Rajneeshism is founded by Bhagwan Rajneesh (1931-90), which means "Sir God", but Rajneesh translates it as "master of the vagina". He is the India's "sex guru", and he is also famous for his fleet of Rolls-Royces (from a collection of 11 and increased to 96), and his private plane. He is on the guru business definitely. He passed away in 1990, with heart failure listed as the official cause of death. But many people believe that he was probably died of AIDS as he used to have multiple partners and unprotected sex despite he claimed that AIDS epidemic would soon kill three quarters of the world's population and that a major nuclear war was just around the corner. He thought he could escape nuclear holocaust by building underground shelters and slow the spread of AIDS by having his disciples wash their hands with alcohol before eating meals. His more reasoned admonition was for his disciples to always use condoms. To enforce his sexual rules, which also involved elaborate instructions on the use of rubber gloves during sexual encounters, Rajneesh encouraged his sannyasins to spy on each other, reporting the names of those who failed to conform to his orders.

Osho or Rajneesh was a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Jabalpur, India, and in 1974 left his position to open an ashram in Poona, south of Bombay, India, where 50,000 Americans made the pilgrimage. In 1981 opened another one in Oregon, USA, at the price of $6 million, with a form of meditation which involved nudity, sex, and making loud noises, with their pink robes.

He lived in an ivory tower, rarely leaving his room unless to give a lecture, his life experience cushioned by throngs of adoring devotees. As most human beings who are treat as kings, Rajneesh lost touch with the world of the common man. In his artificial and insulated existence, Rajneesh made one fundamental error in judgment which would destroy his teaching. Rajneesh calculated that the majority of the earth's population was on such a low level of consciousness that they could not understand nor tolerate the real truths. He thus decided on a policy of spreading seemingly useful lies to bring inspiration to his disciples and, on occasion, to stress his students in unique situations for their own personal growth. This was his downfall and the prime reason he will be remembered by most historians as just another phony guru, which he undoubtedly was not. Acharya, Bhagwan Shree, Osho, all the empowering names taken by Rajneesh could not cover up the fact that he was still a human being. He had ambitions and desires, sexual and material, just like everyone else. Soon, Rajneesh became a criminal in both the legal and ethical sense of the word. In 1981, Rajneesh fled Poone because of charges of income tax evasion, and he had to leave Oregon on charges of visa fraud and arranging sham marriages.

Like Lu Sheng Yen, he and his heart disciples liked to fool the followers by making use the popularity of great Tibetan masters and many other philosophers of other religions and cults.

For example, he invited His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama to visit the Rajneesh ashram, he claimed that His Holiness praised that he was an enlightened master, who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness. Subsequently, they invited His Holiness the Dalai Lama for a second time, His Holiness Gyalwa Rinpoche turned down their invitation. Soon, some long time Rajneesh disciples expressed how angry they were at His Holiness the Dalai Lama for visiting the Rajneesh ashram just once and not returning for a second visit after an invitation was given. So for their, His Holiness the Dalai Lama is now a villain simply because of his free will and free choice. The level of intolerance and narrow mindedness in the Rajneesh cult is mind boggling and I cannot understand how so many seemingly intelligent people can live in such a small mental space, barricaded against all those who do not believe exactly as they do.

Likewise, they also made up another story on how the late His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa had praised that Rajneesh was 'enlightened':

"He (His Holiness Gyalwa Karmapa) took the locket of Osho (which belonged to Swami Govind Siddharth ) in his hand and he touched it to his forehead and then said, 'He is the greatest incarnation since Buddha in India - he is a living Buddha!' His Holiness went on to say, 'You may be feeling that he is speaking for you, but it is not only for you that he speaks. Osho speaks for the Akashic records also, the records of events and words recorded on the astral planes. Whatever is spoken is not forgotten. That is why you will find that he goes on repeating things and you will feel that he is doing this for you, but as a matter of fact, he speaks only for a few people. Only a few people realize who Osho is. His words will remain there in Akashic records, so that they will also be helpful to people of the future.' His Holiness went on to say that Osho was with them in past lives. 'If you want to see one of Osho’s previous incarnations - who he was in Tibet - you can go to Tibet and see his golden statue there which is preserved in the Hall of Incarnations.' He went on to say that about Osho and his work, 'My blessings are always there, and I know that whatever we are not going to be able to do to help others, Osho will do.' The main aim of the lamas in coming to India was to preserve their occult sciences. Osho also confirmed this in his Kashmir lectures given in 1969. The Dalai Lama has not escaped only to save himself, but to save the Tibetan religion, the meditation secrets and the occult sciences. 'We have gotten these things from India in the past, and now we want to return them back. Now we have come to know that here is an incarnation, Osho, who is doing our job in India and the world and we are very happy about it. The world will know him, but only a few people will realize what he actually is. He will be the only person who can guide properly, who can be a World Teacher in this age, and he had taken birth only for this purpose.'"

Rajneesh's sex life was of no interest to me and I do not find any fault with him for having the same sexual desires that all men have. I do find fault when he was dishonest and cruel for selfish reasons. While living in Bombay, Rajneesh made one young woman pregnant through an aggressive and unasked for seduction. The young woman was highly upset and forced by circumstance to have an abortion. Rajneesh, protecting his image as a great guru, lied about his involvement and claimed that she had imagined the whole affair. The young woman told the American Embassy her story and that incident marked the beginning of Rajneesh's troubles with the United States Government. Rajneesh, on so many levels, was just an ordinary man. Sexually he was even less than ordinary. Pretending to be a great tantric in his early years, Rajneesh handed out ridiculously bad sexual advice at a time when he had very little first hand experience with sex himself. During his Bombay era, Rajneesh often grabbed the breasts of his young female disciples. On at least one occasion he asked a couple to have sex in front of him so that he could watch. The couple wisely rejected his request. Rajneesh often asked women half his age to strip in front of him so that he could "feel their chakras." To facilitate this practice, he installed an electric lock on his bedroom door that could be activated from his famous high backed chair by his desk, where he spent most of his time. After Rajneesh started having intercourse on a regular basis the spiritual need for him to feel the chakras of his female disciples mysteriously vanished.

Rajneesh never lost the ultimate existential truth of being. He only lost the ordinary concept of truth that any normal adult can easily understand. He rationalized his constant lying as "left-handed Tantra," but that too was dishonest. Rajneesh lied to save face, to avoid taking responsibility for his own mistakes, and to gain personal power. Those lies had nothing to do with Tantra or any selfless acts of kindness. What is real in this world is fact and Rajneesh misrepresented fact on a daily basis. Rajneesh was no simple con-man like so many others. It was his loss of respect for ordinary truthfulness that destroyed his teaching.

Rajneesh's health collapsed in his early thirties. Even before reaching middle age, Rajneesh suffered reoccurring bouts of weakness. During his youthful college years, when he should have been at a peak of vigor, Rajneesh often had to sleep 12 to 14 hours a day due to his unexplained illness. Rajneesh suffered from what Europeans call myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) or what Americans call Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). His classic symptoms included the obvious fatigue, strange allergies, recurrent low grade fevers, photophobia, orthostatic intolerance (the inability to stand for a normal period of time), and extreme sensitivity to smells and chemicals, a condition doctors now refer to as "multiple chemical sensitivity." Rajneesh's trademark chemical sensitivity was so severe that he instructed his guards to sniff people for unpleasant odors before they were allowed to visit him in his quarters. Rajneesh's poor health and strange symptoms were a product of real neurological damage, not some esoteric supersensitivity caused by his enlightenment. Rajneesh also had Type II diabetes, asthma, and severe back pain. Rajneesh was constantly sick. He could not stand on his feet for long periods of time without becoming lightheaded because he suffered damage to his autonomic nervous system which controls blood pressure. This neurally mediated hypotension (low blood pressure while standing) causes chronic fatigue and can lower IQ due to a lack of sufficient blood and oxygen being pumped to the brain (brain hypoxia). When he was most ill he would complain of becoming lightheaded as soon as he stood up. He thought he was getting a different cold or flu every week. In reality he suffered from a singular chronic illness with flu like symptoms that can last a lifetime.

In his last years Rajneesh used prescription drugs, mainly Valium (diazepam), as an analgesic for his aches and pains and to counter the symptoms of dysautonomia (dysfunction his autonomic nervous system). He took the maximum recommended dose of 60 milligrams per day. He also inhaled nitrous oxide (N2O) mixed with pure oxygen (O2) which helped his asthma and brain hypoxia, but which did nothing for the quality of his judgment. Naive about the powerful effects of Western medications and overconfident about his own ability to fight off their potentially negative effects, Rajneesh succumbed to addiction. His downfall and humiliation followed swiftly. Rajneesh was a physically ill man who became mentally corrupt. His drug addiction was a problem of his own making, not a government conspiracy. Rajneesh died in 1990, with heart failure listed as the official cause of death. It is probably that the physical decline Rajneesh experienced during his incarceration in American jails was due to a combination of withdrawal symptoms from Valium and an aggravation of his ME/CFS due to stress and exposure to allergens. There was much speculation in the American media that Osho had actually committed suicide by taking a drug overdose. As noone has confessed to giving Osho a lethal injection, there is no hard evidence to support the suicide theory. A compelling circumstantial case could be made for such a scenario, however, with suicide provoked by Osho's constant ill health and disheartenment over the loss of Vivek, his greatest love.

Vivek was a glowing student of meditation, but her only meditation method was being with Bhagwan and absorbing his tremendous spiritual energy. When her one method and one true love collapsed into insanity, she took her own life out of overwhelming grief. Rajneesh drove her to suicide because she could not understand nor tolerate his mental decline and collapse. Vivek had taken a fatal overdose of sleeping pills in a Bombay hotel one month before Osho's passing. Pointedly, Vivek decided to kill herself just before Osho's birthday celebration. Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh had threatened suicide at the Oregon commune several times, hanging his death over the heads of his disciples as a threat unless they obeyed his wishes. On his last day on earth, Osho is reported to have said "Let me go. My body has become a hell for me."

The rumor that Osho was poisoned with thallium by operatives of the United States Government is entirely fictional and contradicted by undeniable fact. One of the obvious symptoms of thallium poisoning is dramatic hair loss within seven days of exposure. Osho died with a full beard and no exceptional baldness other than ordinary male pattern baldness at the top of his head. Many of the symptoms which may have led Osho's doctors to suspect thallium poisoning were in fact common symptoms of dysautonomia caused by ME/CFS. Those symptoms can include ataxia (uncoordinated movements), numbness, standing tachycardia (rapid heart rate upon standing), paresthesia (sensations of prickling and itching), nausea, and irritable bowel syndrome, which causes alternating between constipation and diarrhea. The only proven cases of poisoning related to Osho were carried out by Rajneesh sannyasins themselves (a sannyasin is an initiated disciple, one who takes sannyas). The victims included totally innocent people at an Oregon restaurant, two Wasco County Commissioners, and members of Rajneesh's own staff who were poisoned by Ma Anand Sheela, Rajneesh's personal secretary. Sheela had the habit of poisoning people who either knew too much or who had simply fallen out of her favor. Sheela spent two and a half years in a federal medium security prison for her crimes while Rajneesh pled guilty to immigration fraud and was given a ten year suspended sentence, fined $400,000.00, and deported from the United States of America.

They used to be around 600 Osho Centers of Communities, only about 20 are left. Today, after his death in 1990, he still has influences through his books, such as his version of 'Dhammapada', and many others which can be ordered through their organization webpages, and his posthumous empire has been taken over by financial opportunists who run their own therapy centres under his name. Many of them have never actually met Osho in person at all