Osho's book - Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy Chapter 1 Summary

Osho's book - Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy Chapter 1 Summary

I recently started reading book of Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh named Krishna: The Man and His Philosophy. When I was going through the first chapter, I thought to write some posts about this book. I will try to summarize each chapter with one post. It is not possible to cover the whole depth and talk of a chapter with a single post but I will try my best to do it.


The name of the first chapter is "The Future belongs to Krishna". I agreed with most of the content written by Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh in this chapter. I came across wonderful explanation of Lord Krishna that I have never come across. I did not admire Lord krishna much in my life. It might be possible because of lack of awareness or lack of opportunity to understand him. May be all the explanations that I had come across were not sufficient for me to admire him like that but now I can say that he was one of the most unique individual that this world has ever produced.




Bhagwan shree Osho Rajneesh talked about his duality. We basically fragment life into different parts and we start treating one of the parts as our religion or moral values. We start hating the opposite part of the accepted part. Lets take an example, Mahatma Gandhi was a peace lover and it was not possible for him to justify violence in anyway. So, the non violence was the only religion for such kind of person. On the opposite side of Mahatma Gandhi, we have people like Adolf Hitler, who think that life is meaningless without fight and war.

Krishna is neither Mahatma Gandhi nor Adolf Hitler and he is also not both of them. His way of life and thinking is utterly unique. I think he is just not two dimensional but he is multi dimensional in nature. He accepts love in his life as sacred thing and when existence wants him to fight then he is a great warrior.

The name of the chapter is "The Future belongs to the Krishna" because Bhagwan Shree Osho Rajneesh tried to explain that it is very difficult for the present generation to understand the man like Krishna because of our fragmented mind. It is certainly possible that in the future, man will be able to understand him. All the religions present in the world were sadistic, serious and life negative but Lord Krishna gave new dimension to the religion. The foundation stone of his religion was joy, happiness and love and even fight too if required for the prosperity of humanity.

Lord Krishna fought the great war of Mahabharata and he did not feel hesitate to do it. He knew that nobody dies at all. He said that it is just the play that we all have to play on this earth. His words were like nobody can kill and nobody can die.

Now, I would like to add some explanation from my side. I do not believe in the way people admire him. They do not understand him at all. When anybody says that, Krishna gave great importance to sex in his life then the people get angry. They think that it is a wrong thing to attach Lord Krishna with sex but I do not think so. It is just because of the programmed minds that some people treat sex as a wrong thing. If, they would understand Lord Krishna properly then they would accept sex as a sacred thing and how sex can be a sin which has created all of us and this whole existence.

People are misusing the name of Lord Krishna. If, people would understand him properly then this whole world can reach to the highest level possible. Lord Krishna was born in India and there people are misusing Lord Krishna's name and teachings to a great extent. People need to understand him and will have to be open minded to accept Lord Krishna as a whole being otherwise a fragmented part of him will be just an ordinary human.