Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990). Also known as Osho, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and Acharya Rajneesh, was an Indian godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker. And was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy. Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour. Qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation. In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality. He caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as the “Sex Guru.” Osho Rajneesh Wiki
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as “neo-sannyasins”. During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings. And commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics. And philosophers from around the world. In 1974, Rajneesh relocated to Pune where a foundation. And ashram were established to offer a variety of “transformational tools” for Indian and international visitors. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai. And the movement led to a curbing of the ashram’s development.
Osho Rajneesh Wiki Biography
Rajneesh (a childhood nickname from Sanskrit रजनि rajani, night and ईश isha, lord) was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents’ house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. His parents Babulal and Saraswati Jain, who were TaranpanthiJains, let him live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old. By Rajneesh’s own account, this was a major influence on his development because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom, leaving him carefree without an imposed education or restrictions. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
When he was seven years old, his grandfather died, and he went to Gadarwara to live with his parents. Rajneesh was profoundly affected by his grandfather’s death, and again by the death of his childhood girlfriend and cousin Shashi from typhoid when he was 15, leading to a preoccupation with death that lasted throughout much of his childhood and youth. In his school years, he was a rebellious, but gifted student, and gained a reputation as a formidable debater. Rajneesh became an anti-theist, took an interest in hypnosis and briefly associated with socialism and two Indian nationalist organisations: the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. However, his membership in the organisations was short-lived as he could not submit to any external discipline, ideology or system. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
Birthday: December 11, 1931
Sun Sign: Sagittarius
Died At Age: 58
Born In: India
Famous As: One Of The Most Controversial Spiritual Leaders And Public Speakers
Mother: Saraswati Jain
Died On: January 19, 1990
Place Of Death: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Osho Rajneesh Wiki Public Speaker
In 1951, aged nineteen, Rajneesh began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur. Asked to leave after conflicts with an instructor, he transferred to D. N. Jain College, also in Jabalpur. Having proved himself to be disruptively argumentative, he was not required to attend college classes in D. N. Jain College except for examinations and used his free time to work for a few months as an assistant editor at a local newspaper. He began speaking in public at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan (Meeting of all faiths) held at Jabalpur, organised by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born, and participated there from 1951 to 1968. He resisted his parents’ pressure to get married. Rajneesh later said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old, in a mystical experience while sitting under a tree in the Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
Having completed his B.A. in philosophy at D. N. Jain College in 1955, he joined the University of Sagar, wherein 1957 he earned his M.A. in philosophy (with distinction). He immediately secured a teaching position at Raipur Sanskrit College, but the Vice-Chancellor soon asked him to seek a transfer as he considered him a danger to his students’ morality, character and religion. From 1958, he taught philosophy as a lecturer at Jabalpur University, being promoted to professor in 1960. A popular lecturer, he was acknowledged by his peers as an exceptionally intelligent man who had been able to overcome the deficiencies of his early small-town education.
Relationship is the need of those who cannot be alone. Two alone persons relate, communicate, commune, and yet they remain alone. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser.
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead.
Wherever you are afraid, try to explore, and you will find death hiding somewhere behind. All fear is of death. Death is the only fear source.
Take life easily, lovingly, playfully, non-seriously. Seriousness is a disease, the greatest disease of the soul and playfulness the greatest health.
Never ask, “Who is my real friend?” Ask, “Am I a real friend to somebody?” That is the right question. Always be concerned with yourself.
It does not matter if you are a rose or a lotus or a marigold. What matters is that you are flowering.
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
Only idiots are not controversial.
It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.
Osho Quotes on Life
In relationship, be blissful, in aloneness be aware and they will help each other, like two wings of a bird.
Nobody else can destroy you except you; nobody else can save you except you. You are the Judas and you are the Jesus.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
When you really laugh for those few moments you are in a deep meditative state. Thinking stops. It is impossible to laugh and think together.
Miscellaneous Osho Quotes
Be aware – deep down you are really attached to your negative emotions. They are your ego.
Love is a wine; you have to taste it, you have to drink it, you have to become drunk with it, only then do you know what it is.
When it comes to deciding between your love and your truth, truth has to be the decisive factor.
Intelligence never grows by imitation: Intelligence grows by experimentation. Intelligence grows by taking challenges.
The society is ill;individuals are victims. Society needs therapy;individuals simply need love. The society is the patient and needs hospitalization.
It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love, or how you love, it matters only that you love. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
If you cannot enjoy your own company, who else is going to enjoy it?
The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the others. You are slave. If are yet not free. You are in bondage.
Suicide leads nowhere, it simply enters your consciousness into another womb of a lower kind, because you could not manage to live on a higher level.
Your marriage is a subtle politics of domination. Your fatherhood, motherhood, is a subtle politics.
Life has no meaning. Rejoice! It has no meaning. Dance, sing, enjoy! It has no meaning. You need not be serious. It is a cosmic joke.
All beliefs suffocate and all beliefs help you not to be really alive. They deaden your being.
Life is a purposeless play, a play of infinite forces-beautiful if you don’t have an achiever’s mind, ugly if you have ambition to become something.
Don’t go on with borrowed knowledge. Otherwise you will forget that you are ignorant, and you will remain ignorant.
The real question is not whether life exists after death. The real question is whether you are alive before death.
Doing brings ego. Ego is the shadow of action. And there is only one thing that is not-doing, and that is awareness, watchfulness.
Love is a bird and it loves to be free. It needs the whole sky to grow. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
Love is true only when it does not interfere in the privacy of the other person. It respects his individuality, his privacy.
Once I was on a journey and someone asked me which word in a man’s vocabulary was the most valuable. My reply was, Love.
Life is not a tension anywhere except in the minds of humanity. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
The ultimate state of love is freedom, absolute freedom, and any relationship that destroys freedom is not worthwhile.
My enlightenment has freed me from everything, including enlightenment.
There has never been a person like you before, there is nobody else like you right now in the whole world, and there will never be anybody like you.
Life is a mirror, it reflects your face. Be friendly, and all of life will reflect friendliness.
You just listen to your own heart – that is your only teacher. In the real journey of life, your own intuition is your only teacher.
The person who can be happy alone is really an individual. If your happiness depends on the other, you are a slave; you are not yet free, you are in bondage.
The Last of the Osho Quotes!
Love in itself, or just having a relationship with someone, is not going to give you happiness, unless you bring happiness with you. Osho Rajneesh Wiki
Controversies Around Osho
A major reason that Osho was controversial in India and indeed the West, was his advocacy of sexual freedom and exploration. For example, note how Lonely Planet’s India Survival Guide from the 1980s, talks about him. This is in fact one of the more taciturn and unbiased reviews. “With India’s great importance as a religious center it’s no wonder that so many people embark on some sort of spiritual quest while they’re there. There are all sorts of places and all sorts of gurus. One of the best known would have to be Osho Rajneesh Wiki and his orange folk but he has deserted Pune for greener pastures in Oregon. USA. The Pune ashram continues but on a much diminished scale.
Although Pune has a number of points of interest and can be conveniently visited if you’re heading from Bombay to Aurangabad (for Ajanta and Ellora) or to Goa, its major attraction to western visitors was the Shree Rajneesh Ashram The ashram became so well known that it was even included on the city bus tour, where, in a superb reversal of roles, Indians flocked to view westerners. Osho. however, has now shifted his ashram to Oregon in the USA and the Pune ashram is a mere shadow of its former self.
Although Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has shifted to the US, his ashram still continues in Koregaon Park, a relatively would be three or four thousand of his followers at a time in Pune, about a thousand of whom actually lived at the ashram. In all 90% or more of his Pune followers were westerners. The ashram is clean, neat and modern, with cool touches, like signs suggesting that you don’t waste time queuing for mail, rent your own mailbox’.