Asked by a news anchor whether her boss was a pimp, after allegations by a former Rajneesh sannyasin that his followers had begun to prostitute themselves to be able to pay for his discourses and “therapies”, Sheela shot back: “YOU must know pimps because you must go to prostitutes yourself.”Īsked in another interview why she was in Australia when nobody wanted her there, she retorted: “What can I say? Tough titties.” She is now 63.īy the time Rajneesh left his ashram in Pune and moved into the commune (it was called Rajneeshpuram) built for him in Oregon, America, in 1981, Sheela had become his personal secretary, second in command and the person who got things done in Rajneeshpuram.īy some measures, she was just as colourful as her guru. She was in her early twenties at the time. She studied linguistics at Baroda University and art at Montclair State University in New Jersey, America, where she majored in ceramics, before she was introduced by her father to Rajneesh and, well, devoted herself to him. Ma Anand Sheela was born Sheela Ambalal Patel. The material world is all around us, he said, so why try to ignore it? That would be like being surrounded by water, and trying to avoid it. Apart from the fact that she loved Him (she spells him with a capital H) we come away having learnt very little that is new about the godman who infused spirituality with heady doses of capitalism.
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Niet, she is presenting The Sammasati Support-Person Training in the UK and travelling internationally, offering a series of workshops.īhagwan: The Buddha for the Future, on the evolution of Osho's first commune in Pune One.The trouble with Don’t Kill Him, a memoir by Ma Anand Sheela about her life with Bhagwan Rajneesh, is that it tells us very little about the man. While maintaining her interest in meditation as a resource for all aspects of living, through that experience, she also saw the potential in bringing meditation to the dying process and co-founded The Sammasati Project, which offers a different vision of living and dying – that is, with awareness and celebration. Meeting Anna Freud in London some years ago, and being with her in her last moments, was a catalyst for a new direction for Maneesha.
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She was part of his entourage during the turbulent World Tour and on the return to Pune was the one who addressed him during discourse with questions and sutra readings, becoming famously "Okay Maneesha."Īfter Osho left his body, Maneesha travelled internationally for 15 years, giving seminars, groups, and individual sessions on diverse aspects of meditation, written regular meditation columns in various print media, facilitated meditation courses and given numerous radio and TV interviews. As well, under the name of Juliet Forman she wrote what he referred to as the "historical documentation" of his work in the form of a trilogy covering the years from Pune One through his World Tour. In Pune, she lived in Osho's house and edited many of his books, including nearly all of the darshan diaries. Meeting Osho in 1974 changed the course of her life. In docu film Meditation - The Art of Ecstasy (1996)īorn in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia in 1947, Maneesha graduated as a nurse. Maneesha James aka Okay Maneesha aka Juliet Forman) Printing by Tata Press Ltd., Bombay, India
Introduction: George Meredith M.D., M.B., B.S., M.R.C.P., Author of Bhagwan: The Most Godless Yet the Most Godly Man To Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh -the midwife of the new man. Publisher : Rebel Publishing House, IndiaĮdition notes : First Edition. language English notes Later republished under title Osho: The Buddha for the Future. author Juliet Forman S.R.N., S.C.M., R.M.N. Many of us felt we learnt invaluable lessons through being witness to both the US government's efforts to sabotage Osho's work, and those of a small group of sannyasins who became embroiled in internal politicking.
That period, too, in an entirely different way, was extraordinary. "For the segment on the second commune, at Rajneeshpuram in Oregon, USA, I drew not only on my own experiences but on those of many others who were involved in work of which I had known little or nothing. So triplets emerged…an entire trilogy! (Curiously enough, each book did take nine months to complete)īhagwan: The Buddha for the Future describes the evolution of Osho's first commune – in Pune, India – where I was to find myself (literally and figuratively!) in October 1974. "Having at that point been with him for fourteen years, I found it impossible to squeeze all that needed to be said within the confines of one volume.
OshoViha – – .uk Maneesha says of her trilogy: "In 1985, after he returned to India from his world tour, Osho suggested that I write a book that would be, as he termed it, "the historical documentation" of his work and the movement that grew up around him.
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