You mentioned earlier in this string that some time ago you had done a survey into the deaths of sannyasins, and that their means of exit heavily favour cancer.

Whenever I’ve looked at the obituary section in Oshonews, I’ve noticed that how they died is not always stated. So data is only coming from those where that information is provided.

So what you are seeing could equally be explained by a subtle bias in the way sannyasin deaths are reported.

Something along these lines seems to me far more likely, as there is no sensible reason why merely being a ‘sannyasin’ is somehow carcinogenic.

Realistically, there is not enough reliable info around to draw any firm conclusions. Anecdotes are good food for thought, but could skew things even more.

Interesting observation.

I rest my case, because it is too easy to get on your case.

Does your own obsession with the actions and policies of those who are running the ashram come under this category, Shantam?

Your attempt to wriggle your way out of this promises to be most entertaining. Don’t disappoint, please have a go!

“A misses the message of Osho, but me not” is a common delusion, worthy of psychoanalysis. In Lokesh´s case, it is so obvious.

It is rare for Shantam to notice anything that resembles the truth, but for once he is right on the money, because there is something wrong…with him.

Shantam completely missed Osho’s most important message: the real action is on the inside. So off the mark that he went in the opposite direction entirely – out. And so it happens that, just like the billions of other bio- robots inhabiting this planet, Shantam projects all of his inner shit on the screen of life, living with the firm belief that this is reality. Because as a man believes so the world will appear.

Taking that into consideration, Shantam has come undone and in his own words he declares, “May I recommend a few sittings with a shrink. There must be something wrong.”

Live and learn. Need I say more?

God willing, tomorrow I will go to Calvary Chapel for Sunday Mass. Maybe I will write a report. Two times I was there. Thousand times more I would like to be with those people than foreigners with Indian names.

Believe me, my friends, I feel like vomiting to see some western with Indian name. May I recommend them few sittings with a shrink. There must be something wrong.

Times have moved on. Electricity is everywhere, so is meditation. When you switch your computer on do you bow your head and offer thanks to Thomas Edison and Michael Faraday? I doubt it.

Strikes me that`s the attitude Shantam is presenting here.

Plus, I’ve said it before, that people from the Indian subcontinent were able to get jiggy with the Euro girls in the 20th century, not thanks to the genius of mighty Bharat. If history had been bossed by that bunch of turmeric-stained nihilistic losers, it would have been arranged marriage, get bummed by teacher at Sunday school or the equivalent, or possibly a visit to the cages of Mumbai to get a 13 year-old for the ‘lucky’ ones.

No – the people to bow down to here would be Albert Hoffman, Alexander Fleming, the Suffragettes, Marie Stopes, Loius Pasteur, Anton Kollisch, Frank B Colton, Margaret Sanger, Thomas Paine, Freud, Reich, Chuck Berry….