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Did Mahavira know that repression doesn't work, as concluded by Freud and modern psychologists?

Liberation arises not from repression, but from awakening; true peace and bliss are the fruits of non-repressive release.

— Osho
According to Osho, yes: Mahavira realized that liberation never comes from repression but from awakening. Freud only supplied modern terminology for an ageless truth; the phenomenon was always so. If Mahavira attained, he did not repress—repression and liberation are opposites. A repressed person shows tension, whereas Mahavira’s peace, bliss and radiance evidence non-repressive release.

Mahavira became free by waking up inside, not by pushing feelings down; Freud just gave new words to this old truth.

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