Core Insight:
According to Osho, higher consciousness does not produce perfect physical health; in fact, the realized one often cannot be fully healthy. With self-knowledge, identification with the body loosens, energy withdraws from bodily maintenance, and the body becomes a mere shell. Illness does not prove spirituality, yet many awakened ones—Ramakrishna, Ramana, Buddha, Mahavira, Krishnamurti—suffered. The sage completes this final body’s karma, then departs; the priority shifts from body to being.