According to Osho, neither misfortune, foolishness, nor downfall—it’s humanity’s habitual unconsciousness. We worship the dead to avoid the living demand for transformation. Rituals are cheap substitutes: offering flowers outside instead of blooming the inner lotus, lighting temple lamps instead of the inner flame. True religion is practice and inward pilgrimage; in a living master’s presence, the only authentic worship is to change.
Worshiping dead teachers is an easy way to avoid changing yourself, but a living master asks you to do the hard inner work.