“This guy should be on my team, I really, really like him!” (Donald Trump)

“Our lads could do with some guaranteed comic relief after last night’s defeat (especially with me in charge) – sign him up!” (Roy Hodgson, England football manager)

“A true humanitarian – modest too!” (‘Humanist Quarterly’)

“Shantam is an example to all seekers and strivers after success: he never fails to snatch failure from the jaws of defeat!” (‘Yes, You Can’ monthly newsletter)

“We always follow Shantam Prem wherever and whenever he is online. Without his cutting-edge wisdom we are forever lost.” (Ali-Le-Twatt, ‘Twats’ Monthly’)

“A veritable Giant among Baboons” (Brian Rajneesh)

“He offered to show me around the estate – but he only wanted one thing! Uggghhh!” (‘Behind The Façade’ – Real-Life Responses to ‘I Am The Date – A Guide to the Pune Ashram For Nice Young White-Skin Ladies Aged Under 40 Years’, by Swami Shantam Prem)

“This thoroughly mediocre Sikh has an almost unique facility for seeing things exactly as they are not. Honestly, I just give up!” (Osho, from ‘My Osho and Me’, chapter 482: ‘The Osho Sessions’, channelled by Swami Samarpan)

“No one can possibly take this man seriously – we just laughed and laughed!” (Sannyas News Readers Association)

“Side-splitting humour – and all totally unconscious!” (‘Mindfulness Monthly’)

“He’s ‘avin’ a larf – he’s a comedian all right, this one!” (‘The Sun’)

“He calls himself “He”- that’s a joke for a start!” (Mod, Sannyas News)

“He’d make one hell of a splash in the summer – he’d be thrown off the pier!” (‘Coming Attractions’, Brighton Tourist Office)

“With enemies like this, who needs friends?” (Swamis Amrito and Jayesh, Koregaon Park, Pune)

PS:
My impression is Frank is Anand Yogi. One must be a Britisher who knows India as back of his hand and has the education to transcribe dark British humour with spiritual touch.

During the peak years of Osho Commune, there were quite a few first-class stand-up comedians.
It seems with the revival, we will even see better ones.

Just imagine, Shantam Prem does a stand-up comedy on Osho and Sannyasins and He is also a chairman of Inner Circle (maximum duration 1-2 years).

Serious scholarship has revealed that the Shiva lingam was the world`s first knob gag and it is now understood by serious historians of Bhorat (not women) that Tommy Cooper plagiarised the Upanishads for his catch-phrase!

Also, it has not been clearly understood in the West that the laws of Manu were the fore-runners of Bernard Manning`s whole act!

And of course, the Indian marriage system was devised by the ancient comedian-sages of Bhorat to maximise the possibilities for mother-in-law jokes!

Little-known also is that the divine urge of the people of Bhorat to build temples instead of public toilets springs from not only from a deep-set longing for the divine, but also from a reluctance to renounce the pleasure of watching one`s neighbour continuously putting his foot in it!

Shantambhai, you are a tragic hero, as you have made clear, but you are too modest! More exactly, you are a tragi-comic hero, endlessly renouncing the security offered by holy underwear and baring and offering up your well-used buttocks that have “logged many minutes” to be thrashed endlessly in a public arena for the purpose of karmic relief on the otherwise arduous journey from here to here!

This is a supreme act of self-sacrifice and will ultimately be rewarded by Brahma himself when you attain to the ultimate state of Mocksha!

Yahoo!
Hari Om!
Jus` like that!

We, Osho lovers, after seeing his eyes, it is impossible to find the same beauty or compassion or whatever it is, anywhere else. XXX

Osho wanted to create a religious movement based on the happiness, joy, live, love, laughter kind of emotions rather than gloominess and melancholy.

But with the time, it seems we are back to square one. Live, love, laughter have become the commodities to be purchased behind the close doors of groups and seminars.

I feel it is my learning from Osho that I can laugh without any inhibition over the satire based on my words directed at me.

Individually, most of us have become broadminded because of Osho influence. The work is still under progress!

It happens when laughter and humour becomes part of institutional agenda, the natural sense of humour is put aside or looked as outcast.

MOD: PLEASE EXPLAIN THE LAST PARAGRAPH, SHANTAM.

And in this matter you are not just talking the talk but also walking the walk, flogging the log, beating the meat, jerking the gherkin and all while following the masters` guidelines for safe sex!

You have certainly been “logging more minutes” than any sect can boast about! Sitting at computer and thrashing off to Zen Porn sites which have more followers than the all the latest gurus combined together!

It is, as you have made clear, certainly heroic!

But also, it is tragic! Whilst gora baboons destroy our holy shrine you are powerless to stop them and all you can manage is to sit in chair and engage in hand-to-gland combat? It is certainly a tragedy that puts you right up there with Hamlet, Romeo and Cleopatra, to name but a few!

And you are right that religion is all about numbers! This is why you and I and all those whose mind has been swamped with the wisdom of mighty Bhorat plan to be dispatched from this world into next life wearing underwear of ancestors so as to at least have consolation of not being lonely in Nirvana!

Yahoo!
Hari Om!