Comments on: Ma Yoga Laxmi: Osho’s Secretary between 1970 and 1981

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 21:32:04 +0000

Avinashi says that Osho never rejected (those who came to him) unless some of them left him on their own.
This is not true. One of my Poona one friends (Sudesh) was asked to leave the Buddhafield by Osho publicly in a lecture after he criticised the behaviour of the Ashram Guards at the gate.
Even Laxmi was told personally by Osho that it was time to leave Oregon.
And there were a number of other incidents where disciples were asked to leave by the temporal authorities of the ashram/commune.
You have to be avoid these blanket statements about “Master”, Avinashi, if you are to slowly gain a nuanced spirituality. That’s the way to go if you want to get somewhere in this life.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 18:23:22 +0000

Avi says, ‘whosoever came to Osho he accepted him or her.’
That is not entirely true.

By: Heraclitus

Heraclitus — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 15:56:36 +0000

This Laxmi was okay Avinashi as those sort of people go. You missed if you could not see that. Maybe it was because yuou were locked in your room reading Osho books all day?
Basically Laxmi did not have a superiority complex at all, though it was a common complex amongst many devotees, and also Sheela and her gang had this complex.
Rude and unloving you may have found some folk who had been physically around Osho for many years I dont doubt, but dont condemn all of us with the same brush.

By: swami prem avinashi

swami prem avinashi — Wed, 18 Sep 2013 03:42:25 +0000

regarding laxmi I did not mean that she was not devoted or a bad secretary, she was very efficient did her job very well, was a sincere meditator but all this does not make her superior sannyasins then others, that’s all. Moreover osho was not selecting anybody, whosoever came to him he accepted him or her. He used loving grown ups and rough non-meditative people with great mastery without judgement. I am in contract with some of his disciples who remained with him from the very begining till end and to my surprise found them rude and unloving like any non-meditator, and I came to know that what is the real meaning of un-conditional love and non-judgement as osho never rejected them unless some of them left him on their own.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 21:01:52 +0000

Attack is the best form of defense.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:20:39 +0000

And so you provide yourself with a convenient reason for making up any old bullshine that happens to suit yourself.

An emotionally-driven comment and therefore almost by definition totally untrustworthy.

You’d do well to keep to the facts, Arpana, rather than indulging in such spurious pseudo-spirituality.

By: Arpana

Arpana — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:06:17 +0000

Imagination is closer to no-mind than analysis.

(ED: SOME EDITING HERE)

By: Parmartha

Parmartha — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:34:23 +0000

Not at all sure that having a city on a hill for perpetuity would have served the cause of waking people up at all. People would have just got secure and lived out commune lives protected from the real world. Actually I always found it odd that Osho repeated the bit about being in the world but not of it numerous times, but in practice all of us who lived in communes between 81 and 85 were “in our own world”!
Quite happy that Rajneeshpuram failed myself. Think it was “meant” if you know what I mean!
Not happy about the stuff Sheela and her 17 henchwomen and two men got up to which crossed the red line of major criminal behaviour, and thereby tainted Osho and sannyas in perpetuity.

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 16:22:39 +0000

You seem to like your imagination, Arpana. Unfortunately, it’s the enemy of truth.

By: shantam prem

shantam prem — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:14:40 +0000

Parmartha,
For God sake, can you tell me one thing, What would have been the future of Rajneeshpuram; let us say without Sheela but with a better secretary of Bhagwan at that time?
I just cannot imagine that a composed and rational disciple like you will blame only and only Sheela and may be two three closed companions of her.
Are you really sure Puram died because of one organ failure!
Sheela is not Holy but to think she was the only cat in the hole of rats is just mind blowing.
May be sannyasins need a group called ‘Deconditioning Denial’!