According to Osho, to be without stain means your original nature is utterly pure, untouched by desire, thought, sin, or guilt. Nothing needs cleansing or improvement; only the illusion of dust must fall away. Awakening is not polishing the mind-mirror but recognizing there is no dust, no mirror to clean—your intrinsic innocence is already complete.
You were born perfectly clean inside, so stop trying to scrub yourself; just notice your natural goodness.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, then the claim that the soul is unstained and without corruption—that isn’t right, is it?
In my view, it isn’t. When we call what-is “without corruption,” “unstained,” at that very moment we are implying that corruption is possible in it; otherwise there would be no reason to call it incorruptible. “Soul” is the name of one state of that something. In fact, there is no point in calling that something “soul” at all. For this very reason Buddha does not call it a soul; there is no reason to call it a soul. Seen in this way, the knot of the mind opens; otherwise the mind just stands there as a knot for which there is no answer—no answer.
Purity means innocence, the innocence of a child, the innocence of a flower, the innocence of the dewdrops in the early sun -- that freshness. Purity does not mean that one has to become a saint, and one has to eat this and not eat that, and one has to sleep at a certain hour, and do certain rituals and has to do five prayers every day, five times. Those are all rituals. They don't make you pure, in fact they are the causes of your impurity. Your saints, the so-called saints are the most impure people in the world. Of course from the outside they seem to be utterly sacred, but deep down they are boiling because their whole process of life is repressive, and nobody becomes pure by repressing. It is repression that makes you impure. To be pure means to drop all repressive methods, all taboos.
[NOTE: This is an unedited tape transcript of an unpublished darshan diary, which has been scanned and cleaned up. It is for reference purposes only.] (Our nature, pure and simple, is to be pure and simple, Osho reminded us in his first address tonight.) We come into the world absolutely pure and innocent, absolutely clear, clean, but then the world starts writing on our consciousness, it starts conditioning us. It pollutes everybody, it contaminates, poisons. By the time a child is mature enough to think on his of the world has already destroyed him. He is already crippled, paralysed; the world has already taught him to use crutches and he has forgotten to use his own insight. He cannot stand on his own legs; it has made him dependent. This is the greatest conspiracy against humanity, to make every human being a cripple -- not physically but spiritually.
Osho, with Jagjivan my life has reached its final turn. My prayer is: may I remain clinging at your feet! The Baba of Ajmer has sung— “Everyone says ‘soiled, soiled’; no one calls it pure. Sai, if You call it pure, then everyone will call it so.”
Taru! No one is dark. All are bright. No one is impure. All are pure. Impurity is a misunderstanding. It arose from identifying with the shadow. Because of the shadow we look soiled. Yes, our clothes have gotten dirty—true; dust and grime have settled on the body—true; and our mind is neither healthy nor beautiful. But within us, our real nature remains just as it is—virginal. Like a lotus, untouched. I want to remind you only of that; everything else is secondary, in fact pointless. Your priests and pundits keep you busy with other things—do this, do that; this is bad, that is auspicious. They keep discussing your actions, not your being. And because of their excessive focus on actions, people have fallen into deep self-condemnation. Their minds are filled with self-denigration. They are frightened! They feel, “We are drowning—there is no way to be saved.” And the priest exploits…
What does tantra mean by purity?
Accept yourself. But then you will look like an animal. You will not look like a man because your concept of man is in your ideals. That is why we go on teaching others not to be like animals, and everyone is an animal. What can you do? You ARE an animal. Accept your animality. And the moment you accept your animality, you have done the first thing to go beyond animals -- because no animal knows that it is an animal, only man can know. That is going beyond. You cannot go beyond by denying. Accept! When everything is accepted, suddenly you will feel that you have transcended. Who is accepting? Who accepts the whole? That which accepts has gone beyond. If you reject, you remain on the same plane. If you accept, you go beyond. Acceptance is transcendence. And if you accept yourself totally, suddenly you are thrown…