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=== Death === At age 58, Rajneesh died on 19 January 1990 at the ashram in [[Pune]], India.<ref name=bbobt>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N1UPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eIYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6330%2C4444331 |work=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |agency=Associated Press |title=Deported guru Rajneesh dies |date=19 January 1990 |page=A1}}</ref><ref name=thcel>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N1UPAAAAIBAJ&sjid=eIYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5213%2C4511895 |work=The Bulletin |location=Bend, Oregon |agency=wire services |title=Meanwhile in India, thousands celebrate |date=19 January 1990 |page=B1}}</ref> The official cause of death was heart failure, but a statement released by his commune said that he died because "living in the body had become a hell" after an alleged poisoning in U.S. jails.<ref>[[Associated Press|AP]] (20 January 1990). [https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=k4AiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wakFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2100,3636170&dq=rajneesh+heart-failure&hl=en "Rajneesh Mourned in India"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306141407/https://news.google.co.uk/newspapers?id=k4AiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wakFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2100,3636170&dq=rajneesh+heart-failure&hl=en |date=6 March 2016}}, ''[[The Item]]''. Retrieved 5 July 2010.</ref> His ashes were placed in his newly built bedroom in Lao Tzu House at the ashram in Pune. The [[epitaph]] reads, "Never Born β Never Died Only visited this planet Earth between December 11, 1931 and January 19, 1990".<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.pressreader.com/india/deccan-chronicle/20180119/282428464601535|title=Art of conscious birth and death|first=Chaitanya|last=Keerti|date=19 January 2018|work=[[Deccan Chronicle]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817062252/https://www.pressreader.com/india/deccan-chronicle/20180119/282428464601535|archive-date=17 August 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>
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