Whether you're restless (rajas) or dull (tamas), results still happen, but if you simply watch and don’t call them ‘me,’ you won’t be dragged into suffering.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Question: Second question: Osho, the fruit of sattvic action is said to be happiness, knowledge, and dispassion. The fruit of rajasic and tamasic action is said to be suffering and ignorance. If rajas and tamas are taken as the basis of practice, how will their fruits differ? There will be no difference in the fruits. The difference will be in the one who experiences them. The fruits will be the same. If the fruit of sattvic action is happiness, then happiness it will be—whether you are aware or not. If you are aware, you will know that happiness is apart from me, around me. I am not happiness; I am the one who sees happiness. Even if the fruit of rajas is suffering, the fruit will be the same. The enlightened will have the same fruit, and the unenlightened will have the same fruit.
Osho, the witness, the seer, consciousness is always separate—virginal and unbound. And the whole play of life is nothing but the movement of the gunas within themselves. In such a situation, if a person’s qualities of sattva, rajas, and tamas are calmed in a scientific or chemical way, or if a person is made sattvic, will he then attain that ever-free witness? If the witness is forever free and present, then by chemically altering the three gunas will it not be revealed? Would the person not then become religious? What is the fundamental difference between solving the problem arising from the
Sadhana means we are dissolving the current itself, not breaking the bulb. There is no point in breaking the bulb. In fact, the bulb is useful; it tells you whether the current is flowing or not, whether there is current or not. Your anger within tells you you are still sunk in ignorance. Lust tells you your life energies have not yet become aware. If we remove these elements, anger will stop manifesting and you will also stop knowing that you are in deep ignorance. It is as if a man is sick and we snatch away the symptoms of his disease so that he doesn’t even come to know he is ill. And keep in mind, anger is an opportunity. Only the unwise say anger is simply bad; I do not say so. Anger is an opportunity; you can use it badly or well. Anger is a chance. In…