What Is the Evolution of a Seeker on the Journey to Consciousness?

OSHO International
6 min readFeb 25, 2023
What Is the Evolution of a Seeker on the Journey to Consciousness?

Osho,
What is the evolution of a seeker?

“A seeker is a man who has taken the reins into his own hands; a seeker is the child who says to the father, ‘This is more than enough. I am grateful to you, I am much obliged to you, but now I will stand on my own two feet.’ The moment you tell nature you want to stand by yourself you become a young man of maturity. At that moment maturity comes to you for the first time.

“But from then on you will experience many anxieties because now you are responsible for yourself, because now your sadhana begins.

“To follow a sadhana is to proceed consciously in the direction of evolution. It is a journey of clarity, it is not a blind race. It is a directing of all one’s energy towards a single destination. That is why I always say that if a man’s gaze is not directed towards godliness his whole life is meaningless.

Directing one’s eyes towards godliness is just the introduction, just the preamble; the real thing has not yet begun. Think of a classical musician adjusting the strings of his sitar to bring his instrument to the proper tuning. The recital has not yet begun; this is just preparation. This may take a long time; the audience will often get bored and wonder how long this nonsense will go on…

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