According to Osho, pativratā isn’t a lofty spiritual ideal but a plain social role: the wife who keeps her husband under a regimen of vows—fasts, early rising, no smoking, no cards, no cinema—constantly ‘reforming’ him through religion and morality. It reflects a power trade-off: denied outer freedoms, women wield leverage by policing men’s conduct in the name of virtue.
Pativratā means a wife who makes her husband follow lots of religious rules and promises—it’s control, not mysticism.