There, Rajneesh and the sannyasins started building their own city, called Rajneeshpuram. Tensions came to a head in 1980, when a Hindu fundamentalist attempted to assassinate Rajneesh.įacing ongoing pressure from government authorities and traditional religious groups, in 1981 Rajneesh fled to the United States with 2,000 of his disciples, settling on a 100-square-mile ranch in central Oregon, which he named Rancho Rajneesh.
However, his movement had become so controversial that the local government threw up various roadblocks to make things difficult for him. By the late 1970s, the six-acre ashram was so overcrowded that Rajneesh sought a new site to relocate to. In their quest for spiritual enlightenment, Rajneesh's followers took new Indian names, dressed in orange and red clothes, and participated in group sessions that sometimes involved both violence and sexual promiscuity. The prospect enticed young Westerners to come reside at his ashram in Pune, India, and become Rajneesh's devout disciples, called sannyasins. In 1970, Rajneesh introduced the practice of "dynamic meditation," which, he asserted, enables people to experience divinity. In the process, he became something of a pariah and earned himself the nickname "the sex guru." Among his teachings was the notion that sex was the first step toward achieving "superconsciousness." By 1964, he started conducting meditation camps and recruiting followers, and two years later he resigned from his professorship to focus more fully on spreading his spiritual teachings. Following his graduation in 1957, Rajneesh accepted a position as an assistant professor of philosophy at Raipur Sanskrit College, but his radical ideas soon put him at odds with the institution's administration and he was forced to find work elsewhere, eventually becoming a professor at the University of Jabalpur.Ĭoncurrent with his teaching at the University of Jabalpur, Rajneesh traveled throughout India, spreading his unconventional and controversial ideas about spirituality. He returned to school, however, and after graduating with a bachelor's degree in philosophy, he went on to pursue a master's in philosophy at Sagar University.
In 1953, after taking a year off from his studies to soul search and meditate, Rajneesh claimed that he had achieved enlightenment. Jain College after his disruptive behavior put him at odds with one of his professors. In 1951, Rajneesh graduated from high school and started attending Hitkarini College in Jabalpur but was forced to transfer to D.N. He lived with his grandparents during his early youth and then with his parents and was an intelligent but rebellious child.
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (né Chandra Mohan Jain) was born on December 11, 1931, in Kuchwada, India.
0 kommentar(er)
