According to Osho, when we truly face the "snake" of vanity and jealousy, we discover it isn’t in the body but in the subtle mind—ultimately an imagined knot maintained by belief. Crude self-mortification can’t touch it and only feeds the ego; only delicate, inner understanding, witnessing, and skillful suggestion dissolve the illusion and free us.
Don’t hurt your body; look calmly inside and you’ll see the scary snake is just a thought, and it fades.