Why did Osho refer to Shri Poonamchand-bhai as a fool?
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"To be free is not to abandon the path for worldly desires; true freedom arises when you let go of all attachments and illusions."
According to Osho, he called Shri Poonamchand-bhai a fool because Poonamchand took sannyas for the wrong, worldly reasons—hoping for a miracle cure for his eyes—then abandoned it after projecting a 'be free' message onto a photo, freeing himself only from sannyas while clinging to wife, wealth, fears and superstitions. He thus became 'free of freedom' and tried to justify it intellectually.
He chased a miracle, misunderstood ‘freedom,’ dropped the path meant to free him, and kept all his attachments—so Osho called that foolish.
Why this matters practically
- Examine your motives in practice; don’t bargain for worldly fixes.
- Treat inspiration as a call to deepen, not abandon, discipline.
- Real freedom means dropping attachments and superstitions, not the path that helps you do so.
- Treat inspiration as a call to deepen, not abandon, discipline.
- Real freedom means dropping attachments and superstitions, not the path that helps you do so.
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