According to Osho, when a living religion hardens into a cult it loses its living current, becomes God‑oriented, and is captured by priesthood, rituals, and labels (Christianity, Hinduism, etc.). Power structures replace personal religiousness; history then repeats in dead tradition. He proposes preventing this slide by dropping God, priests, and identities, keeping only pure religiousness—an open, personal inquiry no one can systematize or own.
It becomes a dead set of rules run by priests; stay with simple, personal religiousness (without labels or a God-idea) to keep it alive.