According to Osho, yes: Govind Siddharth’s declaration was a deliberate device to jolt you from the false personality and turn you inward. We are together for a single intention—to remind you you are not what you were taught. Misery comes from acting a role; a shock makes the mask slip so you can uncling, look within, and return 'home' to your real nature.
Yes—it's meant to wake you from pretending and help you look inside to find your real self.
From the Discourses
Passages where Osho speaks to this question — each links to the complete discourse.
Its whole idea is to create inner friction in you and to help you to go beyond it. For example, if you want to fight then fight with your with your anger, greed. Of course it is not an ordinary fight and you cannot use ordinary weapons either. You will have to learn different kinds of strategies, you will have to learn a totally different methodology. That methodology is meditation, awareness. Gurdjieff used to call it self-remembering. Whenever you are in anger, remember yourself. In that very remembering the focus changes, the gestalt changes. You become more and more centred. Anger remains there just on the periphery of your being, but you know now that it is separate from you. You are not angry, you are only a witness to it. Now it is up to you to choose to be angry or not to be angry.
(Bliss is inside us, Osho reiterated in his last address, which was to an Indian ex-police inspector. Turn in, he told him, and you will discover a whole new perspective to life.) Then it is no more confined by birth and death. Then we know it has been before birth and it will be there after death too. Then birth and death are not the beginning and the end of life but only ordinary episodes in an eternal journey. People are sad and miserable for the simple reason that they have been searching outside. They cannot find it there because it is not there in the first place. You have to look in the right place. Our consciousness contains all, the whole kingdom of god is there. Man comes with all that he needs, with all that he desires.
George Gurdjieff had a quicker method because a man like Gurdjieff has not much time to waste. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis can go from three years to ten years -- now a man like Gurdjieff cannot waste so much time on a single person -- and even then the psychoanalysis is not complete. In fact, on the whole of the earth there is not a single person whose psychoanalysis is complete; there is always something more hidden. You go on digging, you go on digging, you never come to the end. You cannot come to the end because it is not only a question of one life of repression, it is a question of millions of lives of repression. 'You have an unconscious; beneath it you have a collective unconscious -- Jung discovered that. Beneath that, Buddha says, you have an universal unconscious.
And the moment you know your being you have found the key, the master key which can unlock many many doors. In fact that one key is enough to unlock all the doors. I call that key the truth, your truth, your experienced truth. So drop all beliefs, drop all lies which others have taught you, and go innocently, empty, knowing nothing. And soon you will find a great treasure, a great wisdom, within yourself. It is already there just waiting for you to come empty-handed. Meditation means going inside empty-handed, empty of all belief, of all knowledge. (He was replaced by Satoshi, whom Osho renamed Dharmananda. It means the bliss that arises out of knowing the nature of existence, Osho explained.) Without knowing it, whatsoever we do is bound to create misery.
Osho, the actions a person performs—are they not, in fact, done by God alone? Has it been rightly asked: are not the actions a person performs actually done by the Divine?
Second stage: Now we enter the second step. Keep the breathing deep, and let the body do whatever it wants—leave it to itself. Let the body make mudras, make postures; if the body starts trembling, whirling, crying—let it. Let the body go completely—breathing will remain deep, and you will let the body go. If the body falls, let it fall. If it rises, let it rise. If it begins to dance, don’t worry—let the body go. Let the body go completely. Breathing will remain deep, and the body will be left completely free. Let the body do whatever it wants. Do not stop it even a little; cooperate with it. Whatever the body wants to do, cooperate—if it whirls, let it whirl; if it sways, let it sway; if it falls, let it fall; if it cries, let it cry; if it laughs, let it laugh—let go—whatever happens, let it…