं है उसका। वह तुममें पैदा हो जाएगी, बिलकुल पैदा हो जाएगी। और उसी से ऐसा लगने लगेगा कि भगवान से शक्ति मिल रही है हमको। वह तुम्हारी अपनी शक्ति है, तुम्हारा अपना विल फोर्स है।
Can this happen through will power?
Will is power; energy. There is no such thing as 'will power'. Will is power, will is energy. But by 'will' I mean the whole: Those who use the term 'will power' use it in a psychic sense. They use it to mean the power of concentration. I am not using the term in that sense. To me, 'will' means the whole. So only God is will. We are never will; we are just desires. Will is power, without desire. It is power with no movement or, with an inner movement. It is power without direction: directionless, dimensionless. When we say, "God is power," it does not mean that God is powerful. It means: God-power. God is the energY of the whole, the power of the whole. So when I say 'will power', it does not mean that will has power. Will is power -- it is energy. You can…
The ego will never allow you to love, to rejoice, to relax, to play. It will make you always look serious, holier-than-thou, it will keep you uptight, tense -- and that is the greatest calamity that can happen to anybody. Once you know how to drop the identity with the ego love explodes and in that explosion of love one comes to know 'I am not, god is.'I am only a small wave in the ocean of god so god is my strength. I need not worry, I need not be uptight, I need not hanker for certain goals because I am not separate from the whole so there is no need to have separate goals.' Then one is in tune with the whole. That is the meaning of Gabriele: god is my strength. God is your strength only when the ego has been dropped.
Osho, you speak of trust, love, and joy, but why don’t you explain power? These days an unbearable power is arising in me. What is it, and in this situation what stance should I take?
A friend of mine, an eminent Hindi litterateur, long-time president of the Hindi Sahitya Sammelan and the oldest member of the Indian Parliament—an MP for fifty years—was close to Jugal Kishore Birla. He was interested in my work and said, “If Birla becomes interested, great help is possible.” He arranged a meeting. Birla spoke with me, became interested, and said, “I will give you as much as you need, whenever you need it. Only one thing I must know for sure: what use will it be put to?” I said, “Then let’s end the matter here. This won’t do; such a deal is not possible. If you must ask what I will do with what you give, keep it. That isn’t giving. If you can give unconditionally so that, in front of you, I could squander it on the street and you would not be able to ask, ‘What are…
पहला प्रश्न: ओशो, आप श्रद्धा, प्रेम, आनंद की चर्चा करते हैं, लेकिन आप शक्ति के बारे में क्यों नहीं समझाते? आजकल मुझमें असह्य शक्ति का आविर्भाव हो रहा है। यह क्या है और इस स्थिति में मुझे क्या रुख लेना चाहिए?
… बिड़ला मुझसे बातचीत किए। उत्सुक हुए। कहने लगे, जितना आपको चाहिए मैं दूंगा। और जिस समय चाहिए, तब दूंगा। सिर्फ एक बात मुझे पक्की हो जानी चाहिए कि जो मैं दूंगा, उसका उपयोग क्या होगा? मैंने कहा, बात ही खतम करो। यह अपने से न बनेगा, यह सौदा नहीं हो सकता। अगर यही पूछना है कि आप जो देंगे उसका मैं क्या करूंगा, अपने पास रखो। …