Yes. “A man has to do what he has to do!”
Who said those famous words?
Was it Sisyphus with the rock uphill or was it Jesus climbing the cross?

Cheers!

But yes, I have also the will to revive creation of Osho in its modified format. Hugs are eternal but all the swamis with bushy beards and all the Mas with hairy armpits; that time and age is gone and gone for maybe next two to three hundred years.

When Pluto will be again in Libra and Scorpio in few hundred years, generation of that time may have their own master provoking zeitgeist of love and sexuality.

Yes, those were the good times – orange and mala.
One knew immediately whom to hug and whom not to hug. LOL

Maybe few can shake their memory to find one such incident in the distant past or recently.

I don’t know whether you lived close to Osho (as I did for some years). He was always changing things and shocking disciples by the changes.

Life was very difficult in 1985 for sannyasins, even when travelling with the full regalia. That is very likely the stimulus Osho had for getting us to go ‘underground’, which was also an experience in itself, and a good one.

“You may remember that we devoted a VC issue to great mala stories.
Some years ago we read a wonderful story about a westerner who travelled around India wearing his mala and met all kinds of interesting, beautiful people.

We have been selling malas for over 25 years, and it is still a popular seller. Some centres and therapists buy 50-60 malas at a time. We connect with many new people through the malas they order.

Mala buyers want them for many reasons. We are always happy to support their Osho energy.

I find it very very sad that people like you, after 30 years of sannyas, you think the mala is “just a picture of Osho”.

Do you think Osho created the mala as a fashion accessory?
Do you think it is “just a picture”?

It has nothing to do with time or ancient history – the mala is beyond time, and it is a direct connection with Osho’s energy.

And to say “Osho dropped the mala” is very incorrect.

Osho made the mala no longer compulsory, but nowhere did he say that people should not wear a mala. It is no longer mandatory. It doesn’t mean “Osho dropped it” – but perhaps this is what you want to hear.

Osho has many discourses where he describes the energy connection through a mala – but I guess you only want to hear the one where he “dropped it”.

A day after he “dropped” the orange clothes and the mala – and saw that people happily changed clothes and dropped the mala – he called them hypocrites, and asked: “Why did you wear it in the first place, if you are so happy to get rid of it?”

Anyway, it is really really sad that after so many years of sannyas, you see the mala as “just a picture”.

And it is also sad that you consider the mala “ancient history”. From my experience it is beyond time, and it has nothing to do with where Osho considered it compulsory to wear or not.