Homer--People in Osho's Talks

...This parable, Homer's story, has not been
understood in the West the way it has to be
understood. It is the story of spiritual growth. You will
come many times to stages which give you the feeling
that the time has come to stop – because the
experience is so much that it is beyond your
comprehension that there can be anything more.

So the mind which has always been telling you,
"More, more" – for everything was asking for more –
suddenly stops. It cannot comprehend there is more.
And that is the point when the master wants you to go
on: "Don't be addicted to any experience, howsoever
beautiful, don't become a lotus-eater; otherwise you
will be unconscious – blissfully unconscious, blissfully
asleep." But you had not started the journey for this.
You were going to reach yourself, fully awake.

The parable is simple if understood in the right way,
but the parable must have reached Homer from the
East. That's why in the West there is no explanation
for it: it is just a story, a beautiful story...

--Osho
The Transmission of the Lamp, ch. 27