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What is the nature of hypocrisy in India?

Hypocrisy thrives in the shadows of fear, where the celebration of life is replaced by moralistic facades; only by embracing love and creative sexuality can we awaken from this self-imposed slumber.

— Osho
According to Osho, contemporary India is 'a country of hypocrites'—an aging, fearful society that suppresses eros and life, replacing celebration with moralistic facades. In its youthful 'golden days' it honored sexuality as sacred (Khajuraho, Konark). Today’s hypocrisy breeds violence: leaders preach peace yet sow war. Only a symbolic death-and-rebirth—re-embracing love, truth, and creative sexuality—can dissolve it.

India acts nice but hides fear and shame about love; if it learns to celebrate love again, people will be kinder and stop hurting each other.

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