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Osho
File:Osho.jpgOsho (Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain, रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन)
Nationality	Indian
Movement	Jivan Jagruti Andolan; Neo-sannyas

Rajneesh Chandra Mohan Jain (Template:Lang-hi) (December 11, 1931 – January 19, 1990), better known during the 1960s as Acharya Rajneesh, then during the 1970s and 1980s as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later taking the name Osho, was an Indian spiritual teacher. He lived in India and in other countries including, for a period, the United States, and inspired the Osho movement, a controversial spiritual and philosophical movement that still has many followers.

Biography

Early life

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain (Template:Lang-hi) in Kuchwada, a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India, as the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant. At the time, an astrologer predicted that he might die before he was seven years old according to the birth chart. His parents, who were Taranpanthi Jains, sent him to live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old.

Osho said this was a major influence on his growth because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom and respect, leaving him carefree; without an imposed education or restrictions.

At seven years old, he went back to his parents. He explained that he received a similar kind of respect from his paternal grandfather who was staying with them. He was able to be very open with his grandfather. His grandfather used to tell him, "I know you are doing the right thing. Everyone may tell you that you are wrong. But nobody knows which situation you are in. Only you can decide in your situation. Do whatsoever you feel is right. I will support you. I love you and respect you as well." He resisted his parents' pressure to get married.

He was a rebellious, but gifted student, winning the title of All-India Debating Champion.

He started his public speaking at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan held at Jabalpur since 1939, organised by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born. He participated there from 1951 to 1968. Eventually the Jain community stopped inviting him because of his radical ideas.

Osho said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old. He said he dropped all effort and hope. After an intense seven-day process he went out at night to a garden in Jabalpur, where he sat under a tree:

The moment I entered the garden everything became luminous, it was all over the place – the benediction, the blessedness. I could see the trees for the first time – their green, their life, their very sap running. The whole garden was asleep, the trees were asleep. But I could see the whole garden alive, even the small grass leaves were so beautiful.

I looked around. One tree was tremendously luminous – the maulshree tree. It attracted me, it pulled me towards itself. I had not chosen it, god himself has chosen it. I went to the tree, I sat under the tree. As I sat there things started settling. The whole universe became a benediction.

He finished his studies at D. N. Jain College and the University of Sagar, receiving a B.A. (1955) and an M.A. (1957, with distinction) in philosophy. He then taught philosophy, first at Raipur Sanskrit College, and then, until 1966, as a Professor at Jabalpur University. At the same time, he travelled throughout India, giving lectures critical of socialism and Gandhi, under the name Acharya Rajneesh (Acharya means "teacher"; Rajneesh was a nickname he had been given by his family). In 1962, he began to lead 3- to 10-day meditation camps, and the first meditation centres (Jivan Jagruti Kendras) started to emerge around his teaching, then known as the Life Awakening Movement (Jivan Jagruti Andolan). He resigned from his teaching post in 1966.

In 1968, he scandalised Hindu leaders by calling for freer acceptance of sex; at the Second World Hindu Conference in 1969, he enraged Hindus by criticising all organised religion and the very institution of priesthood.

In 1969, a group of Osho's friends established a foundation to support his work. They settled in an apartment in Mumbai where he gave daily discourses and received visitors. The number and frequency of visitors soon became too much for the place, overflowing the apartment and bothering the neighbours. A much larger apartment was found on the ground floor (so the visitors would not need to use the elevator, a matter of conflict with the former neighbours).

On September 26, 1970, he initiated his first disciple or sannyasin at an outdoor meditation camp, one of the large gatherings where he lectured and guided group meditations. His concept of neo-sannyas entailed wearing the traditional orange dress of ascetic Hindu holy men. However, his sannyasins were not expected to follow an ascetic lifestyle.

1971–1980

From 1971, he was known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. Shree means Sir or Mister; the Sanskrit word Bhagwan means "blessed one". It is commonly used in India as a respectful form of address for spiritual teachers.

The new apartment also proved insufficient, and the climate of Mumbai was deemed very bad for his delicate health. So, in 1974, on the 21st anniversary of his enlightenment, he and his group moved from the Mumbai apartment to a newly purchased (by Catherine Venizelos) property in Koregaon Park, in the city of Pune, a four-hour trip from Mumbai. Pune had been the secondary residence of many wealthy families from Mumbai because of the cooler climate (Mumbai lies in a coastal wetland, hot and damp, Pune is inland and much higher, so it is drier and cooler).

The two adjoining houses and six acres of land became the nucleus of an Ashram, and those two buildings are still at the heart of the present-day Osho International Meditation Resort. This space allowed for the regular audio and video recording of his discourses and, later, printing for worldwide distribution, which enabled him to reach far larger audiences internationally. The number of Western visitors increased sharply, leading to constant expansion. The Ashram now began to offer a growing number of therapy groups, as well as meditations. Some of the early therapy groups, such as the Encounter group, were very controversial, since they allowed a degree of physical violence as well as sexual encounters between participants.

During one of Osho's discourses in 1980, an attempt on his life was made by a Hindu fundamentalist.

Osho taught at the Pune Ashram from 1974 to 1981.

1981–1990

By 1981, Osho's Pune Ashram hosted 30,000 visitors per year, but allegations of unrestrained sex, drug use and violence had by then marred the Ashrams image; there were also conflicting reports about injuries that had occurred during encounter group sessions. To add to this trouble, serious conflict had arisen with various religious leaders, and with the Indian government, led by Morarji Desai; a dispute that saw the Ashrams tax-exempt status canceled.

On 10 April 1981, having discoursed daily for nearly 15 years, Osho entered a three-and-a-half-year period of self-imposed public silence, and satsangs (silent sitting and music, with some readings from spiritual works such as Khalil Gibran's The Prophet) took the place of his discourses. Then, in mid-1981, Osho went to the United States in search of better medical care (he suffered from asthma, diabetes and severe back problems). Though ill health is cited by his followers as the reason for Osho's immigration, others attribute the move to the various conflicts that had marred the period preceding his departure from Pune.

After a brief spell in Montclair, New Jersey, his followers bought (for US$6 million) a 64,000-acre (260 km) ranch in Wasco County, Oregon, previously known as "The Big Muddy Ranch" and immediately began setting up the so called Rancho Rajneesh commune. Within a year of arriving Osho's followers had became embroiled in a series of battles with their neighbours; the principal conflict relating to land use. In May of 1982, the residents of Rancho Rajneesh (having grown larger in number than the local inhabitants) voted to incorporate the city of Rajneeshpuram.

Osho resided at Rajneeshpuram, living in a purpose-built home with an indoor swimming pool and other amenities. Over the coming years, he achieved notoriety for amassing a large number (some 93 vehicles by its final count) of Rolls-Royce cars; which his followers are said to have bought for his use.

Osho ended his period of silence in October 1984. In July 1985, he resumed his daily public discourses in the commune's purpose-built, two-acre meditation hall. According to statements he made to the press, he did so against the wishes of Ma Anand Sheela, his secretary and the commune’s top manager.

Increasing conflicts with neighbours and the state of Oregon, as well as serious and criminal misconduct by the commune's management (including conspiracy to murder public officials, wiretapping within the commune and within Osho's home, the attempted murder of Osho's personal physician, and a bioterror attack on the citizens of The Dalles, Oregon, using salmonella), made the position of the Oregon commune untenable. When the commune's management team who were guilty of these crimes left the U.S. in September 1985, fleeing for Europe, Osho convened a press conference and called on the authorities to undertake an investigation. This eventually led to the conviction of Sheela and several of her lieutenants. Although Osho himself was not implicated in these crimes, his reputation suffered tremendously, especially in the West.

In late October 1985, Osho was arrested in North Carolina as he was allegedly fleeing the U.S. Accused of minor immigration violations, Osho, on advice of his lawyers, entered an "Alford plea" – through which a suspect does not admit guilt, but does concede there is enough evidence to convict him – and was given a suspended sentence and deported from the United States.

Osho then began a world tour, speaking in Nepal, Greece and Uruguay, among others. Being refused entry visas by more than twenty different countries, he returned to India in July 1986, and in January 1987, to his old Ashram in Pune, India. He resumed discoursing there.

In November 1987, his health failing, Osho expressed his belief that his deteriorating condition was the result of some form of poison administered to him by the U.S. authorities during the twelve days he was held without bail in various U.S. prisons. His doctors hypothesised that he had been poisoned by radiation and thallium, and that he must have slept on his right side on a deliberately irradiated mattress, since his symptoms were concentrated on the right side of his body.

However, this allegation, as disseminated by Osho's one-time attorney, Philip J. Toelkes, was dismissed outright by US attorney Charles H. Hunter, who stated: "It's a total and complete fiction and you have to consider the source ... the man has no credibility." Indeed, Toelkes (Swami Prem Niren) conceded that there was no evidence to support the claim.

A less sinister explanation is that Osho, who had been a diabetic for many years, may have suffered from a series of systemic breakdowns in the final stages of his chronic disease, perhaps exacerbated by the stress he had experienced and his alleged frequent use of nitrous oxide and diazepam throughout the 1980s.

In late December 1988, he said he no longer wished to be referred to as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and shortly afterwards took the name Osho.

On January 19, 1990, four years after his arrest, Osho died, aged 58, with heart failure being the publicly reported cause.

His ashes were placed in his newly built bedroom in one of the main buildings (LaoTsu House) at his last place of residence, his Ashram in Pune, India. The epitaph reads, "OSHO. Never Born, Never Died. Only Visited this Planet Earth between Dec 11 1931 – Jan 19 1990."

Legacy

The events around Rajneeshpuram during the eighties had brought Osho and his movement into disrepute in the eyes of the public. But since Osho's death, there has been a sea change in public opinion. As early as 1991, an influential Indian newspaper counted Osho, among figures such as Gautama Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi, among the ten people who had most changed India's destiny; in Osho's case, by "liberating the minds of future generations from the shackles of religiosity and conformism". Since then, his teachings have progressively become part of the cultural mainstream of India and Nepal, perhaps in part because of his status as a figure who had a relatively large Western following.

Over 350 books are attributed to Osho: the contents of which address his views on all facets of human and cosmic existence. Virtually all of these are compilations of "discourses" usually listing a "compiler" and another person as "editor" and many reinterpret other traditions in the context of his beliefs. The books are available in 55 different languages and have entered best-seller lists in such varied countries as Italy and South Korea.

Osho is one of only two authors whose entire works have been placed in the Library of India's National Parliament in New Delhi (the other is Mahatma Gandhi). Excerpts and quotes from his works appear regularly in the Times of India and many other Indian newspapers. Prominent admirers include the Indian Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh, and the noted Indian novelist and journalist, Khushwant Singh. The Osho disciple Vinod Khanna, who worked as Osho's gardener in Rajneeshpuram, served as India's Minister of State for External Affairs from 2003 to 2004.

In the West, figures such as the American poet and Rumi translator Coleman Barks, the American novelist Tom Robbins and the German philosopher, author and TV host Peter Sloterdijk have championed Osho.

Osho's Ashram in Pune has become the Osho International Meditation Resort, one of India's main tourist attractions. According to press reports, it attracts some 200,000 visitors from all over the world each year; politicians, media personalities and the Dalai Lama have visited the Meditation Resort.AIDS is still a concern for the Osho movement and HIV tests are mandatory for those wishing to enter.

Recently, the resorts management instigated a so-called "de-Oshoisation" of the commune. Hundreds of pictures of Osho, which earlier greeted visitors, were removed from the premises. A senior member of the management team has openly declared, in a New York Times interview, that Osho’s pictures were removed because new visitors to the resort found them off putting. In response to this move, former spokesperson for Osho, Chaitanya Keerti, stated that the removal of Osho’s pictures was part of a deliberate plan to emphasise the "resort" aspect of the facility and downplay the commune’s association with Osho. Other allegations regarding the "unpalatable" rampant commercialisation of the Ashram have been made and Keerti has said: "Osho wanted the Commune to be a resting place for the spiritual seeker. Now it is called the Zen Resorts Pvt Ltd and anyone who can pay Rs 1,900 a night can stay there."; the suggestion being that some believe Osho's spiritual legacy may be under threat.

Philosophy

Osho taught that the greatest values in life are (in no specific order) awareness, love, meditation, celebration, creativity and laughter. He said that enlightenment is everyone's natural state, but that one is distracted from realising it – particularly by the human activity of thought, as well as by emotional ties to societal expectations, and consequent fears and inhibitions.

He was a prolific speaker (in both Hindi and English) on various spiritual traditions including those of Buddha, Zen, Laozi, Krishna, Guru Nanak, Jesus, Socrates, Gurdjieff, Sufism, Hassidism, Tantra and many others. He attempted to ensure that no "system of thought" would define him, since he believed that no philosophy can fully express the truth.

Two western influences in particular are evident in the his philosophy. A view of man as tortured into a machine by social institutions draws very much on Gurdjieff . Osho's view of the "new human" who transcends the constraints of convention is reminiscent of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. Also, his view of disciples as independent, forceful, highly competitive survivors is reflective of Nietzsche's Übermensch; a concept that is dealt with in Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

An experienced orator, he said that words could not convey his message, but that his basic reason for speaking was to give people a taste of meditation:

I am making you aware of silences without any effort on your part. My speaking is being used for the first time as a strategy to create silence in you.

This is not a teaching, a doctrine, a creed. That’s why I can say anything. I am the most free person who has ever existed as far as saying anything is concerned. I can contradict myself in the same evening a hundred times. Because it is not a speech, it has not to be consistent. It is a totally different thing, and it will take time for the world to recognise that a tremendously different experiment was going on.

Just a moment … when I became silent, you become silent. What remains is just a pure awaiting. You are not making any effort; neither am I making any effort. I enjoy talking; it is not an effort.

I love to see you silent. I love to see you laugh, I love to see you dance. But in all these activities, the fundamental remains meditation.

He was often called the "sex guru" after some speeches in the late 1960s on sexuality. These were later compiled under the title From Sex to Superconsciousness. According to him, "For Tantra everything is holy, nothing is unholy", and all repressive sexual morality was self-defeating, since one could not transcend sex without experiencing it thoroughly and consciously. In 1985, he told the Bombay Illustrated Weekly,

I have never been a celibate. If people believe so, that is their foolishness. I have always loved women – and perhaps more women than anybody else. You can see my beard: it has become grey so quickly because I have lived so intensely that I have compressed almost two hundred years into fifty.

Osho said he loved to disturb people – only by disturbing them could he make them think. Accordingly, his discourses were peppered with offensive jokes and outrageous statements lampooning key figures of established religions such as Hinduism, Jainism or Christianity. Concerning the virgin birth, for example, he said that Jesus was clearly a bastard, since he was not Joseph's biological son. An attempt on his life was made by a Hindu fundamentalist in 1980. Osho, however, said that the only thing he was serious about in his discourses were the jokes – they were the main thing, and everything else was spiritual gossip.

On meditation

According to Osho, meditation is not concentration: it is relaxation, let-go. It is a state of watchfulness that has no ego fulfilment in it, something that happens when one is in a state of not-doing. There is no "how" to this, because "how" means doing – one has to understand that no doing is going to help. In that very understanding, non-doing happens.

Osho said it was very difficult for modern man to just sit and be in meditation, so he devised so-called Active Meditation techniques to prepare the ground. Some of these preparatory exercises can also be found in western psychological therapies (i.e. gestalt therapy), such as altered breathing, gibberish, laughing or crying. His most significant meditation techniques are today known as "OSHO Dynamic Meditation", "OSHO Kundalini Meditation", "OSHO Nadabrahma Meditation" and "OSHO Nataraj Meditation". For each meditation, special music was composed to guide the meditator through the different phases of the meditations. Osho said that Dynamic Meditation was absolutely necessary for modern man. If people were innocent, he said, there would be no need for Dynamic Meditation, but given that people were repressed, were carrying a large psychological burden, they would first need a catharsis. So Dynamic Meditation was to help them clean themselves out; then they would be able to use any meditation method without difficulty.

In the late eighties he developed a new group of "meditative therapies", known as OSHO Meditative Therapies – "OSHO Mystic Rose", "OSHO Born Again" and "OSHO No-Mind." Apart from his own methods, he also reintroduced minimal parts of several traditional meditation techniques, stripped of what he saw as ritual and tradition, and retaining what he considered to be the most therapeutic parts. He believed that, given sufficient practice, the meditative state can be maintained while performing everyday tasks and that enlightenment is nothing but being continuously in a meditative state.

Controversy and criticism

Osho courted controversy throughout his life, appearing to challenge many traditional assumptions about enlightened behaviour.

His liberal views on sex and emotional expression, and the resulting unrestrained behaviour of sannyasins in his Pune Ashram, at times caused considerable consternation, dismay and panic among people holding different views on these matters, both in India and the U.S. A number of Western daily papers routinely, and falsely, claimed that Bhagwan, a traditional title for spiritual teachers in India, meant "Master of the Vagina", and focused their reporting on sexual topics.

Osho said that he was "the rich man's guru", and that material poverty was not a spiritual value. He was photographed wearing sumptuous clothing and hand-made watches. He drove a different Rolls-Royce each day – his followers reportedly wanted to buy him 365 of them, one for each day of the year. Publicity shots of the Rolls-Royces (more than 90 in the end) appeared in the press.

In his discourses, Osho consistently attacked organisational principles embraced by societies around the world – the family, nationhood, religion. He condemned priests and politicians with equal venom, and was in turn condemned by them.

Osho dictated three books while undergoing dental treatment under the influence of nitrous oxide (laughing gas): Glimpses of a Golden Childhood, Notes of a Madman, and Books I Have Loved. This led to allegations that Osho was addicted to nitrous oxide gas. In 1985, on the American CBS television show 60 Minutes, his former secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, claimed that Osho took sixty milligrams of Valium every day. When questioned by journalists about the allegations of daily Valium and nitrous oxide use, Osho categorically denied both, describing the allegations as "absolute lies".

There have also been recurrent allegations that Osho was connected to criminal activity, going back to the early days of the Poona ashram. Some Western hippie sannyasins were financing their extended stays in India through prostitution and drug running, and some of them claimed that, while Osho was not directly involved, he was aware of, and gave his blessing to, this kind of activity. Other allegations report that before he moved to America, the Indian police were planning to place him under house arrest, and that he deliberately left debts unpaid at the time of his departure. At Rajneeshpuram, it has been claimed, Osho must have been at least aware of some of Sheela's illegal activities, such as arranged marriages designed to enable foreign followers to stay in Rajneeshpuram, and must have condoned them. According to critics, he thus stands condemned of being complicit in a range of criminal and anti-spiritual activities.

However, there is no hard evidence to support any of these allegations. Sheela claimed to have tapes implicating Osho in various crimes; however, no such tapes have ever been released by the US authorities, and without them, many of the charges against Osho cannot be substantiated. The only charge ever filed against him concerned immigration fraud.

The author of a recent academic study of the Osho phenomenon has remarked that the "answer to whether Osho was a manipulator, addicted to power, etc., or a radically enlightened spiritual master who continues to offer a joyful, authentic, and enriching – if at times turbulent – path to those who open their hearts to him, seems to rest with the one asking the question, and with posterity."

Further reading

• Osho, Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic (St. Martin's Griffin) 2001 ISBN 0-312-28071-8
• Osho, Glimpses of a Golden Childhood (Rajneesh Foundation International) 1985 ISBN 0-88050-715-2; new edition (Rebel Publishing House) 1998 ISBN 81-7261-072-6
• Sue Appleton, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: The Most Dangerous Man Since Jesus Christ (Rebel Publishing House) 1987 ISBN 3-89338-001-9
• Harry Aveling (ed.), Osho Rajneesh and His Disciples: Some Western Perceptions (Motilal Banarsidass) 1999 ISBN 81-208-1598-X (Hardcover); ISBN 81-208-1599-8 (Paperback)
• Ma Satya Bharti, Death Comes Dancing: Celebrating Life With Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Routledge) 1981 ISBN 0-7100-0705-1
• Satya Bharti Franklin, The Promise of Paradise: A Woman's Intimate Story of the Perils of Life With Rajneesh (Station Hill Press) 1992 ISBN 0-88268-136-2
• Lewis F. Carter, Charisma and Control in Rajneeshpuram: A Community without Shared Values (Cambridge University Press) 1990 ISBN 0-521-38554-7
• Frances FitzGerald, Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures (Simon & Schuster) 1986 ISBN 0-671-55209-0 (includes a section on Rajneeshpuram previously published in two parts in The New Yorker magazine, Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 1986 editions)
• Juliet Forman, Bhagwan: One Man Against the Whole Ugly Past of Humanity (Rebel Publishing House) 2002 ISBN 3-893-38103-1
• Judith M. Fox, Osho Rajneesh. Studies in Contemporary Religion Series, No. 4 (Signature Books) 2002 ISBN 1-56085-156-2 Excerpts available here
• Tim Guest, My Life in Orange: Growing up with the Guru (Harvest Books) 2005 ISBN 0-15-603106-X
• Bernard Gunther, Swami Deva Amit Prem, Dying for Enlightenment: Living with Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Harper & Row) 1979 ISBN 0-06-063527-4
• Rosemary Hamilton, Rosemary Lansdowne, Hell-bent for Enlightenment: Unmasking Sex, Power, and Death With a Notorious Master (White Cloud Press) 1998 ISBN 1-883991-15-3
• Latkin, Carl A. "Feelings after the fall: former Rajneeshpuram Commune members' perceptions of and affiliation with the Rajneeshee movement". Sociology of Religion. 55 (1): Pages 65-74. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
• Win McCormack, Oregon Magazine: The Rajneesh Files 1981-86 (New Oregon Publishers, Inc.) 1985 ASIN B000DZUH6E
• George Meredith, Bhagwan: The Most Godless Yet the Most Godly Man (Rebel Publishing House) 1988 ASIN B0000D65TA (by Osho's personal physician)
• Hugh Milne, Bhagwan: The God that Failed (St. Martin's Press) 1987 ISBN 0-312-00106-1 (by Osho's one-time bodyguard)
• Bob Mullan, Life as Laughter: Following Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Routledge & Kegan Paul Books Ltd) 1984 ISBN 0-7102-0043-9
• Donna Quick, A Place Called Antelope: The Rajneesh Story (August Press) 1995 ISBN 0-9643118-0-1
• Sam, Life of Osho (e-book) (Sannyas) 1997 (review)
• Ma Prem Shunyo, My Diamond Days with Osho: The New Diamond Sutra (Full Circle Publishing Ltd) 2000 ISBN 8-176-21036-6

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58. The Times Of India, Osho's spiritual legacy under threat14 Nov 2002, 0520 hrs IST,Swati Chopra,TNN
59. In his book The Book of Wisdom, Chapter 2, Question 1
60. Prasad, R.C.: Rajneesh: The Mystic of Feeling, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass (Revised Second Edition, 1978) pp.14-17.
61. .Osho (1973),The Silent Explosion,Anand-Shila Publications,Bombay, pp.100
62. Carter L.F. (1987).The "New Renunciates" of the Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh: Observations and Identification of Problems of Interpreting New Religious Movements,Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 26, No. 2. (Jun.), pp. 148–172
63. In his book Be Still and Know, Chapter 9, Question 3
64. In his book The Invitation, Chapter 14, Question 1
65. ^ In his book Satyam, Shivam, Sundaram, Chapter 28, audio available on osho.com in WMA and MP3 Cite error: The named reference "SSS28" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
66. In his book Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol. 1, Chapter 2
67. In his book The Last Testament, Vol. 1, Chapter 27 (interview transcript)
68. Interview with Jeff McMullen, 60 Minutes, Australia, video available here
69. Article on religioustolerance.org, towards the end of the section Beliefs and Practices; for an example, see youtube video
70. Article on religioustolerance.org, 4th paragraph
71. In his book Theologia Mystica, Chapter 6, Question 4
72. In his book Be Still and Know, Chapter 1, Question 1
73. In his book From Misery to Enlightenment, Chapter 22: Exactly how do you do it!
74. Interview with Riza Magazine, Italy, video available here
75. ^ Times of India article dated 3 Jan. 2004
76. ^ Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh, (2002: 47) ISBN 1-56085-156-2
77. Article on religioustolerance.org, in the last paragraph above the section Beliefs and Practices
78. In his book From Darkness to Light, Chapter 29: History repeats itself, unfortunately, Question 1
79. In his book Beyond Psychology, Chapter 9: I Want to Provoke Your Jealousy
80. See for example his book Come Follow to You, Vol. 1., Chapter 9: Go Thou and Preach the Kingdom of God
81. Witness the title of one of his books, Priests and Politicians: The Mafia of the Soul, ISBN 3-893-38000-0
82. Article on sannyasworld.com
83. In his book The Last Testament, Vol. 4, Chapter 19 (transcript of an interview with German magazine, Der Spiegel)
84. Sam, Life of Osho, Sannyas, London, 1997, p. 57–58, 80–83, 112–114
85. ^ Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh, (2002: 48) ISBN 1-56085-156-2
86. Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh, (2002: 49) ISBN 1-56085-156-2
87. ^ Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh, (2002: 50) ISBN 1-56085-156-2
88. Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh, (2002: 51) ISBN 1-56085-156-2

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