According to Osho, revelation is not an outer miracle or information from above; it is the unveiling of your 'original face'—the naked, unmodified being before society’s masks. When the borrowed identities drop, the inner Christ/Buddha is disclosed. Only the like recognizes the like: light knows light. Thus true revelation begins within, and only then can the outer be rightly seen.
Revelation means taking off all your pretend masks so your real, shining self can be seen.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
They are not different things but different aspects of the same phenomenon. One has to be utterly truthful about oneself. One need not hide, only cowards hide. The courageous person remains as he is, naked. He is ready to accept whatsoever the consequences, but he is not ready to compromise his truth. This is the only way to become an individual, this is the only way to have integrity. The world teaches people to be pseudo, to be compromising. The world makes people deceptive, false. All your so-called morality, character, respectability, is nothing but an effort to create a facade so you can hide your reality, you can hide and you can go on showing a false face to the world. Whatsoever is expected from you, you can show it to the world.
Revolution is political; rebellion is spiritual. Revolution is of the crowd; rebellion is individual. All revolutions have failed. Whenever rebellion has been tried it has never failed, but very few people have tried it: a Buddha, a Jesus, a Zarathustra... very few people. But whenever it has been tried it has succeeded, it has never failed. Revolution is based in hatred; rebellion is based in love. You rebel out of love. Revolution is destructive, bound to be so, because out of hate nothing else can happen. Rebellion is creative, because love is the most creative energy. When you rebel out of love your rebellion has a grace to it, a beauty, a truth, which is not of the earth, which comes from the beyond. Sannyas is a rebellion. My whole teaching is of love and rebellion.
Jesus says, "Seek and ye shall find." But where to seek? People have been seeking in every sacred place; they are going to Jerusalem or to Mecca or to Kashi or to Tibet. That is not going to help. Wherever you go, you are wasting your time. One has to go within. The kingdom of God is within you. Meditation is the whole art of transforming the gestalt; the consciousness that goes outwards starts turning in. And then one becomes aware of millions of gifts; then small things, very small and ordinary things, have tremendous significance. Just a dewdrop slipping from the lotus leaf into the lake is enough to fill one with wonder and awe. It is poetry, pure poetry! It is music, it is dance, it is a finger pointing to the moon.
Hence my definition of religion is love. Love in as many ways as possible. Don't be a miser in love. Love animals, love trees, rocks, rivers, people. Find out as many doors for love as you can find. And the more you love, the more you are. Love makes you integrated; it gives you a cent ring, a rootedness, a groundedness. It creates a temple out of you. And only when the temple is ready can god be invited. Many people search for god but in vain, because they never make the place ready to receive him. You need a certain inner space for god to come in, for truth to come in. That space is created by love. His name meant an image of meditation, the Master told the next initiate -- and you have to look at a statue of Buddha to see that.
The fame of Moses or a Lao Tzu or a Mohammed has nothing to do with Mohammed, Lao Tzu or Moses. It is not personal, it is divine, it is godly, it is universal. These people have become just vehicles, vehicles of truth. They are utterly empty, egoless. Hence their fame has no stink of ego, it has the fragrance of egolessness. (To Georg) -- This is your name: Swami Deva Georg. Deva means divine. Georg means a farmer. Buddha has said: I am a divine farmer. I sow the seeds of divinity in people. I water peoples' heart with prayers. I help them to grow and train them to be patient and to wait for the spring, so they will suddenly burst forth into thousands of flowers. That's really the message of all the masters: life should be transformed into a divine farming.