Consciousness and Totality as Key Principles in Osho’s Teaching of a Man’s Spiritual Perfection

Osho Rajneesh is one of the most interesting and controversial Neo Hinduism gurus. In a religious sense, Osho is both a conformist and a nonconformist at the same time. On the one hand, he’s deeply humanistic in his views. On the other hand, he’s negative and aggressive towards traditional beliefs. In religious and philosophical terms, Osho’s teaching reflects the trends of our time. Neo-Hindu guru tries to unite everything, connect the various ways of man’s spiritual development, available to humanity in one teaching. The main purpose of Rajneesh’s conception is human spiritual perfection. It consists of his return to the «natural» state. A perfect and natural individual accepts everything, without making a divide between spiritual and material. Osho’s homo novus is always in an «empty bamboo» state of mind, which is a consequence of his consciousness and totality. These two main principles are the key ones in Rajneesh’s teaching. Because of consciousness and totality, a person realizes his divine essence. «Zorba-the-Buddha» is an ideal of a natural and perfect human-being in guru’s conception. It is a synthesis of spiritual and corporeal.