Twenty-five hundred years ago, a school of thought arose on the plains of the Ganges that said: no soul, no rebirth, only this one life, to be lived completely. That school was called Charvaka. Centuries later, another voice said almost the same thing — Osho's. This book begins with a question that sounds simple but will not let you rest: was Osho, in fact, a Charvaka?

The answer is not as simple as the question sounds. This book is not written to celebrate a resemblance — it is written in search of the places where the two paths part: an honest, sometimes uncomfortable examination of pleasure, death, consciousness, and meaning.

Written by a practicing Osho sannyasin of over two decades, this book puts Osho's own discourses beside what little survives of Charvaka's, tests the comparison against current research in psychology and neuroscience, and follows both men to the one question — what happens after death — where their paths genuinely part.