According to Osho, Shiva is the primordial meditator—an unparalleled genius who expounded 112 complete methods of meditation (Vigyan Bhairav Tantra), covering every doorway to awareness. His life affirms that celibacy is unnecessary for awakening; sexual energy, when refined, becomes love and compassion. Shiva’s significance is practical: he mapped all paths to inner silence and showed enlightenment as life-affirming, total, and available to everyone.
Shiva, in Osho’s view, is the first master of meditation who gave all the ways to wake up, showing you don’t need to suppress sex—just transform its energy into love and awareness.