Core Insight:
According to Osho, Tantra was a powerful, scientific path to transform sexual energy into enlightenment, but sex-repressive society violently persecuted tantrikas—massacring couples, burning scriptures, driving adepts into forests. To preserve the living stream of methods, masters chose "whispered transmission": pass it quietly, person-to-person, not publicly. In India, where many sages existed, martyrdom stirred little outrage, so secrecy became the only practical way to keep Tantra alive.