Rajneesh Chandra Mohan, better known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and later as Osho, was a guru and the founder and inspirer of a spiritual movement (the Bhagwan movement) in India, the US, Australia and Europe.

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The honorary titleBhagwanstems from itSanskritand is reserved for people who belong to so-calledself-realizationCame. Often it is translated Lord.

In thezentradition isOshōa designation for a spiritual master.

According to Bhagwan, every human being is a potential Buddha with the possibility of attaining enlightenment.

According to him, everyone is capable of experiencing unconditional love and living life instead of surviving. "For me, man should not reject or suppress anything that has been given to him. Let your inner flourishing come first."

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In his books he indicates that the ego gets in the way of most people. The ego, according to Bhagwan, is the social conditioning and the limitations that one imposes on oneself and accumulated in the past. Man thereby creates needs that conflict with his real nature.

Bhagwan sees thinking as a survival mechanism, creating repetitive patterns that were successful in the past. Because of this, many people live in the past, forgetting to live in the moment.

Instead of suppressing needs, he believed, people should trust and accept themselves unconditionally. "I accept man as he is - totally, without rejecting anything. (..) Man is a seed that can grow into a great tree, which can grow into divinity.

"Love is much more mysterious than life itself, because life has everything in it and something more, it is life plus death. And only those who are ready to die will know the life of love. Those who are afraid to dying will never enter the mystery of love."

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