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@Nityaprem

Some time in 1985 at the Ranch when answering questions about his sex life.

Q: HAVE YOU EVER BEEN CELIBATE?

A: Right now I am celibate, but if my health gets better I am not going to be celibate. I […]

@Frank, I meant that like Krishna, Osho wasn’t a total pacifist.
Krishna encouraged Arjuna to fight in the war.

Those lines you quoted may be there in those books now. But those parts about sin, disgrace, etc. […]

I visited Khajuraho several times. I found the sculptures and the temple structures impressive.

I also visited the temple at Konark which has some very impressive artwork in the form of erotic sculptures. I […]

@Lokesh

Osho was not Krishna – although there are certain similarities. He danced like Krishna and loved to play with women, multiple women, like Krishna.

Osho was also not a total pacifist, like Krishna.

Nothing to see here except…

@Nityaprem

Osho did announce that he had “never been celibate” in 1985 at the Ranch and said that he had slept with “hundreds of women”.

Well, I don’t agree, Lokesh. If applied, those ideas take us into a moral structure where the guru is expected to remain celibate.

You can have rules such as the guru is only allowed to have sex with his/her […]

Yes, @Garima, in some maps the third chakra is higher than the belly which (may) correspond with your experience.

Yet in others, it’s only a little above the navel, whereas the second chakra is a little below […]

@simond you put:
“How do you know shaktipat can be extremely powerful and beneficial for a disciple?
This sort of make-believe thinking is what makes sexual abuse such a common experience in the spiritual […]

@Lokesh, you put:
“After all, Osho was breaking one of the cardinal rules of gurudom….having sex with his female disciples…”

I have heard this kind of line put forth by moralists before and it simply isn’t […]

Ah, bollox, I’ thought I had managed to get away… Garimo, in my experience of the third centre , the power chakra ,which it is in the belly. This I have felt very strongly in a positive way in various times […]

Cheers! Until we meet again. Wow.

Time for another break for me from this site for a while. Until next time..

Yes, ‘Nani’. His mother’s mother : “Nani” Rani Ma (Shreemati Genda Bai Jain) (1896 – 1971).
She was apparently born in one of the local villages of Khajuraho.

Osho was very inspired by visiting the Khajuraho temples, encouraged also by his Nani. Looking at the carvings and images such as these. Threesomes and foursomes.

MOD:
“Nani”, Shanti? (Grandma?!)

I think what Adyashanti is referring to by a ‘mind awakening’ is a satori. Perhaps it happened that way for him. He had a satori, which many confuse with enlightenment, then a heart expansion, then his ‘gut’ […]

@Nityaprem,
The way I see it is there are several myths about enlightenment. One is that all sexual desire dissapears. This may have come out of traditions of celibacy such as Buddhism, or Jainism, etc.

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SD, I cannot comment on Erin because I cannot see the whole situation, how she was at the time, what was really going on, if her feelings changed later, her own personal psychological state and her later life, […]

@Nityaprem

Ok, thanks. I discovered unconditional love inside myself through meditation, at that time I wept in gratitude to Osho as he had been my main teacher in meditation in this lifetime. He had spoken […]

Indeed, I did arrive in Pune One after Osho had gone into silence.

After that he stopped giving the same darshans that you went to and he only discoursed later.
However, I do know a fair amount of sannyasins […]