Osho Quotes and Biography 2022
Osho was an Indian mystic, founder of the Rajneesh movement, and godman. Chandra Mohan Jain is the birth name of Osho who got other names at his early ages such as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later was known as Osho till date. He was born on 11 December 1931 and was born in Kuchwada Village, Bareli Tehsil, Raisen District, Bhopal State, British India. He passed away on 19th January 1990 in Pune, Maharashtra, India due to a heart attack. He is well-known for Osho Dio come clown in the year of 1980, Bhagwan in the year of 1978 & Fear Is the Master in the year of 1983.
In his lifetime he was perceived as a mystic Guru & a controversial new religious movement leader. He always rejected institutional religions. Rajneesh Oshi did only wanted people to become and he emphasises them to understand the importance of meditation, freethought, celebration, love, humour qualities, creativity, courage which are all the essentials of human life and all of which were suppressed by most religious dogmas, static belief systems and traditions.
Early life, Family and Relationship
Osho got his name Rajneesh which was his childhood nickname which is a combination of two Sanskrit words rajanee, night and isha which means Lord which in turn means the God of Night or The Moon. He was the eldest of his family whose father was a cloth merchant.
Father: Babulal
Mother: Saraswati Jain
Brothers: N/A
Sisters: N/A
His father has his business in his maternal grandparents’ place which is Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen District of Madhya Pradesh state in India. He was born to Babulal and Saraswati Jain who belonged to the Taranpanthi Jains. He was living with his maternal grandparents till he was a eight years old. He has stated that it was a major influence on his development from the utmost freedom he got from his grandmother which led him to have a carefree education and life free from being imposed or restricted.
Osho Success and career
Osho, in an event in the early 1970 in a public meditation has presented his Dynamic Meditation method for the first time. This Dynamic Meditation involved the breathing fast and celebrating with music and dance. He left Jabalpur to go to Mumbai at the end of that June and on 26th September 1970, He started with his first group of disciples who were called neo-sannyasins.
Osho Quotes
1 You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.
2 Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
3 Life begins where fear ends.
4 My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.
5 Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand relax. If you relax it comes, if you relax it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.
6 I live my life based on two principles. One, I live as if today was my last day on earth.
7 A certain darkness is needed to see the stars.
8 Tomorrow never comes, it is always today.
9 Be. Don’t try to become. Within these two words, be and becoming, your whole life is contained. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.
10 Nobody has the power to take two steps together; you can take only one step at a time.
11 Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
12 Only laughter makes a man rich, but the laughter has to be blissful.
13 The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.
14 Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.
15 Be realistic. Plan for a miracle.
16 Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people’s opinions who don’t know themselves.
17 To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.
18 Be a lotus flower. Be in the water, and do not let the water touch you.
19 Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.
20 To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty.
21 They say think twice before you jump. I say jump first and then think as much as you want.
22 Mind: A beautiful servant, a dangerous master.
23 The greatest freedom is to be free of our own mind.
24 Never be ashamed of your tears. Be proud that you are still natural. Be proud that you can express the inexpressible through your tears.
25 A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do.
26 The feminine is more powerful than the masculine, the soft is more powerful than the hard, the water is more powerful than the rock.
27 You feel good, you feel bad, and these feelings are bubbling from your own unconsciousness, from your own past. Nobody is responsible except you.
28 The tongue never slips, remember this always. What goes on within the mind comes invariably on the tongue.
29 Life should not only be lived, it should be celebrated.
30 Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, incomparable.
