Bhagwan

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant, at his maternal grandparents' house in Kuchwada; a small village in the Raisen district of Madhya Pradesh state in India. He, now using his nickname Rajneesh experienced a spiritual awakening in 1953 at the age of 21. At a public meditation event in early 1970, Rajneesh presented his Dynamic Meditation method for the first time. On 26 September 1970, he initiated his first group of disciples or neo-sannyasins.