◎Jade Tablet - 06 - 33
◎The Vertical Path of Youth - 33
OSHO Bhagwan, in his immediate past life, was a high-ranking Tibetan monk who led a monastic community in the mountains. At the age of 106, he entered a 21-day fast with the intention of entering Parinirvana upon its completion. However, three days before the end of his fast, the high-ranking monk was assassinated, and the 21-day fast was not completed.
OSHO Bhagwan explains that for the first three days after his birth in this life, he did not drink milk, which was a continuation of his previous life's fast. Furthermore, his enlightenment at the age of 21 was the completion of the final three days of his practice in Tibet, with each day being accounted for by seven years in this life, totaling 21 years.
Furthermore, OSHO Bhagwan stated that the reason he shared this story was not because his own past life held any particular value, but so that his disciples, by knowing their own past lives, could confirm the level of their meditation practice in their previous lives and build upon it in this life. Without this understanding, he said, they would be lost in an infinite cycle of lives and would never reach anywhere.
(Reference: The Rebel Buddha by Vasant Joshi, Merukumaaru-sha, pp. 41-51)
Both the 16th Karmapa and the 14th Dalai Lama recognized OSHO Bhagwan's divinity, but this was not necessarily the case for the general public.
His discourse was so profound that perhaps only a handful of his close disciples truly understood it.
OSHO Bhagwan also mentioned the third eye, but this is a completely separate matter from the authenticity of Lobsang Rampa's story about surgical opening of the third eye.
