Why is Osho compared with Rasputin rather than with Jesus, Krishna, Mahavira, or Buddha?
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"The living rebel is always vilified by the crowd, for they fear the truth that threatens their comfort; only in death do they sanctify what they once condemned."
According to Osho, the crowd always vilifies living rebels as evil and only sanctifies them later; Jesus was crucified, Buddha and Mahavira were attacked, and even Krishna is condemned by some. Feeling threatened, the orthodox mind grabs a modern byword for depravity—Rasputin—to smear him, rather than recognizing the same liberating spirit found in Buddhas.
People fear living truth-tellers, so they call them bad names like “Rasputin” instead of seeing their deeper goodness.
Why this matters practically
- Question herd judgments; examine teachings firsthand.
- Notice the pattern: living truth is attacked, dead truth is adorned.
- Cultivate courage to trust your direct experience over labels.
- Notice the pattern: living truth is attacked, dead truth is adorned.
- Cultivate courage to trust your direct experience over labels.
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