According to Osho, 'attaining Dharma completely' is impossible because Dharma/Truth is infinite and indivisible; only the finite can be had in full. You don’t grasp it—rather, you dissolve into it, like a drop merging into the ocean. Dharma (the Divine) already attains you entirely; realize this through self-recognition. Turn inward, let the ego’s greed to ‘have’ God fall away, and remember your already-present oneness.
You can’t collect Dharma like a thing; relax the ego, look within, and let yourself melt into the Truth that already lives you.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Someone asked, “Have you attained Dharma completely?”
What does “completely” mean? If Dharma could be attained completely, it would become limited. Only that which has a boundary can be attained in full. Dharma has no boundary. Therefore you will drown in Dharma. Dharma will attain you completely, but you can never attain it completely. When a drop falls into the ocean, the ocean attains the drop completely. But to say the drop has attained the ocean completely—what does that mean? The drop is no more; in attaining, it is lost; in fulfilling the condition of attainment, it disappears. This language of “the whole” is also the language of greed. Little-more, full-less; measures—half a quarter, a quarter, half a seer, a whole seer—these are mathematical measures. Can Truth be fragmented so you get half? Can Truth be broken into pieces so you take a little now and a little tomorrow? Truth is indivisible; there can be no fragments.…
Osho, you have titled this series of talks “Sahaj Yoga.” Do “sahaj” and “yoga” not seem mutually opposed?
Anand Maitreya! They don’t just seem opposed, they are opposed. But no ultimate truth of life can manifest without contradiction. Life is made of opposites—darkness and light, day and night, woman and man, negative electricity and positive electricity, birth and death. The very structure of life is woven of opposites. Hence the opposites are not only opposed; they are complementary to each other. If you have labored hard all day, you will be able to sleep deeply. Labor and rest are opposites, yet only the one who has worked can rest deeply—and the one who has not worked cannot. So the opposites are not only opposed, they complete each other. And only the one who has rested deeply at night can rise in the morning and engage in work again. One who has not rested through the night will not be able to work in the morning. Look closely at…
It is asked again: “Is dharma the truth?”
Dharma is truth. Dharma means: a state of non-relationship. Dharma means: to be steady in one’s own nature; to be immersed in oneself. Nothing remains outside. No kind of connection with the outside remains. Not even the relationship with the master remains. The true master is the one who brings you to the place where you are freed even from the master. Such a master is called a satguru. The one who entangles you in himself is called a false guru—who says, “Don’t go beyond me. This is your halt; the destination has arrived. No further.” The one who holds you stuck in himself is a false guru. The one who lets you go beyond himself, who becomes a ladder, a doorway—so you climb and pass through—he alone is the satguru. And remember: a feeling of gratitude arises only toward the satguru. Toward a false guru, anger will arise—if not…
Osho, please say something about the real nature of dharma.
Dharma means your intrinsic nature. Dharma means your spontaneity. As fragrance is to a rose, as heat is to fire, as coolness is to water, so you too have a nature of your own; living in tune with that nature is called dharma, living against it is called adharma. There will be slight differences in each person’s nature—there must be, because existence does not make carbon copies. Therefore each person’s dharma will also differ a little. What is medicine for one can be poison for another, and what is poison for one can be medicine for another. Hence each person has to search for his own nature in the depths of meditation. No one else can give you a clear, definitive statement about your nature. You yourself have to recognize, slowly, your naturalness in the depths of meditation, and then gather the courage to live according to it. Courage is…
And the fifth thing they said was, “Now Osho is speaking properly; he isn’t like before—he has improved a little!”
Absolutely wrong! I am getting worse. The question of improving does not arise. The more I experience all these fools, the sharper I keep my edge. Their necks have to be cut. I am driving the blade in deeper. My blow will grow deeper every day. Let no one remain in this mistake. And yet they go on explaining this to my disciples. Now this is most amusing: on the one hand they call me “Bhagwan Rajneesh,” and on the other they say I am improving! Is there anything left to improve in a Bhagwan? Does it mean that even after being God something still remains to be improved? Only “worsening” remains; there is nothing left to improve. And once you are a Bhagwan, even the fear of worsening is gone. Now, even if you send me to hell, it makes no difference. I will celebrate there too. There you…