According to Osho, in Sufism the devotee ‘fits’ by dissolving into God: devotion is so total that the self vanishes, as with al‑Hallaj’s “I am God.” Yet Osho says this God is a hypothesis; such devotion becomes imaginative intoxication—joyous but hallucinatory, like wine or drugs—yielding transient ecstasies without ultimate truth, unlike Zen’s devotion to a living master.
A Sufi devotee loves an imagined God so much they feel one with it, but Osho says that’s like happy drunkenness, not real awakening.