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What is the relationship between dharma and adharma in spiritual practice?

Dharma and adharma are like light and darkness; a single spark of true dharma can obliterate adharma, revealing the illusion of borrowed righteousness. Embrace the truth of your state without self-deception, and transformation will occur in its entirety.

— Osho
According to Osho, dharma and adharma admit no middle ground: they are mutually exclusive like light and darkness. A single spark of authentic dharma annihilates adharma; if adharma still lingers, your “dharma” is borrowed, a painted lamp. The mind invents comforting gradations of progress; drop this self-deception, honestly see your state, and transformation can happen wholly, not by degrees.

You can’t be half in truth and half in untruth—real goodness is a light that ends badness; if badness remains, your goodness is pretend, so be honest about where you are.

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