About SRI OSHO

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, 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.His parents, who were Taranpanthi Jains, sent him to live with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old. 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.
At seven years old, his grandfather, whom he adored, died, and he went back to live with his parents. 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.In his school years, he was a rebellious, but gifted student, and acquired a reputation as a formidable debater.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 1951, aged nineteen, Osho began his studies at Hitkarini College in Jabalpur. After acute conflicts with an instructor, the principal asked him to leave the college, and he transferred to D. N. Jain College, also in Jabalpur.He began speaking in public, initially at the annual Sarva Dharma Sammelan held at Jabalpur, organised by the Taranpanthi Jain community into which he was born, participating there from 1951 to 1968.He resisted his parents' pressure to get married.Osho later said he became spiritually enlightened on 21 March 1953, when he was 21 years old.He said he dropped all effort and hope. 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. More Details Please Visit http://www.gurusindia.com/