Tributes to Osho’s Books…India
"These brilliant insights will benefit all those who yearn for experiential knowledge of the field of pure potentiality inherent in every human being. This book belongs on the shelf of every library and in the home of all those who seek knowledge of the higher self."
-Deepak Chopra
"Osho is an enlightened master who is working with all possibilities to help humanity overcome a difficult phase in developing consciousness."
-The Dalai Lama
"Within a few years from now Osho's message will be heard all over the world. He was the most original thinker that India has produced: the most erudite, the most clear-headed and the most innovative. And in addition he had an inborn gift of words, spoken and written. The like of him we will not see for decades to come...He has to be judged as a thinker, and as a thinker he will rank amongst the giants.""It is a religion for the irreligious, for the agnostic, for the unbeliever, for the rationalist."
-Khushwant Singh, former editor of The Times of India; author and historian
"A great mystic, a great philosopher.... In his own way Osho captured the essence of ancient wisdom, related it to contemporary needs, tempered it with the modern times and became a powerful messenger of eternal Indian thought and Indian wisdom."
-Dr. Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
"Enlightened people like Osho are ahead of their times. It is good that more and more young people are now reading his works."
-K. R. Narayanan, Former President of India
"Few people have understood India like Osho. It was an understanding at many levels. The philosophical, the historic, the purely emotional - and even the political and the literary, the wanton and the spiritual. His was a holistic understanding. An understanding that went beyond words, into the uncharted terrain of true love. For love was at the core of everything tht Osho believed in. It was the ultimate message he left for us. To discover, experience, savour life through love." "He has provided us a rare insight into our lives and times. He has ridiculed us, pushed us...hurt us, and thereby, made richer human beings out of us. He made us think for ourselves; forced us to reject him, and by that act of rejection, brought us closer to him -and in a strange kind of way, closer to ourselves."
-Pritish Nandy, former editor, and publisher of The Illustrated Weekly, India
"Osho books inspire me to meditate. They give me peace of mind."
-Kapil Dev, cricketing super-star from India
"Osho gave his country and the world a vision, which one can be proud of."
-Chandra Shekhar, former Prime Minister of India
"Osho is a fountain of wisdom that never goes dry. - This century's most original mind has created a new world for us humans to revel in, enjoy and remain ourselves through the pathway of love. Here is the quintessence of the wisdom of ages, the pure nectar of essential knowledge for mortals to be acquainted with immortality."
-V. N. Narayanan, Former Editor, Hindustan Times
"I have heard Shree Rajneesh and have been inspired by his talks. His works are sublime and seek to liberate the soul of humans. Indeed his presentation is unique, his goal is great and his success in liberating each person from the mafia surrounding the soul is rewarding reading. The message that he had to deliver must reach everywhere. Ultimately salvation comes when one attains freedom from oneself. That, I believe, is the consummation which exposure to Osho may help."
-V.R. Krishna Iyer, former Supreme Court Judge
"Osho is one of India's greatest mystics.... I see him as one of the world's great teachers, thinkers, philosophers and guides of our times. I have enormous respect for his world vision and the kind of international Communities he is building. I have always felt his influence in my life."
-Kabir Bedi, international film star
"Today the messenger isn't there, and people are listening to the message: the message is something intelligent, useful. People find that it makes sense. So I think that's the real thing and people are actually listening to what he said."
"Here is somebody who fuses everything and makes it understandable to people, and it makes sense. And he also challenges very fixed beliefs, challenges religions which have tradition and ritual and so forth."
-Aroon Purie, Editor, India Today
"With Osho, words flow endlessly. Provocatively. Challengingly. In a hundred years more copies of Osho's works will have been printed than the Bible itself, till now the outstanding bestseller."
-M. V. Kamath, Former Editor, The Illustrated Weekly
"Osho speaks the language of today's Yug Bhasha. His message is for the whole world."
-Shri Krishnakant, Vice-President of India
Tributes to Osho's Books... Worldwide
"I found No Water, No Moon one of the most refreshing, cleansing and delightful books I could imagine. It is a book which will never cease to be a comforting companion."
-Sir Yehudi Menuhin
"Osho is a mystical giant, a flowering of a unique intelligence and one of those rare humans expressing himself with joy."
-Paul Reps, author of Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
"Osho is the most dangerous man since Jesus Christ... He's obviously a very effective man, otherwise he wouldn't be such a threat. He's saying the same things that nobody else has the courage to say. A man who has all kinds of ideas, they're not only inflammatory-they also have a resonance of truth that scares the pants off the control freaks." "Wit and playfulness are a tremendously serious transcendence of evil, and this is one thing that Osho understood better than any contemporary teacher that I can think of. Gurdjieff had an element of that in his teachings, but certainly in the past fifty years there has not existed a teacher in the world who understood the value of playfulness and wit quite so well as Osho."
-Tom Robbins, author of Even Cowgirls Get the Blues,
Still Life with Woodpecker and Jitterbug Perfume and others.
"When we wrote and prepared for shooting Vanilla Sky, I constantly checked in with Osho's insides. It is not so easy to present the unconscious mind with images and a story. Osho is the only one who can perfectly explain it all, the inner and the outer and that helped me and my team immensely".
-Tom Cruise, actor
"I've been charmed from reading his books."
-Frederico Fellini
"I really got into Osho's books. I have always loved his books. They were top notch."
-Marianne Williamson, author
"Osho is not trying to purvey information but a truth that bypasses conscious thought and all that belongs to it, just as the most important activities of human beings bypass the mind."
-Bernard Levin Journalist, commentator and writer
"I have read most of Osho's books and listened to tapes of his talks, and I am convinced that in the spiritual tradition, here is a mind of intellectual brilliance and persuasive ability as an author."
-James Broughton, poet, and author
"He discourses with eloquent familiarity on virtually all the world's great mystics - Zen masters, Hassids, Sufis, Bauls, Buddha, Lao-Tzu, Jesus. Though he "knocks the mind," Osho is an intellectual's guru, and his message is aimed not at spiritual sheep but at rebels and risk takers - people who consider themselves intelligent, adventurous, and independent, and want to be more so."
-Annie Gottlieb, author of 'Do You Believe in Magic?'
"He is the rarest and most talented religionist to appear this century."
-Kazuyoshi Kino, Professor of Buddhist Studies,
Hosen Gakuen College, Tokyo, Japan
"I have never heard anyone so beautifully and playfully integrate and then dissolve the psychological problems which, for generations, have sapped our human energies."
-Rev. Cain, chaplain, Churchill College Cambridge
"As a result of reading The Golden Future (and many other works by Osho), I would like to let you know that I completely and heartily support the vision of Osho. As a writer I hope that his words will reach the hearts of those who need them most. I have every faith in this result, because the words of Osho are loaded with the power of love."
-Douwe de Groot, writer
"These books are really what people are looking for...they are even more relevant now than when they were spoken."
-Michael Mann, Chairman, Element Books
"Osho is the greatest incarnation after Buddha in India. He is a living Buddha."
-Lama Karmapa, late head of the Kargyupta (or Red Hat)
Sect of Tibetan Buddhism
"No one is more qualified to introduce the mystics than Osho, a man who stands out even in their exalted company. He speaks from his own experience, bringing his mystic predecessors to life, making them his contemporaries."
-John Lilly
"Never before or after have I encountered anybody having such a harmonious and immensely creative view encompassing art, science, human psychology and religiousness. Certainly we would lack substantially without his vision of the new man."
- Dr. A. Schleger, Ph.D., Institute of Technology,
Switzerland
"His incredible taped discourse lectures and books have inspired me, and millions of others, on the path of self-evolution... He is like a great bell tolling, Awaken, Awaken, Awaken!"