Core Insight:
According to Osho, the absence of recognized women enlightened masters is not due to women’s incapacity but to millennia of patriarchal repression. Driven by men’s unconscious inferiority about childbirth, societies reduced women to property, denied education, mobility, and access to scriptures and temples, even prescribing sati. Religions claimed only male rebirth opens liberation—thus silencing, hiding, and preventing women’s emergence and recognition as spiritual masters.