How about you?
Oshi`ite or Sunniasin?
OIF or OFI?
Gujurat or Punjab?
Rangers or Celtic?

Jerk in the story is that twilight years of his life he is cared for by NHS system; surrounded by not Ma’s in Malas but Philippinos uttering Buddham Sharam in their accented English.

Old sex workers and old sannyasins have nowhere to go but In, that too at the service sponsored by the people who cannot boast their adventures about Life, love, laughter.

Do we really think God Inc. will roll maroon carpet for us?

But they have one thing in common with everyone else, they are human beings caught in the existential matrix, as are we all. If somehow karma has ordained they have the money and the time and connections to meet sannyasins or lovers of Osho, or even just lovers of Osho books, then to me it is a fine thing that in their idle lives they are found reading an Osho book or two.

In a strange way, as Osho pointed out when fabricated pics of him appeared draped by women in a Bombay paper,
‘Don’t worry! All publicity is good.
That way, those who are sincere will get to find me, and they will have the right calibre to be real sannyasins. They will be the ones not put off, and who can see through the wiles of the media. If such stories did not appear however, they might never get to know who I am.’

I’ve just had a simply wonderful idea! Why not search the world for a decent slice of virgin land, miles from anywhere much, and build an internet-free, mobile phone-free rural paradise where young people, teenagers (and ‘over-grown teenagers’ in their 20′s and 30′s) could gather to ‘Celebrate Life’ together?

Far from the prying minds and eyes of the trouble-making media and the oppressive influence of the powers-that-be, what could possibly go wrong?

It’s gotta be worth a hundred bucks.

And is the way to just get out a verbal and silencing ZEN-Stick enough?
(Your way – sometimes – I feel).
Or is it to ignore the stuff and just go for more essential, or as essential, declared issues?”

Just see it for what it is, Madhu, media hyped rubbish about a bunch of very young people who have a lot of growing-up ahead of them.

Also, as Frank points out, that the media in general are not only reporting, but shaping and actually creating much of what laughably passes for ‘reality’ these days.

What chance have young people got, who’ve known nothing else, to see through it all, saturated with garbage from 24/7 tv and radio, internet, smartphones etc?

Personally, I’d make it mandatory for children and teenagers to regularly spend time out in the wild, or at least, the countryside, away from such electro-magnetic mind-pollutants. Working on farms, trekking in the hills, along the rivers, camping out, and so on. But I guess that’s a whole new topic.

As for the Osho references, well, what else to expect from such a source-with-a-small-’s', which couldn’t give a monkey’s about anything except ‘sensating’ gullible readers – and selling its wretched papers/magazines.

Just relax with a tea-with-Zorba-powder, Madhu, and know (as you do anyway) this world is full of total fools (in league with ‘the Devil’ and well on the way to ‘hell’ – figuratively speaking, but of course!).

But your computer malfunctions badly, as these programmes are largely incompatible with the holy chuddie and turban software that you have not yet been able to uninstall from your computer…

What to do?
Here`s an idea…
Restore the system to factory settings and get involved in a religious war!