05.24.09
Link to some online rajneesh books
I just received in an email a link to a series of online books: Free PDF Ebooks of Osho, J Krishnamurti, Ramana Maharshi and Gurdjieff
Most of the books, except those of Rajneesh (so-called Osho), are old hat, ‘been around’. Here’s the sublink to the Rajneesh books.
Osho books
Whatever your opinion of Rajneesh, these online books represent something that never registered with the public, his hundreds of darshan books, and topic series discourses. Read in bulk at the time he was alive was a unique experience, especially if you couldn’t afford to make it to India.
A suspicious absence: the so-called ‘Rajneesh Bible’, the discourses he gave just at the end of his Rajneeshpuram period, one of the most caustic attacks on christianity ever published. Makes Dawkins look like a choir boy. Undoubtedly one of the reasons the authorities closed in on him. The activities of his disciples didn’t help much either.
I cite this because of what might have been: a complete clarification of the issue of religion, modernity, and the future of religion.
Instead the whole thing unraveled. In any case this is already history, history of the seventies and eighties, and the New Age movement at its prime.
It is important to know that there is nothing left of it.
I had no direct relationship to that and am/was very unwelcome in Rajneesh circles, but there was no law against reading his books, and I used to infiltrate in various places where his books were available.
Rajneesh produced a staggering number of books, and it is a seminal moment many of them are now online. I once read almost three hundred of them. Then they all went out of print. Don’t bother at all with the books you see now in bookstores: they are sausage versions produced long after he died.
The original first editions produced with photographs and art work in Poona are worth looking at if you can ever get a hold of them. They sell at high prices now. I used to have almost two hundred copies, which are long gone I can’t recall where. Must be worth a hundred thousand now.
Do a blog search here on ‘Rajneesh’ and you will find a lot of links, many of them critical, on the subject of his teaching.