Iyengar--People in Osho's Talks

Just by the way...one yoga teacher, Iyengar, in Pune,
has given an interview to some journalists, and they
asked him about me because we are both in Pune. He
used to come to listen to my lectures in those old days
when they did not exactly understand my meaning.

He used to come to my meditation camps – there are
here witnesses for it – and he wanted me to do some
yoga exercises, because I was traveling continually,
and that would have an adverse effect on my body.

I said, "I would rather have that adverse effect than
learn some stupid distortions of the body. And
moreover, I remember perfectly how you exploit
people."

He was teaching J. Krishnamurti a few yoga postures
to help him overcome his forty years' migraines. Now,
a yoga teacher is a professional; all that he teaches
you is certain exercises of the body. But when he
wrote his book on yoga, on the flap paper he wrote, "I
am the guru of J. Krishnamurti."

I told him, "I don't want such exploitation. `Guru of J.
Krishnamurti' – just because you have taught him a
few exercises? Then any idiot who can teach a few
exercises, then any doctor who treats you with
medicine, then any psychiatrist, any psychoanalyst,
can claim to be your guru.

"I don't want to be included in your disciples. I am
nobody's disciple. Hence, I have to refuse your offer
for teaching me some exercises. I don't need them..."

--Osho
Zen: The Mystery and the Poetry of the Beyond, ch. 2