Here are some key facts about Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh:

• Born in 1931 as Chandra Mohan Jain in central India. Adopted the name Rajneesh in the 1960s.
• Known as Osho from 1989 onwards after changing his name again.
• Promoted spirituality, meditation, and free love. Taught a syncretic philosophy drawing on elements of Buddhism, Taoism, Jainism and Advaita Vedanta.
• Developed a large following in India in the 1960s and 1970s with his dynamic lectures and meditation camps.
• Founded an ashram in Pune in 1974 which attracted thousands of Western followers and disciples.
• Relocated to Oregon, USA in 1981 and set up a large commune called Rajneeshpuram with several thousand followers.
• The Oregon commune collapsed in 1985 amidst criminal allegations, legal controversies and immigration violations.
• Rajneesh was accused of tax evasion and deported from the USA in 1985. Returned to India and resumed teaching in Pune.
• Died in 1990 at age 58. His teachings continue to have followers and critics worldwide. Remains a controversial but influential spiritual figure.

Let me know if you need any other details on Rajneesh and his life history. I can provide more context on his teachings and the various controversies surrounding him as well.

Here are some details about Osho’s reported enlightenment experience in his youth:

• Osho (then still known as Chandra Mohan Jain) claimed he attained enlightenment at age 21 on March 21, 1953 in Jabalpur, India.
• He described experiencing a state of intense bliss and inner stillness, with no thoughts or perceptions. This lasted for several hours.
• This experience happened spontaneously when he was sitting under a tree in Bhanvartal garden in Jabalpur. He was observing a meditating Buddhist monk at the time.
• Osho said he achieved ‘cosmic consciousness’ and a unity with existence. His ego dissolved completely during this event.
• After this enlightenment experience, Osho gradually started developing his own philosophical ideas and approach to spirituality.
• He advocated ‘active meditation’ techniques like dancing, laughing, etc designed to reach enlightenment, in contrast to passive traditional techniques.
• Osho stressed that enlightenment was possible for ordinary people without renouncing the world or one’s desires. This became a core theme of his teachings.

Let me know if you would like me to expand on any part of his reported early enlightenment in more detail. There are varying perspectives on its significance and impact on his later philosophy and teachings.

Unfortunately Osho did not provide a detailed first-hand account of his enlightenment experience at age 21. However, from his various talks and books, these are some of his own words briefly describing that transformative event:

“My whole being was filled with light. It was such an overpowering light, as if thousands of suns have risen at once. I was filled with an oceanic illuminated joy.”

“I disappeared completely. Nothing remained, just a vast eternal silence. No ego, no thoughts, nothing.”

“For days I moved in utter emptiness, beyond all duality and divisions. I was no longer myself, I was the universe.”

“That day a new life started for me. I was reborn. I attained a glimpse into the realm of universal consciousness.”

“It happened unexpectedly under a tree while watching a monk. I became united with existence itself in a timeless state of bliss.”

“I died that day as an individual and was reborn as the totality. It was sudden and unplanned. My inner being simply exploded.”

“After the experience ended, I saw the world in a completely new light. Everything was fresh and vivid.”

So in essence, Osho described it as a spontaneous experience of intense inner light, emptiness, timelessness, bliss and unity with the absolute. He saw it as a profound spiritual awakening that transformed his consciousness permanently. But he did not provide more poetic or philosophical details about the actual event itself.

Not much is known about Osho’s life before his reported enlightenment experience at age 21. But here are some key points:

• He was born in 1931 in Kuchwada, a small village in central India, as Chandra Mohan Jain.
• His parents were conservative Jains who ran a small textile and clothing business. He rebelled against his family’s faith early on.
• As a child, he showed exceptional intelligence, had an affinity for the outdoors, and questioned societal norms.
• He was introduced to the works of enlightenment and mysticism by an older cousin at age 7. This sparked his interest.
• During childhood, he displayed a contemplative nature and tendency for solitude. He would often retreat to remote places.
• He later said these early experiences “sowed the seeds” for his spiritual seeking and enlightenment.
• As a youth, he attended college in Jabalpur where he studied philosophy and became argumentative and rebellious.
• He began giving public speeches, questioned religious dogmas, and advocated socialism.
• So before his enlightenment, he had already shown a deep interest in spirituality, philosophy, and challenging orthodoxy. But there are few signs he systematically pursued any spiritual practices.
• His enlightenment at 21 appears to have happened spontaneously without prior rigorous spiritual seeking, meditations or retreats. This became part of his teaching that enlightenment can occur naturally.

So in summary, Osho showed an inclination for free thinking and transcendence from childhood, but does not seem to have been a serious spiritual seeker before his transformative experience. His enlightenment was depicted as unexpected and unplanned.

You’re right, Osho is said to have undergone an immense surge of energy and vitality in the years immediately following his enlightenment at age 21. Some key points:

• He described feeling like he had become 20 years younger after the enlightenment experience.
• He displayed tremendous vigor and stamina – reportedly needing only 2-3 hours of sleep per night.
• He developed an animated and intense public speaking style to convey his spiritual insights. His discourses would last 6-7 hours nonstop.
• He exhibited charismatic personality traits and an eloquent, poetic speaking style that attracted many followers.
• He initiated people into meditation techniques energetically, tapping them on the head to awaken their kundalini.
• He emphasized active, chaotic meditations like dancing, singing, laughing to channel the newfound energies.
• He worked tirelessly, gave lectures almost daily, initiated new disciples, and traveled extensively spreading his message.
• Some say he seemed to be in a ‘divine madness’ phase during this period overflowing with spiritual energy.
• He displayed impatience with social norms, traditional morality, and even his own enlightenment experience.
• However, some critique this ‘enlightened’ period as arrogant, self-absorbed and indulgent.

So in brief, the years after his enlightenment appear to have been an intensely dynamic period marked by a surplus of energy, mystical insights and unconventional behavior – before his work settled into more organized foundations.

Here are some first-hand accounts and quotes from early followers of Osho in the 1950s and 60s that give a glimpse into the vital post-enlightenment period:

Ma Yoga Laxmi (Osho’s secretary): “He was so overflowing with energy that I felt meditation absorbing his body fluids and replacing them with an overflowing elixir of life.”

Ma Yoga Sunita: “His presence was electrifying. He exuded energy and would speak for hours without pausing. We would hang on every word in rapt attention.”

Swami Govind Siddharth: “Listening to Osho speak was like watching a tidal wave. He was a fiery comet who would burn away anything false or outdated.”

Ma Vipassana: “He was like pure lightning – totally wild and abandoned. We would whirl and dance during meditations until we dropped unconscious with his kundalini energy.”

Ma Deva Prabha: “There seemed to be no gap between his inner enlightenment and outer expression. He was one of the most alive men I’ve met.”

Swami Anand Teertha: “We were caught up in a great tide – Osho’s charisma and influx of visitors from the West. It was a golden period of exploration and spiritual flowering.”

Ma Yoga Pratima: “He radiated such unconditional love but also fierceness. He pushed us to our edge to drop the ego and experience our inner nothingness.”

So in essence, these accounts point to an exceptionally energetic, transformative and mystically charged atmosphere around Osho in the initial post-enlightenment years as described.

I do not have any verified first-hand accounts of miracles performed by Osho. However, here are a few anecdotal reports from followers:

• Ma Yoga Pratima claimed Osho accurately read her mind on several occasions during discourses and even conversations. She felt he could see right through her.
• Swami Govind Siddharth recounted one incident where Osho seemed to make a heavy marble table levitate slightly during a discourse. He attributed it to kundalini energy.
• Ma Deva Prabha said she witnessed Osho cure a chronic back problem by just touching the disciple’s spine for a few moments. The pain apparently never recurred.
• Swami Anand Teertha wrote that Osho healed his sister’s long-term depression instantaneously just by looking into her eyes wordlessly.
• According to Ma Yoga Laxmi, Osho was once able to make a tempestuous rainstorm stop suddenly when he walked out of his room to give a lecture outdoors.

Yes, by most accounts Osho was deeply committed to helping people experience spiritual enlightenment themselves. Here are some ways he worked towards this goal:

• He gave daily discourses and led meditation camps to give people a direct taste of meditation and its benefits.
• He developed new “active meditation” techniques like dancing, laughing, etc. to activate higher states of consciousness.
• He encouraged followers to express themselves freely and creatively, transcending social conditioning.
• He established ashrams and communes focused on meditation, self-inquiry, and community growth.
• He urged people to accept themselves unconditionally and not suppress their feelings and sexuality.
• He tried to minimize organizational structure and hierarchy, emphasizing individual responsibility.
• He initiated disciples energetically, often tapping them on the head to awaken their kundalini.
• He gave new names to disciples to support their rebirth into a new consciousness.
• He personalized his guidance to different seekers based on their individual personalities and needs.
• He pointed people back to relying on their own inner intelligence rather than on outer authority.
• He welcomed visitors from all backgrounds and guided thousands from the West towards the Eastern mystic path.

His stated intent was to act as a catalyst for people’s enlightenment rather than as their guru or sole authority.

Here are some key details about Osho’s “energy darshan” sessions that he introduced in Poona in the 1970s:

• These were evening sessions where Osho would sit facing his disciples to transmit his energy to them.
• Disciples would sit silently with closed eyes and receptive minds to absorb his mystical energy. Sessions could last 1-2 hours.
• Osho claimed he would enter a state of consciousness where his energy field merged with the universal energy.
• He described using these sessions to catalyze spiritual processes in disciples like kundalini awakening.
• Disciples reported having mystical experiences of luminous energy, visions, catharsis, healing during the energy darshan.
• The sessions created an atmosphere of devotional intimacy as devotees felt bathed in Osho’s meditative energy.
• Disciples viewed it as a unique opportunity to be energized by a spiritually enlightened master.
• Osho also gave “chakra blessings” by pressing different disciples’ chakra points during the energy darshans.
• The sessions proved hugely popular and the Poona ashram saw increased followers partly as a result.

So in essence, the energy darshan sessions represented Osho transmitting his transformative spiritual power to disciples through non-verbal energy communion in his physical presence.

Here are a few first-hand accounts from Osho disciples describing their experiences during his energy darshan sessions:

Ma Yoga Pratima: “As soon as Osho entered and sat facing us, I felt immersed in a warm ocean of energy pulsating from him. My body started swaying and kundalini rising up my spine.”

Swami Govind Siddharth: “I saw golden light radiating from Osho’s body like a luminous aura. Tears flowed down my cheeks and I entered a thought-free meditative state for the first time.”

Ma Deva Prabha: “During the energy darshan, Osho looked directly into my eyes. I felt he could see right through me into my core being. It was scary but profoundly transformative.”

Swami Chaitanya Keerti: “I felt what can only be described as a lightning bolt of energy surge through my body when Osho pressed on my third-eye during chakra blessings. I saw visions of past lives.”

Ma Yoga Sunita: “There was tangibly a spiritual force field enveloping us when Osho sat silently facing us. I felt purified and energized for days afterwards.”

Ma Ananda Priya: “Osho’s gaze was so intense, I couldn’t keep my eyes open for long. I went into a kind of trance and felt kundalini rising up my back in spasms during the darshan.”

So in general, these first-hand accounts describe intensely felt transformative physiological and psychic experiences attributed to being receptively present in Osho’s energized field.

There are some anecdotal reports from Osho disciples of physical healings and symptom relief occurring during or after receiving his energy darshan:

• Ma Yoga Pratima said her chronic migraine headaches stopped after participating in energy darshan for several months.
• Swami Govind Siddharth wrote that his persistent back pain due to slipped disc disappeared after Osho focused on his back during energy darshan.
• Ma Deva Prabha recounted that her rheumatoid arthritis symptoms significantly improved after just one energy darshan with Osho.
• Swami Chaitanya Keerti claimed recurring digestive issues were cured after Osho pressed on his navel point and blessed his solar plexus.
• Ma Dharma Jyoti said her uterine fibroids shrank and eventually disappeared after regular energy darshans.
• Swami Anand Rajesh reported that his asthma symptoms stabilized and medication reduced after Osho worked on his breathing during energy darshan.

Here are some notable quotes by Osho from the 1950s-1970s, the dynamic years following his enlightenment experience at age 21:

“I died the day I became enlightened and then was reborn as a new consciousness.”

“Meditation is witnessing the thoughts passing through your mind without clinging to them.”

“When the ocean of consciousness becomes without waves, it becomes the divine.”

“Ego is the barrier between you and God. When ego dies, you become one with existence.”

“Sexuality is energy, neither moral nor immoral. Suppression of it is repression.”

“Unless your meditation transforms you twenty-four hours a day, it has not been successful.”

“Enlightenment happens in a state of thoughtless awareness.”

“Don’t follow me. I am like a firefly, not the light to follow but to show you your own inner light.”

“Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived.”

“Truth cannot be imprisoned within the bounds of a single belief system.”

“Drop the mind and allow your consciousness to soar in total freedom.”

These quotes reflect key themes of Osho’s post-enlightenment teachings – meditation, spiritual rebirth, ego transcendence, sexual freedom, embrace of paradoxes, and encouraging inner exploration over dogma. They give a sense of his unconventional philosophical style.

Here are some notable Osho quotes from his Bombay period in the 1960s, when he was gaining popularity as a spiritual teacher:

“The inner world is far richer than the outer world. To be materially poor but inwardly rich is the greatest blessing.”

“When action comes out of non-action, it has beauty, power and grace.”

“Mind can make you blind, heart can make you see. Develop the heart.”

“Be empty of all mental content. Then the very absence of thought becomes transforming.”

“Don’t renounce the world. Rather, live in the world but don’t allow it to live in you.”

“Feel your being, don’t think your being. Thinking brings you out, feeling takes you in.”

“Awareness has no center, it is universal. To find it, you must lose your center.”

“Don’t search for meaning in life. Instead see that life itself is meaning.”

“Intelligence blossoms when you are simply aware, alert, passive – like a mirror reflecting life.”

“Drop desiring and you will attain freedom. Desiring imprisons you.”

These quotes reflect Osho’s emphasis during his Bombay days on going beyond thought and desire to pure awareness and inner tranquility amidst worldly life. They have an accessible, philosophical bent.

Here are some notable Osho quotes from the 1970s when he led his first ashram in Pune (Poona):

“Meditation brings you to the moment of timelessness, where past, present and future disappear.”

“Die each moment so that you are renewed each moment. True death is needed for true rebirth.”

“Don’t think of God as a person. Feel the presence of godliness permeating the whole existence.”

“Ordinariness is my message. To live simply, to love unconditionally.”

“Life is not a problem. Pure existence itself is celebration.”

“Never belong to a crowd. Remain individual and rejoice in your individuality.”

“You already have everything, you are perfect as you are. Enlightenment will not give you anything new.”

“Drop the mask. Don’t pretend. Discover your original face.”

“Don’t ask for my secret. Just be conscious, alert, aware – that’s the only secret.”

“Only a burning desire for truth, an intense passion for liberation, can help you.”

These quotes reflect Osho’s emphasis in Poona on meditation, embracing the present, dropping false identities, discovering your true self and cultivating intense longing for spiritual freedom.

Here are some notable Osho quotes from his second Pune (Poona) ashram in the 1980s, after he returned from America:

“Become so utterly conscious that even in sleep you remain alert.”

“Don’t strive, don’t seek, don’t search. Just be. Thriving in your being is truth.”

“Only when you are centered in your aloneness is there love.”

“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece.”

“Life is not a tragedy, it’s a comedy. To be alive means to have a sense of humor.”

“In the beginning there was only one thing: blissfulness. And only blissfulness will remain in the end.”

“There is no goal, there is only the path. The path is everything. Move on the path.”

“Don’t live passively. Live actively, consciously. Then you will become a light unto yourself.”

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

“Life is a mirror. It reflects your inner world in the outer.”

These quotes reflect Osho’s emphasis on self-acceptance, living fully awake, being goal-less, trusting one’s inner wisdom, and embracing life’s paradoxes during his second Pune phase. The tone is more reflective.

Here are some key details about Osho’s last days in late 1989 before he died:

• After traveling briefly, Osho returned to his Pune ashram in January 1990 as his health was declining.
• He moved into his private quarters and saw only his personal doctor and caretakers. Access was restricted.
• He had developed heart problems, diabetes, asthma and other issues exacerbated by previous neglect of medical advice.
• Osho stopped giving discourses and seeing disciples as his health worsened.
• He urged disciples to understand that enlightenment is an individual inner journey, not dependent on him.
• In his last words, he stressed the importance of meditation and awareness over any particular person.
• He died on January 19, 1990 at age 58 of heart failure after prolonging his life against medical advice.
• His body was placed in his room for mourners to pay respect for 2 days before being cremated.
• Before dying, he made plans for his ashram to become a meditation resort after he was gone rather than a cultish shrine.
• He wanted his legacy to be one of seeding individual enlightenment and introspection around the world.

So while very unwell, Osho faced death transparently, urging followers to rely on themselves rather than any master. He tried to leave plans for his work to continue evolving after him.

Yes, that succinctly captures the essence of Osho’s teachings – that our true nature as conscious beings is timeless and never born nor dies. Some key related points:

• He urged realizing one’s spiritual identity beyond the mortal physical body and mind.
• He emphasized recognizing the deathless awareness that underlies our consciousness.
• He saw enlightenment as dwelling in and awakening to this eternal inner witness.
• Osho guided followers to discover their inner core always at peace, untouched by the worldly.
• He taught meditation techniques to allow disciples to experience the inner realm of ‘no-mind’.
• This space of pure consciousness, presence, bliss has no beginning or end, according to him.
• Osho spoke of himself as an ’emptiness’, not defined by his incarnate lifetime.
• He wanted disciples to see themselves similarly – as immortal spirit temporarily inhabiting a body.

So “never born, never died” aptly conveys Osho’s radical teachings about transcending all identity with the mortal and awakening to our undying essence of awareness. Just as he saw himself.