Day: May 17, 2021

Q: In today's environment of extreme competitiveness where does the paradigm of spirituality fit in. How do we strike the right balance? -Lolo A: Spirituality is all-inclusive. Spirituality does not deny any aspect of life. One can be in the world, fully creative and contributing to all spheres of life.

With the commune being a beehive of controversy since the last six months, Swami Keerti makes up for his earlier silence by telling it all! The way it is. Presenting the (ex) P.R.O. of the Commune - unleashes his pent-up feelings.

While a rebel group led by former Commune spokesperson Swami Chaitanya Keerti is getting set to nullify the copyright monopoly of Osho's words through cyberspace, another rebel group spearheaded by old time Osho's disciple Swami Chaitanya Bharati is making a mockery of trademarks and patenting rights of Osho's meditation techniques...

First, they embraced Osho's unique meditation techniques, to the extent of trade-marking them. Now, apparently embarrassed by all the negative publicity swamping them, they seem to have significantly climbed down from their rigid stance, trying to be ''very liberal.''

Enthusiastic about reaching their master's voice to every corner of the world, Swami Chaitanya Keerti, former spokesperson of the Osho Commune and Swami Tathagat, former administration-in-charge of the commune, who have turned rebels against the commune management, have taken the lead to use the internet to provide a befitting reply...

The on-going battle among Oshoites over copyrigths to Osho's works has entered the next level with the rebel group having released an entire set of Osho discourses in the MP3 audio CD format. Thanks to the latest internet-based MP3 audio technology, the rebels based in Pune and New Delhi are...

"Most Indians want to leave the country, while I've found complete peace here," says Ileana Citaristi, an Italian Odissi dancer who's lived in Bhubaneswar since 1979. A self-confessed Indophile and shishya of dance guru Kelucharan Mahapatra, Citaristi was in Delhi to perform a dance ballet for the Osho World Foundation....

At A crowded Kamani auditorium, where Union Home Minister L K Advani, among hundreds of Osh devotees, watched senior Odissi dancer Ileana Citaristi present changing images of Odissi and Chhau through Osho's Haikus and other sources, it became clear that Bhakti, to the Guru, to a Godhead, to any object...

Swami Chaitanya Keerti as the spokesperson of Osho Commune International sent a rejoinder to an article published in Flair, the Sunday magazine section of The Indian Express last year. He was told by Editor (Pune) that he has to stick to the points raised in the article and make the...

My exit was quiet because I am basically a shy person. I did not want to create scenes and attract undue attention. However, internal strife did play a role. I had questioned the inner circle in writing about the flight of copyrights in early 1999 itself, but never received a...

Donning a T-shirt that proclaims, ''Osho - Everybody's birthright, nobody's copyright,'' acclaimed film star, sannyasin and parliamentarian, Vinod Khanna, looks every bit an angry man. And this seething rage is set to translate into an action packed performance what with the screen idol having picked up the gauntlet on behalf...

Yet another UN 'Circus' - this time dubbed as Millennium Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders - will not eliminate religious intolerance or promote spirituality, said Swami Chaitanya Keerti.

The Indian Government has been alerted to the patenting of Osho's meditations in U.S.A. by Shri Dina Nath Mishra, M. P. of Rajya Sabha today. In a 'Special Mention' he issued to the august House, Shri Mishra has requested the Government of India to intervene in the legal dispute of...

Uncontrived would be the appropriate word to describe Ma Neelam's garden where the natural elements - sun, breeze and water - flow without restraint. The home's minimalist serenity is reflected in the garden which projects a Zen-like calm and has blooms like balsam, hibiscus, geranium, begonias, bougainvillaea, all in white...

Feel like screaming at your boss at least once everyday? How about slapping your subordinate who failed to keep a deadline? Anything to vent your anger and soothe your stressed soul?

Apropos Mahesh Bhatt's article,'The spirituality supermarket' (IE, July 31), Bhatt came to Osho after going through drug experiences and hallucinations under the effect of LSD. Unfortunately, he did not spend much time with Osho to detox himself, so he seems to remain stuck with the effect of the drugs to...

Attempts by the New York-based Osho International to exercise exclusive copyright-control over the name "Osho", his books, audio-tapes, meditations and websites have suffered a major setback with the Minneapolis-based National Arbitration Forum rejecting the transfer of the domain name Oshoworld.com.

While the imbroglio over the copyright issue of mystic Osho's intellectual property rights continues to simmer, the ''rebels'' have won the first round with the US-based National Arbitration Forum refusing to entertain a plea by the Osho International Foundation, New York (OIF-NY), not to allow New Delhi-based Osho Dhyan Mandir...

Die-hard Oshoite Swami Vinod Bharati, who most people know as superstar-turned-MP Vinod Khanna, has hauled over the coals the Osho Commune management for what he calls its ''dictatorial behaviour.'' In a statement released from New Delhi on the eve of the Guru Purnima celebrations slated for Sunday, Vinod has lambasted...

This is the question perplexing hundreds of thousands of devotees of Bhagwan Rajneesh all over the world, especially since the Osho Commune in Pune allegedly at the behest of the New York Commune claimed that Osho's thoughts had been copyrighted in New York and nothing could be published without their...

10 years after the death of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh a power struggle amongst his followers threatens to divide the global empire of the Indian guru - which is also an unsettling message for the German seekers of meaning in life, who still present one of the major groupings within the...

A group of seven Indian disciples of Osho including former spokesperson for the Osho Commune International Chaitanya Keerti and former commune administration in-charge Tathagat were virtually banned by the commune authorities this week.

Oshoites including Swami Chaitanya Keerti, the former spokesman of Osho Commune International, Pune, and Swami Tathagat, a former member of the 'inner circle' chosen by Osho, have lambasted a three-member coterie for commercialising the commune.

Here is an answer at last to the nagging question - who 'operates' the Osho commune in Pune. The 'operator' does not appear to be any India-based trust, but is in fact as the commune rebels have been saying in recent days The New York-based Osho International Foundation (OIF).

Here is an answer at last to the nagging question, who 'operates' the Osho commune in Pune. The 'operator' does not appear to be any India-based trust, but is in fact - as the commune rebels had been claiming in recent days - New York-based Osho International Foundation (OIF).

Eminent litterateur and former member of Parliament Amrita Pritam has strongly criticised the move to ban Ma Yoga Neelam, former secretary to Osho Rajneesh, in the wake of the controversy over the ownership of copyright to his words.

In a statement in New Delhi, Pritam asked: ''Osho creates sufis, how come these people have become maulvis?'' and added that whatever was going on in the name of Osho did not fit in with his image. She wondered who were the people denying entry to Neelam, who had been...

It has become a pattern of paranoia and panic with people who hold power positions in the commune that if someone raises issues which are uncomfortable to them, they start projecting him as the enemy of the whole commune. Panic buttons are pressed and people are told: ''These people (who...

Swami Chaitanya Keerti is livid. The former Editor of Osho Times and spokesman of the Pune commune breaks the code of Omerta to speak out against the transfer of the copyright of Osho’s works and properties to New York – where the headquarters of the ashram is said to be...

Osho Rajneesh had constituted a 21-member decision-making committee, which came to be described as the ''inner circle''. All the members of the inner circle were chosen by Osho himself, according to one of the discontented sanyasins Ma Yoga Neelam.

With members of the Inner Circle taking over the thriving Pune-based Osho Commune International, big trouble is brewing after Osho's trusted personal secretary Ma Yoga Neelam was denied entry. "I was shocked... This is running the commune like a dictatorship," says Ma Neelam, a wealthy woman from Ludhiana, Punjab who...

Ma Yoga Neelam, the high profile Osho disciple who stepped down from her position in the Osho Commune in Pune last year has indeed opened a Pandora's Box by breaking her silence and speaking out against three key members of the 'Inner Circle' that runs the worldwide Osho affairs.

Swami Sahajanand (Peter Kreutzfeldt), 25980, Westerland/Sylt, Germany, one of the five trustees of Osho International Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland, and an Inner Circle member of Osho Commune, has transmitted the following letter from Germany in retaliation to Ma Neelam's accusations published on Tuesday that three persons in the commune are functioning...

Ma Yoga Neelam, the high profile Oshoite who spoke out yesterday against the 'dictatorial attitude' of Osho commune bosses, was prevented from entering the commune this morning within hours of the publications of her statement.

The Osho Commune, which has been witnessing internal conflict for some time, has attracted fresh controversy with Osho Rajneesh's trusted personal secretary Ma Yoga Neelam being denied entry into the commune.

A decade after Osho's death, the Osho commune here is headed towards the worst-ever split, with serious differences cropping up among its senior members. The on-going conflict, which has been growing worse by the day, is being viewed as an intense power struggle, with one faction of the "Inner Circle''...

Does Osho, India's gift to the spiritually starved West, no longer belong to India? Has his legacy been spirited away to Zurich and New York? Some of his Indian disciples think it has. They are aghast that a small coterie of Oshoites led by the Canadian-born Michael William O'Byrne (Swami...