Although Osho was not a traditional guru, his understanding about initiation, or Diskha,
was very profound.
In his own way, his way was to shock people into understanding.
He said that when you want to be initiated by a Guru, you should go there with total
surrender to the Guru.
Otherwise, the initiation will never take place.
Otherwise, you will keep your ego intact and then the Guru will not be able to get into
your consciousness.
A partial surrender, he says, is not going to help.
You have to be completely completely surrendered to the Guru.
Then the Guru can enter into your consciousness.
The student has to really give themselves up to the Master.
Then everything can happen.
And if you go there with demands upon the Guru or you go there trying to shop around
or trying to see the guru -- if this is really the right person or not, then nothing is going
to happen.
It's not that you should not shop around; I personally suggest that you should shop
around.
Otherwise there are so many people who are calling themselves ... avatars and enlightened
people, and who knows who is who.
So, to some extent ,you should go and shop around.
But then once you are settled on a Guru, then all doubt should come to an end.
Then you should have complete surrender.
And when you surrender then everything happens.
You don't even have to be even physically present.
The Guru can think about you from a remote place and then transfer all his power to you.
For instance, there is the story about Adi Shankara: The guru gives his lessons to 4
disciples.
Three are very intelligent and one is a very dumb guy.
One day he was going to teach a very difficult subject.
So he found that the dumb devotee was missing, and so he asked 'where is Krodeka?"
"Oh, we don't know where he is..."
That's how the three disciples answered the master.
The Master knew what was going on in the minds of the disciples.
They were thinking, "why is he waiting...that dumb guy is not going to understand anything
about this lesson."
But Shankara was insistent and said " we are not going to start the class until Krodeka
comes."
He saw in his third eye what Krodeka was doing: Krodeka was washing the Master's clothes in
the river.
So he blessed him.
And that was an initiation.
He completely transferred his knowledge to Krodeka.
After an hour, Krodeka came and then as he came to join the group, he was glowing.
There was a great light around him that was irresistible.
Even these three other disciples stood up and bowed down to Krodeka, because they saw
the power and the wisdom in Krodeka.
This is an example of true initiation.
It is a very sacred relationship between the Master and the disciple