According to Osho, the condition for meeting the Imperishable (avinashi) is not borrowed sympathy but egoless empathy: when the I–You wall dissolves and another’s pain is literally felt as your own. In that non-separation, compassion is spontaneous, the heart becomes a mirror to all, and the imperishable reality reveals itself.
When you stop feeling separate and your heart opens so wide that others’ pain is your pain, you touch the deathless truth.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
The buddha said: look up to heaven and down on earth and they will remind you of their impermanency. Look about the world and it will remind you of its impermanency. But when you gain spiritual enlightenment you shall then find wisdom. The knowledge thus attained leads you anon to the way. The buddha said: you should think of the four elements of which the body is composed. Each of them has its own name and there is no such thing there known as ego. As there is really no ego, it is like unto a mirage.
The meaning is to be understood, it is very symbolical. It simply says that there is a law of levitation and if Mohammed cannot be pulled by levitation, then who will be pulled? He is the right person, a person who exists not. The ego is under gravitation, the no-ego is not under gravitation -- a weightlessness arises. Nijinsky went mad because he was simply a dancer and he never knew anything about meditation, ecstasy, enlightenment. That became a trouble for him. If you don't understand and if you don't move with awareness and suddenly you stumble upon something which cannot be explained by ordinary laws, you will go mad. Because you will be disturbed by it. It is so weird, it is so eerie. You cannot explain it. You start getting disturbed by it. He himself started getting disturbed by the phenomenon. Finally it was so staggering it disturbed…
A friend, Jineshwar, has asked: Osho, a few days ago water was dripping from a Jain temple idol. The Jains say nectar is flowing; now there will be bliss upon bliss. Such “miracles” keep happening in so‑called holy places. How can one know whether the idol is shedding tears seeing the sickness of human life, or showering ambrosia? Please, kindly explain.
She was startled: “I haven’t committed any offense.” I said, “No offense? Why the kohl? Why is your hair so carefully done? This perfume—sprinkled for whom? Is there a swayamvar going on here? And the poor boy is only honoring your effort—why the anger? His fault is only that he’s a fool; he fell for your ploy. Call him—I want to see him; he must be a fool. Otherwise who would fall for your trick? Apply as much kohl as you like—your round eyes still won’t become fish-eyes! Who is that nitwit—call him!” The girl vanished and never returned. I told the principal to send for her; the peon went—she had fled home. She had not imagined this at all. Our reasoning is strange—women’s logic stranger still! If no one jostles them, life feels wasted; if someone does, they’re ready to report to the police. And they leave home fully…
Invocation
HE KNOWS IT WHO KNOWS IT NOT, AND HE KNOWS IT NOT WHO KNOWS IT. TO THE MAN OF TRUE KNOWLEDGE IT IS THE UNKNOWN, WHILE TO THE IGNORANT IT IS THE KNOWN. INDEED, HE ATTAINS IMMORTALITY WHO REALIZES IT IN AND THROUGH EVERY BODH -- PULSATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS. THROUGH THE ATMAN HE OBTAINS STRENGTH AND VIGOR AND THROUGH ITS KNOWLEDGE, IMMORTALITY. FOR ONE WHO REALIZES IT HERE, IN THIS WORLD, THERE IS TRUE LIFE. FOR ONE WHO DOES NOT SO REALIZE IT, GREAT IS THE LOSS. DISCOVERING THE ATMAN IN EVERY SINGLE BEING, THE WISE ONES, DYING TO THIS WORLD OF SENSE-EXPERIENCE, BECOME IMMORTAL. This is the mystery of religious knowing. The more you know it, the more it becomes unknown -- the more you feel how impossible it is to know, how difficult it is to know. The more you know the impossibility of this, the…
Question: THE SAGE SANKRITI THEN SAID TO THE SUN GOD: O LORD, PLEASE TEACH ME THE SUPREME KNOWLEDGE. THE SUN GOD SAID: I SHALL NOW EXPLAIN TO YOU THIS MOST RARE KNOWLEDGE, UPON THE ATTAINMENT OF WHICH YOU WILL BECOME FREE WHILE YET DWELLING IN THIS BODY. SEE IN ALL BEINGS THE BRAHMAN, WHO IS ONE, UNBORN, STILL, IMPERISHABLE, INFINITE, IMMUTABLE AND CONSCIOUS; SO SEEING LIVE IN PEACE AND BLISS. DO NOT SEE ANYTHING EXCEPT THE SELF AND THE SUPREME. THIS STATE IS KNOWN AS YOGA. ROOTED THUS IN YOGA, CARRY OUT YOUR DEEDS. THE MIND OF ONE WHO IS THUS ROOTED IN YOGA GRADUALLY WITHDRAWS FROM ALL DESIRES, AND THE SEEKER FEELS BLISSFUL WHILE ENGAGING HIMSELF EACH DAY IN MERITORIOUS ACTS. HE HAS NO INTEREST WHATSOEVER IN THE CONTRARY EFFORTS OF THE IGNORANT.
And the moment you become one with the whole there is bliss. Life for the first time has meaning because for the first time there is no more death. For the first time you know you have always been here and will always be here, that you are indestructible. In knowing it there is rejoicing, in knowing it there is freedom from fear, in knowing it one starts dancing. Then there is nothing else to do -- dance, sing, rejoice! Then this whole universe belongs to you because you are part to it. (The momentary ultimately proves misery-making; only the eternal can bring ecstasy -- this to Amrit Satyam, a psychiatric nurse from Holland.) We live with momentary things. That's why there is so much misery, because whatsoever is momentary is not going to satisfy. By the time you become aware that it is there it is already gone.