What happens when I seek personal guidance?

Beloved Osho, I have been your sannyasin for seven years and I am unable to express my gratitude, as it gave my life direction and joy and grace and more. Now, being here for only one week, I realize that I have always had a need for personal guidance from somebody tuning into me and my questions. This strong need was only reinforced during a counseling session today, here. Beloved master, would you please comment?

But Leo Tolstoy was a Gandhian, you will be surprised to know. Although Gandhi came later, in the last days of Leo Tolstoy, Mahatma Gandhi and he had written a few letters to each other. And Mahatma Gandhi declared that he has been under three masters; one is Leo Tolstoy, another is Henry Thoreau, and the third is a Jaina monk, Shrimad Rajchandra. These three people impressed Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi was working in South Africa but he was very much impressed by the lifestyle of Leo Tolstoy. His wife was so angry that they were not even talking to each other. Talking meant always a fight. They had different natures. Tolstoy was trying hard to make his wife live a simple life, the life of poverty because, "blessed are the poor." He was a fanatical follower of Jesus Christ. Literally, he was living a poor life -- and the…

Osho, guidance is indispensable, isn't it!

In fact, the word “guidance” by itself doesn’t say anything. It tells you nothing. Two things. Guidance seems indispensable to us. But guidance can be seed-laden and it can be seedless. There can be guidance that plants thoughts, imaginations, and beliefs in your mind. And there can be guidance that strips you of all your thoughts and beliefs, takes them away from you. So when someone says, “I will guide you,” there is great fear that he will hand you thoughts to hold on to. When someone says, “I am not a guide,” there is a possibility he will take all your thoughts away. One who says, “I am your guru,” is very likely to sit down inside your consciousness. One who says, “I am not a guru. We just happened to meet while walking on the road. You asked, ‘Where does this path go?’ I know, so I tell…

Beloved Osho, is not spiritual guidance an absolute necessity for human growth?

Making faces before the mirror is very childish. There is nothing wrong about it; it is not a sin. It is your mirror, it is your face, you are not doing any harm to anybody. But certainly the observer instantly changes you. You start doing other things just to look busy, as if you are doing meaningful things. Just a moment before you were doing meaningless things, now you are doing meaningful things. The same was discovered in the innermost core of the atom: the electrons behave differently when there is no observer. And the moment the scientist and his instruments make them aware that somebody is observing, they change their rules; a sudden transformation takes place. This was very shocking to the scientists because electrons are supposed to be particles of electricity: that's the meaning of electron. They are supposed to be material, but they are behaving with such…

Most of the time I feel sexual and my eyes remain seeking the other. And also I am too much in the mind. As far as I understand myself these three are my basic problems. I remain covered in the clouds of these problems so that I cannot listen to you as I should.

To avoid this, Christians have been trying to prove that Jesus came out of "Virgin" Mary -- just to avoid how Jesus can come out of an ordinary sexual love affair. And they know that they have not been able to prove it. I was reading one story.... A young, beautiful woman came to a physician. The physician examined her and said, "Miss, you are pregnant." The woman said, "No, never, it cannot be. It is impossible, I have never been with a man, so how can it be ?" The physician said, "But it is absolutely certain." The woman denied; she said, "It is impossible, it cannot be. I have never been with any man." Then the physician said, "Wait, let me pack up my things. I am coming with you." The woman said,''What? For what?" He said, "This time I'm not going to miss. I have heard that…

Osho, in a previous talk you said you prefer shaktipat to be as close to grace as possible. Doesn’t that imply that the method of shaktipat admits gradual refinement and development? In other words, is qualitative progress also possible in the process of shaktipat?

From one who has attained the seventh body, shaktipat becomes the purest—the purest. Yet it is still not grace. The purest state of shaktipat is reached at the seventh body—no further. On that side there is no veil now; for the one in the seventh there is no veil—he is one with the void. But on your side there is a veil. You will still take him to be a person. Your veil will now provide the final obstruction. From his side there is none, but for you he remains a person. The sense of personhood toward the medium is also an obstacle Understand: if I attain the seventh state, it is my affair that I know I am the void—but you? You will know me as a person. And your notion that I am a person becomes the last veil. That veil will fall only when the happening befalls…