It's NOT their smiles...It's the glint in them and how they're welling up their eyes, is what tells you that something very beautiful, very, very beautiful, has happened to them. It has. By way of Osho Nisarg Foundation, that has just sent lighter beings back home. After this three-day camp (June 22-24) at Naddi, Dharamsala. This Osho meditation camp, held for the first time at Dharamshala, conducted by Ma Yoga Neelam - Osho's long time secretary and disciple for over three decades, was partaken of by as many as 56 people from across the country and outside - Mauritius and Germany.
As for our City group - a dozen of them, mostly women, has returned with amazingly balmed-out insides, the Spring in their souls, wings beneath. And this might read like some attractive words strung for effect. But we promise, they are not.
In fact, they don't even begin to say anything of their faces. As they welcome you with such meltingly warm hugs, this lump thickens in your throat. Add to that, they talk of the camp, Osho and all that happened up there in that hill. Of them, 15 took sanyas ...Seeing a twisted brow to this, smiles Swami Chaitanya Keerti, long time editor for Osho Times International and now Osho World, a Hindi magazine: "Sannyas is not renouncing. It's about living to the brim, the fullest, the deepest within. Denying nothing. Accepting absolutely."
This lady, now christened, Ma Jeevan Madhur, nods to this. The pink under her skin in not from the hills, it's from this bliss from three days of being amidst the thick of what she calls Buddhist energy. Into Osho for over 20 years now, this camp finally picked her afloat to take sannyas.
The camp had at least 30 first-timers... like Sunita Sahi, to whom the craving to attend the camp came very strong after hearing an Osho cassette on Buddha. For others- like Ma Dharma Jyoti, Ma Yog Radha, Ma Yog Shukla... whose bonding with Osho goes down two-four decades, this was yet another moment to rediscover how an Osho camp continues to be the biggest tug to adopt his way of 'being'- blissfully, acceptingly, fillingly.
Housed at Himgiri Resorts, the group meditated all through each day - 6 am -9.30 pm - breaking after each session. With five sessions of varied techniques of meditation - spanning - Dynamic, Kundalini, Natraj, Nadabrahma, Nischal Dhyana Yoga, Osho White Robe Brotherhood... it indeed was a thorough reaching within. "And so much cleansing," gushes Sahi, admitting her first day was far from easy. "The first half of the day, I kept thinking what am I doing, why and how come... I couldn't concentrate, not even as much as keep my eyes closed... But in the evening, suddenly as if the energy in the air got around to me and I was into it. " Most of them find Dynamic Meditation quite difficult , but then, they all have their hurdles to get over...
"And once you are trying it along with such a large group, the collective energy comes to your help," adds Swami Chaitanya Keerti.
As we leave the room, the bliss comes along... making us promise we wouldn't miss their next one (July 6-8, New Delhi). That glint in their eyes is after all, too hard to get away from. And then, there're many knots in our own heads anyways...
This feature has four colour photos with a caption: CAMPFUL OF BLISS: The recent three-day Osho meditation camp held at Dharamshala, sent back all the campers so very blissful and revitalised. While, for the old timers, it was yet another experience of reaching within as guided by Ma Neelam, Osho's long time secretary, it was amazing new experience for the first-timers.

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Fathers and sons
A programmed conflict?

by Chaitanya Keerti

Once I visited a sanyasin friend of mine — Swami Kapil. We were busy chatting when Kapil’s father came in. I had never met his father earlier, so Kapil introduced me to him, saying: Meet my ‘‘biological father’’. I felt embarrassed to hear a statement like that but I saw that Kapil was totally comfortable in introducing his father this way. Visibly, his father also did not feel anything wrong with this statement; maybe he felt but he chose not to exhibit it.

This incident is 20 years old but is still fresh in my memory, because it sounded very odd. Though it is a fact but I felt that it showed a complete absence of respect for the father.

It is so difficult to show respect towards the father who has always dominated the son in his childhood — is that the idea of celebrating one day in an year as Father’s Day? Does this day have its origin in the guilt dwelling deep in sons?

Osho talks about a great Russian novelist, Turgenev, who has written a book — perhaps his best, his masterpiece — Fathers and Sons. The book is about the struggle between the generations, because fathers would like the sons to be their replicas. Naturally, they will not allow the sons any freedom. Obedience they expect; and that their sons should be their carbon copies.
He says in this book that the relationship between a father and son is always one of conflict. The son is the rightful successor of the father and, therefore, is always engaged in removing him. He waits eagerly for him to vacate his position. The son hates the dominance of the father in most of the family affairs. When this becomes intolerable or unbearable for the son, he can even go to the extent of killing his father in anger. This conflict is an eternal one and a chapter was recently added to this hate-saga in the shape of royal killings in Nepal.

If we look at this situation in psychological terms, we come across some startling revelations. Freud says that people worship God as father because some time in the beginning they must have killed some dominant father, somebody who was too dictatorial.

All the cultural respect for God, parents and the elderly has arisen out of a guilt that is deep-set in the human heart. Man started inventing a God as father, raising temples in his memory, built statues, set priests praying, worshipers worshipping. Behind this whole scene and drama of religion, Sigmund Freud finds only one single fact and that is: somewhere in the past man has behaved so badly with his father — perhaps murdered — that he cannot forgive him. So the only way is to pray, make God your father, the creator of the world.

Lao Tzu says: ‘‘The more you try to make sons listen to their fathers, the more they will go against them’’. And Lao Tzu has been proved correct. In the last 5,000 years, man has tried to make the son obedient to the father and the result is an increasing abyss between the two. A son touches his father’s feet and calculates what he will inherit from him. It is said that the sons of rich fathers never lament the father’s death. They cannot. Perhaps they are happy, like the sons of kings.

There is no inner necessity that the son should agree with the father. In fact, it seems far better that he should not agree. That’s how evolution happens. If every child agrees with the father then there will be no evolution, because the father will agree with his own father, so everybody will be where God left Adam and Eve — naked, outside the gate of the Garden of Eden. Everybody will be there. Because sons have disagreed with their fathers, forefathers, with their whole tradition, man has evolved.

This whole evolution is a tremendous disagreement with the past.

see original in the internet: www.indian-express.com

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Osho World Invites Mehdi Hassan:
His Longing goes deeper than his native village

To the favourite ghazal singer of Osho Mehdi Hassan, Osho World Foundation has extended a warm invitation to India and more particularly Delhi. "We hope for his speedy and full recovery so that he may come to Delhi," said Swami Chaitanya Keerti, "Osho World Foundation would be delighted to welcome him, honour him and, if possible, organize a public function/mehfil to felicitate him."

"When he was in his body, Osho used to listen to Mehdi Hassan's music and enjoyed it. Mehdi's recent
statements about forging better cultural links on the sub-continent are most welcome as culture can bridge the communication gap to create greater understanding. "More significant, however, is Mehdi Hassan's longing to visit his native village Luna in Rajasthan which points to an eternal craving to return to the source. The real source, of course, is the inner self which one constantly seeks but gets diverted in going back to one's birthplace or the persuit of wealth or power.

"If one has the strong yearning to go back to one's birthplace, it is an indicator of a deeper spiritual search which remains unknown to most people as Lao Tzu, "TO RETURN TO THE ROOTS IS REPOSE." Osho explains: “These words are very precious: "TO RETURN TO THE ROOT IS REPOSE." This knowledge of returning back to the fundamental root is the actual going back. To re-attain one's roots is the supreme repose.

In this deeper search, Osho's meditation music can be the first step of a journey with the ultimate goal of self discovery," added Swami Keerti. Osho has extensively used Urdu poetry in his discourses to drive home many of these points in a literary genre; his overall aim was to point to the deeper understanding of 'ishak' in Urdu poetry which is not only the infatuation between a man and a woman but can also be taken a step further to show the same phenomenon between man and God," said Swami Keerti. His discourses on various Indian mystics have a liberal sprinkling of Urdu shers or couplets from many famous 'ghazals' and poetry by established Urdu poets as he takes the flight from the known to the unknown on the wings of these couplets," said Swami Keerti.

"All people who are creative are close to religion. Religion is the greatest creativity because it is an effort to give birth to yourself, to become a father and mother to yourself, to be born again, to be reborn through meditation, through awareness. Poetry is good, painting is good - but when you give birth to your own consciousness, there is no comparison. Then you have given birth to the ultimate poetry, the ultimate music, the ultimate dance. This is the dimension of creativity. On the rung of creativity, religion is the last. It is the greatest art, the ultimate art - that's why I call it 'the ultimate alchemy'."
Osho: Ancient Music In the Pines

For further information please contact
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
Osho World Foundation
Ansal plaza, Khelgaon Marg, New Delhi 110049
Telephone: 626 1616, 17

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Kushwant answers on the subject of OSHO

I am a 25-year-old software engineer from India. Needless to say, I am an avid reader of your works. I am curious about how Indian youth and the Indian media are still unaware of Osho's philosophy. I feel he is the greatest mystic ever. Do you think people like Osho are bound to be disparaged and ignored? Looks like this time Jesus is not crucified, just ignored. Why?
Anil Sanadhya

I think you are wrong. Osho is held in great esteem in this country. There are large number of Osho centres in different cities of the country. I myself did an introduction to the selected writings of Osho because the books that I have read of him, largely comprising of sermons taken down, are very readable and light reading. He is, in my opinion, perhaps the greatest thinker the Hindus produced after Adi Shankara. People are coming round to believing that there is more to Osho than free sex.

see original in the internet: www.tehelka.com

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Meditation in the Marketplace

You walk towards the line of showrooms at the Ansal Plaza and all you can hear is noise. People doing rounds of various showrooms – shopping, eating and listening to loud blaring music. Amidst this entire hustle bustle, you enter a gallery and you find a group of people sitting in Dhyana Mudra with their eyes closed, in front of a tall photograph of a man with a flowing beard whose looks seem to be piercing through your body. The man in that photo is Osho Rajneesh and the galleria is Osho world.

Welcome to the world of Osho – a place to quench the thirst of information and knowledge about Osho and his vision. It is a place where Osho’s insights live on video and audiotapes and in books he wrote for what he called "learning to really live, love and laugh".
The Osho world at the Ansal Plaza was opened on April 1, 2000. As you walk in, you are overwhelmed with a sense of peace and realisation. The meditation hour starts at the galleria at 6 pm and anybody who walks in can just join. This is known as meditation in the market place. But how can one do meditation in the centre of a crowded place? Explains Swami Chaitanya Keerti, Director, Osho World, " It is keeping in view Osho’s philosophy. He was of the opinion that it is not necessary to take refuge in the Himalayas to meditate. This meditation is not for renouncing the world. You meditate and celebrate".

Apart from daily meditation at the galleria, Osho World also organises a special week per month. In the first week of June, Kabir week will be celebrated. In May, it was Buddha week.

Osho World also organises laughter meditation. Swami Chaitanya Keerti says it is a kind of forced laughter. It is very difficult to start laughing for no reason at all, but once a person warms up, it triggers something in his body. Moreover in groups it is easy to laugh together. Then the eyes are closed, the energy generated by the laughter is experienced and then people sit in silence and meditate. "Be a joke unto yourself’ is the message of Osho.

Then there is Mystic Rose meditation that lasts for three weeks. In the first week, you laugh daily for three hours. In the next week, you cry daily for three hours, followed by the third week, when you just sit in silence.

At the Osho World, you can also buy Objects d’art – statuettes, ceramics, Zen stationary, home textiles and decorations, gifts to inspire and meditate, robes for meditation, herbal cosmetics and tea.
Osho World also organises meditation camps. One such camp will be held at Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh from June 21-24.

Then there is Osho Rajyoga centre at Safdarjung Development Area and Osho Dham, a little outside Delhi. Meditation techniques like the Dynamic Kundalini are held every morning and evening at the Safdarjung centre. At Osho Dham, meditation camps are held every weekend and Osho’s videotapes are also shown.
So go ahead and experience Osho through his meditations. A journey that begins with the one fundamental burning question: Who am I?

- Rahul Pandita

see original in the internet: www.delhi123.com

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