Bhagwan Shri Rajneesh later known as Osho, originally grew up in India & later became a professor of Philosophy at a university in Jabalpur, in central India. He became known as one who opposed Mahatma Gandhi.
He developed a type of meditation that became popular but his political activities led to the university asking him to leave. He did so but now had a lot of money from his teaching meditation.
I remember when I traveled through India with my brother. I was trying to communicate with a university student the difference between the Lord Jesus Christ and Krishna, between Christianity & Hinduism. At first I didn't so a good job because he responded that Krishna came down to earth from heaven, died for sins of people, etc. so he saw no difference between Jesus and Krishna.
I remember praying & asking the Lord for wisdom to show him the true difference. The Spirit did. He simply said to my spirit, 'Tell him Jesus is holy.' That was it. So I told him that. He then asked what is holy. So I explained that Krishna was both evil & good.
However, Jesus was holy all the time: at no time did He ever commit evil or speak evil (I Pet 2:22; Isa 53:9) nor did He ever know sin or evil by thought or by experience or by speech (2 Cor 5:21). He is both God & man. And because of this, Jesus was the perfect & holy substitution for us sinners & His sacrificial shed blood propitiated (satisfied) God's righteous & holy standard of His laws that we had broken & rebelled against.
Then I said in order to be right before God & have a relationship, we needed to be as holy as He is. He got quiet for a few minutes then suddenly blurted out, "That's not fair! No one can do that."
I then said, NOW you are understanding the difference between Hinduism & Christianity, between Jesus & Krishna. Only Jesus can make us holy & righteous before God by imputing His righteousness to us, crediting it to those who put their faith & trust in Christ, confessing him as THE Master & following Him & His teachings. He said I have given him much to think about.
I had mentioned that India had holy men. He told me that most of the common people knew that these people were fakes & made a joke about us Americans being duped by those going over to America (at which time Osho was in Oregon in his commune).
He again got in trouble in India after setting up an ashram (monastic community) & eventually moved to Oregon in the U.S.A. One of the secretaries where I worked took her whole retirement (& lost everything) & moved to his ashram/city of Antelope where he forcefully by law took over the tiny city.
He & his personal secretary, Ma Anand Sheela, were involved in many shady things & the largest bio-terrorist attack in US history. The cult infected 751 people with salmonella by contaminating restaurant salad bars. The 1984 attack, planned to incapacitate voters & allow it to win seats in a local election, led to a 20-year jail sentence for Sheela.
A netflix movie called Wild Wild Country is about this although not as accurate as it could be. An Osho commune is now in India, still carrying on his teachings.
