According to Osho, once a master dies, the unconscious turns him from a disruptive, awakening presence into a safe memory and myth. Out of guilt and avoidance, disciples begin worshipping, sculpting the master in their own image. Death ends his body; myth kills his spirit, reducing a historical liberator to an impotent icon that demands no inner change.
When a master dies, people make him into a safe story to worship instead of letting his teaching change them.