Core Insight:
According to Osho, while a master could theoretically take on a disciple’s pain and fall ill, in real life this does not happen. The illnesses of enlightened beings arise intrinsically from enlightenment’s shock and the ensuing distance from the body, not from absorbing disciples’ suffering. Enlightenment heightens witnessing but reduces bodily control; taking another’s pain doesn’t make them enlightened—disciples’ claims otherwise are consoling myths.