When he was seven years old, his grandfather died, and he went to Gadarwara to live with his parents. By Rajneesh's own account, this was a major influence on his development because his grandmother gave him the utmost freedom, leaving him carefree without an imposed education or restrictions. His parents, Babulal and Saraswati Jain, who were Taranpanthi Jains, let him live with his maternal grandparents until he was eight years old. Rajneesh (a childhood nickname from the Sanskrit रजनी, rajanee, 'night', and ईश, isha, 'lord', meaning the 'God of Night' or 'The Moon' ( चंद्रमा) was born Chandra Mohan Jain, the eldest of 11 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. Life Childhood and adolescence: 1931–1950 Rajneesh's teachings have had an impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity reportedly increased between the time of his death and 2005.

Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort, and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). After staying in the house of a disciple where he resumed his discourses for six months, he returned to Pune in January 1987 and revived his ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh ultimately returned to Mumbai, India, in 1986. After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. That year, Rajneesh was deported from the United States on separate immigration-related charges in accordance with an Alford plea bargain. Turner, the attempted murder of Rajneesh's personal physician, and the bugging of his own living quarters authorities later convicted several members of the ashram, including Sheela. In 1985, Rajneesh publicly asked local authorities to investigate his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters for a number of crimes, including a 1984 mass food-poisoning attack intended to influence county elections, an aborted assassination plot on U.S. The movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success. In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back tax claim estimated at $5 million. In 1974, Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. During this period, he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, bhakti poets, and philosophers from around the world. 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 ( / ˈ oʊ ʃ oʊ/), was an Indian Godman, philosopher, mystic, and founder of the Rajneesh movement. Osho International Meditation Resort, Pune

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