Darshan

Osho, I earnestly pray that you do answer this question. How should I come for the Master’s darshan? When a disciple goes to the Master, how should he go? With the Master, how should the disciple be—what should he do and what should he not do? Asked by “Vishnu Chaitanya.”

A disciple is one in whom the unquenchable longing to learn has arisen; in whom the thirst to learn has been kindled. The thirst to learn is not ordinary; the urge to teach is very ordinary. The thirst to learn is extraordinary. Everyone wants to be a guru; to be a disciple is rare. You claim to know even what you do not know, because the claim of knowing satisfies the ego. You answer even about things you know nothing of—how could you admit that there is an answer and you don’t know it! You give such advice that, if someone followed it, he would fall into a ditch, because you are not advising from experience—you are enjoying the taste of advising. Have you seen how people relish giving advice! Just get caught in their clutches and everyone is eager to advise. It is good that people do not take…

Verse (Sanskrit): बिन दरसन भई बावरी, गुरु द्धौ दीदार।। ठाढ़ि जोहों तोरी बाट मैं, साहिब चलि आवो। इतनी दया हम पर करौ, निज छवि दरसावो।। कोठरी रतन जड़ाव की, हीरा लागे किवार। ताला कुंजी प्रेम की, गुरु खोलि दिखावो।। बंदा भूला बंदगी, तुम बकसनहार। धरमदास अरजी सुनो, कर द्यो भवपार।। मैं तो तोरे भजन-भरोसे अविनासी।। तीरथ बरत कछू नहिं करहूं, वेद पढ़ौं नहिं कासी। जंत्र-मंत्र टोटका नहिं जानौ, निसदिन फिरत उदासी।। यहि घटि भीतर बधिक बसत है, दिए लोभ की टाटी। धरमदास बिनवै कर जोरी सतगुरु चरनन दासी।। अब मोहिं दरसन देहुं कबीर।। तुम्हरे दरस से पाप कटत हैं, निरमल होत सरीर। अमृत भोजन हंसा पावै, सब्द-धुनन की खीर।। जहं देखो जहं पाट पटंबर, ओढ़न अंबर चीर। धरमदास की अरज गोसाईं, हंस लगावो तीर।। बिन दरसन भई बावरी, गुरु द्धौ दीदार।। Transliteration: bina darasana bhaī bāvarī, guru ddhau dīdāra|| ṭhāढ़i johoṃ torī bāṭa maiṃ, sāhiba cali āvo| itanī dayā hama…

Question: BELOVED OSHO, HOW CAN I BECOME A DISCIPLE? What is the need to become a disciple? Why should you ask such a question? Do you feel your life is meaningless, that you need some meaning? Do you feel your life is empty and you would like fulfillment? Do you feel you are in darkness and you would like to be in the light? The whole thing depends on you. If you are contented as you are, if you are not missing anything as you are, there is no need to be a disciple. Why bother a master, and why go into an unnecessary search? But if you have emptiness, meaninglessness, anxiety, anguish, confusion, darkness; if you feel your whole life is nothing but misery, then to become a disciple is very simple.

Osho, when I first met you I knew nothing at all. I don’t know from where to where you have carried me! Solitude now feels sweet. Now there is nowhere to go and nowhere to come. Nothing to become and nothing to know. I have received so much, more than I was worthy of. So now, farewell and pranam. Who knows where today my boat has set sail—sailing, sailing, my boat sails. Some say it goes here, some say it goes there; I say, it goes to the Beloved’s village.

This is exactly what we all have done with God. We do not give thanks for what has been given. In those ten years he never once said thank you. But when fifty dollars were cut, he was angry, complaining, blazing. His fifty dollars are being cut? If you ask—first, you will not receive. And it is good that you do not—because whatever you ask is wrong. You cannot ask rightly. You are wrong; from the wrong only wrong asking can arise. In a neem tree only neem’s bitter fruit can grow; there is no possibility of the mango’s sweet fruit. What is not in your roots cannot appear in your fruits. If you are wrong, whatever you ask will be wrong. So first: you will not receive. And it is auspicious that you do not. It is God’s great compassion that what you ask is not granted. Sit sometime…