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Indian mystic (1931–1990)

"Osho" redirects here. For other uses, see Rajneesh (disambiguation) and Osho (disambiguation).

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh,^[2]Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (Hindi:[ˈo:ʃo:]), was an Indian godman,philosopher, mystic^[4] and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions,^[5][6] insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma.^[7] As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he advocated that his followers live fully in the world but without attachment to it.

Rajneesh experienced a spiritual awakening in 1953 at the age of 21.^[7] Following several years in academia, in 1966 Rajneesh resigned his post at the University of Jabalpur and began traveling throughout India, becoming known as a vocal critic of the orthodoxy of mainstream religions,^[8][9][10] as well as of mainstream political ideologies and of

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