(Never born, never died. Visited this planet between 11.12.1931- 19.01.1990)
Today is the death anniversary of Osho! On this day, 19th January, he left his body some 31 years ago! I feel very much emotional when I talk about him. I mean how to describe him, how to tell who he was! It makes me just speechless. But still making an attempt to write something.
Osho..... I met him in July 2012. It is said that when a disciple is ready, Guru suddenly appears. It was all of a sudden! Before that also, I had heard a thing or two about him, read some lines here and there. But then proper encounter took place. So much of it that life got divided- before July 2012 and after July 2012. I.e. Before Osho and after Osho. When I met him, I felt as if all my erstwhile knowledge and information became irrelevant. When I met him, when he came into my life or rather when he stormed into my life, I felt that I have found something new that changed all my framework, all my knowledge and upbringing.
Slowly slowly I started hearing his discourses. It took some time to start listening too. But through his soft and gentle voice, his sharp poise and narration, he makes everything so crystal clear. In short, I would say that what our general wisdom does to us is we divide everything in our life- we divide things or people or aspects such as good or bad. We sort of differentiate between all dimensions of life and then we choose certain ones and reject certain ones. But Osho gives us some insight to integrate life. Then life becomes a solved jigsaw puzzle- all pieces fall in place and an integral picture becomes visible!
Osho, in his own words has said that when a proper path is found, you can smell the air of the destination right from the first step. Indeed. That kind of a very life- shaking feeling came when I sort of came near him. “This is the thing. This is that!” That is what the mind shouts from within. And then it was he who was all over me. All my knowledge, intellect, mind mechanisms till then were very much useful for me to bring me to him. Everything sort of prepared me and helped me like a launchpad. I was prepared to receive him and to understand him. I know I was very lucky.
Okay, put simply, who Osho is? Osho is the modern enlightened master, rightly called the master of masters and who talks about meditation or spirituality in the very 20th century language terminology. He is the modern day Krishna, Jesus, Nanak or the similar enlightened ones. From Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism to Christianity, Zen, Sufism and all kinds of spiritual traditions, he has spoken on every tradition and every major master in that tradition. Be it Vedanta, be it modern masters like Kabir, Nanak, Meerabai, George Gurdjeef, Jesus, Saint Augustine, Bodhidharma, Buddha, Zarathustra and similar blessed ones. He has spoken about all of them, about hundreds of such traditions. Right from Yoga to Tantra, from Bhakti to meditation. And he has given us the essence. He has brought us the most essentials.
