Core Insight:
According to Osho, a ‘virgin’ is a bodily, social label that can be lost, while a sannyasin embodies inner virginity—innocence, nonattachment, awareness—that, once awakened, “stays a sannyasin.” Sannyas is existential, not sexual: it means remaining untouched within, whether one has sex or not. Thus sannyas transcends morality; virginity belongs to convention and biology.