Is religion merely an invitation for a rare few to leave the world and dissolve into the divine?

According to Osho, religion is a universal invitation—not an elitist escape—for all to heal the sick soul; few accept it, fewer complete it. The world is a hospital/university: through practice you become in the world but not of it, and ultimately free. This is not dissolving into nothingness; by dropping our diseases (attachments, ignorance), the world’s dreamlike emptiness falls away and wholeness, truth, and inner light are realized.