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Thousands of seekers, most of them from broken or unstable families and already emotionally wounded, are becoming victims of the gurus.
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Rajnish is one of India’s most controversial gurus.
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Rajnish would come out twice a day in one of his 96 Rolls Royces and literally be worshipped by his thousands of western devotees.
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Not only do these things trigger emotional and mental diseases, which have been known to place people even in insane asylum for the rest of their lives, but they also recognize that these exercises can open your soul and your mind and your entire being to a takeover by demonic forces.
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It is a love relationship.
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Master and disciple.
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Something happens in your heart when you see a master.
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Bugon is my master, and I love him.
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Bogon is my master.
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Part of his required allegiance demanded that his followers always wear orange, india’s holy color, and a portrait of their master around their necks.
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I did dynamic meditation every day.
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We also called it kundalini meditation.
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It starts off with a cathartic breathing, and the reason for it is just to move your energy and to get you out of your head and into your body, and you just breathe.
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The next phase, the screaming phase of dynamic meditation, feels like when you finally had an opportunity to throw a tant and you’re a little kid.
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By the time you get to the third phase of jumping up and down and yelling, who.
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You’re hardly there at all.
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And so it’s pretty hard to remember what happens when you’re there.
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I guess the closest thing I can associate it with is mindlessness.
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You get to a place where your mind actually leaves your body.
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Your body is just jumping up and down, and your voice from your gut is yelling, who.
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And you’re not doing it anymore.
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You become one with this whole energy.
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The next phase in dynamic is the quiet space.
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Someone yells, stop, and you’ve just been doing 30 minutes of intense catharsis.
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And what happens after being in such incredibly intense movement for so long is just a feeling of peacefulness and stillness.
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My mind actually stops, and I feel awareness with the whole universe.
We see how Rajneesh combines an eerie charisma with scientific mind control techniques to make his disciples psychically dependent on him.
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In this hard-hitting cinematic documentary, ex-followers reveal secrets of life under the domination of India’s infamous free sex guru, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, self-proclaimed God of the Universal.
For the guru, this web of control means a regal lifestyle (he had nearly a hundred Rolls-Royces at his disposal). But for his followers, called sannyasins, living in the shadow of the Master means giving up family ties, working eighteen hours a day, seven days a week, for no pay and always being available to satisfy the sexual whims of the gurus hierarchy.
Wielding millions of dollars with an iron fist, Rajneesh and his henchmen built a 100 square-mile separate state in rural Oregon, U.S.A. complete with a highly armed sannyasin security force. Like the tragic residents of Jonestown, the inhabitants of Rancho Rajneesh were taught to fear law enforcement officers and other outsiders. While tension and paranoia simmered, Rajneesh’s teachings offered the cynical consolation that, a bullet-ridden death can often accomplish what a life could not.
The world has heard the Rajneesh credo at other times, other places, from other tyrants. Might is right, hisses the bearded Master to his half a million fanatical devotees, that rule still remainsthe rule of the jungle.
FEAR IS THE MASTER is a stark and uncompromising warning, a shocking reminder that if we do not learn from history we will be condemned to repeat it.
60 MINUTES / COLOR 1987
