SUBSCRIBE FEED

I was just reading these excerpts from a book on Osho Rajneesh, which claims to have taken a wide range of opinions into its account. Although none of the controversies, Osho is spoken of, were listed in the paragraphs I read there, the Indian born guru was a controversial figure indeed in the eyes of many. As a keen listener and reader of Osho’s discourses, I would say though, the controversies only made his persona sound more colorful and easier to understand.

Wasn’t Osho Himself The Face Behind Mulla Nasruddin?!

There is one gentleman called Christopher Calder, who claims to have been a witness to - to what he terms as - Osho’s fall from grace. Those visiting his site are advised to remember, he is among the severest of Osho’s critics. If you were to learn regarding Osho for the first time, please be warned not to make any quick judgments. The best way to explore Osho Rajneesh would be to listen to his audio discourses and then follow up with some Dhyan (meditation) sessions. Once you had taken meditation seriously, listen to Mr Calder’s outburst yet again and you might begin picking up some of the missing links from Osho’s saga.

One should understand that Osho’s followers were not the very next door usual human beings. They couldn’t have, anyway. Why would any happily living fellow the next door decide to knock at the guru’s doorsteps? Only those who had major issues in life would have chosen to surrender to him. I’m saying this based on my own experience - the circumstances in which I started experimenting with Osho, and the general perception about Osho’s followers that I have developed over the years with me. I stand unlike many others around me, so I should be called abnormal, and many of the Oshoites I have met until this date, in fact, were worser in that context…lol!

So, what do you expect Osho to be like to run that circus? He couldn’t have been as simpler as many of us may wish to think about him. He must have been a master to all of them in most perceivable ways. Amazingly good and enlightened on one hand, and highly controversial and displeasing on the other. While Calder may only wish to cling to the negative areas, and the hardcore Oshoites may only wish to share the positives of their master, many like me would see no blasphemy in accepting both of them, thus allowing a more colorful and rational Osho emerging up.

And if you had ever wondered whose fallacies and shrewdness inspired Osho’s Mulla tales, then be informed, it couldn’t have been anybody else’s but his own. If you were to merge together the two identities of Osho and Mulla into one, a more actual depiction of Osho’s personality starts to emerge, which is easier to get connected with.

Btw, I had had a brief conversation with Calder about a couple of years ago, and the image I developed of him during that course was that of a bitter person. He said, “call me by whatever name, but there is no other way to speak about Osho if you were to be honest.” Just to bind together various view points, a heated argument between Calder and Oshoites could be looked at here. And a final note…those hell-bent on canvassing against Osho may have nothing much to offer, one should know it. Even though in a negative fashion, they still keep brainstorming about Osho and nothing else.

——————–

UPDATE

Check out my latest post on Osho Rajneesh here:

Continuing With The Debate On Osho’s Controversies