According to Osho, you return to the cage because centuries of life‑negative conditioning—especially from priests and religions—have poisoned your love of life and installed invisible chains of guilt and habit. The unknown doesn’t frighten you; the familiar misery does. So you retreat to what’s known and approved, abandoning the ecstatic risk of living, dancing, loving, and trusting life as the only real divinity.
You go back to your cage because it feels safe and approved, while old teachings make joy feel wrong—even though the big unknown isn’t actually scary.