Ma Deva Priya
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» Turning In: A Silent Retreat
» Mystic Rose: Osho Meditative Therapy
Priya is one of the rare fortunate ones who has been with Osho since birth. When she was born Osho blessed her with the name Priya and said to her parents “She is my child. I will take care of her.” He took a personal interest in her upbringing and education.
She spontaneously asked for sannyas at the age of seven in a Darshan in 1976 in Pune, where Osho gave her the name Ma Deva Priya. He explained that it meant: Beloved of the Divine. She often visited the Ashram in her school holidays. Many energy Darshans continued with Osho at that young age grounding her strongly in meditation.
In 1982, Priya, a teenager then, went to Rajneeshpuram, USA. She was there for all the four years. She attended the Osho School in Antelope and worked in various departments at the ranch. She describes that period as the best time of her life. “I learnt so much in those years that no other regular school could ever teach me.”
Hers was the only exception ever made by Osho to live in the ashram as a resident and study outside. On Osho’s arrival back in Pune, he guided Priya to do a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Psychology while simultaneously living and working in the ashram. "Osho wanted me to be comfortable in both the worlds ‘together’, living out his vision of the new man."
Since 2007 she runs an Osho meditation center in the Himalayas. She actively takes care of the management and administration there. Having had the experience of being so close to The Master and living with him in all his international communes, she is a perfect blend of the East and the West. With such a solid foundation, Osho Nisarga is created as an oasis that hosts various in-depth programs and has become a successful model of Osho’s ‘wholistic’ vision of life.
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