He declared himself “enlightened” at the tender age of 21, which was a necessary condition he needed to have attained in order to secure naive customers from the West, who wouldn’t know that his better ideas were largely borrowed from classic Hindu texts, and he only tweaked them out to make them more palatable or attractive to young seekers. And who is easier to rip off than people investing everything in being trusting in an effort to become better and more evolved people? Osho (at that time “Bhagwan Rajneesh”) came up with the brilliant formula of releasing them of the bonds of money by having them give it to him. The key was to use this knowledge to make a fortune off all of the gullible young Westerners flocking to India, after the example of the Beatles, in search of spirituality and an alternative to what they saw as a stultifying Western fixation on money and security.
He had a Master’s with a distinction in Philosophy, and taught Philosophy, therefore was perfectly capable of expounding classic Eastern and Western philosophy.
Osho was a corrupt and astute businessman who made himself fabulously wealthy by preying on the naive flood of Westerners seeking spirituality. In order to preserve their beliefs from being tarnished by yet another fake guru, they exonerate him for his crimes and corruption. If he is a sham, than so may be their cherished beliefs. Many are reluctant to denounce him because if they do, they lose faith, hope, and may become despondent. Why do I detest India’s one time best-selling author with over 2,000 publications translated into 44 languages? Because he was an imposter, in a long list of imposters, pretending to be an enlightened guru. And only if you believe, if you have deep faith and trust in him, can you remain with him otherwise you will escape, because this man is disturbing you completely.Bad Osho Quotes Yes, Osho had armed guards with automatic weapons. Your anguish will come up all your suppressed hells will be revealed. He is! And unless you trust him so totally, this surgical operation is impossible because in the beginning there will be suffering. In India, in the old days, we said, “ Acharya mrityuh.” It means that the master, the guru, is a death. Whatsoever you have known, you will have to throw it. In the beginning hell will be there because your image will be shattered, your expectations will be shattered. He has come to feel euphoria, and the guru creates a hell for him. He has come in search of bliss and the guru gives him suffering. Of necessity, much suffering will be there for the disciple, and if he is not in deep intimacy with the guru it is impossible. Only with your total surrender can a guru work, because it is a spiritual surgery. So a guru cannot allow you to be near him unless you have surrendered otherwise you are going to be an enemy. A very deep intimacy is needed otherwise hate will be there. That is why, unless there is a very deep love, the work is impossible. He cannot help you to be yourself as you are because you are false.
Any moment they can kill him because he is going to disturb that is what his work is. He will disturb it, and you will get angry.Ī guru is always in danger from his disciples. You may have been on a trip, a beautiful trip. He will disturb your dream and your sleep, and you may have been dreaming a very beautiful dream. You can teach yourself, but a guru is always a disturber. He helps you to be more egoist he makes you more knowledgeable. Rather, he goes on increasing your accumulation of knowledge. It is very easy to live with a teacher because he never disturbs you. That is why a guru is always a disturber of your dreams, and it is difficult to live with a guru. He is a giver of methods – of methods which can help you to come out of your sleep. He may be a teacher, a teacher of a particular doctrine, but he is not a master, not a guru.Ī guru is not a giver of doctrines. If he talks about the world as illusory and argues and proves that the world is illusory, if he discusses, debates, if he intellectually gives you a doctrine, he is not a guru, he is not a master. If he gives you doctrines, he is a philosopher. The guru is not a teacher: the guru is an awakener. The role of the guru is to give you a glimpse of the real – not a teaching, but an awakening. The whole world is asleep, but their misery shows that the world is real, their anguish shows that the world is real. They have propagated the idea so strongly that those who are asleep and dreaming, they think they are awake. We have heard, the Upanishads, the Vedas and the rishis have been saying for centuries, that the world is illusory. In India, this parrot-like speech that “the whole world is illusory” has gone deep into the mind, but in the false center.