Comments on: The Joy of Gossiping

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 10:08:11 +0000

Mina, where have you been all these years? Presumably, by “Mohan” you’re referring to Osho?

He left his body in January 1990 after returning to his commune in Pune where he continued his work among thousands of sannyasins.

By: Mina

Mina — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 23:11:45 +0000

Can you say more about what Mohan was/is up to after he got out of prison? I heard he died in 2019 but maybe just a rumour?

By: swamishanti

swamishanti — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 20:26:15 +0000

Frank, I looked at the website of the German Madhukar who still gives satsang, who you sat with in the German Bakery in Pune.

On his site he makes no mention of Osho and lists his spiritual lineage as Ramana and Pappaji.

So he is another one of the ones from Poonja.
So was he in Poona to pick up new disciples, or an old sannyasin who ditched Osho but kept his sannyas name?

By: swamishanti

swamishanti — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 19:06:55 +0000

I also looked and saw that Sheila Chandra used to live in London and starred in ‘Grange Hill.’

There are a few female tantrics out there. They don’t advertise themselves, of course, unlike the Osho and Western ones. Just living traditionally in huts.

Many traditional forms of tantra in Bengal, some say, mainly centred around Shakti worship.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:46:40 +0000

My God, ’tis the sound of desperate barrel scraping – and laughably misplaced assumptions!

Leopards ‘n’ spots again…

By: dominic

dominic — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:42:11 +0000

Swamishanti, that’s not Sheila Chandra, just her music. Sadly the lovely singer Sheila Chandra has burning mouth syndrome since 2009, and is unable to sing, speak, laugh or cry without suffering intense pain. She has thus been rendered effectively mute and communicates with sign language.

By: dominic

dominic — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:25:27 +0000

I’m sorry, SD, a 3 second eyeballing contest with Mother Meera, or being buried in the bosom of a baby elephant, wearing incontinence knickers, doesn’t count as a tantric practice!

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 18:18:50 +0000

Lol!

Nah, you’ll go on and on…Leopards ‘n’ spots, ol’ boy, leopards ‘n’ spots….

By: frank

frank — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:47:15 +0000

Non-binary tantricists?
Cool!
Very new-fashioned!

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 28 Dec 2017 17:41:22 +0000

And that’s fine by me, Frank. (Btw, who said they were guys?!).