‘Comment by Osho News’ from the below piece:
“We heard the following from Peggy:
During Rajneeshpuram days she was told by Yoga Prem (Nirupa’s brother) about a darshan he had attended many, many years ago. Someone had come to take sannyas and Osho apparently said, “I am not your master, Neem Karoli Baba is your master. Go to him.”

:https://www.oshonews.com/2014/05/29/neem-karoli-baba/

Neem Karoli Baba sends a seeker to Satya Sai Baba.
Osho sends a seeker to Neem Karoli Baba.

Fitting this thread I found an article on Christopher Titmuss’s blog, with the rather long title:

‘Guru Purnima. Full Moon of July.
A Day to Show Respect to One’s Spiritual Teacher(s).
Stay Mindful of any Darkness, or even a grey area, in Guru Devotion.
July 22, 2022 3:41 pm’

“As the years pass by, I hear more frequently from the Sangha, the language of Guru-ji. It is said to me, as far as I can tell, as a term of endearment. It might be said to try to wind me up!”

He discusses the traps and possible failings of adulation expressed by students to their respected teacher.

It is quite extensive as Christopher as a rule looks at as many aspects of a topic as possible. In a very calm manner. He had been a journalist before getting on the meditation train.

To me, Christopher is Christopher: an experienced, erudite, charming and very integer person, father of a daughter and grandfather of four.

I have much to learn from him. His teaching style is such that I rarely feel (a lot of) resistance to what he is conveying.

https://www.christophertitmussblog.org/guru-purnima-full-moon-of-july-a-day-to-show-respect-to-ones-spiritual-teachers

Cheers.

Once you start with serious introspection and letting go of the things where clinging causes you to suffer, you end up approaching a freedom of the mind in which a lot of religious ideas no longer make sense, and a lot of emotional ideas do not either. There is a little more letting go, and then a little more, and so on.

Instead, what eventually does make sense is compassion, kindness and friendliness. You’ve let go of many things, and then you discover that this is what matters. You feel free and liberated, and from time to time encounter another block, where when you investigate you find some clinging that you haven’t yet let go of.

If a Master were a professional therapist he would have only two possibilities in relating to the women he meets, a continuous paternalism for the wounds of the soul of others or a continuous sexual abuse. I believe that Osho’s great gift was showing us the possibility of taking responsibility for our lives, destroying any possibility of being able to cling for the rest of our lives even to the person we love most, in my case himself.

NP, if you think that sannyasins are going to start adopting Buddhist principles and rules, well, forget it. The freedom that Osho gave sannyasins, free of dogma, such as the Buddhist dogmas, means that individual sannyasins are free to live the way they feel, adopt any type of religious or spiritual ideas, including Buddhist ones, if they so please, or not.

‘Zorba the Buddha’ is also still a very popular idea for many people.

Osho’s approach upsets the control freaks, but that’s just the way it is.

The only Indian accounts I’ve read were online.