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We received this message from Keerti, we don't neccessarily agree with it all, but we feel it deserves exposure, and we would welcome letters, etc around this topic. Message to all Sannyasins Osho is an enlightened mystic, a super scientist of spirituality. His message is universal. Like Krishna, Buddha, Jesus, Guru Nanak, Laotsu and Kabir, Osho devoted his whole life to the uplift of the whole humanity. He invited everybody to join his neo-sannyas movement. He shared his Being and wisdom to raise the consciousness of everybody on the path. He did not ask anything in return, because his sharing was simply a gift. He was singing his song of the divine. He did not claim any ownership of his song because he ceased to exist as a person or ego and became oceanic and one with existence. Now the same song, the glorious gift of godliness of this benevolent Buddha is being grabbed by some greedy people for the trade purposes. These traders at New York, USA have applied for trademarks, patents and copyrights of Osho's meditations. A spiritual gift of unconditional love is being reduced into a commodity for commercial gains. My request to Osho's true disciples is that they should not let this happen to their master. It's their historical responsibility to make the message of their master freely available to one and all, without the controls of copyrights and trademarks. Every individual sannyasin in any part of the world can raise his voice of protest because every sannyasin is Osho's successor. Jayesh claims Osho's dream that Osho said to him: 'I leave you my dream.' But what he left for each of us is his vision. Says Osho in From Death to Deathlessness: "Nobody is going to be my successor. Each sannyasin is my representative. When I am dead, you all - individually - will have to represent me to the world. There is not going to be any pope. There is not going to be any shankaracharya. Each sannyasin, in his own capacity, has to represent me. This has never happened - but it is going to happen! You are all my successors. When I am dead, that simply means I have left this body and entered all the bodies of my people. I will be within you. I will be part of you." Swami Chaitanya Keerti Another Quote: "The very idea of succession is political. Only one person can be a successor, so there is bound to be competition, ambition. There is bound to be a subtle struggle to be closer to the master, to force others away. It may not be on the surface but, underneath, the problem will remain in the disciples: "Who is going to be the successor?" I destroy the whole conception. Every disciple who has loved has become one with the master. There is no need of any competition, nor one successor. It is for everybody who has offered himself in deep gratitude, who has become one in a certain sense with the master's presence. There is no need of any competition. Thousands can have the same experience, millions can have the same experience. To avoid politics in religion, I have said that I will not have successors. I want religion to be absolutely devoid of ambition, competition, being higher than another, putting everybody lower than oneself. With me you are all equal. And I trust and love you, that you will prove this equality. In equals there is no competition; there is a combined effort. You will all carry my message, but nobody will be higher or lower, nobody will be a successor. All will be my lovers and they will carry me. Osho Nansen: The Point of Departure # 2
Osho Belongs To One And All