The Ultimate Iconoclast

A few years ago, a friend of mine called on me after a long time and asked me what I was working on. I told him that I was writing a book on Rajneesh. ' Oh! One fraud writing on another fraud!' said he, in his usual tongue in cheek manner.

' It takes a fraud to understand another fraud' I replied.
Mention the name Rajneesh or Osho, and you always get an amusing, and often extreme response. People either idolise him or demonise him. When I was considering the subject of my PHD. thesis; among many options I also considered his philosophy as a topic.
Some laughed at the idea, while others cautioned me that it would be academic suicide.

If people were allowed to do doctorates on Swami Vivekananda,Sri Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi, why was research on Rajneesh ignored, I wondered, considering the fact that, at least to my knowledge, no such work has been done on him so far.

While this book was being written, I was often asked, ' Why Rajneesh?' The reader, too might ask the same question because there are over seven hundred books by Rajneesh himself in the market.

And my reply would be it is precisely for this reason I have written this book. The Rajneesh corpus is immensely voluminous, and very few have the time to go through it. People read excerpts here and there out of context and jump to absurd conclusions.

When I first heard his recorded discourse over twelve years ago, I, like many who hear him for the first time, was astounded by sheer force of his oratory, poetic language, and the guts to turn accepted notions upside down. As one of my teachers, Prof Bhupinder Brar, once told me: I have read many shocking books, but after a few pages i get no further shocks. However, Rajneesh is one thinker who never fails to shock me every third page.'

He was the ultimate iconoclast. So Rajneesh shocks, and that is because in his own world: The absolute truth is like that. It is shocking and dangerous. And if you do not have the guts to face it, you must not seek it. 

Publisher:  UKAY Publishing Co 
ISBN: 978-81-921006-2-3
Price: Rs. 295

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