SUSHMITA SEN

(Actor)

It takes courage to be oneselfnow more than ever there's a need to live with awareness and
independence; with love and compassion. Osho's work is to bring awareness to all aspects of life. He
has evolved new meditations for modern humanity. He values the heart and the head, the mundane and
the mysterious, the sinners and the saints, male and female equally. Laxmi was an ordinary woman who
led an extraordinary life. She is you and me. Like so many of us she wanted to make the world a kinder
place but it was not until she met Osho that she could fulfil that intention. However, she had to pass
through the fire of a master's transmission to become pure gold. That transmission flows through this
book. I congratulate Rashid for this beautiful book. The readers will find inspiration to live life with
awareness and celebration.

Vasant Joshi (Author)

A rebel, an iconoclast, an enlightened mystic and an intellectual giant, Osho (also known as Acharya Rajneesh and Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) is all this and more. He brought about a spiritual revolution in the lives of those who cared to grow intellectually. He spoke fearlessly against orthodox religions, priests, politicians, age-old traditions and anything he thought was a hindrance to the anything he thought was a hindrance to the path of self-realisation. This made him the most talked about and controversial mystic of the twentieth century.
Osho, The Luminous Rebel traces the story of Osho from his birth, talking about his spiritual search for truth and the wondrous story of his enlightenment. The book also takes the reader from the early years of Osho’s struggle with authority figures, to the much hyped city of Rajneeshpuram in the US and his incarceration in various jails across the US, where he believes he was poisoned by the US government. He was later denied visas in twenty-one countries across the world—events, he reveals, that exposed the true face of ‘democracy’.
Osho, The luminous Rebel is for all Osho lovers and admirers, for the uninitiated and the spiritually inclined, and for those who are just curious to know more.