Anthony writes of Maitreya, “He used to be one of Samdarshi’s followers. Had a couple of psychotic episodes and was subsequently expelled from the commune.”

Maitreya has written in his biography that Samdarshi suggested that he leave his ashram in Khaknal, but this was not because of any psychosis. Actually, Samdarshi had already confirmed Maitreya’s initial enlightenment, which was said to have taken place while meditating with him in Byron Bay in 1995.

“After another two years of passionate meditation with Samdarshi the ego finally left forever. On 26 October 1995 near Byron Bay there was a huge jerk in the belly and the psychic knot separated from him and disappeared. Maitreya had been fooled twice by satoris, this time he kept quiet about his experience. Even when Samdarshi said he had entered the fifth body, Maitreya made no comment. He wanted to see if it was really permanent.”

Samdarshi and his own master, Baba Purnanand, are well into the system of the seven bodies which Osho himself talked about in great depth when he was speaking on kundalini yoga. Therefore, according to Maitreya’s own account, after his enlightenment:

“Meditation continued with expanding consciousness, love and bliss for another twenty months till the third-eye explosion in Dharamsala on 10 June 1997.”

Before this he had been meditating intensely for two years with both Samdarshi and Purnanand Baba, yet the sixth body opening had not taken place.

“For two months in early 1997, I meditated twice a day in Mahabaleshwar with Purnanand Baba, a beautiful soul who shares his enlightenment mainly in silence.

Every day we disappeared into the arcane realm of the sixth body, the intense cosmic fire of awareness that is the eternal witness of all.

During every meditation the third-eye drama intensified more and more, but still it did not open fully. That penulti- mate opening came four months and many meditation hours later after all human help had been relinquished.

In Poona I underwent surgery on both knees to repair damage from long hours of sitting on the floor without moving.

Nowadays I recommend chairs for meditators who are uncomfortable sitting on the floor. Meditation does not appear to be afraid of chairs, and it is more important for meditators to be relaxed and keep the spine straight than to achieve yogic mastery over the body.

I returned to Khaknal in April and kept meditating alone in my room without even saying hello to Samdarshi. I felt the next step would happen only in aloneness.

One day in late spring, I met Samdarshi on the road and he invited me for a visit. I told him I no longer felt the need for any support from anyone. He agreed and sug- gested I move to Dharamsala to be completely away from his energy.

That felt perfect and the next morning I left Khaknal for the last time, with Samdarshi’s blessings and a sense of impending release from the all-consuming drama of the third eye.”

(From ‘Biography of a Buddha’ by Maitreya Ishwara)

“I knew someone who was with him with Samdarshi and he told me the guy was a just a nutcase. Even Samdarshi gossipped about his psychosis.”

Yet, Samdarshi himself mentions Maitreya Ishwara as one of a handful of people who got enlightened with him in a recent satsang in Goa, the video is on YouTube.

I like your openness. We tend to immediately reject what we have not experienced, but the fact is to be open and accepting, yet undisturbed in own path

Disciples of Buddha still connect to his consciousness apparently, so do Osho’s disciples connect to Osho!

Can I prove it?- no! Can you experience it one day, of course yes.

That’s why I was saying that this is the forum and much can be said.

If you think Jesus is sleeping and is a fiction, that’s not my experience. He is fully functional too.

Masters are so compassionate! Bodies are dropped, but not the rest!

If in the future it will appear to be my illusion, mind etc. let it be!

I have no doubts as it is my experience!

I totally support you that blind believing is no help to a seeker. But being as Osho sannyasi, sensitive and searching, I don’t think with Osho it will be possible!

I don’t just read Osho, I practice his meditations everyday. And from my experience only then I can hear something of what he is trying to convey.

In any case, dead or not dead Osho will not ‘fix’ it for me, hence a question of believing is not of my concern.

And then let us know so we can come and pay you meney for sharing your direct experience of Osho words.

Ok let talk about this one’They crisicise anyone for daring to suggest they actualy have meditational experiences’

So you had some experience and that makes you understand, not believe, right? So you are trying here to declare that you are not a follower and we are here a bunch of idiots who are blind and don’t mediate!

It is a forum and meditation is a private matter, nothing to show off! In fact, in my view experiences are barriers in meditations as they so easily can be the imagination of the mind to which one gets attracted to. So here you are Mr special who has seen something. And if you have had some, you know perfectly well some of them a damn scary!

But what concerns me is the fact that you simply cannot be meditative and aggressive and vulgar at the same time! So you do loose your Jesus hat easily!

Of course everything I say or anybody else you consider a theory and not a direct experience. And that’s your assumption.

You are against Pune-great, I could not care less. But you are also against sannyasins, women, Osho as a dead master and every other thing you mentioned…