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What is Gandhi's fourth monkey?

Avoiding sexuality is not liberation; true spiritual revolution lies in the conscious understanding and transmutation of sexual energy into awareness.

— Osho
According to Osho, Gandhi’s ‘fourth monkey’ is the missing, naked one covering his genitals—the symbol of transforming sexual energy upward to the third eye. Gandhi hid this statue out of sexual repression, keeping only “see, hear, speak no evil.” For Osho, avoiding isn’t liberation; conscious understanding and transmutation of sex into awareness is the real spiritual revolution.

It means the part everyone hides—sex—should be understood and turned into awareness, not suppressed, because that’s how real growth happens.

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