What happens when I experience energy and insight but observe ego problems in others?

Osho, in the general feeling about the ego, it seems as if one is an egoist or egoless. One moment it feels there is ego; the next moment it feels egoless.

Yes, yes, that’s how it goes. That’s how it goes. In fact, all our thinking is in degrees. It’s like this: at 98 degrees we say, “This person is perfectly fine,” and at 99 degrees we say, “There’s a fever.” 98 is also a “fever,” but it is the normal fever. At 99 it becomes abnormal. Then when it returns to 98, we say, “All right, normal again.” There is still fever—meaning the same fever that everyone has. As long as it is where everyone else’s is, we call it normal; just a little this side or that, and trouble starts. It is the same with the ego. It is our fever. As long as it is at the same degree as in everyone, we say, “He is perfectly humble, a good man.” If, compared to us, his degree goes to 99, we say, “He seems very egoistic.” If it…

Beloved Osho, at rajneeshpuram in 1983 something from the beyond entered into me. Since then I have not been the same person anymore. My old goals and desires have faded away. Things which were meaningful to me before have lost their importance. But when I talk to people about meditation, silence, and what keeps us away from it, a great new energy and clearness starts rising in me. Every cell of my body becomes alive. I myself become a listener to what is said through me, and I feel grateful and very loving towards the people with whom I can share. Beloved master, have I become a flute, an ins

It certainly has changed your life. You have become a flute to the divine -- because if it was a projection of the ego, the ego would not have allowed you to ask the question. And the ego never becomes a vehicle, a medium, a flute. It is not a hollow bamboo. The ego is very solid, does not allow itself to be used by higher forces. It can exist only in the very mundane world. To allow the higher forces means you are entering into the sacred, going beyond the mundane. The ego cannot go outside the mundane world. And its very fabric is to praise itself, to brag about itself even when it is not valid. For example, a poetry descends in you but the ego grabs it and proclaims to the whole world that "I have written it." No great poetry has been written by any ego;…

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.…

Osho, whenever someone tells you that such-and-such is happening in meditation and you say, “Good, that is auspicious,” the ego grows even more. And at all other times the ego keeps raising its head. Even while writing this question the ego thought a lot about it, and still...?

And I tell you: only the shadow remains with you; you have lost the soul. Imagine what your plight must be! Losing a shadow caused such trouble; you have lost the soul and kept only the shadow. But perhaps you don’t notice much trouble because those among whom you live have also lost their souls. The truth is, if you gain your soul, the trouble begins—those without souls become your enemies. Otherwise, why would people stone Mahavira, insult Buddha, crucify Mansoor, poison Socrates, kill Jesus? The crowd is without soul. Whenever a soul-full person stands among them, they become very uneasy. What foolishness! They should learn from the soulful how to become soulful. But seeing a soulful person, they get anxious. They say, “His presence proves we failed to become what we should have become. We lost.” Anxiety arises: “Our life is wasted. Remove this man; his presence is a…

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,…