According to Osho, returning to the original state is not a journey but an awakening: you have never left your source. Like the Ganges ‘returning’ via rain or a tree becoming seed, this happens continually and unconsciously; only your thoughts dream of separation. Through simple wakefulness—seeing you are already the buddha, here and now—the river is ‘back’ at Gangotri.
You don’t need to go back to your true self—you never left it; just wake up and notice.