![]() ![]() ![]() What Osho had said that evening was that love was one rung on a ladder that began with sex and ended in samadhi, in superconsciousness. By the time he finished his first talk, not one of the organizers was to be found in the auditorium. According to Laxmi, Osho literally blew them away. Osho had been living in Jabalpur at the time, Laxmi said, and a group of Bombay admirers, mostly Jains, had invited him to come and give a series of talks on a specific topic: Love. It contained a series of talks Osho had given in Hindi in Bombay in 1968. After being away for so long, without even seeing me yet, he’s trusting me with From Sex to Superconsciousness, with the one book of his that virtually every educated Indian has read! I don’t know what to say - not even to myself! Laxmi had told me about From Sex to Superconsciousness. On the way back to the Green, the compliment my Master is paying me begins to register. Then, with a laugh, she waves me out of the office with a sweep of her hand. I’m relieved, I’m flattered,I’m surprised - I’m a dozen mixed emotions. “Here,” she says when I’m ushered in, holding a little volume in her hand,“Osho wants you to rewrite From Sex to Superconsciousness.” I open my mouth to speak, but words won’t come. ![]() I grab the first rickshaw I can find and hightail it out to Koregaon Park. Groups! I am immediately convinced she’s going to tell me Osho wants me to do a whole series of horrific groups! But I give myself as little time as possible to freak. Returning to the Green after a morning’s shopping I find a note to see Arup at the commune before darshan tonight. Here is a quote from Krishna Prem's book Osho, India and Me, p.156 ff., describing intimately the editing for the 1979 edition and his communication with Osho at the time. ![]() Template:TOCTable Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:Book table of contents Template:TOCTable Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine Template:TOCLine ![]()
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