Silence is the Answer

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December 11, 1931: Osho was born in Kuchwada, a small village in the state of Madhya Pradesh, central India.

March 21, 1953: He became enlightened at the age of twenty-one, while majoring in philosophy at D.N. Jain college in Jabalpur.

1956: Osho received His M.A. from the University of Sagar with First Class Honors in Philosophy.

1957-1966: University Professor and Public Speaker.

1966: After nine years of teaching, he left the university to devote himself entirely to raise human consciousness. He started being known as Acharya Rajneesh.

1970-1974: He lived at the Woodland Appartment, Mumbai. At this time he was called Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and he began to initiate seekers into Neo-Sannyas or discipleship.

1974-1981: Moved to the ashram in Pune. During these seven years he gave a 90 minutes discourse nearly every morning, alternating every month between Hindi and English.

1981-1985: Moved to the US. A model agricultural commune Rajneeshpuram rises from the ruins of the central Oregonian high desert.

In January 1986 he travelled to Kathmandu, Nepal and spoke on a world four.

1987-1989: Moved back to the commune in Pune, India.

19 January, 1990: Osho left his body. Written on his Epitaph over his samadhi in Kathmandu, Nepal and Pune, India are his own words:

Words are necessary in the outside world, but it must be silenced when one enters the inner realm. To be useful and necessary, there is only silence.

Osho says, 'Silence is meditation and silence is basic for any religious experience. What is silence? You can create it, you can cultivate it, you can force it, but then it is just superficial, false, pseudo. You carl practise it, and you will begin to feel and experience it but your practice makes it auto-hypnotic. It is not the real silence. Real silence comes only when your mind dissolves: not through any effort, but through understanding; not through any practice, but through an inner awareness.'

'Remember, God has no voice except silence. He never says anything. There is nothing to say; there is no verbal communication. But that silence, that utter silence, gives you clarity, gives you light and makes you capable of moving rightly. Not that it gives any directions, not that it gives you any maps, not that it supplies you any guides nothing of the sort. It simply gives you eyes to see your path.'

To date, Osho Tapoban has published 200 books. Of these, 95 books are in English and 105 are in Hindi. A complete set of 200 books also includes Bodhisattva Swami Anand Arun's bestsellers, "Lone Seeker, Many Masters," "In Wonder with Osho," "Mystics and Miracles," and Hindi books, "Panchasheel" and "Santo Ke Sang" and "Sant Aur Unka Rahasyalok"