Core Insight:
According to Osho, priests and pundits oppose awakening because, being unawakened word-traders, their authority, livelihood, and control depend on keeping people spiritually asleep. Awakening dissolves their 'shop': customers vanish, exploitation ends. Lacking experience, they weaponize scriptures, polished language, and logic to enthrone belief over meditation, pushing out the truly realized (who neither dominate nor exploit), thus treating every awakener as a threat.