Born Chandra Mohan Jain in Kuchwada, India in 1931. A philosophy student who became a philosophy professor, then a wandering teacher who broke with organised religion of every kind. By the mid-1970s his Pune ashram was the most active spiritual laboratory on earth — thousands of seekers from across the world arrived to try the meditations he kept inventing.
In 1981 he moved the community to a 64,000-acre ranch in Oregon called Rajneeshpuram. What followed is well documented: a visionary experiment that collided with the US legal system, a public scandal, deportation, and a return to India. He died in Pune in 1990 at age 58.
What remains is the work. Over 600 books transcribed from his discourses. Hundreds of meditation techniques — Dynamic, Kundalini, Nadabrahma — built for modern bodies and minds that cannot sit still in the old ways. The controversies belong to history. The transmission is still alive.