Core Insight:
According to Osho, Nietzsche calls a sannyasin’s “subtle violence” the egoic superiority hidden in renunciation: from a moral height he humiliates ordinary people, burdens them with guilt, brands them sinners, and rules them through fear of hell. This is austerity as power — conceit masquerading as holiness. Osho adds it’s only half-true: many “so‑called” ascetics do this, but authentic sannyas is egoless and compassionate.