When you drop every label and choice and become like a zero, nothing limits you—so, like Krishna, you can include everything.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, what are the reasons for calling Krishna a complete incarnation (purnavatara)? Please give some new reasons. And shed detailed light with reference to the sixty-four arts.
No, there is no other reason to call one “complete.” Whoever becomes zero becomes complete. Emptiness is the prelude to the complete. To be precise, the zero alone is the only complete. You cannot draw half a zero—not even in geometry. If you say, “I have drawn half a zero,” it is no longer a zero. There is no such thing as half a zero. The zero is always whole, entire. The incomplete has no meaning. How will you split zero into two parts? And if it can be split, how will you still call it zero? Zero is not cut, not divided; it is indivisible. From where division begins, number begins. That is why after zero we must start with one. One, two, three—this is the world of number. All numbers arise from zero and are lost back into zero. Zero alone is the complete. Who can be zero?…
Questioner: what are the reasons for calling krishna a complete incarnation of god? Kindly shed more light on this matter. Please explain in detail what is meant by saying that krishna possessed all the sixty-four arts that comprise a complete incarnation.
The Upanishads' definition of wholeness is, therefore, tight. It says, "From wholeness emerges wholeness, and if you take away wholeness from wholeness, wholeness still remains." If we take away thousands of Krishnas from Krishna, this man will still remain; more and more Krishnas can still be taken from him. There is no difficulty. Krishna will have no trouble whatsoever, because he can be anything. Mahavira cannot be born today. It will be utterly impossible for him to be born at the present time, because Mahavira reached wholeness in a particular situation, in a particular time. That dimension could be perfected only in that particular situation. In the same way Jesus cannot be born today. If today he comes at all, in the first place nobody will crucify him. No matter how much noise he makes, people will say, "Just ignore him." Jews have learned their lesson from their first mistake,…
Osho, among all the true Masters of the past, Lord Krishna is called a complete incarnation. I believe your expression is so high and sublime that the coming age will place you even above Krishna. Would you shed some light on this?
Now think: for some, Krishna is the complete incarnation, before whom all are pale, all incomplete. For others, Krishna deserves to be thrown into hell. And I am not calling either side right or wrong. I am only saying: the lover’s vision is one thing; the friend’s vision, the enemy’s vision—each speaks from his own sight. They are not saying anything about Krishna; they are speaking about their own eyes. If love arises in you for me, what you say will not be about me; it will be about your love. If hatred arises in you for me, what you say will not be about me; it will be about your hatred. Man always speaks only about himself; there is no way to speak about someone else. If my expression seems very appealing to you, you are saying something about yourself—that this expression fits you, touches your heart, plucks a…