According to Osho, Devadatta’s name is intrinsically sacred—‘given by God,’ like the English ‘John’—so its beauty isn’t canceled by the bearer’s misdeeds. He uses Devadatta’s jealousy and failed plots to show that without realization, intellect breeds violence, which, turned outward is murder and inward is suicide. In Buddha’s vision of oneness and equality, even the apparent enemy serves the divine play; the name’s essence remains pure.
The name means “gift of God” and stays beautiful, while his story shows how jealousy without wisdom turns the same energy into hurting others or yourself.