in philosophy in 1957 (with distinction). Jain College in 1955 and joined the University of Sagar, where he earned his M.A. The whole universe became a benediction.” I went to the tree, I sat under the tree. I had not chosen it, God himself has chosen it. It attracted me, it pulled me towards itself. One tree was tremendously luminous – the maulshree tree. But I could see the whole garden alive, even the small grass leaves were so beautiful. The whole garden was asleep, the trees were asleep. I could see the trees for the first time – their green, their life, their very sap running. “The moment I entered the garden everything became luminous, it was all over the place – the benediction, the blessedness. After what he describes as an intense seven-day process he says he went out at night to the Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur, where he sat under a tree: Osho later said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old. He resisted his parents’ pressure to get married. He began speaking in public, initially at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan held at Jabalpur, organized by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born, participating there from 1951 to 1968. After acute conflicts with an instructor, the principal asked him to leave the college, and he transferred to D. In 1951, aged nineteen, Osho began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur. As a youth, Osho became an atheist he took an interest in hypnosis and was briefly associated with socialism and two Indian independence movements: the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. In his school years, he was a rebellious, but gifted student, and acquired a reputation as a formidable debater. He was profoundly affected by his grandfather’s death, and again by the death of his childhood sweetheart and cousin Shashi from typhoid when he was 15, leading to an extraordinary preoccupation with death that lasted throughout much of his childhood and youth. By Osho’s own account, this was a major influence on his development, because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom, leaving him carefree without an imposed education or restrictions.Īt seven years old, his grandfather, whom he adored, died, and he went back to live with his parents.
His parents, who were Taranpanthi Jains, sent him to live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old.
Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain (Hindi: चन्द्र मोहन जैन) in Kuchwada, a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India, as the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant.
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