Osho's family
"In my childhood...there were many children in my family. I had ten brothers and sisters myself,
- then there were one uncle's children, and another uncle's children." (Osho)
(Please note that the names in quotation marks are the nicknames Osho used to call them by. Most are common in Hindi, but some are not. See references below.)
Osho's grandparents
- his mother's mother : "Nani" Rani Ma (Shreemati Genda Bai Jain) (1896 - 1971)
- his mother's father : "Nana" Raja Saheb (Shree Panna Lal Jain) (1892 - 1938)
- his father's mother : "Dadi" Shreemati Saraswati Bai Jain (1893 - 1930)
- his father's father : "Dada" or "Baba" Shree Hazari Lal Jain (1888 - 1958)
Osho's parents
- mother : Ma Amrit Saraswati ("Bhabhi" Shreemati Saraswati Bai Jain) (Nov 23, 1913 - May 17, 1995)
- (Incidentally, Osho's mother and her mother-in-law have the same name. When Osho's brother Shailendra took Sannyas, Osho named him Saraswati as well.)
- father : Sw Devateerth Bharti ("Dadda" Shree Babu Lal Jain) (Mar 21, 1908 - Sep 8, 1979)
- (They were married in 1921, when Saraswati was 7 years old and Babu Lal was 12 years old.)
Osho's aunts, uncles and cousins
- his father's two sisters
- Shreemati Ratni Bai Jain (1914 - 1942)
- married Shree Panna Lal Jain (1910 - 1969)
- their daughter : Ma Yoga Kranti (Kranti Chirantan Brahmachari) (Jul 5, 1933 - Apr 23, 2006)
- their son : Sadhu Anand Arvind (Arvind Kumar Jain) (Apr 5, 1938 - Jan 18, 2019)
- Shreemati Makhamal Bai Samaiya (1924 - 1956)
- married Shree Kundan Lal Samaiya (1920 - 1978)
- (they had no children, but took care of Kranti and Arvind after the untimely death of their mother Ratni.)
- his father's two brothers
- Shree Amrit Lal Jain "Chanchal" (Nov 9, 1913 - Nov 12, 1987)
- married Shreemati Leelavati Jain (Jun 24, 1921 - Oct 8, 1998)
- their four daughters :
- Sushama Jain (Mar 24, 1942 - )
- Preeti Jain (Sep 23, 1944 - )
- Kumkum Jain (Nov 19, 1947 - )
- Shefali Jain (Jun 20, 1953 - )
- their two sons :
- Sw Anand Paresh (Paresh Jain) (Apr 4, 1952 - )
- married to Ma Anand Kiran (Kiran Jain) (Sept 1, 1953 - )
- their daughter Ma Bodhi Jagruti (Dr. Reema Jain) (July 26, 1979 - )
- their son Shashwat Jain (Jan 24, 1983 - )
- their grandson Sw Kabir (Kabir Jain) (Nov 26, 2005 - )
- Sw Anand Paresh (Paresh Jain) (Apr 4, 1952 - )
- Sw Nisheeth Mohan (Nisheeth Mohan Jain) (Oct 9, 1954 - )
- married Madhur Veena Jain (? - )
- their daughter Rajul Jain (Apr 5,1979 - )
- their son Shrenik Jain (May 28, 1981 - )
- Sw Nisheeth Mohan (Nisheeth Mohan Jain) (Oct 9, 1954 - )
- Sw Anand Siddharth (Shree Shikhar Chand Jain) (Nov 22, 1921 - Nov 1, 2005)
- married Ma Amrit Bhagwati (Shreemati Indu Prabha Jain) (Jul 3, 1929 - Oct 23, 1998)
- their two daughters :
- Anurag Mayi (Mar 1, 1946 - )
- Ma Yog Alankar Alankar Mani (Jun 20, 1956 - )
- their two sons :
- Sw Prafulla Bharti (Prafulla Mohan Jain) (Dec 7, 1947 - )
- married Ma Amrit Dhara (Savita Jain) (Aug 25, 1952 - )
- their daughters :
- Ma Shruti (Shabnam Jain) (Dec 19, 1972 - May 17, 2018)
- Ma Chetana (Sameer Jain) (Jan 3, 1974 - )
- Sw Prafulla Bharti (Prafulla Mohan Jain) (Dec 7, 1947 - )
- Sw Pramod Mohan Bharti (Pramod Kumar Jain) (Aug 3, 1952 - Nov 28, 2015)
- married Ma Prem Jagruti (Sunita Jain) (Sept 28, 1958 - )
- their sons :
- Sw Setu Anand (Setu Jain) (Apr 16, 1979 - )
- Sw Rishi Anand (Rishi Jain) (Jul 2 , 1982 - )
- Sw Pramod Mohan Bharti (Pramod Kumar Jain) (Aug 3, 1952 - Nov 28, 2015)
- (Osho's mother had no siblings, so their were no uncles, aunts or cousins from her side of the family.)
Osho's sisters, their husbands and children
- Ma Yoga Bhakti (Rasa Fouzdar née Rasa Kumari Jain) (Jul 17, 1933 - Apr 9, 2020)
- married Shree Jinwar Das Fouzdar (Sep 14, 1928 - Feb 8, 1977)
- their daughters : Rakanishi (Sep 2, 1953 - ), Alka (May 17, 1957 - ), Jyoti (May 27, 1959 - )
- their sons : Rakesh (Jul 8, 1950 - ), Rohit (Jul 18, 1955 - ), Kapil (Jul 27, 1961 - )
- their grandson : Sw Anand Siddhartha
- Snehlata Jain (Oct 20, 1943 - )
- married Shree Rajendra Kumar Jain (Jul 31, 1939 - Jul 22, 2013)
- their sons : Sanjay (Apr 9, 1962 - ), Sandeep (Jul 5, 1965 - ), Sudeep (Oct 2, 1970 - ), Somesh (Jan 7, 1973 - )
- Neeru Jain "Khate" (Oct 10, 1948 - )
- married Shree Kailash Singhai (Oct 20, 1944 - )
- their daughter : Ritu (May 2, 1974 - )
- their sons : Rishi (Jan 19, 1976 - ), Rahul (Nov 25, 1977 - )
- Ma Nisha Bharti (Nisha Jain "Khate") (Dec 21, 1949 - )
- married Shree Harak Chand Jain (Dec 24, 1942 - )
- their sons : Yogesh (Mar 3, 1974 - ), Somesh (Nov 16, 1976 - )
- Kusum Jain (died from smallpox, 1939 - 1942)
Osho's brothers, their wives and children
- Sw Vijay Bharti (Vijay Kumar Jain "Khate") (Sep 18, 1937 - Aug 9, 1995)
- married Shashi Bala (Jan 30, 1943 - )
- their daughters : Poorva (Sep 18, 1961 - ), Ma Yoga Pratiksha (Pratiksha Apurv) (Feb 26, 1964 - ), Pragya (May 1, 1966 - )
- their sons : Maitreya (Nov 17, 1959 - Mar 8, 2006), Ashutosh (Jun 23, 1969 - )
- Sw Aklank Bharti (Aklank Kumar Jain "Khate") (Jul 25, 1941 - Feb 8, 2015)
- married Ma Shashi Bharti (Shashi Kala) (Oct 29, 1950 - Jan 18, 2020)
- their son : Aneesh (Jun 6, 1969 - )
- Sw Niklank Bharti (Niklank Kumar Jain) (Jan 15, 1945 - )
- married Shakuntala (Jan 27, 1950 - )
- their daughter : Leena (Nov 24, 1973 - )
- their sons : Paritosh (Apr 18, 1976 - ), Sw Anand Siddhartha (Apr 26, 1979 - )
- Sw Shailendra Saraswati (Shailendra Shekhar (Jain)) (Jun 17, 1955 - )
- married Ma Amrit Priya (Priya Shekhar) (May 8, 1958 - )
- (They had no children)
- Sw Yoga Amit (Mohan Jain "Khate") (Jun 21, 1958 - )
- married Ma Anand Divya (Feb 11, 1962 - )
- (They had no children, currently a member of The Inner Circle)
some of Osho's childhood friends
- Shree Shiv Prasad Gagarani
- Shree Shyam Lal Soni
- Shree Kanchhedi Lal Shukla
- Shree Sukharaj Lunawat
- Shree Abdul Rahman
- Shashi Sharma (she died of typhoid in 1947)
gallery
"Nani" Rani Ma
"Nani" Rani Ma
Mukta, Devateerth & Saraswati
Devateerth
Saraswati
Devateerth
Nisha 1981
Vijay 1995?
Shailendra 2014
Aklank
- sources
- The information on this page is largely based on correspondence with Osho's brothers Niklank and Shailendra and Osho's niece Pratiksha who provided us with first hand details about their family. Further details about Osho's family can be found in Neeten's Osho Source Book.
- references
- Hindi: Family relations