Editing Rajneesh movement (section)

=== Growth ===
[[File:LAMLOGO.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Symbol of the Life Awakening Movement c. 1970]]

University of Jabalpur officials forced Rajneesh to resign in 1966. He developed his role as a spiritual teacher, supporting himself through lectures, meditation camps and individual meetings (''[[Darśana]]'' or ''Darshan''—meaning "sight") for his wealthier followers.<ref name="Lewis2">{{harvnb|Lewis|2005|pp=122,123}}</ref> In 1971 he initiated six sannyasins, the emergence of the Neo-Sannyas International Movement.<ref name="Metha91">{{harvnb|Mehta|1993|p=91}}</ref> Rajneesh differentiated his sannyas from the traditional practice, admitting women and viewing renunciation as a process of renouncing [[Ego (spirituality)|ego]] rather than [[samsara|the world]]. Disciples still adopted the traditional ''[[Mala (Hinduism)|mala]],'' and ochre robe, and change of name. At this time, Rajneesh adopted the title "Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh".<ref name="Fitzgerald78">{{harvnb|FitzGerald|1986|p=78}}</ref>

By 1972, he had initiated 3,800 sannyasins in India. The total for the rest of the world at that time was 134, including 56 from the United States, 16 each from Britain and Germany, 12 each from Italy and the Philippines, 8 in Canada, 4 in Kenya, 2 in Denmark and 1 each from France, the Netherlands, Australia, Greece, Sweden, Norway and Switzerland.<ref name="Yoga Chinmaya 1972">Yoga Chinmaya, ''Neo-sannyas International: Visions and Activities'', Life Awakening Movement Publications, Bombay 1972.</ref> After a house was purchased for Rajneesh in Poona in 1974, he founded an [[ashram]], and membership of the movement grew.<ref name="hunt127" /> More seekers began to visit from western nations, including therapists from the [[Human Potential Movement]]. They began to run group therapy at the ashram.<ref name="clarke253" />

Rajneesh became the first Eastern guru to embrace [[Psychotherapy|modern psychotherapy]].<ref name="guru">{{harvnb|Mistlberger|2010|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C6nUWy4UYocC&pg=PA87 87]}}</ref> He discoursed daily upon religious scriptures, combining elements of [[Western philosophy]], jokes and personal anecdotes. He commented on [[Hinduism]], [[Zen]] and other religious sources, and Western psychotherapeutic approaches.<ref name="clarke253" /><ref name="goldman172">{{Harvnb|Goldman|2007|p=172}}</ref>

Swami Prem Amitabh (Robert Birnbaum), one of the therapists in the Poona ashram, estimates that there were about 100,000 sannyasins by 1979.<ref name="sannyasins" /> Bob Mullan, a sociologist from the [[University of East Anglia]], states that "at any one time there were about 6,000 Rajneeshees in Poona, some visiting for weeks or months to do groups or meditations, with about two thousand working and living on a permanent basis in and around the ashram."<ref name="sannyasins" /> Lewis F. Carter, a sociologist from the [[Washington State University]], estimates that 2,000 sannyasins resided at Rajneeshpuram at its height.<ref name="sannyasins">{{harvnb|Aveling|1999|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=C6nUWy4UYocC&pg=PA87 87]}}</ref>