Osho Biography 1
From his earliest childhood in India, it was clear that Osho was not going to follow the conventions of the world around him. He spent the first seven years of his life with his maternal grandparents,who allowed him a freedom to be himself which few children enjoy.
The death of his maternal grandfather, he says, had a profound effect on his inner life, provoking in him a determination to discover that in life which is deathless.
By the time he joined his parents' growing family and entered school, he was firmly grounded in a clarity and sense of himself that gave him the courage to challenge all attempts by his elders to shape his life.
He never shied away from controversy. For Osho, truth cannot compromise, or it is no longer the truth. And truth is not a belief but an experience. He never asks people to believe what he says, but rather to experiment and see for themselves whether what he saying is true or not.
And at the same time, he is relentless in finding ways and means to expose beliefs for what they are - mere consolations to so the our anxieties in the face of the unknown, and barriers to encountering a mysterious and unexplored reality.
After his enlightenment at the age of twenty-one, Osho completed his academic studies and spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. Meanwhile,he traveled throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox
religious leaders in public debate and meeting people from all walks of life.
By the late 1960s Osho had begun to develop his unique dynamic meditation techniques. Modern man, he says, is so burdened with the outmoded traditions of the past and the anxieties of modern-day living that he must go through a deep cleansing process before he can hope to discover the thoughtless,relaxed state of meditation. He began to hold meditation camps around India. In the early 1970s, the first Westerners began to hear of Osho, and joined the growing numbers of Indians who had been initiated by him into Neo-sannyas.Next Page