Core Insight:
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.