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What is the role of scripture in spiritual discourse?

Scriptures are merely pointers to the truth; they can inspire inquiry, but true realization lies beyond their words, in the silence of direct experience.

— Osho
According to Osho, scriptures are at best pointers—maps, not the territory. They preserve echoes of realized beings but cannot substitute for direct experience. Used playfully and meditatively, they can trigger insight; clung to as authority, they become dead weight and bondage. Let scripture inspire inquiry, then drop it to meet the living truth within silence and awareness.

Books can show the path, but you must walk it and see for yourself.

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