Swami Detective // May 7, 2010 at 2:34 am

This is an interesting quote….Mystery school is alive only when the master is in the body.. When the enlighetened master is not there what can be provided is just the space where people can go , meditate and relate to fellow travellers.. How a dynamic mystery school can thrive without the Master in the same way it did when he was alive? You need Him to keep it alive [End quote]

Most people think that is what is happening at Pune resort, especially because it is no longer called an ashram and has fancy new facilities. Most people also think the publishing wing (OIF) is sharing accessible books about Osho too. Yet we see that there is a systematic misreperentation of his words. It is not just cutting out stuff to do with anything that may be conceived as distasteful devotional mumbo jumbo. It is also not just about propagating the general notion of devotional free ‘zen’ either.

Most interesting is Jayesh’s very own personal relevant view….He asks in this understanding that where Osho is used – be it in the name of a meditation center, a publication, a therapist’s title, or in any other context –that people coming find Him, His understanding, His proposal with all 24 karats. That nothing associated with Osho cause confusion to others coming about the essential direction of their path – particularly to His new people. [End quote]

If you have a look at the examples of systematic deletions from Osho texts (at the bottom of the last article), how can one maintain that 24 karat purity has been maintained. It is not even gold painted. It is fools gold!

Here is the next relevant view from Jayesh….He [Osho] shares that many of His people who were with Him in the body would not make the jump from the presence of the master in the body to the absence of the master in the body. That for the mind of many, the gap created would be too deep and too wide. That in the mystery of existence, they would not understand that they had received from existence exactly what was required of the Master’s bodily presence. And that in this pain of the mind they would travel the world sitting at the feet of every idiot – Osho’s words. Clear, accepting and compassionate.

He also says that His new people, who would be coming after He left the body, would not have the need of His physical presence – again in the mystery of existence, if they had that need they would have come earlier. He says existence calls people to the work of an enlightened One at exactly the right moment. That because of countless generations of religions and priests, we are conditioned that we need the other and as a result we give the other our responsibility. That his new people coming would be very fragile in their potential to be totally responsible and be courageous enough to walk alone, feeling the presence of the Master without the need of His body….

….perhaps you are not available now to His message to us all – present and future – that without the burden of His tortured body His presence will be more available to His people. [End quote]

So if you read a fancy advert in some New Age magazine in the West (or East), you probably would come to Pune resort thinking that it was a nice modern cult free space to meditate and hang out with fellow seekers. Well Jayesh has other ideas!

Kranti expresses a view that the living Master is extremely important, even essential. We can do some quote bashing on the subject but will that get anywhere? I would argue that it can reach a conclusion. At the end of his life Osho made it absolutely clear that there was to be NO spiritual successor. He did leave a group called the Inner-Circle. He however made it absolutely clear that this body was not a substitute for a spiritual successor, and that this group was to administer his practical affairs.

At one stage Jayesh (Chair of the Inner-Circle) was having some disobedience trouble with people visiting other living Masters (fake or otherwise). So Jayesh shuts this down by introducing his take on what Osho means to him (now that Osho has left the body). This is Jayesh’s own interpretation of Osho. As Chairman of the Inner-Circle he has a practical limitation to his mandate. Yet, he ignores this.

Here is the end of the letter from Jayesh that I have quoted….

With love to you,

Swami Anand Jayesh, Chairman,

On behalf of the Inner Circle.
[End quote]

You see it is Jayesh, as Chair of the Inner Circle, which has a practical mandate, who imposes his personal views of Osho on the entire movement (and others that become interested).

Kranti offers a quote that expresses an idea that Jayesh also likes very much, that of individual awareness. The trouble with this quote is that it focuses so much on this concept that it diminishes the importance of the Master, so much so that in the end Osho says that once the Master has gone, everything worthwhile has finished. (Remember that Osho left NO successor!)

The system that has been adopted for editing and compilation is such that the inclination would be in this instance to keep the first part of the quote, and then delete the last part. Then, when you put it all together, you get a non-devotional ‘zen’ impression of Osho, yet you still get to keep the Master (even now that he is dead). You see the last part of the quote actually completely discredits everything done after 19th Jan, 1990. That is why it should be deleted. Actually that is not entirely true. It discredits everything that seeks to create the impression of an Osho sannyassin as having spiritual authority (and spiritual superiority).

The simple fact of the matter is that Osho left a straightforward non-controversial road map. With no spiritual successor, the only scope is to protect and make available his legacy. There can be no interpretation or argument, even at the highest levels. The reason is because the highest level was a practical managerial administration (the Inner-Circle). If you understand the simple truth of being in the Inner-Circle, who would want the job anyway. It is simply to protect his property, make available his meditations, therapires, discourses, and publications, all with the aim of 24 karat purity. Jayesh is right about the 24 karat purity part. It is why anything other than editing for simple grammatical mistakes is not possible. Yet, vast editing and deletion and creation has been done.

Who would want to be in the Inner-Circle? Well just after Osho left the body Amrito (vice-chair) said that in White-Robe the following night he would explain the functioning of the Inner-Circle. Explain what, that you had just been given a boring practical job. Ah no, some people in the Inner-Circle were great devotees and disciples of Osho. They had imbibed the spirit of Osho for decades and were now saintly beings. So the secret that the work of the Inner-Circle is an entirely boring affair was kept a secret. This is the secret. The secret is already out, it is just that you have forgotten.

Then Jayesh and Amrito kicked everyone else out, and see the result. What do you think of Jayesh’s very own personal views about Osho. He is imparting his spiritual views on the Osho movement. He likes flash things hence you get either 5 stars or nothing, but he also likes to be the chief disciple of a Master that though dead, is still very much alive. Did you know that? Did you find that out when you read the latest Yoga journal or when you read the latest Osho texts that are subject to systematic deletion and editing?

What about when you make the journey to the Pune resort? Even then you will not have a clue. You will either have to visit the German Bakery, oops you can’t do that because it has been blown up. Oh well maybe ask a dissident, oops you can’t do that because they have all been banned or left Pune through issuing of threats and violence.

Hmmm, where is Jayesh?

Well, he is a busy finance guru and only works behind the scenes to make available a nice space for people to meditate and meet. You see, it is because he is humble and has no ego, unlike Keerti and Rajneesh and others.

Right so he has no spiritual interpretation of Osho that he secretly has imparted to me through the book I read?

Nahh, not at all.

Right, so the resort looks innocent enough, but actually the background is that the people higher up in management have a spiritual interpretation of Osho that fits with Jayesh’s, and they are also answerable to Jayesh?

Nahh, they are just individual meditators who have lived here in this closed world for decades and have no cultish bias.

Great, can I get a job?

Sure, by the way, what is your belief system? And have a drink of the contaminated drinking water. Oh, yeah and that explosion you heard, I think it was nothing. Hey lets go to the party!

Hey who is that guy he just slipped over the fence.

Ahhh, that was nobody, it was just your projection. You will learn in time.

Swami Detective // Apr 28, 2010 at 12:22 am

Interview in the case of Swami Detective versus Jailesh, Armedrito, Dhynamite, I’l Drag You Outta White-Robe With My Hand Over Your Mouth Yogendra, Mookuss, and Gang.

The Osho dissidents were planning a mass rally on the 19th January.

On SannyasNews we have Keerti saying that he heard that many Westerners had planned a mass gathering. He also sounded like he might round up a few locals too, and have a little combined street dance party. Abhay also was planning a book release of his compilation of recent SannyasNews gossip, with the location likely to be outside the resorts front gate. Sounds like quite a scrum pack.

So it looks like there might have been a bit of a party planned for the 19th January. Anyone at the resort feel threatened by this? Nah, you guys never heard about it, and you don’t have anyone that keeps tabs on SannyasNews.

Now I am well aware that you planned nothing in the face of the threat of terrorism. But what about this Osho death celebration anniversary. It looks to me like it could turn into a revolution. You didn’t much like Abhay at the front gate with a detailed Water Contamination Report that anyhow isn’t that much of an attention grabber. Of course you created the attention by trying to bash him up. That was not very intelligent on your side. Think it attracted any attention? Now Abhay might have a book that has much more content and is quite catchy. It is also contains much of the ugly truth of what has been going on at the resort.

We have the potential for a mass gathering of dissident Westerners, and also it looks like Keerti might be mustering the troops for battle too.

Interview Question 1: Did you guys plan anything in response to this potential threat on the anniversary of Osho’s death? I know you would have heard about it. What did you do? Any special meetings? Any general strategic, or perhaps tactical responses planned? Did you inform your friends at Pune police cop shop? Try and spin a few lies and get them on your side (that is the ones that aren’t already)?

Now I have not heard of any mass gathering actually happening in opposition to the resort. Did it happen and the media missed it? Did it happen and it was just Keerti and Abhay? Losers! Where was Swami Rajneesh? So if nothing happened, I suppose your plan gets wasted doesn’t it?

Interview Question 2: What did you guys plan in response to a possible mass gathering of opposition supports on the anniversary of Osho’s death (sorry, losing the body)? Did you hire a few more guards for the front gate? Did you by any material to fortify the resort entrance for example?

I suppose if something did transpire you would be holed up in the resort. That doesn’t sound like much fun.

So Jayesh and Mukhesh both were holed up in hotel rooms in the recent Mumbai siege. I suppose that would not have been much fun either. That makes me wonder, why, with senior managers already having a real life terrorist encounter, did the resort then not seem to respond to the threat of terrorism (late last year), and the actual terrorist bombing of the German Bakery?

Doesn’t Jayesh and Mukhesh have much say in what goes on there these days? Seems a little odd to me. After what they went through, I would have thought that they would have done the utmost in this regard. Of course Jayesh must have some say there. He got Sudheer to ban the guy who tried to inform the party goers that night what happened just down the road at the local bakery (dissident hang-out). This is very strange, of course just to me, and I am a wacko.

Interview Question 3: Did Jayesh or Mukhesh have any flashbacks to the Mumbai siege when they heard about the planned opposition rally for Osho’s losing the body anniversary?

I have heard from a resort insider that Keerti is a terrorist. He even made a kidnapping attempt on Amrito, but fortunately the Pune cops were called in, and Amrito was saved. I have also heard that Abhay is a violent and dangerous person.

I know you folks from OIF, the Inner-Circle, and Pune resort are all saintly beings deeply devoted to Him. And I know all the opposition supports are bad bad people. I suppose this planned mass rally may have looked pretty threatening? Sounds to me like there could have been a major civil unrest incident in Koregaon Park.

Interview Question 4: What did Pune resort management do in response to the planned mass rally by opposition supporters?

Interview Question 5: Anything left over that didn’t get used?

You might be surprised to know, but I know a little about how business works on the street. When you hire someone it is often times difficult to get them off the books. They keep coming back wanting more money and offering more services. (I read that in a book). I also read about Abhay being threatened on a number of occasions around Koregaon Park. Could have got pretty nasty.

In one such incident there is a fairly obvious case of likely collusion with Dhyanesh (the one involving the ‘rooms for hire’ rickshaw wallahs that hang out at the German Bakery). Also, as Abhay has stated, the second attack on him looked planned. So it would seem the folks at the resort can plan an attack on one of these annoying dissidents. The attack was also executed to some extent, but I reckon you coulda dun a bedda job!

Interview Question 6: It looks to me like the guy with the knife that approached Abhay (on a narrow path in an isolated part of the Osho Teerth park) was part of the show. If that is the case, I am just wondering, was he planning to use the knife, but Abhay saw him just in time? Was it just a meant as little friendly threat amongst fellow Osho devotees of Him? You know, just like Freschee reckons, a bit of psycho pillow pampering?

I know where Abhay was approached by the guy with a knife. I have gone through that location in my mind. Do ya know what? If I planned someone like this, of all the places in Koregaon Park, I would have chosen the Osho Teerth park. Do you wanna know what else? Of all the possible places in the park, I would have chosen precisely that little area. Maybe someone is thinking clearly.

It seems the resort management does plan things, even things that have the potential to quickly escalate into serious and possibly lethal violence. So it would seem that you great Zen devotees of Him do not just live in the moment. Maybe ya all aren’t real devotees of Him?

Interview Question 7: Did you keep any additional security guards on the books? I know it’s hard to get rid of them, they are like leaches.

Interview Question 8: Did anything happen the night of the 13th February, such that when it did you had one of those ahhhh moments, and new straight away what it was?

Interview Terminated

Swami Detective // Apr 26, 2010 at 10:53 am

Here it is, twenty years of throwing tanties is gonna be solved in a monsoon long group at the Osho Resort in Pune. The Chairmen Mao inspired compulsory de-education group, called Anti Tanti Neo Nanno Osho Hanky Panky shall primarily be conducted in a cloud of total secrecy in the third basement of the Auditorium by none other than Black Robber Fresch as a Truolip, with the aid of ground-cutting insight from Hapless Helper Krackpot Kranti.

Breakfast:
Miso soup made from freshly contaminated drinking water, complete with oversized glowing green insects from the resorts very own organic farm.

Please note that someone has stolen the ownership rights of the farm from the Pune resort, and so therefore the organic insects cannot be guaranteed to actually be organic. Check Osho.com for further details.

To wash down your miso soup there will be an endless supply of top-shelf spirits, complete with ice from the resorts very own contaminated drinking water.

Morning Therapy:
Encounter of the Rugby (Football) Scrum-packs. For the “orange-shirts” we have Keerti and Swami Rajneesh as front-row forwards, and Neelam as hooker. The rest of the pack will be made up of everyone from Viha and Boulder that has not changed sides by the start of the encounter. Of course you are free to change sides once you pack in for the scrum.

For the “maroon-shirts” we have of course Dhyanesh and Jailesh as front-row forwards, and Amrito as hooker. The rest of the pack is of course a secret because it will comprise the unknown number of anonymous current Inner-Circle members.

I have yet to work out which side Abhay is on, so will have to get back to you on that one.
Tomorrow night during White-Robe I will announce the detailed functioning of the event. Please note that this may change if I get a directive from Jailesh to shut up.

Lunch: Same as breakfast, but with more alcohol.

Afternoon Therapy:
Tantra for the Tanties. Please note that for this exercise you can still wear your orange or maroon shirts, but, as you will find out, there is no need for excessively burdensome undergarments or chastity belts. If you would like to go deeper with your soul-mate she/he is also welcome to join in the affairs.

If your beloved chooses not to participate, let me here take the special opportunity to assure him/her that your purity of spirit shall not be compromised in any way.

All exercises shall be carried out in the sewer….oops, mountain stream that runs through the resort. Warning: Do get totally carried away with the Tantie Tantra exercises because this aids the process of toxic sludge….oops, Himalayan minerals seeping into the underground water table. From there the delicious mix of Himalayan minerals goes straight into your miso soup. You will then find the miso soup much more filling.

Actually I just have word from Doc Amrito that what I previously said about him announcing detailed functioning in White-Robe tomorrow night actually never happened. You got it, the details have been dehypnotised from my memory, and you can no longer read what I previously wrote on the subject (as you have also just been dehypnotised).

For the next twenty years or till the start of the monsoon (whichever comes sooner), there will be no further comment, not even to comment that I did comment and then deleted the comment, or even to comment that that may also have been a comment. Oops I better shut up else Jailesh will be giving me a few comments of his own. Please note that that was not actually a comment, it was rather, a mild indiscretion, based on a rare crack in my powerful field of awareness. Ahh that’s better, I have just re-tuned in to Planet Osho’s vibe.

Dinner: Same as lunch except with more alcohol.

From dinner we will go on a pub-crawl that alternates between the Blue Diamond and the O-hotel, until we either pass out or it is time for brekky.

Finally, the group shall end when the last of the mango rains has complete flooded all the neighbouring residential estates because the sewer….ooops, mountain stream has been blocked by an unusual combination of foreign particulate matter and Tantric Tantie participants.

Swami Detective // Apr 26, 2010 at 1:21 am

If I have an issue with the Pune resort, they say it has nothing to do with them, and direct me to OIF. OIF politely replies and says it is nothing to do with them, ask the Pune resort.

Get this though, if I get in a bit of a scrap with OIF, then all of a sudden I am banned from the Pune resort. Keep in mind that the Pune ‘resort’ is the central hub of the Osho movement. You become known as an outsider or and outcast, and so you have to go off and find new friends. Maybe those friends are nastier than the ones you were not permitted to connect with.

If you think that is pretty convoluted, just wait, cause theirs more. OIF fraudently trademarks everything imaginable to do with Osho by omitting the fact that he is not just a made up name like “Coca-Cola”, but a real famous historic spiritual figure. Of course when the trademark ruling went against OIF, we had Sadhana (the resort spokesperson) blasting the US ruling. She said that they were treating ‘Osho’ as if it was a name like “Coca-Cola”. It is precisely because ‘Osho’ is not something like “Coca-Cola” that the ruling went against OIF. It is precisely because OIF made the presentation that ‘Osho’ was a name like “Coca-Cola” that it received the trademarks. Talk about cultish screwed up mentality!

OIF needed to demonstrate that it had ‘control’ over all the ‘legitimate’ Osho centres in order to progress in its legal monopolisation. So it simply stated, and under oath, that it had ‘control’. Then, once it gained legal standing (with multiple trademarks for example), it sent out legal contracts for all the Osho centres to sign, such that once they signed this letter, OIF effectively had ‘control’. So then if I ask OIF, hey you guys have the copyrights and trademarks for Osho, but do you have control of the centres. OIF will say yup we sure do, and here is the legal documentation to prove it. Talk about a cultish screwed up mentality!

The vision of Osho as unfolding under the guidance of Jailesh and Amrito is for all to see at the Pune resort. A key element in the platform is a no-nonsense Zen style approach that seeks to weed out devotional elements that could lead to the formation of a religion. Yet numero uno Jailesh holds a deeply devotional view of Osho. He reckons that even people that have never met Osho can get fully in touch with Osho (the being), and need no help from all the fake gurus and priests (and I suppose mental health professionals too). At the core of his belief system is a deeply (if not extreme) devotional position. What about all the other people like Vatayana and others who have worked tirelessly day and night for the last two decades. Would you not call them great devotees? Talk about a cultish screwed up mentality!

What about the monsoon when all the water stations were closed because the drinking water contamination problem was first recognised? I know, lets do nothing and wait until the end of the monsoon such that then the drinking water stations will come clean anyway. Once the rains have stopped the micro-biologist does her tests….hey look, the drinking water stations are all clean. Wow, the problem has been fixed, and it cost us nothing.

Hey but what about that annoying engineer that first identified the problem and forced us to shut down all the water stations for weeks on end. I know, let’s make up a bunch of nasty lies, and then kick him out. But what if he responds? Ah no, he is just a dumb gardener, and anyhow why would he respond, he is always in silence.

Next monsoon the drinking water contamination was worse then the last time. Gee, lucky that damn engineer didn’t come till after the monsoon. Still he looks like trouble, and he just wrote a damn report that Amrito received (and in general agreed with). Also he started this DDOS campaign. I know, let’s threaten him. Ooops, that only made him send more DDOS’s.

And now, here he is at the Pune resort front gate with a water contamination report. I know let’s get Dhyanesh and the security team to bash him up. Damn he’s still here, and even though we continue to threaten him with the security team, and with our other friends outside the resort. Let’s try and bash him up again. After the second bash up attempt the engineer in a dazed state wanders into the Osho garden, only to be met by a guy with a knife.

The engineer is in a bit of shock after the clash at the front gate, and so only notices the guy with the knife just a metre or so in front of him, along a narrow isolated section of the garden. The blade is open, but not fully. The engineer stops abruptly and says…hey what’s this (pointing to the knife). The guy says, oh, and closes the blade. He than says he was just oiling it.

Wad da ya reckon Freschee? That engineer should do a bid of pillow bashing don’t ya dink? Yup he is a loser! Good that they banned him! Shoulda dun a bedder job of bashen im up I reckon. Makes all the other banned sannyassins want to come to Pune and go for a walk in the park doesn’t it! Seen or heard any signs lately? Nahh, the place is just like heaven, and hugs and kisses all round.

News was coming in thick and fast last year about the threat of Islamic terrorism. The resort touts that all is well, and come all yee faithful. Yet when the German Bakery was blown up what did the resort do? Well, everyone (other than Dhyanesh and Jayesh) meditated for an hour or more, and then it was decided that the best thing to do is throw a party! When Dhyanesh and Jayesh were asked where they were during all this, Osho beamed in a message to Amrito to tell everyone it was a special Inner-Circle secret. No comment! Yet, come all yee faithful! And come they shall say’s Sadhana cause they love Osho. Huhh, you kicked out all the Osho lovers a long time ago! Of course all the cult leaders and followers are still jostling for positions.

Sheela and Gang Orange people Cult™

Jayesh and Gang Maroon people Cult™

Swami Detective // Apr 22, 2010 at 1:20 am

You would never catch me anywhere near Koregaon Park and the Osho Resort. So it is no personal loss to me if the continuing problems worsen. It is a deep irony that the people that are trying to shut down the voice of truth and social justice shall be the ones to be exposed to possible suffering. There is no chance that I will be consuming volumes of tap water during a neo-Wow event. There is no chance that I will have my legs pulverised and scattered to the far corners of the resort by a bomb.

Yes it is like moths too the flame. This is unfortunate but it is difficult when a mule is also blind. What gets me is those that flock to the flame because they are convinced by the media and the believers that it is actually a diamond they are heading towards. Yes the stubborn and thick skinned have to learn the hard way. (I have no expectation whatsoever that some people commenting on this site will get this, but here I am refering to Fresch, Kranti, Shantam, and many others). I just do not think that it is fair that innocent people suffer. That is what really gets to me, even more than the ignorant minds of the flock. Of course the source of this harm is another issue.

Swami Detective // Apr 20, 2010 at 9:24 am

(Editorial Context) OK OK, just to please SannyasNews, appease Freschee, and confuse Mr Smartyn, I will follow strict Osho protocol and give comment only within the guidelines of the lead article.

The resort looks the antithesis of a closed religious society, such as the deeply floored one imagined by Elizabeth Day. Anyone can enter the gateless gate, though a few extra dollars in the pocket make it easier. Anyhow the pricing structure and resort model discourage people lingering too long and creating the problems of closed social structures that may become alienated from the outside world. The removal of obvious religious markings and the creation of modern resort-like facilities give the impression that there is a now a seamless blend with the outside world. All this too created by the visionaries Jayesh, Amrito, and others in the Inner-Circle and in resort management.

How long has Dhyanesh lived in his space in Krishna House. The man has only lived and breathed Osho since he finished Law school. When he went for a trip to visit his beloved in London he didn’t like it and wanted to come home straight away. The beloved is not important. What is important is to stand at the top of the auditorium stairs (the pulpit) before White-Robe, and to be someone special. And not just an ordinary person of prestige, but a person with religious prestige. Just listen to Sadhana talk. She is absolutely unable to string a single sentence together that is not a dull repetition of Osho. Have you had the opportunity to see how Jayesh manages the place. His language in managing the day to day affairs is infused with a spiritual gloss. His approach is laced with spiritual connotations. How many years has Amrito been living in the little room adjacent to Osho’s original bed-room? These people live and breath Osho. What is their connection to, and view of, the outside world?

Are you aware of the writings of people like Prem Abhay and Swami Rajneesh. What if what is said about food hygiene and water sanitation, of ugly political and financial scheming, and of violence and assault, is the case. Would that surprise you? Would you just say that well it is India after all so yes I did expect such things.

If you have followed the discussion about the terrorist threat and Bakery bombing it would also appear that management is indeed severely wanting. Is it really the case? Well the water is a tough one and you cannot read the microbial test results so who knows, Abhay is probably a dangerous nutter like they say. So likely is Swami Rajneesh, and many others. (In the least they probably needs therapy, right Freschee?) Yet with this terrorist stuff the facts are not old and do not lie hidden. Of course a reasonable number of Osho sannyasins will have their blinkers on, but plenty will not. And plenty of people who aren’t conditioned by Osho ideology will also not be secretly bidding for anything Osho.

It all really makes me wonder about this new revamped worldly Osho movement created by Jayesh and the like. How’s about I find out about what is really going on by asking a few questions and asking around. Oh, no one will give me any straight answers, and the general community appears scared to get involved in any discussion. Oh, the management of the resort have a secretive no comment style of operating. This is all very strange. I thought they were very worldly. I thought OshoWorld and the like were the extremist devotees, and Jayesh and crowd were part of the worldly way of integration. This seems to not make much sense.

When I look at it, it appears that at a senior level of functioning, the management of the resort (including OIF and the Inner-Circle) is deeply devotional despite removing a lot of the obvious physical markings at the resort, and are not particularly involved with the outside world. Yes all the old sannyasins probably can only afford to come for a few weeks, as with new seekers. Yet the little clique at the top of the power structure does not live accordingly. Sure Osho did set up a structure that had a management that stayed longer term, with others coming and going and thus integrating with the world. Over the first ten years of Osho leaving the body this management went through a civil war of sorts. The outcome of it is that almost all the original Inner-Circle members are now refugees. So, is the new Osho elite fulfilling Osho’s requirement to act as care-takers of functional managerial positions? I can only hope so, I can enjoy wondering, I can think it unlikely from what I have seen, but how can I find out for sure?

I really need to be again convinced that resort management and the Inner-Circle are who they claim to be. They are interesting in a model of living that encourages worldly integration. There can and will be communes of all types of persuasions. They will have their benefits and their problems.

If the managerial elite of the resort model of Osho are actually living a closed communal life, and if they are actually seriously dysfunctional, extremist religious devotees, than I wonder two things. I wonder what they will do next, and I wonder about the effects on people of worldly persuasion that come and go.

In a closed communal life there is the possibility of implosion (mass suicide for example) or eventual explosion with the outside world. This latter possibility was what Sheela was creating at The Ranch. However the idea of the primary focus being coming and going from a spiritual centre is a new creation. It has the possibility of a different outcome. If such a model continues to operate and if it is seriously dysfunctional, then it will be like a cancer that grows and lives in a closed cyst-like environment, but also spreads surreptitiously and extensively. Healthy people will come for a few weeks, and take the disease back with them and spread it to their worldly friends. If more dysfunctional resorts spring up than the situation can become very serious indeed. So I would say we are looking at something new here, growing out of the problems that can be created from something old (the closed communal life).

The result would be almost unnoticeable at first, especially if you are of the view like Shantam (for example), that at a practical managerial level all is well at the resort. The clue is indeed whether or not they are performing their duties. The pointer is that some people say they are not, these people appear to be rational human beings, and other factors are pointing the same way. The critical point is that the organisation functions in a veil of total secrecy, and that it defends this secrecy with an aura of arrogance and superiority. This all points to the possibility of a very serious cancer, and if it is the case, under the new model, the cancer will (and has already) spread.

Under the new model it is that you will not notice so much the spread because it will be dispersed. Yet though it will at first be light it will make up for this it its reach. In a way, the new model has the potential to be more threatening and dangerous for society. With signs that the nub of religious power at OIF, the Inner-Circle, and the resort seemingly out of kilter, I would say there may be a problem here. If there is a bulbous cancer already, then it also be already spread. If it continues to grow, and if it continues to create other nodes, then we may have a big problem here. This is why I say that firstly a clear medical assessment be done, and second a clear model be put in place that addresses the underlying issue of corruption of religious power. It is of course the same old problem from the commune model.

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Swami Detective // Apr 17, 2010 at 11:26 pm

Shantam Star here is the answer to you question of few tips for bolstering the much needed resort security. I have heard the Jayesh was personally supervising the revamping of the sport and recreational area. Perhaps Freschee is referring to Amrito also being personally involved with this construction project.

In the months prior to this, very serious security information regarding a possible terrorist threat was passed on to resort management. I am assuming the correspondence between the Pune police and resort management included the following. It included information about David Headley, a man who has now pleaded guilty to the surveillance part of the Mumbai siege and massacre. He had also visited the Osho resort a number of times in recent years. It was also reported that a video of the Osho resort was shown to a Karachi based cell of militants.

So here is the startling answer to your question. If the physical border of the resort is primarily low or poorly fenced, then fix it! It need not require anything other than a little common sense. Hang on a second, that would be a construction project, and that would do three things. It would firstly be a considerable financial investment. Secondly it would provide no direct return on investment. Finally, it would reduce the risk of harm to resort visitors. Does this ring any bells with the unwillingness to invest anything into improving the state of the water treatment systems?

Freschee, when you have you cuppa with your beloved Doc, could you please ask him about the decision making process in prioritising alternative choices for competing projects.
Shantam Star, you have stubbornly conceded at least that the threat of terrorism is still current. I would say the factors in place that attracted this threat are still on there course, and so the threat is still increasing.

Do you think that there will be any improvement in the physical integrity of the resorts perimeter any time soon?

Yes maybe if enough people have common sense and read information like on SannyasNews such that the management will feel sufficient pressure to force a little change. Then what happens? Simply a reverting back to the old ways again. A constant and tiring battle. On top of that we not only have the right wing materialistic fascists that are actually engaging in a seriously questionable strategic direction. We also have a collective of left wing communists that are willing to ignore the fundamental problems because they want to project the good image of their beloved Master. So funny that Osho himself likely intentionally created much of his unpopular façade. So funny it is that after he is gone the collective is engaged in protecting him by covering up the criminality within the current movement.

Is there anything in between the two extremes? I am starting to wonder.

It is possible to ignore the water through different rationalizations. I did not think it possible, but the Osho movement has proved me wrong. You can ignore many other things, but this threat of terrorism is one that simply cannot be ignored. That is why Shantam Star asked me for a few tips. It is too big and obvious. It simply cannot be ignored. My reasoning is the horrific outcome of a major terrorist attack. Surely such a grave outcome could not be ignored. As well, the investigators would surely scrutinize the resort in the utmost detail if an attack actually occurred. Still it seems I am being proved wrong.

Swami Detective // Apr 13, 2010 at 6:48 pm

If anyone would like an amoeba free refreshment may I suggest going to Abhay’s site:

http://alivezen.blogspot.com/

In “Osho Pune News” you may find much that has been swept under the carpet of NOISE.
The little flier that Shantam referred to is called “Water Contamination Report”.
May I also suggest, among others:

“Report to Police: Assault 1”

“Report to Police: Assault 2”

From my reading of the situation Abhay was near the front gate for an extremely short time before Dhyanesh reacted. It just shows how quickly the management can react. If Abhay was an idiot with a meaningless flier, then the reaction would not have been so swift or so strong. Could not the resort humour a little harmless criticism from a disgruntled banned sannyasin?

Now if I reflect on the night of the Bakery bombing, where was the rapid response. Surely this was a more serious threat then a banned sannyasin handing out some promotional literature critical of the regime. Oh yeah Dhyanesh can react. Did you read the bit about him running down the road alongside his security compatriot who was threatening Abhay with a broom. It makes for a great scene. Yet it just shows. Dhyanesh can be at the front-gate in a flash, co-ordinating his guards to do this and that. At a moments notice a security guard has grabbed a sweeping ladies broom, and they are all off down the road chasing Abhay away. It is so funny.

So what about after the Bakery blast. Did Dhyanesh go to the front gate, and forgot to discuss the issue in detail with the guards? Did he notify the guards at the back-gate and at the back of the auditorium/hotel? Did he forget to take his phone or his pager? Did he forget to tell the security guard at main gate that the he had changed his number? Did he go off at a run, or at least a trot. Did he perhaps take his tiffin and tucked into a night-cap on his way to see the Sannai guard. I have heard he did at some stage make it to the German Bakery.

Still the most startling question arises, why when faced with something so trivial as the banned sannyassin with a flier did he react so swiftly, and then faced with the very real possibility of a terrorist bombing did he seemingly do nothing, or at least very little. What that banned sannyasin knew about the resort was a very real threat. OK, so the swift reaction makes sense on this count. Was it that the resort did not consider the incident at the German Bakery a very real threat? I have previously explained why the idea of a gas cylinder explosion does not cut it. So why no clear response? It seems it was not absolutely clear that there may well be more tragic events like the Bakery bombing that evening? Why was this so?

PS How the heck can someone determine that I have an otherwise sharp and analytical brain when they have a brain of spungy toxic sludge.

PPS The toxic sludge comes from the bottom of the sewer that flows both past the resort, and down into its water table.

Swami Detective // Apr 12, 2010 at 5:13 pm

There have been some serious questions raised about some senior Osho figures. It stems back from the last day of your chance to imbibe the presence of the living Master Osho. A pledge from Amrito to explain the workings of the Inner-Circle. And from that day onwards not a word, other than to say that it was Osho’s wish to work in secret. For twenty years now this deep inconsistency remains, yet life goes on. People forget, people move on, people ignore, what else to do? Mind is mind.

The trademark issue and editing and copyright tyranny are deeply disturbing, as is the water issue. If being internally terrorized was not enough of course now there is the face of terrorism from other shores to deal with. Yet again there remains deep and wanting questions. When did people like the Chair of the Inner-Circle and the head of security find out about the Bakery incident. What did they then do? These questions need answering, yet no answer comes. To finish off we have people like Shantam trying to condemn the very asking of these questions.

If there is nothing to hide, why the lack of response. Has shyness set in? Or are they wrestling with the emerging emotions of a dictator? You seem to imply that pointing out these glaring omissions and asking for answers is brutal. In a way yes your words that seek to shut down the raising of the unanswered is brutal. What is it then to not bother fixing the drinking water, and in India. Sure I would not have expected them to have the system as good as the façade that appears in their precious image. But I would have at least expected them to buy a few filters, and fix a few problems that were not too expensive. I know most of the money is needed to build new and wonderful parts of the resort, and for the global expansion initiative.

It has troubled me deeply understanding the motivation for allowing things like the water to go unanswered. Going so far as to even physically attack the person that has tried to point out this terrible erring. And now we seem to have it that the management exposed visitors to the possibility of terrorism that unfortunate night. I think the leadership share your spiritual superiority trip. It is just that you are on the extreme left and they are on the extreme right. Their vision of Osho is to attract all levels of spiritual evolution. All are welcome, even the deeply unconscious. They will also arrive, just a few life times later on. Their physical bodies are in a flux, and will come and go. It does not matter if injury comes to them, or even if they leave the body, for this will happen anyway. It is part of the journey. I am suspicious that this is part of the mentality of management. What are the motives of a psychopath? Perhaps we should ask Sheela to comment here, since not hearing from management since conception some twenty years ago.

Swami Detective // Apr 12, 2010 at 8:19 am

I argue that the resort management was (at least) guilty of negligence. Of course no harm came to any resort guests the night of the Bakery bombing. Hence the “harm requirement” for compensation is not met, and so no one is entitled to damages (unless a person suffered considerable emotional distress). Just because no actual harm was done does not mean that there was no breach of duty or that there was no negligence. I still argue from the information I have that there was a breach of duty and a case of negligence. If I do not get hurt then I cannot sue for negligence, but that does not mean there was no negligence in the exposure to potential harm.

If Pune resort supplies guests with drinking water, it has to by law ensure that this water is completely clean. If the water is not completely clean then the resort has breached the law. In the same way the Pune resort has a legal duty of care. If the resort has acted in a negligent manner then it has breached this legal requirement. Fortunately the resort was not victim to a terrorist attack that night. I can not say that the people who have consumed the resort’s water faired so well. In any case there is a legal breach on both counts. It is in my opinion two cases of negligence.

The Pune police have booked 30 establishments for not following the recently issued terrorism safety guidelines. This is a breach under section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (disobedience to duly promulgated orders from authorities). I do not know what was in the safety guidelines, but I find it hard to view the resorts inaction that night anything other than clear evidence of a failure to comply. To have had these guidelines issued is itself implying a general requirement to be vigilant with respect to terrorism. It raises the bar of what would be expected of the relevant parties to ensure the safety of people from the threat of terrorism.

Swami Detective // Apr 11, 2010 at 9:52 pm

Shantam you have your idealised dream of the old Osho ashram. It is your precious and most dear possession. Yes Jayesh and Amrito have taken it over, but you want it back. Anything that looks like a threat to your precious image you have to attack or ignore. You try to discard the very real threat of terrorism with emotionally waged ignorance. You also have previously expressed the position that the lowly physical body is of no importance. It does not matter if people get very sick (maybe even if a few die) from drinking contaminated water. It does not matter if people are at risk of the horrors of terrorism. None of this is important. Your idiotic image of the old Osho ashram has to be protected at all costs. Such worldly issues are far below the spiritual heights of you and your retarded view of Osho. Your position is no different from the position of the current management. You are just as insane. They also have an idealised image. Their image is of a zen-style Osho resort. They are also willing to forgo the health and well-being of their clientele. This explains much about why the current situation is stuck. At the centre of it appears to be polarisation of two insane opposites. It is the religious extreme left versus the religious extreme right. I can only hope that OshoWorld and OFI and others do not in general have the same warped and dangerous mentality as you. It does make me wonder though.

Swami Detective // Apr 11, 2010 at 7:13 pm

WHY DID (DO) RESORT MANAGEMENT HAVE VISITORS DRINKING CONTAMINATED DRINKING WATER DURING THE MONSOON? WHY DID THEY DO THIS WHEN THEY KNEW (KNOW) THAT IT WOULD MAKE PEOPLE SICK? TO ALLEVIATE THE PROBLEM WOULD HAVE COST WHAT, A FEW FILTERS! UTTER INSANITY!

WHY DID RESORT MANAGEMENT EXPOSE VISITORS AT THE RESORT TO THE RISK OF A TERRORIST ATTACK THE EVENING OF THE BAKERY BLAST? WHAT WAS DONE TO PROTECT WHITE ROBE PARTICIPANTS, NOTHING. UTTER INSANITY!

Swami Detective // Apr 11, 2010 at 6:56 pm

Your flowery metaphors are part of a repetitive pattern not a striking of elements in a flight into the unknown.

You have previously made the same comment with respect to water. You assume that everything was and is fine with the water. What is this based on? Is it based on your like of Jayesh and Amrito?

Both comments show that you are capable of forming and holding onto a belief when there is not only no reason to form such a belief, but significant reason to view such a belief as false.

YOU ARE A FOOL!

Swami Detective // Apr 7, 2010 at 12:31 am

Lovely article Khabira. Beautiful article Khabira. Superb, super, wow!

So you have conditioned your mind into the view that going on a psychological mind trip is a valuable exercise. If you do not use your mind your IQ will go down and therefore you will behave in harmful ways. This is another conditioning and it is an utter lie. I know many simple people that have the most beautiful minds. I know many highly intellectually people that have the most cunning and dangerous minds. Disidentification is routinely stated as the aim of the buddhas. You just found that one out at uni did you? Acceptance of where you are on the path is another striking realisation! You forgot to mention that a balance need be struck between acceptance and the rebellious fire of the seeker, else apathy set in.

Vigyano, your partner would have been outside the main gate of the resort let me guess say 15 minutes after the blast. I assume your partner never saw Dhyanesh up until the point that you arrived at main gate. Also, it seems that at this time main gate security informed you that Dhyanesh was responding to a call from Sannai guard. I take from this that Dhyanesh did indeed leave the resort shortly after the blast. So what was he doing all this time?

I also do not understand why the Taiwanese national and a severely injured person was left aside and the police were just picking up body parts, such that you had to try and get a vehicle to take them to hospital?

A third point is that if the Sannai guard contacted Dhyanesh, then what, did he call Dhyanesh’s room. Was Dhyanesh having a meeting with Jayesh in his own room. I would say more likely he beeped Dhyanesh. If Dhyanesh was contactable by the Sannai guard, then why was he not contactable after that?

What was Dhyanesh doing all that time?
What was Jayesh doing all that time?
What did Amrito do, other than get drunk at the party?
The resort, and the Osho community, has received many warnings from this guy Abhay, and not just about many practical issues at the resort, and not just about the drinking water contamination, but also about the very incident we are discussing.

HOW MANY WARNINGS DO YOU WANT?
DO YOU NOT GET IT?
THERE IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM HERE!!!
YOU GO YOURSELF, YOU SEND YOUR FRIENDS, PEOPLE JUST COME
AND TO WHAT
THIS IS INSANE
THE OSHO INNER-CIRCLE AND RESORT MANAGEMENT HAVE BEHAVED INSANELY
IF YOU DO NOT RESPOND IN SOME WAY THEN YOU ARE ALSO INSANE
WILL THERE BE A NEXT TIME?
HAVE THE PROBLEMS BEEN ADDRESSED?
WHAT WILL NEXT TIME BE LIKE, IF THERE IS ONE?
IS THE DRINKING WATER SAFE THIS COMING MONSOON?
WHAT FRIENDS OF YOURS WILL BE DRINKING THE WATER?
WHAT WATER WILL THE RESORT MANAGEMENT BE DRINKING?
ARE YOU INSANE?

HOW MUCH MORE HARM HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE EITHER THE UTTERLY INCOMPETENT LEGAL FRATERNITY IN INDIA DOES SOMETHING, OR THE OSHO SANNYAS COMMUNITY HAS THE COURAGE TO RECTIFYING THE UNDERLYING PROBLEMS, SEEK JUSTICE & RECONCILIATION, AND CREATE A BETTER AND SAFER SPACE FOR OSHO’S PEOPLE, AND FOR ALL SEEKERS.
I THINK YOU ARE ALL INSANE.

Less than two months from the blast we have the following.

Prem Abhay // Nov 20, 2009 at 2:38 am
Yes Shantam the establishments (in)ability to provide basic services like clean food and water give me much hope for their (in)ability to provide adequate response to the issue of religious violence.

Prem Abhay // Nov 21, 2009 at 8:33 am
Over the years, and especially in the last ten, all the problems that have come up have been swept under the carpet. Then a nice collection of lies are made up to condemn any questioning, and the media is also fed these lies if need be. The reality is that the problems remain, and can only fester as they remain untended.

This systematic problem has reached a critical limit in many areas – as I have stated many times. Perhaps the most serious problem has just arisen: the Headley terrorist connection.
The resorts current position, via Sadhana, is that systems are now in place at the Resort to deal with the circumstances. She is unwilling to explain any details as this may compromise the value of the systems and plans. From the historic pattern of incompetence and lies I find the official position distinctly dubious. Based on the past pattern, it is likely that an entirely ignorant, adhoc, inconsistent, useless, and incomplete plan is now in place. I have absolutely no faith in the resorts official deceptive mask, and the Pune police are either entwined in the corruption and ignorance, or are more so incompetent and corrupt.

If there is the threat of terrorism from Headley and his cohorts, then it is more than likely to be well planned, well trained for, and well executed. I have little faith in Dhyanesh and his little army of thugs. In fact, based on information provided to me, Dhyanesh has a little file at Interpol that states that he tried to set up a Westerner for a murder. The corruption and criminality by the establishment should be investigated and exposed. Only in this way will the underlying magnetic potential for conflict or be removed.

The truth is that the last ten years of Resort growth has been expansion into the genre of religious extremism. This type of extremism either invites people of a similar mind-set to come into the fold, or to be pitted against them. It is an inevitable consequence of the underlying reality of religious fanaticism undertaken by the establishment – that has alienated the majority of the Osho movement.

Swami Detective // Apr 6, 2010 at 7:48 am

The Sannai guard presumably tried to contact someone higher up as soon as the blast took place. If I was the Sannai guard I would try to either contact main-gate security, or Dhyanesh directly. From what I here of main-gate security, it would seem that Sannai guard contacted Dhyanesh directly. You see if the Sannai guard tried to get into contact with Dhyanesh but could not do so, the presumably the Sannai guard would have contacted main-gate security, and it would have been them who made efforts to contact Dhyanesh. From this I draw the conclusion that Dhyanesh would have been informed of a major situation at the German Bakery just after the blast took place. Dhyanesh then presumably immediately left whatever he was doing, and went to Sannai, passing main-gate security on the way. If this was the way things went, I would be interested in knowing what Dhyanesh said to main-gate security. I also find it strange the main-gate security could not contact Dhyanesh, not even a beeper (ever heard of mobile phones)? Was the phone at Sannai out of order, though working just shortly beforehand?

If Dhyanesh did receive a phone call from Sannai guard just after the blast, and if he did not immediately respond then I would like to no why. Perhaps he was in a meeting at the time with Jayesh. The Sannai guard is say as the crow flies around 80 metres from the blast. I assume the explosion would have been quite loud from that distance. I also assume that the mayhem (the screams etc) would have also been particularly troubling at that distance. I am a betting man. I bet that the Sannai guard ran the 20 yards or so to the corner of North Main Road and had a little peak at what happened. Wouldn’t you? What do you think he would have seen? I heard one body was blown across North Main Road and into a neighbouring residential society. The carnage, the smell, the smoke, the fire, the screaming, would all have been unimaginable. From the corner of North Main Road, at a distance of lets say 70 metres, I can bet the imagery would have been very clear. I assume from this that the Sannai guard would have made some basic facts very clear to Dhyanesh, that would have left little doubt in his mind about the serious nature of the incident. Really, given the recent and repeated information passed to the resort from the police about the possibility of a terrorist attack, and assuming the Sannai guard said there was a loud explosion and agonizing screams and utter mayhem etc., then surely it should have immediately been flagged as a possible bombing. Surely it should also have been immediately flagged that it may not be an isolated incident. I accept it may also be considered a gas cylinder blast, but under the circumstances surely the priority should have been given to treating it as a possible bombing. In this event one thing I certainly would not have done is ran to the blast site without first discussing the situation with main-gate security. I would also certainly have not run to the site without enacting the emergency security plan (that was widely touted in the media as being invincible).

Again I repeat, if Dhyanesh did receive a phone call from the Sannai guard just after the blast, and if he did not immediately respond, then I would like to no why. If he was in a meeting with Jayesh when he took the call from the Sannai guard, then presumably he passed on this information to Jayesh. Again I repeat, surely the information from the Sannai guard would have been of a most troubling nature. Given the preceding threats of terrorism, if someone was just 100 yards from the Bakery blast, I am sure that if they immediately phoned me, they would have convinced me that it was in all likelihood a major terrorist bombing. In the back of my mind I would also have considered the pitiful state of gas cylinders in India. But then again, the German Bakery’s cylinders are locked up in a small compartment with metal framed and metal sheeted doors for protection.

If Dhyanesh passed the information he received from Sannai guard immediately onto Jayesh, then what did Jayesh then do? One active thing that I have heard he did was get Sudheer to ban the sannyasin who tried to get the DJ to lower the music so he could inform the party goers of what just happened at the German Bakery. The only other active thing I have heard he did was get out of the country.

From what I can glean, Jayesh (or perhaps better to say the management in general) tried to pretend that nothing happened, and hope that it would all blow away. It has nothing to do with them. Just make it business as usual and ignore the bad stuff (even if it has direct implications for the resort). Sweep it under the bed mentality.

Nadia was an Osho sannyassin but not a real one. She was with that nutty swan Zen Dolano women down the road anyhow. (Of course Nadia no doubt was first drawn to Koregaon Park because of the Osho resort). Who cares about that Thai guy, oops that Taiwanese guy. The Bakery, well it was just a dingy little place anyhow. It was full of prostitutes, drug addicts, and banned Osho sannyassins.

I get all this, but what I do not get is why management appears to have done nothing to protect its very own clientele. Actually it appears they did everything possible to put them at risk of serious harm. What about your brand image?

I read about this guy Abhay who got banned and threatened and assaulted for complaining about the state of the water. Last time he was in town he lived under a bench at the German Bakery. He fits the description of a German Bakery loser. He’s a drug addict, a banned Osho sannyasin, and I suppose he must also visit prostitutes. Oh yeah, and he is also a dangerous and violent criminal. It just can’t be true all those terrible things Abhay has been saying. As if the resort would let its visitors drink contaminated drinking water (and in India mind you). As if the resort would have Abhay banned because he wanted to fix the water. Utterly absurd!!!

You know what, I bet it’s just like the water! Shantam saw the connection straight away.
LoL

Swami Detective // Apr 1, 2010 at 10:00 am

And Abhay, how about you also explain the water discrepancy for us here and now.

Swami Detective // Apr 1, 2010 at 2:53 am

DevaKrishna, in a cartoon on your Otoons site you seem to indicate that the resort provides CLEAN drinking water for its guests, especially in the new Auditorium facility. However we have it from an Australian engineer called Abhay that this has not been the case, and may still not be the case today. Abhay seems to go so far as to say the drinking water facilities at the resort are a complete joke in themselves, with no need for artistic enhancement. Could you please help me to understand this discrepancy.