What should I do with the thirst of the mind when I feel something is missing despite having attained everything?

Osho, what is this thirst! Even after being fulfilled from all sides, it still feels as if something is missing. There is nothing in this world that I have not attained. But Osho, what should I do with this thirst of the mind? Osho, please be compassionate and clarify this state—this is my prayer!

A poor man does not come to know he is poor. Only the rich come to know. A healthy person does not come to know he is healthy; illness is needed to know. When the opposite happens, awareness dawns. Thakur Rana, you say: “There is nothing in the world that I have not attained—then why this thirst?” Precisely for that reason this thirst is here. Now the Divine must be attained. Now the world holds no more meaning for you. What was to be known has been known, what was to be seen has been seen. Now the hour has come to close the eyes and look within. Now the moment has come to lift your head from the earth and turn it toward the sky. You have gathered enough pebbles and stones—now fill your bag with diamonds and jewels. When the nest of sighs, of night, turns into a…

Osho, my eyes are like the monsoon months of Sawan and Bhadon, yet my mind remains thirsty...

Your sorrow is so deep it could have awakened you. But there are many lullaby-singers, many patting you to sleep, saying, “So far it hasn’t worked? No problem—tomorrow it will. Trust in fate, in God. Worship, recite, perform havan and yajña. Until now you tried by yourself; now rope in God and try to get it. Your effort so far wasn’t total—now try with your whole being. Bring a deeper method, a more intense yoga, gather every tactic, fight unitedly and victory will be yours.” Such people say, “Nothing is impossible.” I had a teacher—he had no real clue. He taught me in matriculation. He quoted Alexander’s famous line: “Nothing is impossible.” And he delivered an impassioned oration to prove that nothing is impossible. I stood up and said, “However beautifully you speak, this is not true, because Alexander’s own life proclaims his defeat. What difference does his statement make?…

Osho, with birth there is hunger, sleep, thirst—but not the thirst for God!

A religion-opposed, benumbed society That thirst, that hunger, is within all of us from birth, yet it does not awaken. There are many reasons. The biggest reason is simply this: the vast crowd around us has no such thirst. And if it arises in someone, he suppresses it, because it feels like madness. Where everyone around is consumed by the thirst for wealth and fame, the thirst for religion looks like insanity. Those around become suspicious: “Has he gone off his head?” The person presses it down. It cannot rise, it cannot wake; suppression comes from all sides. And the world we have made leaves no place for God—for, as I said, it is dangerous to leave room for God; we have left no room for him. A wife fears that God might enter her husband’s life—for with God’s arrival the wife may be eclipsed. The husband fears God might…

Question: Fifth question: Osho, People drink and they stagger; in your refuge they find so much. As for us, in your gathering we come thirsty, and thirsty we go! Then that thirst is not really thirst. Right now it is only an idea, not actual. Otherwise, who is stopping you from drinking? If you return thirsty from the very shore of the lake, then your thirst was not thirst. When thirst truly seizes someone, he will drink even from a foul puddle. What is needed is thirst. And when there is no thirst, even if the pristine Lake Manasarovar is before you, what will you do? Look for the thirst. Seek it. Otherwise the “thirst” will be false. Many people feel a false thirst. By hearing talk about thirst, real thirst does not arise; instead a greed takes hold within—“one should have thirst.

Osho, I have heard that Narad had an intense thirst to meet Krishna. Whenever he heard news of Krishna’s presence somewhere, he would rush there—only to find that Krishna had already moved on. Thus, until his death he did not meet Krishna. On one side is the state of Narad, brimming with endless thirst; and on the other side am I, in whom the thirst has not even arisen yet. Then isn’t my effort to attain the Divine meaningless?

There are two kinds of people who remain deprived of the Divine. First, those whose thirst is genuine, but whose direction of search is wrong. Second, those in whom there is no thirst at all; for them the question of direction does not arise. Narad did have thirst, but he was traveling in the wrong direction. Whoever goes outward to search for Krishna will go astray. If you want to find Krishna, you must go within. Krishna is not an external entity; Krishna is an inner state. Narad missed because he understood Krishna to be outside. Whoever takes the Divine to be outside will keep missing. You will arrive and find that the Divine has already moved on. This will happen every time—because the Divine was never there. From afar it appears so; when you reach near you discover it has receded. It was a mirage. In the desert, from…