" Gordon ( 1987 ) notes that Sheela and Osho had discussed the idea of establishing a new commune in the U. S. in late 1980, although he did not agree to travel there until May 1981.

Osho had said as early as 1964 that " the third and last war is now on the way " and frequently spoke of the need to create a " new humanity " to avoid global suicide.

Osho saw his " neo-sannyas " as a totally new form of spiritual discipline, or one that had once existed but since been forgotten.

Osho aimed to create a " new man " combining the spirituality of Gautama Buddha with the zest for life embodied by Nikos Kazantzakis ' Zorba the Greek: " He should be as accurate and objective as a scientist ... as sensitive, as full of heart, as a poet ... as rooted deep down in his being as the mystic.

When asked to explain his new stance on homosexuality by gay sannyasins, Osho further reinforced his view by stating that according to him, " as a homosexual, you are not even a human being [...].

* Osho International Foundation, an organization that propagates the views of the Rajneesh movement, a new religious movement founded and inspired by the Indian guru and mystic Osho

At a public meditation event in spring 1970, Osho presented his Dynamic Meditation method for the first time.

Osho presented meditation not just as a practice but as a state of awareness to be maintained in every moment, a total awareness that awakens the individual from the sleep of mechanical responses conditioned by beliefs and expectations.

Osho developed other active meditation techniques, such as the Kundalini " shaking " meditation and the Nadabrahma " humming " meditation, which are less animated, although they also include physical activity of one sort or another.

Osho believed such cathartic methods were necessary, since it was difficult for modern people to just sit and enter meditation.

Nirmala Srivastava was known to have been concerned with the damage being done to society by ' false gurus ' and because of this visited a meditation camp in Nargol that was presided over by Rajneesh ( later known as Osho ).

He attracted the attention of western writers such as Paul Reps, whose rendering of the Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, later used by Osho, brought Lakshman Joo and the meditation methods of his school to international prominence, and Miguel Serrano, the Chilean mystical writer.

A few of the meditation centres in and around Najafgarh are Ashram of Sant Sri Asaramji Bapu, Osho Dham ( of Guru Rajneesh ), Ashram of Sudhanshu Ji Maharaj at Bakkarwala, Nirmal Dham of Nirmala Devi.

By 1964 a group of wealthy backers had initiated an educational trust to support Osho and aid in the running of meditation retreats.

University of Jabalpur officials forced Osho to resign in 1966, and he shifted his attention to his role as a spiritual teacher, supporting himself through lectures, meditation camps and, for his wealthier followers, private counselling ( Darśana or Darshan — meaning " sight ").

In 2009, she stated that she had become a fan of Osho, his books and meditation techniques, which she had discovered a few years earlier.

* The lifestyle of Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ) with his 93 Rolls Royces at his disposal ( though as a gift from his followers ), a bioterrorist attack at The Dalles, Oregon by some of his followers, the group's successful effort to take control of the city of Antelope, Oregon, his unusual teachings that contradicted both traditional morality and Hindu norms, the group therapy sessions with little restraints, and the liberal sexual freedom that he promoted.

The method was later adopted by Osho ( Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh ), who made use of many spiritual methods.

A few later said that, while Osho was not directly involved, they discussed such plans and activities with him in darshan and he gave his blessing.

On 10 April 1981, having discoursed daily for nearly 15 years, Osho entered a three-and-a-half-year period of self-imposed public silence, and satsangs — silent sitting with music and readings from spiritual works such as Khalil Gibran's The Prophet or the Isha Upanishad — replaced discourses.

Osho believed humanity was threatened with extinction due to over-population, impending nuclear holocaust and diseases such as AIDS, and thought many of society's ills could be remedied by scientific means.

Osho also spoke in favor of euthanasia of children with a broad variety of birth defects such as blindness, deafness, and dumbness.

The work was known, appreciated and quoted by Ramakrishna and his disciple Vivekananda, as well as by other well known gurus such as Sant Shri Asaramji Bapu, Swami Chinmayananda, Ramana Maharshi, Osho and Sri Sri Ravi Shankar.

Teachers such as Osho and Anandmurti Gurumaa define yoga-nidra as a state of conscious deep sleep.

* 1931 – Osho, Mystic ( d. 1990 )

In 1951, aged nineteen, Osho began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur.

According to court testimony by Ma Ava ( Ava Avalos ), a prominent disciple, Sheela played associates a tape recording of a meeting she had had with Osho about the " need to kill people " in order to strengthen wavering sannyasins resolve in participating in her murderous plots: " She came back to the meeting and [...] began to play the tape.

In Uruguay, the group moved to a house at Punta del Este where Osho began speaking publicly until 19 June, after which he was " invited to leave " for no official reason.

Osho began speaking in public in 1958, while still a lecturer ( later professor ) in philosophy at Jabalpur University.

She was a student of Osho and first began to teach tantra in his ashram.

Commune administrators tried to resolve Osho's own difficulty in this respect by declaring him the head of a religion, " Rajneeshism ": in November 1981 Osho applied for residence as a religious worker, which was refused on the grounds that he could not lead a religion while unwell and in silence.

Osho had withdrawn from public speaking and lecturing during the upheaval, having entered a period of " silence " that would last until November 1984, and at the commune videos of his discourses were played to audiences instead.

In January 1987, Osho returned to the ashram in Poona, where he held evening discourses each day, except when interrupted by intermittent ill health.

In late 1981 Osho, through his secretary Ma Anand Sheela ( Sheela Silverman ), announced the inception of the " religion of Rajneeshism ", the basis of which would be fragments taken from various discourses and interviews Osho that had given over the years.

Osho suggested that first the various nations should become meritocracies, after which they can all be joined to form a global meritocracy.

Conflicts with various Indian religious leaders aggravated the situation — by 1980 the ashram had become so controversial that Indira Gandhi, despite a previous association between Osho and the Indian Congress Party dating back to the sixties, was unwilling to intercede for it after her return to power.

On 16 September 1985, a few days after Sheela and her entire management team had suddenly left the commune for Europe, Osho held a press conference in which he labelled Sheela and her associates a " gang of fascists.

Especially after his move to the United States, Osho became increasingly critical of homosexuality and also believed that homosexuality created or caused AIDS, though it is unclear what he believed about the concrete biological mechanism by which a sexual orientation may create a contagious virus.

She joined the movement in the 1980s and was among the disciples Osho appointed to the " Inner Circle ", the group entrusted with administering his estate after his death.

Nevertheless Gordon ( 1987 ) reports that Charles Turner, David Frohnmayer and other law enforcement officials, who had surveyed affidavits never released publicly and who listened to hundreds of hours of tape recordings, insinuated to him that Osho was guilty of more crimes than those for which he was eventually prosecuted.

Shortly before his death, Osho suggested that one or more audience members at evening meetings ( now referred to as the White Robe Brotherhood ) were subjecting him to some form of evil magic.

" Ultimately though, as an explicitly " self-parodying " guru, Osho even deconstructed his own authority, declaring his teaching to be nothing more than a " game " or a joke.

The Osho International Foundation ( OIF ), the successor to the Neo-Sannyas International Foundation, now propagates his views, operating once more out of the Pune ashram in India, and the movement has begun to communicate on the Internet.

Urban has commented that the most surprising feature of the Osho phenomenon lies in Osho's " remarkable apotheosis upon his return to India ", which resulted in his achieving even more success in his homeland than before.