According to Osho, Indians react with shock and fascination because centuries of ascetic conditioning have condemned women and sexuality, filling people with guilt and repression. Repressed desire becomes morbid curiosity and projection, so the sight of free, joyful foreign women in the ashram exposes their unresolved conflict. To defend themselves, they gossip, fabricate scandals, and abuse, mistaking their own inner turmoil for others’ sin.
They were taught to fear women and sex, so seeing free foreign girls stirs up their hidden feelings, causing shock, curiosity, and gossip.