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Why do people feel afraid of names such as Tantra, the Left-hand Path, the Aghori path, and the Nath tradition?

The fear of paths like Tantra and the Left-hand Path arises from a society that venerates logic and control, while dismissing the ecstatic, non-utilitarian celebration of life that these traditions embody.

— Osho
According to Osho, Tantra, Vamamarga, Aghor and the Nath way are feared because society worships the right-hand mind—logic, utility, control—and distrusts the left-hand dimension—poetry, feeling, play, feminine celebration, svantah sukhaya. These paths honor non-utilitarian, ecstatic living in the present, so the market-mind calls them dangerous, useless, even immoral, and resists what cannot be accounted, managed, or exploited.

People fear these paths because they celebrate joyful, feeling-based living with no obvious use, while society only trusts what is practical and controllable.

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