Bhagwan: One Man Against the Whole Ugly Past of Humanity

Language: EnglishPages: 512 (33 Color Illustrations)About the BookIn this world of ours where every religion is screaming for love, where politicians of every country go on signing the agreements of peace, a man of love and peace, Osho (formerly known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh), a contemporary mystic, was turned away from the doors of twenty-one so-called democracies.The state of affairs depicted by the author, Juliet Forman, is a challenge to history.She raises a profound question:If - as was her experience, accompanying Osho on his world tour - the people of each country he visited so clearly loved him and, just as clearly, the priests and politicians of those same countries hated him, how can the latter be considered representatives, true leaders of the people?Juliet Forman has documented the tragedy of Osho's world odyssey in 1986 with great sensitivity. Interwoven through- out the drama and uncertainty of the times are countless vignettes - touching, startling, humorous - that afford the reader a unique glimpse into the life of one of the most remarkable men to have ever lived on this Earth.Ms. Forman's writing style is mature, and so powerful that the incidents she depicts throb in the pulse of the reader."I raise my hand against the whole past of mankind. It has not been civilized, it has not been human. It has been a calamity, a crime committed on a vast scale. But somebody has to stand against it."We disown our past, and we will start living according to our own inner being and create our own future. We will not allow the past to create our future."At any cost, this earth and the people of this earth have to be saved from the calamity that is coming from your whole past. An abs