According to Osho, disciples leave their masters because egoic attachments—talent, roles, achievements—quietly replace discipleship. Forgetting surrender, they become associates serving the master’s work while avoiding their own transformation. When the master confronts the attachment, the disciple chooses the attachment over the path. This is inevitable, recurring: identification hardens, surrender wavers, and separation follows.
People leave when they love their own special thing more than learning, and when asked to drop it, they choose it instead of the path.