Osho ashram in rare victory wins Reduction in power Bills
In a piece of what seems rare good news the Osho International Foundation’s resort at Pune’s Koregaon Park will now pay lower power bills. The Indian High Court has upheld the Foundation’s stand that it was entitled to a lower non-commercial tariff under the “public services” consumer category.
The Foundation, through advocate S R Nargolkar, petitioned against “huge” bills it had been receiving “despite being eligible for non-commercial rates as an educational organisation under the new classification”.
The HC noted that the state commission had pursuant to a 2011 order of the appellate tribunal created a special HT-IX public services category for electricity consumers. But while the order stipulated that the “the state commission may classify the hospitals, educational institutions and spiritual organisations which are service oriented and put then in a separate category for purpose of determing the tariff,” the state commission had not included “service oriented spiritual organisations’ from the definition it sent out last year.
The Foundation argued successfully it was a spiritual organization and hence the bench of Chief Justice Mohit Shah and Justice Anoop Mohta told the electricity company to amend the definition and include “service-oriented spiritual organizations” under the HT-IX category for public services. The High Court also directed that the definition must be amended with effect from August 2012 when the new category was created.
Hence Osho Foundation and its sister organisations will be given back payment benefit of the reduced power tariff under the new category from August 2012. The lower tariff relief would now save the commune, spread on a 28-acre campus about Rs 60 lakh a year in power bills, said a lawyer.
My God, just the sort of news that might give Shantam a heart attack.
Please assemble emergency online medics!
What a nonsense you have written, Parmartha.
Whether Mr. A as Chairman of Osho property or Ms. B; leagl and business issues need to be sorted out in the same fashion.
When Property has a status of NGO, electricity board is not suppose to charge like business estabslishment.
As a mature seeker, you must understand, when there is no personal enmity, when there is no hate and also no blind affiliation to some kind of Monarchy, issuse based criticism is much more in balance then simply ignoring and going one own way..
Shantam here is the alternative self effacing type response to Parmartha which you might consider …based on building rapport and creating and eliciting more free consciousness rather than less….
lesson 1.
” Assemble emergency online medics ? ”
Why thank you Parmartha , I have always enjoyed the womens in Nurses uniforms with the hairy chakras. Sometimes when I am lying down ,relaxing, flat on their face, all I am hearing is ‘Pumping, Pumping Baba’… but i can very mostly honestly say that it is not the bicycle wallah, but my inner vice pushing me on.
And as I am also a most honoured public utility, blogroll writer and spiritual car park prosecution lawyer, what I am saying is that I am not using the batteries on my laptop, as most of the people who are knowing me, as I just have the wind me up and watch me go facility of this utility. This winding up is also very energy efficient, though back peddling does not come naturally to my good self.
I am not having the personal fuss and bother of personal tattle tittle, but humbly showing how the dirty dhoti can give bad image to white anglosaxophones, who should better to hang out all dirty washing and let the sunshine, like the good old days of wholly hairiness.
Mr Martyn ,
you are very nearly at my wits end, and I am hoping you run out of lakh very soon, ….you and your incessant battering of my humble good self.
Ps where is that good fellow frank the prankster, is he having the large power bill unpaid with the cutting offs also ?
sincerely,
Uncle Shambles
(upstairs above Der Lidlhosen Frozen Fine Foods Supermarket,)
Amritsarsen on Der Rhine,
German Social Security Republic.
To Prem Martyn (Shall we just call you P.M.?),
Please don’t take this personally, but it would appear to me that you are clearly ‘ right off your bonce’. Consequently, I sincerely believe my friend, that you would make a wonderful manager at the Beloved Resort and contribute significantly to raising the level of consciousness there. Please give this some serious thought and consideration as your ashram now needs you to decide what to do with the recent windfall. Your gobbledygook is superior to what some of the present management are currently spewing out!
Thanks love,
Ashok
Ashok,
You clearly have wisdom and superior understanding.
My messages are encoded, so that deeper secrets may be understood and provide the reader with a handy DIY kit for spiritual emergencies. The higher the understanding the more code books are needed. If you would like the whole set , please send for my £19.99 code book demystifier and windscreen wiper kit, available also at Halfords Ashram,Pune.
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I ordered and received the code books. Upon opening the aforementioned books I was confronted by nothing but blank pages. Is this the ultimate message?
Lokesh,
Please order the special optical illusion blank page reading glasses, which are only £49.99.
Or alternatively jump up and down for extended periods which should have the same effect of giving you the required hidden vision. Please avoid low ceilings.
To order my Low Ceiling Avoidance manual for beginners, ….etc etc etc…
I tried ordering the special specs on Amazon, but they appear to be sold out. There is a pair up for auction on Ebay, but they are badly cracked Oddly enough, the seller’s name is Swami Shantam. The buy it now price is 300$. Should I place a bid? Please advise.
Dear P.M.,
I am very, very, yes – very disappointed in you!
I was hoping that you would feel up to giving me a full slam-dunk-swing with your handbag in your reply -but all I got was a little sarcastic cuff round my lughole e.g. ” You clearly have wisdom and superior understanding.” As such I don’t feel I got full value from your product and therefore am not satisfied. As punishment I regret to inform you that I have decided not to recommend you for a management job in Pune as clearly you are much too light-hearted and in possession of something approaching a sense of humour, for me to honestly believe that you would succeed in the demanding and challenging work-as-rest-environment of Pune. Your free ‘Get Out of Jail’ coupon has been sent by separate cover. Of course, however, you might be able to redeem yourself and your future career by delivering me the full spanking I deserve!
Unsatisfied Customer,
Ashok
Dear Unsatisfiable Customers,
Lokesh and Ashok,
It seems there has been an unfortunate mix up in the (follow my ) orders room and those responsible have been ordered to apologise for their own benefit, which has been cut in line with the UK govt guidelines on free loaders.
On behalf of the management I would sincerely like to say sorry, sorry that you seem to be deeply permanently disappointed and run the risk of living with yourselves for the rest of your lives. Either that or you can order our handy new book….
”How to live with yourself for the rest of your life, even though you would like a break sometimes and just live anonymously perhaps as a humble cobbler.”
Speaking of which ,the latest sequel book is conveniently entitled,
‘How to live a life full of cobblers’
..is also available with a free introductory meditation mat covered with hob-nails for fakirs like yourselves.
Hurry while stocks last.
Dear ‘P.M,’
Thank you for your prompt reply and the enclosed replacement for the faulty product previously sent. I have found the new one more than serviceable and have therefore decided to keep it.
Thank you once again for your prompt and responsive attention , clearly you have your clients’ best interests at heart, and consequently I feel ‘seen’ and appreciated as a faithful customer.
Yours most sincerely,
Ashok
The damn thing’s just electrocuted my pet mouse.
Yes, maybe they have the right to a lower “non-commercial” rate, but the prices at the Osho Resort ARE very commercial. Educational Organization ?
“Educational organisation?” Vijay rightly asks. Well I suppose it is if you are studying the Mafia. Seriously though and most sincerely friends, I wanna tell ya that there is a lot to be learnt at the Osho Resort, in my humble opinion! Learn how to embrace all of life’s many beautiful manifestations with an open heart and how to remember to breathe when you have to stick yo hand in yo pocket! (Maybe with this saving on expenditure, they will bring down the gate price – whoops, shurely some mistake guv!) I think being thrown out of White Robe for clearing my throat is a very small price to pay for the educational opportunity of learning how to set up a racket. Don’t knock it. Hopefully, they will soon start offering M.A. degrees in Scamming at the Multiversity soon.
Thanks love,
Ashok
I just found the description ”Educational Organization” too dry and beaurocratic. I always felt the place as a Buddhafield and for being sincere i suffer a lot for not having the possibility to go back, both for the money and for the way it is run. Actually i see in myself what Gautam Buddha said : ” Hope is pain”. True, at least for me.
How many go to the Resort every year? Isn’t 10.000 the number being thrown around? Well there must be at least 1.000 from the UK … 500 … 200 … 100? What do they do when they come back? Who do they contact? What are their stories?
Who cares?
I thought they broke up years ago… after terrible feedback from the speakers..
Yes, but they reformed and are now playing for deaf people.