Is psychic exploitation possible in the name of shaktipat, and how can a seeker avoid it?

Osho, is psychic exploitation possible in the name of shaktipat? How is it possible, and how can a seeker avoid it?

It is possible; in the name of shaktipat a great deal of spiritual exploitation can happen. In fact, wherever there is a claim, there will be exploitation. Wherever someone says, “I will give you something,” he will also take something—because giving, as such, does not happen without taking. If someone says, “I am giving,” he will also take back from you. The coin can be anything—he may take it as money, as respect, as reverence—in some form he will take. Where there is giving—insistently, claimfully—there will be taking too. And the one who claims to give will take more than he gives. Otherwise, why would he need to shout in the marketplace? In truth, he is “giving” the way a fisherman puts dough on a hook—because fish won’t eat a bare hook. Perhaps some day fish can be persuaded to swallow a naked hook; so far, no fish eats a…

Is psychic exploitation possible in the name of shaktipat? How is it possible and how is the meditator to guard against it?

Then these ten slowly spread word of the "miracle," and the crowd around increases. This is why every such shop has salesmen and advertisers. Those who say their son got a job are not telling an untruth; nor have they been bought over by the shopkeeper. Such a man had also come seeking, and it happened that his son got a job. Those whose sons did not get a job left long ago to seek other gurus who would fulfill their desires. Those whose desires are fulfilled begin to frequent the shop often; they come on each festival every year. The crowd increases day by day, and a group forms around such a so-called guru. Then what they tell becomes his indisputable testimony. If so many people's wishes were fulfilled, why not yours? Now this is the worm; the hook which traps the man is within. Never ask or else…

Osho, you’ve said that shaktipat happens only through an egoless medium; and that whoever says, “I will bestow shaktipat upon you,” know that he cannot. But I am acquainted with many who bestow shaktipat. Through their shaktipat, people undergo kundalini processes exactly as described in the scriptures. Are they not authentic? Are they false, pseudo processes? Why, and how?

One room is always held back. It tells you whether it has happened or not. If your experience is exactly by the book, know it hasn’t happened—it’s a false coin—because in the scripture one room has always been reserved. That reservation is essential. So if everything is happening to you exactly as written, understand that the book is being projected. But the day something happens not exactly as written—here it matches, there it doesn’t—know that you are on a real track where things are becoming clear to you; where you are not simply threading scripture into imagination. When kundalini truly awakens, you will be able to see where and how the scripture used stratagems. But you cannot know this beforehand. Every scripture had necessarily to omit certain things; otherwise it would be impossible to determine what is what. I had a teacher, a university professor. Whenever I named a book,…

You have said that shaktipat, transmission of vital energy, takes place through the medium of an egoless person and that he who says, "I can do shaktipat," is for sure a phony and shaktipat will not happen through him. But I know many such people who practice shaktipat, and the kundalini energy starts moving and growing as written in the scriptures. Are these false processes? If so, how and why?

This is also an important point to understand. In fact there is nothing in this world which has no false counterpart to it. False coins exist in every dimension of life. And it is always the case that the counterfeit coin is brighter in appearance than the genuine one. It has to be, because it is the brightness that will make it attractive; it is useless in its reality. A true coin works even if it is not bright. A false coin makes loud claims because it has to compensate, and because of its worthlessness it is easily available. All spiritual achievements have their false counterparts and there is no experience without a counterfeit counterpart. If there is a real kundalini there is a false kundalini too. If there are genuine chakras, there are false chakras also. If there are true methods of yoga there are false methods as well.…