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swamishanti commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Osho states:
“First, become the Buddha. This is called Nirvana. Then take a jump into the cosmos, and disappear into the blue sky. This is called mahaparinirvana — the great enlightenment.
The first is called […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Sometimes people try to find tapes and videos. Here’s one of the recordings of one of those festivals from the Ranch days:
http://www.sannyas.wiki/index.php?title=1984-09-08_Mahaparinirvana_Day_Satsang_~_The_Divine_Madness
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swamishanti commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Here you go – it is a bust of Neem Karoli Baba.
Perhaps everyone from the ‘baby-boomer’ generation should get one…you were the generation that had parents with strange ideas, but still, you made a start.
You […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Happy Mahaparinirvana Day to all SN readers, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Osho nicked his Mahaparanirvana day from ‘Paranirvana’ day , which is celebrated by Buddhists to commemorate Buddha’s death and full entry into Nirvana.
In south-east Asia, Buddha’s birthday is also celebrated, […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Interesting Prison interview with Osho, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Hugh seems loch he is daein’ weel, which is stoatin. But sittin’ doon an’ havin’ a bowl ay porridge wi’ heem? But his book was a load ay naf, went it ay his way tae portray Osho in a bad lecht, whit wi’ aw a […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Interesting Prison interview with Osho, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
“Innocent people have been imprisoned in America, sometimes for decades. New evidence is discovered and they are set free with a cheque and a little publicised apology.”
And many experiments were carried out in […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Interesting Prison interview with Osho, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
I have been looking for the Ted Koppel ‘Nightline’ interview with Osho, which was also conducted in the same jail, but have not found it. I remember watching a videotape of that interview in the eighties.
To […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Interesting Prison interview with Osho, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 7 months ago
Well before the printing press was invented, word of mouth was the primary source of news. People banged blocks of wood together and primitive people even learned how to use smoke signals to convey simple […]
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swamishanti posted a new activity comment 7 years, 8 months ago
In reply to: Arpana posted an update in the group Caravanserai Bayazid, a Sufi mystic, has written in his autobiography, “When I was young I thought and I said to God, and in all my prayers this was the base: ‘Give me […] View“When a Sufi mystic, Bayazid, was dying, people who had gathered around him — his disciples — were suddenly surprised, because when the last moment came his face became radiant, powerfully radiant. It had a beautiful aura.
Bayazid was a beautiful man, and his disciples had always felt ar aura around him, but they had not known anything like…[Read more]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
As Satyadeva also mentioned here, Osho also sometimes encouraged people to move to other masters:
“Soon I will not be ‘ere either. And remember, I would like ter remind me disciples especially: If ya ‘eaven and […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
I heard that from a bloke down the pub, mate.
He also told me something else that Osho said:
“Even if I leef the bloody body I ain`t garn ter leef me sannyasins. I will be as much available as I am wite na. But […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
“Just look silently an’ deeply an’ you’ll find yaaahr master everywhere. The ‘ole existence’ll become suffused wiv yaaahr master. And ov caaahrse, da momen’ a master dies, ‘e makes da whole existence sacred fer […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Yoga Teertha: Railway Inspector, tells his Story, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, you are right, Tan, it can be written as either Tirtha or Teertha.
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Osho was against superstition but did mention that he felt he would still be around and felt that it might even be more helpful as mentioned in his “I leave you my dream” […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
It`s a great book, that one.
I like the story where Devageet recalls how he was doing Osho`s teeth one day, and had the electric drill in Osho`s mouth, when Osho suddenly decided to shut his mouth tight whilst […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
There are a couple of pictures I`ve seen from the Ranch, I think it was on one of the annual World celebration days, where Osho looks a bit wasted.
But this is only two appearances out of thousands. Perhaps he […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, although mosquitoes seem to prefer skin that is paler and do not seem to bother Indians so much.
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
It’s all in the eye of the beholder.
If you heard that Osho was taking drugs, dropping qaaludes and jumping around in his living-room like a monkey, and also sometimes asking Sheela to get her tits out and having […]
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swamishanti commented on the post, Junagarth, 1969, on the site sannyasnews 7 years, 8 months ago
Yes, I gathered that Osho used to generally stay in style and luxury and would travel by first class on the train.
I once met an Indian guy who told me that Osho used to stay in the home of his wealthy aunt when […]
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