According to Osho, though the world is maya, the suffering felt within it is experientially real, like dreaming of a fire or mistaking a rope for a snake. Enlightened ones act out of compassion to help sleepers awaken; they offer methods so we can shake ourselves from this deep sleep. What appears as toil to us is, for them, effortless joy—love sharing itself, the labor being its own reward.
Even if life is like a dream, your pain feels real, so the wise lovingly try to wake you and give you ways to wake yourself.