December 11, 1931: Osho is born in Kuchwada, a small village in the state of Madhya Pradesh, central India.
March 21, 1953: He becomes enlightened at the age of twenty-one, while majoring in philosophy at D.N. Jain college in Jabalpur.
1956: Osho receives 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 leaves the university to devote himself entirely to raise human consciousness. He starts being known as Acharya Rajneesh.
1970-1974: He lives at the Woodland Appartment, Mumbai. At this time he is called Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and he begins to initiate seekers into Neo-Sannyas or discipleship.
1974-1981: Moves to the ashram in Pune. During these seven years he
gives a 90 minutes discourse nearly every morning, alternating every month between Hindi and English.
1981-1985: Moves to the US, A model agricultural commune Rajneeshpuram rises from the ruins of the central Oregonian high desert.
In January 1986 he travels to Kathmandu, Nepal and speaks twice daily for the next two months. He leaves Nepal and embarks on a world tour.
1987-1989: Moves back to the commune in Pune, India.
19 January, 1990: Osho leaves his body. Written on his Epitaph over his samadhi in Kathmandu, Nepal and Pune, India are his own words: .
Osho is a unique master. Even amongst the enlightened ones, his star stands alone and shines brighter. What makes him so unique is his value and respect for individual freedom. When asked about what was more valuable to him, love or freedom, Osho chose freedom over love. As a master also he never gave any dogmas, rules and commandments to follow, he rather inspired his sannyasins to move into the uncharted journey of boundless freedom.
Sometimes it is difficult to understand and interpret Osho's vision of freedom and individuality and most of the times it has been misunderstood. Osho was talking about the pinnacle of liberty that human consciousness can attain but at the same time by emphasizing upon individual responsibility and self discipline he was pointing towards what is vital for the same freedom to flower.
These lines by the master reflect the subtle relationship between the two and how freedom and individual responsibility are complementary to each other,
"I don't give you any commandment. In fact the very word commandment is ugly. To command somebody is to reduce him to a slave. I don't give you any orders, you are not to be obedient to me or to anybody else. I simply teach you an intrinsic law of life. Be obedient to your own self, be a light unto yourself and follow the light. Then whatsoever you do is the thing to do, and whatsoever you don't do is the thing that has not to be done."
In contrast to the different commandments given by different schools of religion, Osho gave his ten non-commandments....
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