Comments on: ASHRAM

By: Dhyan Vijen

Dhyan Vijen — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:25:37 +0000

The whole movie can be downloaded from http://www.sendspace.com/file/b30qfa

Then you will need Winrar (or similar) to unpack it, and GomPlayer (or
similar) to play it

By: Gayathri Karthik

Gayathri Karthik — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:13:43 +0000

Also dear lokesh though Ramana didn’t live & test his people like Osho he stood by a man called seshadri swamigal in tiruvannamalai who was exactly a die hard teaser like Osho…if any 1 comes to him to get initiated straight away he would go to a prostitute’s house & hide himself…always makes it a point that he walks with 2 prostitutes on his side & call them godly beings…a group always go to complaint abt. him to Ramana Maharishi & raman would rub off their statements & would declare that seshadri is a brahma gyani …if u call him mad then know that even i ‘m equally mad…he personally guided seshadri swamigal’s samadhi consrtuction (which is still there in tiruvannamalai near his ashram )…& was thru with
him completely …shedding his supportive shoulders…but as usual Osho was not lucky in this area too. No contemperory gyani lend his shoulders to support Osho ..to explain the whys of Osho…the result? these type of never ending articles& thoughts…love.

By: Nirbheeti

Nirbheeti — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 22:42:58 +0000

I can only say, sorry guys, you missed the point!

By: shantam

shantam — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 10:03:50 +0000

Hell, he might even have gotten to sound like U.G. Krishnamurti on his death bed — “I’ll rot like a garden slug!”:
Teertha, this could have happened in the same way with Jesus. If Jesus was alive 10, 15 years more, he would have learnt to play the flute the way Krishna does.
One thing is clear, that day will hardly come again when a middle class Indian with a dyed beard, makes the intelligentsia of the west sit at His feet and change their names.
Surely this youthful folly must be hurting the egos of many oldies now!

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 08:00:58 +0000

I was reading a book about Ramana Maharshi’s life last night. He was saying that past and future only exist in our mind. I’ll take Ramana’s version of what is what over Oscar Wilde’s eight days a week. Oh yes, we’ve heard it all before and Osho said the same thing time and again. When it comes to words, I pay more attention to what Ramana says than Osho. This is because Ramana was more concise than Osho. Part of the power of Osho’s discourses was actually being there and listening to them as they were delivered. Transcribed to books they do not carry the same impact; basically because there is so much dross.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:51:53 +0000

Teertha, I watched the UG clip and found it amusing. I met one woman who had spent a lot of time round the man. I remember her as being very confused.

By: Teertha

Teertha — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:40:30 +0000

Saint: a dead sinner revised and edited.

– Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary

By: Teertha

Teertha — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 06:39:42 +0000

Youth usually seems daft from the perspective of the grey years. It’s easy to forget sometimes how ‘young’ the whole scene was around Osho back then…25-35 year olds with a 40-something pied piper. Had Osho lived another 20 years his views would have changed, since they changed as much as the stock market over the last decade of his life. Hell he might even have gotten to sound like U.G. Krishnamurti on his death bed — “I’ll rot like a garden slug!”:

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By: frank

frank — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:54:01 +0000

every saint has a past
and every sinner has a future
–oscar wilde

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 19:05:20 +0000

Last night I watched a vid about Osho’s death. I listened as Deva Raj gave his touching and candid interpretation of events. So far so good. Next we had shots of Osho conducting his human orchestra with Nivedano on percussion. Everyone present was obviously loving it but my bullshit meter began to go haywire when it heard the collective cry of Oshooooo! I switched the film off…it was so weird it gave me a chill to think I was once that daft.
In 1992 when I met Poonjaji I had a reassessment of my seven years with Osho. Thanks to Osho I was able to appreciate what Poonjaji was teaching….self enquiry, something which Osho himself practiced before he claimed to be enlightened. Thing is, my time with Osho was over by 1981. Thirty years have passed. Osho was a wonderful guy in my books. I think it is ridiculous that people actually believe that Osho is somehow present and guiding them today. It is absurd on many levels, not least of which being that he claimed that his life was his last human incarnation and that he would be entering nirvana when he died…nirvana…extinction of flame. Osho is gone.
Now we have losers like Shantam getting self righteous and uptight about managers on the ‘resort’. This is so patently ridiculous and so far away of how the whole thing began, which was round about the time that Osho came up with the idea of celebrating everything, which was a blast when it was hot but sounds a little tired today. But boy did Osho know how to throw a party back in the good old days when life was a song and a dance and the managers were called zen mistresses (bunch of overweight powermongers who were one of the biggest jokes in the ‘ashram’.) Yet even back then there were idiots like Shantam who took those bitches seriously. Shantam is very serious about the managers…hey but hold on…didn’t Osho say that seriousness was a disease…Shantam it is time for your shots, baba.
As for the Ashram movie…it probably looks absurd…because in retrospect it was absurd. It is also history, colourful, funny, maybe even mad, but it is also dead and gone and therefore nothing to get your diapers in a twist about..
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