Core Insight:
According to Osho, references to figures like Hitler are provocative devices to unmask hidden violence and authoritarianism—even in celebrated leaders like Gandhi—not endorsements. He insists he is not anti-Semitic and loves Jews for their suffering. True nonviolence, he says, means never imposing one’s will; any coercion, however saintly its image, is violence. His comparisons challenge blind reverence and awaken individual freedom.