in old india,a disciple who was a carbon copy of his master was looked upon highly.
in fact,remember old teertha?
he boasted that he had only read osho books for years and had the hair and beard to go with it………
okay,the large protrusion jutting out from the middle of his robe was a giveaway,but there was a strong lookalike element…..
and nobody called him a third rate impressionist at the time…..

SD:
Maybe, frank…But look where Teertha’s at now! Must be the most disliked, disrespected member of the entire pantheon of Osho’s former ‘high-rollers’…Among sannyasins, that is…

Took a while for everyone to grow up, I guess.

Perhaps rajneesh will meet a similar fate amongst his Indian fans…Wouldn’t necessarily bet against it….and yet…

If it’s true that carbon copies of the Master were revered in “old India”, and Indian sannyas people are desperate for, er, ‘something’ (anything?!) I guess this rajneesh knows he’s onto a good thing and so he might have a fair bit of mileage left.

My God (sorry, frank!), is there any limit to human foolishness?!

Time for another green tea, I’m feeling rather faint….

in any case,people will pay to see tribute bands,whether it is
retro tull
think floyd
mamma mia
or
rajneesh too.

but i can sympathise with you,.
hating and slagging artists you dont like has always been a part of the enlightentertainmant scene.

just like mods and rockers or
arsenal versus tottenham.

enlightenment is just the same…..
its the oshoites rucking with krishnamurtites
barrylongers squaring up to bwronskinned gurus
or andrew cohen`s firm marching into papajis manor,ready to rumble…..

same same,baba….

SD:
Ok, it’s all subjective (what else could it possibly be?!)…

But when you have a virtual carbon-copy of the ‘real deal’, as rajneesh has made himself, then ‘fraud’, ‘deluded’ and ‘stupid’ are three words that instantly come to the mind of anyone with a vestige of common sense, let alone ‘spiritual discrimination’.

Surely?!!

If they were ever into it, ‘Private Eye’ (British satirical mag.) would have an absolute field day on this character….

Danger of using it as a ‘defence mechanism’, of course…

Don;t reckon you’re one of Life’s natural devotees though somehow….

Such ones make a point of being completely aware – like your good self – of whatever games their minds are playing – golf, cricket , sex, alcoholic – and are therefore ‘free’.

Unlike the fools (for whom such a one is profoundly compassionate, of course, that comes with all the meditation) who are unfortunately completely ‘identified’ with whatever occupies their (necessarily rather limited) attention spans at any given moment.

Still, I guess it’s all karma, of course…

Guess I, you and others here, must have worked pretty hard in our previous lves to have such an advantage, compared to the rest of the unfortunates. Guess it’s simply ‘our time’….

then they are forced,deliberately,or otherwise,to give it the old “i`m just an ordinary guy” schtick and go to cricket games,golf courses,their disciples bedrooms,the off-license,whatever,just to try and re-balance the whole game again.

“that`s enlightentertainment”

and if nityananda had been born in new york,he could have been onstage at glastonbury,having as many groupies as he likes,and making his own home movies of him cavorting with tamil and american actresses and selling them on the net!

but,i dont agree about these characters being “frauds.”
to judge fraudulence,there has to be a consensus about the genuine item.
it doesnt happen.
in entertainment or music,people just do their act.
you like it,or you dont buy it.. simple.
do you think that chinese music is a “fraud” because it sounds like a bunch of cats being strangled?
and boy bands and lady gaga are shite,you think,but can there be stuff you like without there being shite,too?
i doubt it.
its a bit f the old black/white,yin/yang mullarkey going on,i would say.

But that seems too much for football fans to grasp.

As Dylan sang:
“You shouldn’t let other people get your kicks for you….”