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Osho in my view has always been and will always be a secular mystical/religious philosopher (A secular religious philosopher? I wouldn’t have believed it myself until I saw it with my own eyes.) so it doesn’t surprise me that the people in Pune would dissolve certain “religious” practices that went on while Osho was alive. [...]

Life is a mystery. No one thought that Osho’s flagship property will put founder’s photos in the paperbin, but disciple’s will share the Master’s glimpses in a way that facebook will have more photos of Osho than any other single person. One more example how the the priests are cut off from the pulse of [...]

Shantam says, ‘Matter of the fact is Indian mind has never felt dizzy with the idea of religion or tradition,’ Which, of course, is one of Indian Mind’s big problems, because it has helped develop an unconscious attitude that simply being Indian makes you somehow ‘spiritual’, which, of course, it doesn’t….in fact, more often as [...]

Parmartha, all your posts shed a clear light on the fact that you don’t have much first hand experience after rajneeshpuram’s debacle… There were hundreds of sannyas initiation celebrations during Oshô’s life time in Pune 2 and almost all were properly videographed, and Indian bunch of sannyas leaders are just following the tradtion set by [...]