Ma Anand Sheela - Dont Kill Him Story Of My Life With Bhagwan Rajneesh

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The story of my life with Bhagwan Rajneesh

A memoir by

MA ANAND SHEELA

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Osho is the most original thinker that India has produced: themost erudite, the most clearheaded and the most innovative.

Khushwant Singh

Osho will long be remembered as a great philosophersaintand mystic of the twentieth century.

Manmohan Singh

People like Osho are way ahead of their time. It is a good signthat the youth of today is reading more and more of Osho.

K. R. Narayanan

Osho is an enlightened master, who is working with allpossibilities to help humanity to overcome a difficult phase indeveloping consciousness.

His Holiness, The Dalai Lama

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

(Osho)

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, perhaps the most controversialIndian spiritual guru till date, is counted among the mostinfluential figures of the twentieth century. He set up His firstmajor ashram in Pune, and later moved to the US, where Hisfollowers established a commune in Oregon.

Named Rajneeshpuram, this commune was spread over64,000 acres and was like a city in itself, housing more than5,000 residents by 1985. Over time, it developed its own urbaninfrastructure, complete with fire departments, a transportationsystem, a police station, shopping malls, a water reservoir, asewage-disposal plant, a post-office, a well-staffed securityforce, and even a 1,300-metre-long airstrip.

Till 1990s, Bhagwan was a bigger controversial figurethan a major spiritual guru. Though He enjoyed a massiveinternational following even back then, His irreverentdiscourses and ideas, rumours about drug addiction, and Hisgeneral disregard for laws and religions ensured that He hadmany critics and enemies everywhere, particularly in India andin the States.

His espousal of freer sexuality alarmed religious leaders inIndia and popularized Him as Sex Guru. Later in the US, Heearned the sobriquet Rolls-Royce Guru as He indulged inHis desire for luxury cars and collected close to hundred Rolls-Royces in less than five years. He reportedly had a penchantfor luxury watches and pens as well and spent hundreds andthousands of dollars of donation money on them.

When Rajneeshpuram dissolved in mid-1980s, Bhagwanwas indicted on thirty-five countscharges included immigration violations as well as making false statements on Hisvisa application. At the same time, other Rajneeshpuramleaders, including Ma Sheela, were booked for much gravercharges. These included attempts to murder public officials,setting an enormous wiretapping network, and plotting thefirst bio-terror attack on the United States. While Bhagwanwas fined $400,000 and was deported from the country, somecommune leaders were sentenced to many years of imprisonment. When nearly twenty-one countries denied Him entry,Bhagwan returned to His ashram in Pune in 1986, where Helived for another four years. A cardiac arrest reportedly killedHim in 1990.

Today, Bhagwans official Facebook page has more than750,000 Likes; His 650 books, available in 55 languages, havesold millions of copies worldwide; and His ashram in Punestill attracts 200,000 visitors annually from all over the world.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh perhaps was born great; inHis life He achieved greatness; and after His death a greatergreatness was thrust upon Him.

But no man is perfect. And great men like BhagwanRajneesh often have greater flaws.