According to Osho, self-protection arises from the inborn fear of death; we try to secure ourselves with money, power, and respectability, but these only fortify the ego—an arrogant façade that cannot stop death growing within. Such defenses become a gilded prison. Real safety comes by surrender: letting the dewdrop die into the ocean. In that egoless merging, fear dissolves and life’s insecurity becomes freedom.
Building walls of money and power can’t stop death; relax and trust life, and the fear falls away.