Is it important for seekers that the process a siddha passes through before enlightenment be documented?

Will the processes and experiences through which a person has passed be of any use to others if they are written down?

It may be useful for the seeker, but it is very difficult for the enlightened one to write it. The difficulties of the siddha, the enlightened one, are different from those of the sadhak, the seeker. The difficulty is that for the enlightened one there are no spirits in this room, but for you there are. The siddha knows that the spirits do not exist, but at one time he too had a spirit which he exorcised with the help of a technique. Now he knows that both the spirit and the technique were false. Knowing this, how can he say that he had driven away the spirit with the help of the technique? Do you follow me? This is a problem for the master. He knows that the spirit was false and that the technique was just a help in the darkness. The spirit was false and so also…

Osho, is it important for seekers that the process a siddha passes through before enlightenment be written down, or not?

Exactly so in life: if someone calls the wrong “wrong,” we listen; but that does not make it wrong. But if someone calls the right “wrong,” we accept it at once, because we are spared the trouble. Because with the right, something has to be done. Anger happens by itself; meditation has to be done. Someone may say, “Anger is wrong”—it makes no difference; anger will continue. But meditation has to be done; if someone says, “It is wrong,” it gets dropped. You said meditation is a state, not a technique? That is the difficulty. This is exactly what I am saying: this is the siddha’s difficulty. If he tells you the whole thing exactly as it is for him, you will go astray forever. Because it is not your situation. When I say, “Meditation is a state,” it is absolutely true: meditation is a state. But for you it…

Beloved Osho, I have heard you say that seeking the truth is as ecstatic as finding it. Does that not eliminate the search?

"And anyway we cannot deceive you. All that we know, we have given to you. We don't know whether it leads to truth or not, because how can we know? -- we are also in the middle of the way. Whether it leads to somewhere or not can be known only when we have reached to the end. And I know almost all the masters around. It is better you start moving alone -- on your own." Perhaps Buddha is the first person who reached to the goal without a master. But one cannot say that those masters did not help him. They did not help him to the end -- they may have helped him only in small ways -- but they certainly helped him to eliminate many things. They certainly made it clear to him that it is better to go alone, to take the risk. Perhaps that…

Question: CHITTAM MANTRAH PRAYATNAHA SADHAKASH GURUH UPAYAH SHARIRAM HAVIH GYANAMANNAM VIDYASANGHARA TADUTTHASWAPNADARSHANAM. THE MIND IS THE MANTRA, EFFORT IS THE SEEKER. THE GURU IS THE MEANS. THE BODY IS THE OFFERING. KNOWLEDGE IS FOOD. WHEN KNOWLEDGE IS DESTROYED, THE DREAM IS SEEN. THE MIND IS THE MANTRA. He returned in three months, beaming and happy. Then I had to give him a new technique. At such a point I have to judge what is suitable and how much a particular person can take. Gradually the duration is increased according to the seeker's progress. I have to be aware of every aspect of the seeker's state of mind. I have to watch the whole picture. Therefore Shiva says: THE GURU IS THE WAY. Do not be a way unto yourself or you will spoil everything.

In yesterday's talk you said that the seeker should first worry about his own receptivity and should not go begging from door to door. But the very meaning of a sadhak is that there are obstacles on his path of spiritual growth. He does not know how to be receptive. Is it so difficult to meet the right guide?

So the Brahman is the ultimate obstacle -- the last barrier in the ultimate quest of the seeker. Now only the being remains, but nonbeing has yet to be realized. The being, the is-ness, is known, but the nonbeing has yet to be realized -- that which is not still remains to be known. Therefore, the seventh plane is the nirvana kaya, nirvanic body, and its chakra is the sahasrar. Nothing can be said in connection with this chakra. We can only continue talking at the most up to the sixth -- and that too with great difficulty. Most of it will turn out to be wrong. Until the fifth body the search progresses within a very scientific method; everything can be explained. On the sixth plane the horizon begins to fade; everything seems meaningless. Hints can still be given but ultimately the pointing finger breaks and the hints too…