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Hazrat Babajan

Hazrat Babajan
Hazrat Babajan (d. 1931) was born in the Afghan territories at an unknown date. A Pathan, and a Sunni Muslim,  she spoke Pashtu, Persian, and Urdu. Her early life transited from the purdah of an aristocratic milieu to the renunciate career of a faqir. Babajan lived in the Punjab for many years, and was reputedly buried alive by fundamentalists who objected to her ecstatic utterances, and also to her public focus as a saint who received worship from local Hindu people.&...

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Part 2

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (1931-90) moved from Poona (Pune) to New Jersey in 1981. There he alienated one of his close devotees, Maria Grazia Mori (Deeksha). She concluded that he was not enlightened. Amongst other matters, she was disillusioned to find that he talked for hours about his desire to purchase Rolls Royce cars. She also relayed that he ingested a lot of valium and was frequently almost incoherent (Conway, Enigmatic Bhagwan).  The guru afterwards moved...