Core Insight:
According to Osho, Shudras (and later ‘Harijans’) arose not from any divine order but from India’s calculated invention of varna—a device to freeze fluid class differences, eliminate competition, and secure upper-caste privilege. By fixing people’s destiny through social barriers and doctrines like karma, society immobilized the lower masses, bred apathy toward the nation’s fate, and invited stagnation and enslavement.