According to Osho, when the sahasrara (crown center) first flowers there is an acute sense of inner silence and void, felt as something “other.” As it deepens, sensation diminishes while the reality intensifies; the gap closes, otherness dissolves, you become the happening. Finally, like healthy breathing, it’s present and expanding yet unfelt—pure, effortless being.
At first the crown opening feels like a big, strange quiet, but as you unite with it, the feeling fades because it becomes you—like not noticing your own breathing when all is well.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Question: how does one feel after the sahasrar begins to open?
After the sahasrar opens, there should be no feeling but inner silence and void. The feeling will be acute in the beginning - when you feel it for the first time it will be very acute - but the more you know it, the less acute it will become. The more you become one with it, the more it will lose its acuteness. Then a moment comes - and it must come - when you will not feel it at all. Feeling is always of the new. You feel that which is strange; you do not feel that which is not strange. The strangeness is felt. If it becomes one with you and you have known it, you won't feel it, but that doesn't mean that it will not be there. It will be there, even more than before. It will go on intensifying more and more, but the feeling…
Understand it like this. There is a small child; he knows nothing yet of lust. Lust is hidden in him, but the sex-center has not yet become active. As soon as he becomes mature sexually, the sex-center will become active, and his whole mind, his whole personality, his whole conduct will be filled with lust. Thinking, getting up, sitting, dreaming — lust will surround him. Only one flavor will remain everywhere. What has happened? Such a sudden transformation in the entire personality! Therefore, between fourteen and eighteen, children fall into great restlessness and trouble. They themselves do not understand what is happening. This age between fourteen and eighteen is an age of great restlessness. They can tell no one, and no one tells them anything. So many transformations are occurring within, and their whole consciousness is so badly besieged by lust that nothing else occurs to them.
Performing samyama on their power of cognition, real nature, egoism, all-pervasiveness, and functions brings mastery over the sense organs. From this follows instantaneous cognition without the use of the body, and complete mastery over pradhana, the material world.
ONLY AFTER THE AWARENESS OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN SATTVA AND PURUSHA DOES SUPREMACY AND KNOWLEDGE ARISE OVER ALL STATES OF EXISTENCE. Right now when you look at a flower, the flower is there, but have you ever felt your eyes? You see the flower, but have you felt the power of your eyes? It should be there because you are using your eyes to see the flower. And of course eyes are more beautiful than any flower because all flowers have to come through the eyes. It is through the eyes that you have become aware of the world of flowers, but have you ever felt the power of the eyes? They are almost dull, dead. They have become passive, just like windows, receptive. They don't go to their object. And power means being active. Power means your eyes going and almost touching the flowers, your ears going and almost…
15. Closing the seven openings of the head with your hands, a space between your eyes becomes all inclusive.
16. BLESSED ONE, AS SENSES ARE ABSORBED IN THE HEART, REACH THE CENTER OF THE LOTUS. 17. UNMINDING MIND, KEEP IN THE MIDDLE -- UNTIL. Now you are feeling repentant, you are feeling bad. Your self-image is disturbed, shaken. Now you cannot say you are a good man, you cannot say that you are a religious man. You have been angry, and how can a religious man be angry? How can a good man be angry? So you repent to regain your goodness again. At least in your own eyes you can feel at ease -- that you have repented and you have decided that now there will be no more anger. The shaken image has come back to the old status quo. Now you feel at ease, you have moved to another extreme. But the mind that says, "Now I will never be angry," will again be angry. And…
Question: in the awakening of the kundalini, in the opening of the passage, isn't there an increase in sexual power?
The increase in sexual power and the opening of the kundalini passage are simultaneous -- not the same, but simultaneous. The increase in sexual power will be the thrust to open up the higher centers; so sexual power will increase. If you can be aware of it and not use it sexually -- if you do not allow it to be released sexually -- it will become so intense that the upward movement will begin. First the energy will try its best to be released sexually, because that is its usual outlet, its usual center. So one must first be aware of one's downward "doors." Only awareness will close them; only noncooperation will close them. Sex is not so forceful as we feel it to be. It is forceful only momentarily: it is not a twenty-four-hour affair, it is a momentary challenge. If you can be noncooperative and aware, it…