India is a heritage pilgrimage, Osho. What is your dream to continue to embody for the last 25 - 30 years, despite all obstacles? There is one dream, but my dream of centuries ago, is the dream of Sanatana. In this land of glory, the first rays of the human spirit were dreamed of. There are as many flowers in this necklace as there are - so many Gautama Buddhas, so many Mahaviras, so many Kabiris, so many, and they have dedicated their lives to this dream. May I call such a dream myself? This is obvious. It is the voice of the human, the human spirit. We have a name for this dream. This dream we call 'India'. India is not a continent or a political organization or a piece of will, India, in a state of exaltation - a desire to realize the truth. It is the truth that lies in the heartbeat of our nerve pulses, the treasure that lies in the depths of our consciousness, which is ours and our forgetfulness, its regeneration, its repetition, India: 'Amrita pa' - ೬ Children of ...
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh,[1] Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and latterly as Osho (/ˈoʊʃoʊ/), was an Indian godman[2] and leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic. In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, arguing that India was not ready for socialism and that socialism, communism and anarchism could evolve only when capitalism had reached its maturity. Osho also criticised Mahatma Gandhi,[3][4][5] and Hindu religious orthodoxy.[6][7] Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humour—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialisation. In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality[7] he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s a...