Search Osho's words

There are many engines to search in Osho's words, i.e. enter some search criteria and find where Osho talks about those concepts.

For searching Osho's English texts, the best three we have found are:

The CD-ROM (Off-line, Free)

See this page for background: Osho Books on CD-ROM.

It works on Windows PCs.

It works off-line, has good search capabilities, and the results are shown in context of the whole discourse. Disadvantage: results are shown in alphabetical order of book-titles, not by relevance.

Download the complete program with all texts here: OshoRajneesh.com.

Install the program:

Unzip the file (doubleclick in FileExplorer or e.g. through winzip software)

Place OshoBooks.exe in a new directory, like \OshoBooks

To search:

Run OshoBooks.exe

Click <F2>, enter your search words...

Click Help for more info and search-tips

Osho Books Library (Off-line, Free)

Based on the texts of the CD-ROM.

Works on Windows PCs, Apple Mac, and on Linux systems.

It works off-line, has good search capabilities, and the results are shown in context of the discourse. Disadvantage: results are shown in alphabetical order of book-titles, not by relevance.

Download and installation instructions are here.

OshoArchive.org (On-line, Free)

(If you do not want to install software, but search in your browser)

Based on the texts of the CD-ROM.

It also has good search capabilities, presents hits in context, and shows the most relevant hits first.

Instructions for searching in Osho's words:

Go to OshoArchive.org,

click Enter

close the Introduction-page

on the Discourses-page, enter your search words

click Search

Other places to search

at osho.com (Free, but requires registration. Also has paid audio.)

at oshoworld.com (Free. Also has free audio.)

at oshoforall.com (Claims to also search in Hindi texts. Access to this search engine costs $US 199 / year.)