Core Insight:
According to Osho, nonvegetarian food is banned in the ashram not for religious purity or enlightenment, but for aesthetics—a refined sensitivity to beauty, poetry, and humanity. Killing an animal for taste is unaesthetic when nourishing vegetarian food exists; animals are our familial continuum. Diet doesn't block enlightenment, yet meat coarsens the heart’s aesthetic sense, so the commune chooses beauty over brutality.