The hidden splendor

by Osho, Ma Deva Sarito (Editor), Ma Prem Lisa (Editor)

Here, Osho unfolds the basic search for childlike innocence in all its joy, playfulness, and fearlessness...a state of being which Osho describes as our "hidden splendor." In underlining the reality of a world heading toward self-destruction he calls on the reader to work to change its course before it is too late.

Time Period of Osho's original Discourses/Talks/Letters
from Mar 12, 1987 to Mar 26, 1987

"Talks given to the Rajneesh International University of Mysticism"
Distributed in the United States by Chidvilas Foundation, Inc., Boulder, Colorado.
Distributed in Europe by Neo-Sannyas International, Zurich, Switzerland.
Printing by Mohndruck, Guetersloh, West Germany
Introduction: Ma Deva Sarito, Poona, India, September, 1987

310 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1987

About the author

Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.

In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.

Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.

In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".

In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.

In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.

In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[

After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.

Reviews

[ENIGMATIC FOOL · Rating 5 out of 5]

Breaks all the superstitious beliefs. Read with caution and open mind. It has some serious sense to give to the world.

[Dr Kashmira Gohil · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a book of 27 chapters on Osho's vision of the world where he shared his views on world, humanity, religion and politics while answering queries. The chapter I loved among few others is ' enlightenment is not an experience',where he explained that Death is for people who live unconsciously, day by day, imitating similar pattern. For people with awareness death is fiction. That, it's just like moving house. When your old house is such that renovation is more troublesome than moving to a new house. And when body comes to a point when it's no longer functioning organically, easily and exhausted with its all mechanisms run to its full capacity. This is also a book where osho talks in few chapters, about exploding population, increasing pollution and how it's going to affect us in a worst way. This was a mystic man who was ahead of his times or contemporaries when he inhabited this earth plane.👍🙏 03 or 3.5 stars to this book.

[Chimedee M · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of the last books elaborating on the master-disciple relationship. Again, I would emphasize that the words written in this book are not intended for everyone. One can only take the jokes seriously, as Osho said. The rest of the words, if it ignites your being towards the highest values of life, good.

Osho says during these discourses:
"I have to take care of so many people who are so different from each other, and I am
answering different people in different stages, in different situations. You have to
remember always, to look at your own growth: if it is going towards love, compassion,
silence, blissfulness, joy, laughter, celebration, and silence, then remember that I must
have answered somebody else."

[Harish B · Rating 3 out of 5]

Was difficult to read unlike other Osho books.

[Bhakta Kishor · Rating 3 out of 5]

You go on missing something -- something that you had known but you have forgotten -- a faded memory, a lost remembrance. And the gap is not only a gap, it is a wound. It hurts, because you had brought something with your birth into the world and you have lost it somewhere. And it seems impossible to find it in this crowded universe. But unless it happens, your life has been in vain, a misery, a suffering, a futile longing, a meaningless desire, a thirst that you know cannot be quenched.

This is the greatest crime that society commits against every child. No other crime can be greater than this. To spoil a child's trust is to spoil his whole life because trust is so valuable that the moment you lose trust, you also lose your contact with your own being. Trust is the bridge between you and existence. Trust is the purest form of love, and once trust is lost, love also becomes impossible.

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[Mahvish Haroon · Rating 2 out of 5]

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Happy Reading! :)

[Karthick Rajan R · Rating 4 out of 5]

lot of purest truth are there here....nice to read it....