According to Osho, recognizing a living master is a fresh, unconditioned seeing—not borrowed belief or repetition. When recognition happens, time collapses: Buddha or Jesus becomes contemporary; you stand as fellow travelers. Conditioning and loyalty to inherited images block this meeting. Only an impartial, bias-free inquiry lets you know, making the so-called old and the present master equally alive, true, and available now.
Meeting a real master means seeing with your own eyes right now, not just believing old stories.