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A New Vision of Women's Liberation
A book with no taboos! Osho addresses humanity as a whole by covering a full range of concerns: conception, pregnancy, birth, sex education, contraception, marriage, and more.
Part II, one chapter, consists of 22 answers to questions of Lia Paradiso (Ma Deva Waduda), March 8 - 11, 1987. The interviews were held in the enclosed porch of Osho's house. These interviews have not been published in another book or on the CD-ROM.
Edition 1987:
In early March 1987, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was interviewed by Lia Paradiso. He answered twenty-two questions over a period of four evenings. Questions 1, 2 and 3 were answered on March 8th. Questions 4, 7, 8, 17, 18 and 19 were answered on March 9th. Questions 5, 6, 20, 21 and 22 were answered on March 10th, and questions 9 through 16 were answered on March 11th.
Edition notes : First edition: September 1987. Copyright © Neo-Sannyas International.
Part II, one chapter, consists of 22 answers to questions of Lia Paradiso (Ma Deva Waduda), March 8 - 11, 1987. The interviews were held in the enclosed porch of Osho's house. These interviews have not been published in another book or on the CD-ROM.
Edition 1987:
In early March 1987, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh was interviewed by Lia Paradiso. He answered twenty-two questions over a period of four evenings. Questions 1, 2 and 3 were answered on March 8th. Questions 4, 7, 8, 17, 18 and 19 were answered on March 9th. Questions 5, 6, 20, 21 and 22 were answered on March 10th, and questions 9 through 16 were answered on March 11th.
Edition notes : First edition: September 1987. Copyright © Neo-Sannyas International.
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Osho
4,359 books6,789 followersRajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain, 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990) and latter rebranded as Osho was leader of the Rajneesh movement. During his lifetime he was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader and mystic.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
In the 1960s he traveled throughout India as a public speaker and was a vocal critic of socialism, Mahatma Gandhi, and Hindu religious orthodoxy.
Rajneesh emphasized the importance of meditation, mindfulness, love, celebration, courage, creativity and humor—qualities that he viewed as being suppressed by adherence to static belief systems, religious tradition and socialization.
In advocating a more open attitude to human sexuality he caused controversy in India during the late 1960s and became known as "the sex guru".
In 1970, Rajneesh spent time in Mumbai initiating followers known as "neo-sannyasins". During this period he expanded his spiritual teachings and commented extensively in discourses on the writings of religious traditions, mystics, and philosophers from around the world. In 1974 Rajneesh relocated to Pune, where an ashram was established and a variety of therapies, incorporating methods first developed by the Human Potential Movement, were offered to a growing Western following. By the late 1970s, the tension between the ruling Janata Party government of Morarji Desai and the movement led to a curbing of the ashram's development and a back taxes claim estimated at $5 million.
In 1981, the Rajneesh movement's efforts refocused on activities in the United States and Rajneesh relocated to a facility known as Rajneeshpuram in Wasco County, Oregon. Almost immediately the movement ran into conflict with county residents and the state government, and a succession of legal battles concerning the ashram's construction and continued development curtailed its success.
In 1985, in the wake of a series of serious crimes by his followers, including a mass food poisoning attack with Salmonella bacteria and an aborted assassination plot to murder U.S. Attorney Charles H. Turner, Rajneesh alleged that his personal secretary Ma Anand Sheela and her close supporters had been responsible. He was later deported from the United States in accordance with an Alford plea bargain.[
After his deportation, 21 countries denied him entry. He ultimately returned to India and a revived Pune ashram, where he died in 1990. Rajneesh's ashram, now known as OSHO International Meditation Resort and all associated intellectual property, is managed by the Zurich registered Osho International Foundation (formerly Rajneesh International Foundation). Rajneesh's teachings have had a notable impact on Western New Age thought, and their popularity has increased markedly since his death.
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June 22, 2016
Totally liberating!
December 13, 2017
SPOILER ALERT!
Is there anyone else in the world who doesn’t like Osho? Just wondering! Well I don’t, and my budding open-mindedness made me want to give him a chance so this was the first book of his that I read.
Initially I felt we could very well call this book “A New Vision of Women’s Sexuality” because in the first few chapters he couldn’t stop obsessing over how women are capable of having multiple orgasms. Well it is true and unfortunate that many women are devoid of cardinal pleasures but there’s so much more to a woman’s greatness than that!
Anyhow, thankfully he moves on to different aspects in the following chapters but again, nothing special there. He was a man with above average intelligence and a rational mind who realised that to get fame one has to be rebellious and defy the established greatness. To use his own words, it was a great “political strategy” to quote how Almustafa missed out on certain important aspects in his teachings and how wrong that was and how Gautam Buddha failed to do anything for the liberation of women etc etc.
Throughout the use of words like - hate, stupid, idiot - is not so much a sign of greatness. One of the women probably offended him in her question and his entire answer had such an aggressive and defensive tone.
He has cursed the idea of celibacy throughout saying the priests and the sages were scared of women’s powers so this was their way of condemning them. From what I get from the Bhagvad Geeta and some other readings, all the enlightened souls discouraged over indulgence in any pleasures of the five senses and it was not just limited to celibacy. He probably was justifying his way of providing “liberation” to so many women. And I guess that’s where all these modern day babas get their inspiration from.
I would like to quote a few lines from the book where he says “use the mud to produce the lotus. Of course the mud is not the lotus yet but it can be. And the creative person, the religious person, will help the mud to release its lotus so that the lotus can be freed from the mud.” Why does the mud have to become lotus? All along he was condemning people who believed that women have to be reborn as men in order to attain liberation and now he is saying something similar.
There’s also a lot of crap in the later part where he says how children shouldn’t be born out of love but we should go for artificial insemenation and should have the facility of choosing the most perfect genes of geniuses who will be born perfect! Seriously??
Maybe I am biased by my dislike towards him. Nevertheless I have given the book two stars because here and there he has talked about some sensible things where he is not boasting about his great self!
Is there anyone else in the world who doesn’t like Osho? Just wondering! Well I don’t, and my budding open-mindedness made me want to give him a chance so this was the first book of his that I read.
Initially I felt we could very well call this book “A New Vision of Women’s Sexuality” because in the first few chapters he couldn’t stop obsessing over how women are capable of having multiple orgasms. Well it is true and unfortunate that many women are devoid of cardinal pleasures but there’s so much more to a woman’s greatness than that!
Anyhow, thankfully he moves on to different aspects in the following chapters but again, nothing special there. He was a man with above average intelligence and a rational mind who realised that to get fame one has to be rebellious and defy the established greatness. To use his own words, it was a great “political strategy” to quote how Almustafa missed out on certain important aspects in his teachings and how wrong that was and how Gautam Buddha failed to do anything for the liberation of women etc etc.
Throughout the use of words like - hate, stupid, idiot - is not so much a sign of greatness. One of the women probably offended him in her question and his entire answer had such an aggressive and defensive tone.
He has cursed the idea of celibacy throughout saying the priests and the sages were scared of women’s powers so this was their way of condemning them. From what I get from the Bhagvad Geeta and some other readings, all the enlightened souls discouraged over indulgence in any pleasures of the five senses and it was not just limited to celibacy. He probably was justifying his way of providing “liberation” to so many women. And I guess that’s where all these modern day babas get their inspiration from.
I would like to quote a few lines from the book where he says “use the mud to produce the lotus. Of course the mud is not the lotus yet but it can be. And the creative person, the religious person, will help the mud to release its lotus so that the lotus can be freed from the mud.” Why does the mud have to become lotus? All along he was condemning people who believed that women have to be reborn as men in order to attain liberation and now he is saying something similar.
There’s also a lot of crap in the later part where he says how children shouldn’t be born out of love but we should go for artificial insemenation and should have the facility of choosing the most perfect genes of geniuses who will be born perfect! Seriously??
Maybe I am biased by my dislike towards him. Nevertheless I have given the book two stars because here and there he has talked about some sensible things where he is not boasting about his great self!
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December 27, 2025
"Never take it seriously. I will remain as independent as I was before marriage, and you will remain as independent you were before marriage. Neither I am going to interfere in your life, nor are you going to interfere in my life; we will live as two friends together, sharing our joys, sharing our freedom - but not becoming a burden on each other."
"And any moment we feel that the spring has passed the honeymoon is over, we will be sincere enough not to go on pretending, but to say to each other that we loved much - and we will remain grateful to each other forever, and the days of love will haunt us in our memories, in our dreams, as golden but the spring is over. Our paths have come to a point where, although it is sad, we have to part, because now living together is not a sign of love. If I love you, I will leave you the moment I see my love has become a misery to you. If you love me, you will leave me the moment you see that your love is creating an imprisonment for me."
Someone who's words are completely ahead of it's time, completely shaking up belief systems with satire and spirituality. His views might not always stroke with mine, but that does not matter. He believes that men have dominated women for the simple reason that they feel inferior to them, as for women have the capacity to create life, something they will never be able to do, and therefore made women their slaves. He makes complicated things 'simple', speaks from his enlightent state of mind. He thinks women should be in charge of everything, for then there would be no need for war.
'Rejoice in your feminine qualities, make a poetry of your feminine qualities. That is your great inheritance from nature. Don't throw it away, because the man does not have them.'
"And any moment we feel that the spring has passed the honeymoon is over, we will be sincere enough not to go on pretending, but to say to each other that we loved much - and we will remain grateful to each other forever, and the days of love will haunt us in our memories, in our dreams, as golden but the spring is over. Our paths have come to a point where, although it is sad, we have to part, because now living together is not a sign of love. If I love you, I will leave you the moment I see my love has become a misery to you. If you love me, you will leave me the moment you see that your love is creating an imprisonment for me."
Someone who's words are completely ahead of it's time, completely shaking up belief systems with satire and spirituality. His views might not always stroke with mine, but that does not matter. He believes that men have dominated women for the simple reason that they feel inferior to them, as for women have the capacity to create life, something they will never be able to do, and therefore made women their slaves. He makes complicated things 'simple', speaks from his enlightent state of mind. He thinks women should be in charge of everything, for then there would be no need for war.
'Rejoice in your feminine qualities, make a poetry of your feminine qualities. That is your great inheritance from nature. Don't throw it away, because the man does not have them.'
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April 8, 2024
Gives amazing view of what osho thought about women liberation at that point of time.
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February 12, 2015I picked this book up thinking, that this will somehow help me liberate myself. It did. This book made me come face to face with a lot of misconceptions of 'feminism'. Also, this is a book - more for men, than for women. If some one wants to embark on the spiritual journey, they should start with this book Because the first step is to look at yourself and others beyond gender, age, religion. A New Vision of Women's Liberation helps one see where the whole "battle of the sexes" has gone wrong and also helps one transcend gender altogether.
October 24, 2017
Does not take into account social roots but rather the difference between women in India and
in the west.
in the west.
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