Core Insight:
According to Osho, Buddha and Mahavira did not embrace sannyas out of misery but from satiation—an ennui born of abundant happiness that felt meaningless. They renounced worldly happiness to seek a higher fulfillment—bliss. Later, masochistic interpreters projected their own suffering onto this stance, equating renunciation with sorrow, thus linking these affluent sages’ sannyas to pain despite its origin in plenitude.