Why do Indians react with surprise and fascination when they see foreign young women in the ashram?
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outcome
"The sight of free, joyful women reveals the unresolved conflicts within; their fascination is a mirror reflecting their own repressed desires and guilt."
According to Osho, Indians react with shock and fascination because centuries of ascetic conditioning have condemned women and sexuality, filling people with guilt and repression. Repressed desire becomes morbid curiosity and projection, so the sight of free, joyful foreign women in the ashram exposes their unresolved conflict. To defend themselves, they gossip, fabricate scandals, and abuse, mistaking their own inner turmoil for others’ sin.
They were taught to fear women and sex, so seeing free foreign girls stirs up their hidden feelings, causing shock, curiosity, and gossip.
Why this matters practically
- Notice when your shock or judgment is really your own conditioning and unmet desires.
- Swap gossip for self-inquiry and compassion to end projection.
- Foster natural, respectful meeting of genders to dissolve fear and scandal.
- Swap gossip for self-inquiry and compassion to end projection.
- Foster natural, respectful meeting of genders to dissolve fear and scandal.
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