According to Osho, Chaitanya’s dance and kirtan were not intoxication but a direct path to the unmoving center—the axle-pin—reached through total movement. Like Buddha and Mahavira find it in absolute stillness, Chaitanya attained the same truth by ecstatic motion. Kirtan, rightly understood, has wondrous power; yet today its word and practice are worn out—only the living essence, not mechanical chanting, leads to realization.
No—his ecstatic singing and dancing awakened the still, silent center inside, while today’s routine kirtans often miss that living essence.