Book Review: ‘Glimpses of a Golden Childhood’ by Osho

Book Title: Glimpses of a Golden Childhood
Author: Osho
Publisher: Penguin Ananda
Number of Pages: 560
ISBN: 0143474545
Date Published: Mar. 1, 2026

Book Review

Osho was a well-known spiritual teacher who shared simple ideas about meditation, freedom, and understanding oneself. He encouraged people to think on their own, enjoy life fully, and become more aware of their thoughts and feelings. His teachings mixed traditional spirituality with modern thinking, making them easy for people around the world to understand.

“Glimpses of a Golden Childhood” by Osho is a disarmingly intimate autobiographical journey that lifts the curtain on the early years of one of the most controversial spiritual teachers of the twentieth century. Dictated in conversational, almost storybook style, the book strips away the usual reverence around gurus and instead presents a mischievous, fearless child who questions authority, pokes fun at dogma, and treats life as a series of playful experiments. The result feels less like a formal biography and more like a series of warm, slightly cheeky bedtime stories told by someone who has already seen the other side of enlightenment.

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What makes the book so engaging is its blend of humour, rebellion, and deep sensitivity. Osho recounts school escapades, confrontations with pompous teachers and gurus, and childhood adventures that reveal an early hunger for truth and a refusal to accept answers simply because they are traditional. Alongside these uproarious episodes, he also shares tender moments—his relationship with his grandparents, his first encounters with death, and the quiet beauty of nature—so that the “golden” in the title does not refer to mere nostalgia, but to a childhood steeped in love, freedom, and wonder.

For readers, “Glimpses of a Golden Childhood” is both entertaining and quietly transformative. It dismantles the idea that a spiritual person must be solemn, and instead shows how curiosity, laughter, and even rebellion can be part of a sacred path. At its heart, the book is an invitation: to remember one’s own inner child, to question assumptions without fear, and to see ordinary moments as infused with the same magic that colored Osho’s rebellious yet luminous early years.

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