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Why is Osho compared with Rasputin rather than with Jesus, Krishna, Mahavira, or Buddha?

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.

— Osho
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.

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