Paths of adjustments though are many, aren´t they?
Blessed we have been, and are, to have had and have such a lot of invitations to put that stuff into the right direction, from head to feet, from feet to head, so to say.

As most of us have been ‘educated with the wrong number’ (programming).

A philosopher once said (forgot his name): “We are born as originals but sad enough that most of us die as copies.”
This insight goes in the same direction which Osho brought straight to the point.

Madhu

I’d agreed, SD. Although to be fair, Osho and the sannyasins had been on the receiving end of years of flak and angry confrontations with a local Christians anti-cult group who had been stirring up the locals in Antelope.

He only started speaking again in the autumn of 1984, and as soon as the sannyasins had arrived at the Ranch and started building, the locals had been provoked enough to begin destributing leaflets, holding anti-Rajneesh meetings, and ‘let’s ban the Bhagwan’ bumper stickers.

And Osho had received death threats from the Ku Klux Klan, an extremist Christian organisation , including letters warning him, “It only took God six days to create the world, but it will only take six minutes for us to destroy your camp.” And warning him to leave by a certain date or else.

And this was all before he began speaking again.

By the way, the first published volume of the Rajneesh Bible was changed to ‘From Unconsciousness to Consciousness’ , not ‘From Death to Deathlessness’ as I put earlier. That one was a later edition.

https://www.sannyas.wiki/index.php?title=From_Unconsciousness_to_Consciousness

The sort of uncompromising, confrontational strategy that was both inspiring and yet encouraged Sheela’s extreme words and actions, contributing significantly to those ‘baddies’ getting what they wanted.

(Although perhaps establishing a major commune in the US was bound to end in tears eventually, whatever the ‘PR’ policy).

I know, you are enlightened, right?

Cheers!