Osho an unfathomable mystery (by Yachana)

Seeing, Watching, Living with the Master and
Being at Home
by Ma Yoga Neelam

At my bedside sits a large pile of books that I want to read. Some have been there for quite a while. When I got Neelam's book as a gift from a very good friend, I immediately started reading it. In fact, each morning I would read a chapter.

Neelam's description of her journey into her own truth and strength with the help of Osho is very touching. What I find impressive are her accurate recollections of long-ago events in her life. I only remember a very small portion of my own life. And Neelam did remember, because it seems she did not write a diary.

Especially valuable in her memoirs are the many first-hand quotes from Osho, direct guidance from him to her on her path, which really was not an easy one.

It is impressive and touching at the same time how intensively and specifically Osho works on individual sannyasins and also “uses” Neelam for this purpose.

What she relates about a masterpiece with Vinod seems almost Gurdjieffian. Vinod was a very well-known film actor in India and a long-time sannyasin.

One day Neelam reads in a major Bombay magazine that Vinod had made very derogatory comments about the Osho Commune. He is quoted as saying that he is “done with it.”

When she tells this to Osho, he orders her to publicly make very derogatory comments about Vinod. That's not a good idea, Neelam tells him, because she and Vinod have been friends for so long, he just wouldn't believe that she would comment on him like that.

Osho agrees with her and now Neelam, Nandan and Turiya should be instructed to publicly disparage Vinod. The two good-looking German sannyasins who live in the ashram actually give an exclusive interview to a very well-known magazine in Bombay and express some strong mean things about Vinod. He wasn't a good lover and he was only in the commune to create a little more PR for himself and become a little more famous. He was never a real devotee.

This interview was a sensation. Vinod did not comment on this at all.

Osho then asked Neelam to find out what he really felt. Neelam called Vinod and couldn't even say 'Hello' properly before he started blustering: "What did you and your Bhagwan teach Nandan and Turiya? I made that statement to assure the film producers that I am happy and not leaving my work this time. It is for this very reason that I have not even visited the Ashram for so many months. Anyway, I am glad that my Master remembers me and works on me...I am the blessed one!”
Bhagwan is happy when she reports this phone call to him.
Neelam's comment: "Deep love, strange ways!"
There are numerous such stories in the 450 pages of this autobiography, which show that the Master cares deeply for each and every one of his sannyasins who are deeply connected to him, although usually in a way that only love can understand.

Osho was and still is an unfathomable mystery.

Ma Deva Yachana

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