According to Osho, the surge of integration and power comes when the singular, burning desire to know truth awakens within you. Unlike scattered worldly desires that pull you apart, this one supreme longing absorbs all lesser urges, unifies your energy, stills inner noise, and centers your life. In that oneness, your being aligns, strength gathers, and the journey home begins.
When you truly want truth more than anything, all your other wants quiet down and you feel whole and strong inside.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Osho, what do those people mean who say that, so that there is no explosion, one should search within with a subtle, refined vision...
But the effortless awakening I speak of—once it arrives, there is no question of its departure, because you did not bring it; it came. Gradually you and awakening are not two; you are the awakening. You did not make even anger “the other,” so how would awakening be “other”? It becomes you. There is no question of its return. Whatever we have truly known cannot be unknown. You cannot undo knowing. Yes, what we have merely learned by rote can wobble. But what is known—like a child who comes to know love; once he knows, he cannot un‑know it. Knowing becomes part of you; it cannot fall away. Reading four books about love is different; that can be forgotten. Through the experiment of awakening, whatever happens in us reveals itself gradually. Awakening is not something that comes from outside; it is your inner being uncovering itself. If it were an…
Osho, in the Nargol camp you said that shaktipat means the Divine power has descended into you. Later, in discussion, you said there is a difference between shaktipat and grace. These two statements seem contradictory. Please explain.
Shaktipat is always the Divine’s. But if a person becomes the medium, we call it shaktipat; if no person is the medium, it can sometimes happen suddenly—and it can harm. Yet if someone has waited endlessly, and has meditated with infinite patience, then the descent of power will also happen as prasad. There will be no medium then—but there will be no accident either. For his endless waiting, his infinite patience, his unbroken ardor, his unshakable resolve create in him the capacity to withstand the Infinite. So there is no accident. Thus the event happens in both ways. But then it will not appear to him as shaktipat; it will be known as prasad, because there is no medium. Only an egoless person can be a medium There is similarity in both, and there is difference. I am in favor that, as far as possible, prasad be available; as far…
Osho, I don’t know where inside this skull I’ve wandered from and to! I had wanted power from yoga; here I have come to understand peace. I had wanted lordship from religion; here I have come to understand emptiness. I can’t make any decision. The mind is growing unhinged. Who knows where this journey will halt. The old belief has shattered; the new is not being born. Now I can neither go back nor am I able to move forward. Please guide me!
People who set out in search of religion are often actually searching for something else—and they give that search the name “religion.” The search for power is not the search for religion. The search for power is the search of the ego. The desire to be powerful is anti-religious. Yet most people step onto the path of religion for the wrong reasons: what they could not obtain in the world, they go to seek in God. Do not go to God to seek what you could not find in the world. For what is not in the world cannot possibly be in God. What you failed to obtain in the world—understand that it is unobtainable. It is natural, of course. We have lived in the world for lifetimes; only one language is familiar—of position, wealth, dominance, power. When the world fails us, we think, “Let’s succeed with these same ambitions…
Inquire of the inmost, the one, of its final secret which it holds for you through the ages.
THE GREAT AND DIFFICULT VICTORY, THE CONQUERING OF THE DESIRES OF THE INDIVIDUAL SOUL, IS A WORK OF AGES; THEREFORE EXPECT NOT TO OBTAIN ITS REWARD UNTIL AGES OF EXPERIENCE HAVE BEEN ACCUMULATED. WHEN THE TIME OF LEARNING THIS RULE IS REACHED, MAN IS ON THE THRESHOLD OF BECOMING MORE THAN MAN. THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH IS NOW YOURS IS ONLY YOURS BECAUSE YOUR SOUL HAS BECOME ONE WITH ALL PURE SOULS AND WITH THE INMOST. IT IS A TRUST VESTED IN YOU BY THE MOST HIGH. BETRAY IT, MISUSE YOUR KNOWLEDGE, OR NEGLECT IT, AND IT IS POSSIBLE EVEN NOW FOR YOU TO FALL FROM THE HIGH ESTATE YOU HAVE ATTAINED. GREAT ONES FALL BACK, EVEN FROM THE THRESHOLD, UNABLE TO SUSTAIN THE WEIGHT OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITY, UNABLE TO PASS ON. THEREFORE LOOK FORWARD ALWAYS WITH AWE AND TREMBLING TO THIS MOMENT, AND BE PREPARED FOR THE BATTLE. BETRAY IT....…
Question: BELOVED OSHO, DO NOT GRASP ANOTHER'S BOW ACTIVELY TRY TO CLEAR OUT YOUR MIND, THEN YOU WON'T GO WRONG; SINCE YOU DON'T GO WRONG, CORRECT MINDFULNESS STANDS OUT ALONE. WHEN CORRECT MINDFULNESS STANDS OUT ALONE, INNER TRUTH ADAPTS TO PHENOMENA; WHEN INNER TRUTH ADAPTS TO EVENTS AND THINGS, EVENTS AND THINGS COME TO FUSE IN INNER TRUTH. WHEN PHENOMENA FUSE WITH THEIR INNER TRUTH, YOU SAVE POWER; WHEN YOU FEEL THE SAVING, THIS IS THE EMPOWERMENT OF STUDYING THE PATH. IN GAINING POWER YOU SAVE UNLIMITED POWER; IN SAVING POWER YOU GAIN UNLIMITED POWER. THIS MATTER MAY BE TAKEN UP BY BRILLIANT, QUICK-WITTED FOLKS, BUT IF YOU DEPEND ON YOUR BRILLIANCE AND QUICK WITS, YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO BEAR UP. IT IS EASY FOR KEEN AND BRIGHT PEOPLE TO ENTER, BUT HARD FOR THEM TO PRESERVE IT.