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Rajneesh

Also known as Osho, Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, Acharya Rajneesh, Osho Rajneesh, Chandra Mohan Jain, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Bhagwan, Shree Rajneesh

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Acharya Rajneesh, and commonly known as Osho (), was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he encouraged his followers t

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Rajneesh (1931–1990) was an Indian spiritual leader and philosopher who founded a controversial new religious movement that rejected traditional institutional religion in favor of meditation and personal spiritual experience. His teachings and lifestyle—which departed from conventional ascetic practices—made him a polarizing figure whose influence on modern spirituality continues to be debated.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 1931
Died: 1990
Works: 936

Top works

The power of love
La alquimia suprema
Namo arihantāṇam mantra
Beyond enlightenment
Flight of the alone to the alone

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: India
Active from: 1931
Active to: 1990

Discography

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Listeners: 3,166
Total plays: 10,805

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Quotes

“One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for half an hour and then forget all about it. It has to become like your heartbeat. You have to sit in it, you have to walk in it. Yes, you have even to sleep in it.”
“I am the rich man's guru.”
“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.”
“It is not decided by votes what is true; otherwise we could never come to any truth, ever. People will vote for what is comfortable — and lies are very comfortable because you don't have to do anything about them, you just have to believe. Truth needs great effort, discovery, risk, and it needs you to walk alone on a path that nobody has traveled before.”
“Whenever I meet prostitutes, they never speak of sex. They inquire about the soul, and about God. I also meet many ascetics and monks, and whenever we are alone they ask about nothing but sex. I was surprised to learn that ascetics, who are always preaching against sex, seem to be captivated by it. They are curious about it and disturbed by it; they have this mental complex about it, yet they sermonize about religion and about the animal instincts in man. And sex is so natural.”
“I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.”

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Key facts

Artist.name: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Artist.image: Bhagwan beweging gekwetst door reclame-affiche van het NRC met de tekst profeet, Bestanddeelnr 933-0734-cropped.jpg
Artist.image_size: 225px
Artist.caption: Rajneesh, 1977
Artist.birth_name: Chandra Mohan Jain
Artist.birth_place: Kuchwada, Bhopal State, British Raj
Artist.death_place: Pune, Maharashtra, India
Artist.education: Dr. Hari Singh Gour University (MA)
Artist.movement: Neo-sannyasins
Artist.field: Spirituality, mysticism, anti-religion
Artist.memorials: Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune
Artist.signature: Osho signature.webp

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Official website

OSHO – Transform Yourself through the Science of Meditation

Welcome to the world of OSHO – an opportunity to experience for yourself the essence of meditation. Read, watch, listen, and experience this revolutionary approach to discovering yourself.

osho.com →

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Wikidata facts

Official website: www.osho.com
Image: Bhagwan beweging gekwetst door reclame-affiche van het NRC met de tekst profeet, Bestanddeelnr 933-0734-cropped.jpg

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Commons category: Rajneesh
date of birth: 1931-12-11
date of death: 1990-01-19
Commons Creator page: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
birth name: Chandra Mohan Jain
name in native language: रजनीश चन्द्र मोहन जैन
pseudonym: Osho

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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Rajneesh, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Contents

Life
Childhood and adolescence: 1931–1950
University years and public speaker: 1951–1970
Mumbai: 1971–1974
Pune ashram: 1974–1981
United States and the Oregon commune: 1981–1985
Arrival in the United States
Establishing Rajneeshpuram
1984 bioterror attack
Travels and return to Pune: 1985–1990
Death
Teachings
Ego and the mind
Meditation
''Sannyas''
Renunciation and the "New Man"
"Heart to heart communion"
Rajneesh's "Ten Commandments"
Legacy
Sexual abuse and misconduct allegations
Reception
Appraisal by scholars of religion
Appraisal as charismatic leader
Wider appraisal as a thinker and speaker
Films about Rajneesh
Selected discourses
See also
Notes
References
Citations
Bibliography
Further reading
External links

I am not going to give you a destination. I can only give you a direction – awake, throbbing with life, unknown, always surprising, unpredictable. I’m not going to give you a map. I can give you only a great passion to discover. Osho

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