According to Osho, neither indulgence nor renunciation is real freedom while the ego claims doership. As long as ‘you’ are, you are bound: vows fail, habits persist, and both yes and no to desire are puppeted by a higher hand. True freedom comes when the ‘I’ dissolves in the Divine; then desire and its repression fall away by themselves, and action flows effortlessly without conflict.
You’re not truly free to say yes or no to cravings until the ‘I’ disappears; then cravings lose power and choices become easy.