Core Insight:
According to Osho, Gandhi’s nonviolence is chiefly a moral-political strategy—outer, policy-driven, historically visible, and prone to compromise—whereas Mahavira’s nonviolence is religious: an inner transformation from which harmlessness flows effortlessly. In Gandhi, nonviolence is in action; in Mahavira, it is in being. Gandhi tried to act himself into saintliness; Mahavira’s awakened consciousness made violence impossible, leaving little ‘history’ but total integrity.