KAMLESH PANDEY

(Creative writer, media personality)

Ma Yoga Laxmi was to Osho what Anand was to Gautama
Buddha with one major differencethere is no record or
evidence that Anand's life with Gautama Buddha went
through the number and kinds of twists and turns, ups and
downs, deaths and rebirths that Ma Yoga Laxmi's life was
so blessed to go through with Osho. She not only walked
what Osho talked, she lived it and lived it joyfully. She had
been a witness to the sannyas of thousands of us
sannyasins. She had been our collective envy for her
proximity to Osho as well as our collective tears for what
she enduredbeing closest to Osho meant she received
the maximum and the harshest hits from Osho's Zen stick!
She was one of us and all of us. In Swami Dev Rashid's
The Only Life she touches us once again and Osho's
vision as well as our own hearts finds a lucid voice. A
blessing for Osho lovers and a window for the uninitiated
to Osho's vision and what it means to be a disciple of a
master of masters.

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.