“Enlightenment certainly has no grades, but as time passes it deepens, sharpens, matures, becomes more and more rich.”

“Sometimes I wonder what I am doing here, teaching people to be enlightened,” says Osho.

In 1982 while Osho was in public silence, he answered several questions put to him by Ed Bradley of the 60 Minutes team, one of them about enlightenment.

“Enlightenment is not a goal but the quality of being herenow,” states Osho.

“Just as you enter beyond enlightenment into nothingness, there must be a possibility of coming out of nothingness back into form, back into existence – renewed, refreshed, luminous – on a totally different plane,” says Osho.

Osho answers to the question if scientists are contributing to a science of enlightenment, and can one do so without being enlightened.

This question has been hovering in me for years. A few times you have talked around it, but this has mystified me more, so please enlighten.

Osho speaks in detail about the insights and events leading to his enlightenment.

Q: Does an enlightened person always remain enlightened or can he become unenlightened also?

You are asking me…
Please show me a way?

In the book ‘The Awakened One’, Satya Vedant (aka Vasant Joshi) narrates insightfully the circumstances around Osho’s going public with his enlightenment many years after the event happened.

Osho interviewed by Penny Allen, Freelance Journalist, Sisters, Oregon, USA