![]() In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as " neo-sannyasins". Following several years in academia, in 1966 Rajneesh resigned his post at the University of Jabalpur and began traveling throughout India, becoming known as a vocal critic of the orthodoxy of mainstream religions, as well as of mainstream political ideologies and of Mahatma Gandhi. Rajneesh experienced a spiritual awakening in 1953 at the age of 21. In expressing a more progressive attitude to sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru". Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he advocated that his followers live fully in the world but without attachment to it. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho ( Hindi pronunciation: ), was an Indian Godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune
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