The Times of India reported this on August 5th
PUNE: The Bombay High Court recently directed the Charity Commissioners at Mumbai, to speed up the hearing and disposal of applications filed by two city-based Osho followers, over alleged corruption by Trustees of the Osho International Foundation (OIF) and the Neo Sannyas Foundation.
Two Pune based Osho followers, Yogesh Thakkar and Kishor Raval, had some time earlier filed applications before the Charity Commissioner demanding a probe into the alleged irregularities by Trustees of the two Foundations. Thakkar and Raval claimed the alleged irregularities were to the tune of Rs 848.97 crores. They had moved to the High Court against the charity commissioners for not acting on their application.
A two-member HC bench, comprising justice VL Achliya and justice Anoop V Mohta, disposed of their petition on July 29 after the assistant government pleader, representing the charity commissioner, assured the court that the complaint applications will be heard expeditiously and within six months.
In their writ petition filed in the HC in 2013, Thakkar and Raval had accused OIF trustees of illegal transfer of Osho’s intellectual property rights and copyrights outside India to US and Switzerland. The petition also stated that the present Trustees are misusing income from publication and distribution of books, production of CDs and VCDs. The petition further stated that the Trustees have floated a company to “siphon and launder funds and properties of the Trust into their private kitty”.
“The present Trustees are banning, restricting and harassing long time Osho disciples from entering the Osho Ashram and meditating at the Osho Samadhi. By restricting the entry to the Ashram they are violating the fundamental rights of the disciples,” the petition said. The petition also claimed that the Trustees were “continuously causing irreparable damages” to the trust by gifting its properties to another trust in Delhi, which was floated by former Trustees of the two Foundations.
A source from the management of the Osho International Meditation Resort stated, “The petitioners’ interpretation of the HC order is wrong.” The source refused to comment further adding that the matter was subjudice.
Charity commissioner will decide whether the property portfolio created by donations is part of Religious Trust or a business empire specialized in Holistic Fitness?
Great evolution of dead master´s disciples whose ashes transmit the message to the chief of staff?
Lawyers who have not for a single day read Osho or participated in activites will argue pro and contra.
Question is, why some ‘Arts of Love priest and priestess does not bring both parties on mediation table?
Faithful ones of brand Osho are waiting anxiously what the charity commissioner will decide.
50% chances are he will accept disciples is another term for customers and clients, patrons and consumers. Dictionaries need to be upgraded!
Whatever these laughterless and perhaps loveless opponents adumbrate, one sentence should not be missed from this Indian Times text:
“A two-member HC bench, comprising justice VL Achliya and justice Anoop V Mohta, DISPOSED of their petition on July 29.”
this simply means they did not accept the Rebel’s petition – given the assurances received from the Charity Commissioners of a six month time frame for a decision.
“Whatever these laughterless and perhaps loveless opponents adumbrate”
Parmartha, on what basis you are abusing the whistleblowers?
Do you know the both sides deeply, intimately, personally?
Whatsoever be the outcome of the case, Nature is very gracious to Osho Foundation International.
In hidesight, the western countries who did not allow Osho to settle down look very compassionate. How long Osho would have been able to hold the strings? Sooner or later, chief disciples were bound to play their innings.
Only and only India can allow all kind of shabby deals and bogus trusts. Think about UK´s Kids Company; once one of the most dedicated charity? And now think about Osho Foundation International?
It is like West does not allow even a small fly in a coffee, in India you can float cockroaches. Meditative cockroaches are class of their own!
“Do you know the both sides deeply, intimately, personally?”
The gall of you.
You don’t even come within a thousand miles of this standard.
Put your own house in order.
“Do you know the both sides deeply, intimately, personally?”
I am thinking, yes or Yes or YES.
Without knowing the facts of the case and the people involved, I won´t have the right to say anything.
It is not my fault if your religious rainbow gets distributed by shaking the muddy water.
You spout off about things you know nothing about all the time.
You deceive yourself, but no one else here.
Shantam:
Both sides are interested in power, and this makes people rather laughterless and loveless. I don’t know any of these people intimately, but in a long time as a sannyasin, since 1975, I certainly have come across quite a few of them at a distance, and a few at not such a great distance.
I am not abusing whistle-blowers, I just think that these “rebels” are not whistle-blowers in the true sense.
As you intimate, it’s a pity that Osho could not settle down in, say, Uruguay, or any of the places on his world tour. Greece would have been especially nice!
In retrospect, it would have also stopped this Hinduisation of Osho, with all this talk of samadhis and places of pilgrimage, etc. This would not have arisen at all!
I thought, by the way, even at the time, that Osho’s entourage was politically naive and inexperienced in trying to find somewhere for the third commune to happen. They wasted a lot of time and tired Osho out, constantly looking, when clearly no-one would let him in, given the crimes which his leading disciples had committed in the USA.
First you get the money. Then you get the power. Then you get the women. (Guru Scarface)
In Sannyas Pune Estyle, the maxim has a bit different connotations:
You are not afraid to lose woman, you are not afraid to lose money, you are afraid to lose power or you are afraid to get banned into ashram/commune/resort.
Parmartha, if in Greece there could be a chance of Orthodox Christianisation of Osho or any other country it would be their existing predominant religionisation. Didn’t Osho talk about some underwater civilisation (living in submarines)?
Unlikely, I’d say, Kavita. Thing is, Osho as an Indian born and bred, is infinitely more easily regarded by Indians as (and indeed was or is) ‘one of our own’, as it were.
Seems, SD, you are saying there is no way out, only in!
Underwater, submarine communes?
I thought that Osho`s idea was to have a cloud city, a bit like in star wars?
Can anyone find the Osho text about these ideas?
Parmartha and other British disciples of Osho can visualize a single example and then answer:
If Indian authorities follow the same measurement as UK´s charity commissioner did with the Kids Company, what will be the outcome of Osho Foundation International?
Those self-same UK charity commissioners who you believe would deliver the verdict that fits your prejudices, would also see through you, and you would be given short shrift by them.
They would no more be taken in by your specious, self-serving nonsense than we are.
Frankly, somehow my concern, if any, is that whatever happens it should not go in hands of any religious/political party. I have heard from inside-outside sources freshly here that there are talks about secret sale of the whole premises. Well, seems nothing remains a secret for long!
Everyday post brings gifts and presents for the masters in Heaven.
So many gifts, they did not even have the time to open them all.
Their staff takes the delivery and distribute among the faithful ones.
While playing cards, all the masters became curious as this time, Osho too got a delivery. They asked Him to open it now. Packing was very expensive and also packet came not via ordinary mail but express mail.
Osho opened the packet.
Inside was an umbrella and a small note:
‘Happy Monsoon Festival’.