Core Insight:
According to Osho, Mahavira avoided the word ‘love’ because in his time it had been corrupted by devotional traditions; using it would have merged his revolution with prevailing Brahminical rhetoric and invited gross misunderstanding. To safeguard clarity and distinctness, he chose ‘ahimsa’ (nonviolence), redefining it to communicate his vision while minimizing inherited distortions, knowing listeners project meanings onto words and teachers must select terms strategically.