Core Insight:
According to Osho, the mind's panic in sheer loneliness and its inability to settle—even amid crowds—is not madness but the first, negative form of solitude: loneliness. Here the mind is entangled with 'the other,' restless and seeking distractions. Through awareness and meditation, loneliness ripens into aloneness (peaceful, self-sufficient presence) and ultimately into kaivalya—pure consciousness—where both 'I' and 'Thou' disappear in bliss.