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If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.
If you really want to know who I am, you have to be as absolutely empty as I am. Then two mirrors will be facing each other, and only emptiness will be mirrored. Infinite emptiness will be mirrored: two mirrors facing each other. But if you have some idea, then you will see your own idea in me.[1]

Osho was born Chandra Mohan Jain (चन्द्र मोहन जैन) in Kuchwada, a small village in the Narsinghpur District of Madhya Pradesh state in India, as the eldest of eleven children of a cloth merchant.[2] His family, who belonged to the Taranpanthi Jain community, called him by the nickname Raja or Rajneesh.[3][4] He lived with his maternal grandparents until he was seven years old.[2] He was a bright and rebellious child, gifted at art and storytelling, and often played truant.[2]

When he was seven years old, his grandfather died, and he went back to live with his parents.[5][2] As a youth, he had an interest in hypnotism, communism and socialism, and for a brief period supported two nationalist movements, the Indian National Army and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.[2] He had an arrogant, discourteous manner, was extremely well-read, and became a formidable debater.[2][4]

He resisted his parents' pressure to get married.[6]