According to Osho, Mahavira’s essential teaching is that true celibacy (brahmacharya) is not repression but the natural fragrance of deep understanding of desire, ripened across many lifetimes. Only awareness dissolves craving; rules and force cannot. When desire is seen totally, it loses its grip, and renunciation happens by itself—an effortless outcome of insight rather than a willful discipline.
When you truly understand how wanting works, it quietly drops away, and celibacy and peace happen by themselves without forcing.