According to Osho, after satori a final “explosion” becomes possible: in silent awareness of the ego’s coming and going, you transcend both “in” and “out”; the ego and mind dissolve, and you merge into what traditions call nirvana, moksha, brahma-upalabdhi. Because the recording mechanism—the mind—vanishes, this state cannot be captured or recalled, only lived.
After a clear awakening, the feeling of ‘me’ pops and you quietly melt into everything, so there’s no mind left to remember it.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Do you mean after satori?
Yes. Only after satori, never before that. When you become silently aware of the going out and the coming in of the ego, the ultimate explosion can happen. You go beyond out and in; you dissolve in the explosion. This is the point of nirvana, brahma-upalabdhi, moksha, or whatever you want to call it. It has never been recorded by the mind; it can never be recorded because the mechanism itself has dissolved.
Beloved Osho, over the years, I have heard various sannyasins saying that they experienced a satori. What exactly is a satori, and how does it come about?
Satori is a glimpse of the ultimate... as if you are seeing the Himalayan peaks. But you are far away, you are not on the peaks, and you have not become the peaks. It is a beautiful experience, very enchanting, exciting, challenging. Perhaps it may lead you towards samadhi. Satori is a glimpse of samadhi. Samadhi is the fulfillment of satori. What was a glimpse has become now an eternal reality to you. Satori is like opening a window -- a little breeze comes in, a little light. You can see a little sky, but it is framed. Your window becomes a frame to the sky, which has no frame. And if you always live in the room and you have never been out of it, the natural conclusion will be that the sky is framed. It is only in this decade that a few modern painters have started painting…
Question: OSHO, WHAT IS SATORI AND HOW TO ATTAIN IT? But everybody is being taught to be an idealist: "Become a Jesus" or "Become a Buddha" or "Become a Krishna." Nobody tells you just to be yourself! Why should you be a Jesus? One Jesus is enough and one Jesus is beautiful - he enriches the existence. Many Jesuses just carrying crosses, and wherever you go you meet them... It won't look beautiful, it won't add to the beauty of existence; it will make the whole world ugly. Wherever you go you meet a Mahavira standing naked.... It is because of this that God never creates the same person again. He never repeats; he is original. He always creates a new person. You have never been before, and there is no one who is like you, and there will never be anybody else like you again.
To my mind the real sanity is that which comes after the transcendence of madness. Then there is neither the question nor the answer. The mind becomes calm and quiet. Then the fourth stage is reached. It comes only when you have come to the peak, to the height of tension. Then comes Relaxation. Having gone through the previous three stages each for ten minutes, for the next ten minutes or more just relax, and remain just as you are, without doing anything, because you are tired completely--The policy of 'LET GO' is achieved as an automatic process. The fourth step is the moment of doing nothing. That I call dhyana, meditation. The first three stages are steps only, the fourth is the door. Then you are there without breathing or movement. Just silence! This fourth step comes of its own accord and in these moments comes Grace.
So think over it... meditate over it. If you feel that your understanding is enough and you can drop the ego, then there is no need for any sannyas. But if you feel that it is difficult for you to drop, then the medicine has to be used. Think about it. [The visitor replies: A few points.... It seems to be beginning with the duality in my mind -- either sannyas or non-sannyas, but for myself, I agree -- this is not a deep experience... ] No, it is not an experience at all, remember, because there are not deep and non-deep experiences. Either it is or it is not. [The visitor answers: Let's say it is not a final experience.] No, no, there is nothing like final and non-final. There is only experience. Either it is there or it is not there.