What is the significance of J. Krishnamurti's death?

J. Krishnamurti died last monday, in ojai, california. In the past you have spoken of him as another enlightened being. Would you please comment on his death?

The death of an enlightened being like J. Krishnamurti is nothing to be sad about, it is something to be celebrated with songs and dances. It is a moment of rejoicing. His death is not a death. He knows his immortality. His death is only the death of the body. But J. Krishnamurti will go on living in the universal consciousness, forever and forever.

Can you tell us about your connection with j. Krishnamurti?

It is a real mystery. I have loved him since I have known him, and he has been very loving towards me. But we have never met; hence the relationship, the connection is something beyond words. We have not seen each other ever, but yet... perhaps we have been the two persons closest to each other in the whole world. We had a tremendous communion that needs no language, that need not be of physical presence. Once it happened -- just a coincidence -- he was in Bombay. He used to come to Bombay every year to remain there for a few weeks. He had perhaps more followers in Bombay than anywhere else in the world. I came to Bombay. I was just going to New Delhi and I had to wait a few hours. Some friends who had been deeply connected with J. Krishnamurti and who were also connected…

Osho! On the passing of revered Daddaji you told your sannyasins to celebrate, to dance. Yet even in the midst of celebration and dance, again and again tears kept wetting our eyelids. Osho, after Daddaji’s going the heart still cannot believe that he has gone. It feels as if he is right here. The love he gave us is inexpressible.

Many sannyasins will depart—it is natural. To bid them farewell you must learn a new way—of joyous celebration. It is secondary what your joyful celebration will do for the one who has gone, though it will do something; but that is subtle—whether you understand it or not. When you weep and suffer… Suppose a husband dies: the wife weeps, beats her chest, is distraught. Then the one who has gone cannot move on either; he too cannot go, he too remains stuck. When his dear ones are suffering so, weeping so, his lifelong habit of owning them does not break in a day; it takes time. If his dear ones weep intensely, he too will wander here as a ghost. Thus it is that you create ghosts. You will be surprised to know that in the West—among Christians, Jews, Muslims—there are more ghosts. In England there are more ghosts than…

Question: OSHO, IS J. KRISHNAMURTI ENLIGHTENED? This man, Raj Gopal would have proved far better for the Theosophical movement and their purpose. He proved extremely clever, cunning, and of immense patience, really a man of strong will. He waited long enough to betray Krishnamurti: he must have been carrying the idea for fifty years but nobody could detect it in him. Even Krishnamurti was completely unsuspicious. How can you believe that a person who has been serving you for fifty years will suddenly one day cut off your head? -- someone who has not even raised a single question, a single doubt, about you. Raj Gopal would have been far better for the Theosophists. J. Krishnamurti certainly was the best, but not for their purposes. That was proved immediately, because the day he was going to declare himself the world teacher....

Someone asked Osho's views on death and dying.

There is nothing as sure as death. Where there is life, there is bound to be death. He who bears not this fact in mind, wastes life, whereas he who knows this truth, obtains that which is immortal. I do not feel depressed at anybody's death, because there is no need to feel anything about it. However, it is a matter of sorrow, no doubt, if I see a life wasted. We have not to grieve after a dead body, but over a wasted life. You know, King Janak was called 'videh', i.e., without or beyond the body. Once, a young minister of his asked him, 'Your Excellency! How can you be considered without a body, when you do have a physical body? The king smiled but said nothing. After a few days, however, the king invited the minister for lunch. Such an invitation from the king himself was a…