Meanwhile, He traveled throughout India giving talks, challenging orthodox religious leaders in public debate, questioning traditional beliefs, and meeting people from all walks of life. The Maulshree tree, under which Osho became Enlightened.Īfter His enlightenment at the twenty one, Osho completed His academic studies and spent several years teaching philosophy at the University of Jabalpur. I could meditate and could accept that it was coming. However, this prediction of the astrologer helped me very much because he made me aware very early about death. Now I am not going to die." Physically, someday I will die, of course. So I told them, "Why do you go on waiting? Do not wait.
When you are going to die anyway one day, why worry? Then again at age of twenty-one, my family was waiting. Nothing creates any worry then, because all worries are concerned with life. Many things happened, but the basic note was this- that if you are feeling you are going to die, you become calm and silent. Death never came, But on my part I tried in every way to be dead. Those seven days became a beautiful experience. You just give me something to eat and something to drink once a day, and the whole day I will be lying there waiting for death." So I told him, "I will remain in the temple. It was a very lonely, unvisited temple - old, in ruins. I arranged with the priest that he should not disturb me. I went to a temple just outside of my village. And why give a chance to death? Why should I not go and meet it halfway? If I am going to die, then it is better to die consciously. I said to them, " If death is going to occur as the astrologer has said, then it is better to be prepared. I survived, but then I again tried it consciously. When I reached the age of fourteen, my family again became disturbed that I would die. And I was so much attached to him that his death appeared to be my own death. At the age seven I survived, but I had a deep experience of death - not of my own, but of the death of my maternal grandfather. Whenever I would come to the end of a seven-year cycle, they would become afraid. So my parents, my family, were always worried about my death. Every seven year he will have to face death." - Osho It is almost certain that this child is going to die at the age of twenty-one. It seems impossible that he can survive for more than seven years, so if the child is going to die it is useless to make the chart it will be of no use. The astrologer was to make my birth chart, but he studied it and he said, " If this child survives after seven years, only then will I make the chart. (My mother's father used to tell me that when I was born he consulted one of the best known astrologers of those days. In 1945, at the age of fourteen, he undertakes a seven-day experiment, waiting for death, provoked in part by an unusual prediction by an astrologer who was commissioned to calculate his birth chart. Here he was creating mischief and challenging his teachers, Osho continues the adventurous and often solitary approach to life that characterized his first years with his grandparents. There he is enrolled in school for the first time. He was a rebellious and independent spirit, insisting on experiencing the truth rather than acquiring knowledge and beliefs given by others.Īfter the death of his maternal grandfather, Osho and his grandmother both move to Gadarwada, the town where his parents live.
Osho goes to live with his maternal grandparents, who proved for him an extraordinary atmosphere of freedom and respect.Īccording to his own accounts, and the accounts of others, who knew him during his childhood, he was a daredevil and mischief-maker, never missing an opportunity to test his own physical limits and to challenge self-importance or hypocrisy wherever he found it. Osho is born in Kuchwada, a small village in the state of Madhya Pradesh, central India, where His maternal grandparents live.įollowing the death of his paternal grandmother, the care of her youngest children and of the family business falls to Osho's young parents. Osho Biography - 1931 to 1967 Early Years
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