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Was Chaitanya's singing and dancing merely a form of intoxication?

Through total motion, one can reach the unmoving center, for both stillness and ecstatic movement lead to the same timeless silence within.

— Osho
According to Osho, Chaitanya’s ecstatic singing and dancing were not intoxication but a supreme spiritual method: through total motion one comes to the unmoving center, just as Mahavira and Buddha reached it through absolute stillness. Humanity has two gates to the axle—stillness and total movement—and Chaitanya, even beyond Krishna in dance, realized the same timeless silence within.

If you dance and sing with your whole heart, the outside spins so fast that a quiet, peaceful center inside shows up—just like when you sit very still.

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