#Osho young full
I’d been told to wait in the lobby area near reception and for some reason there was 35 soldiers in full uniform sitting behind me.
Maybe I’d get invited to a crazy orgy, I just wanted the full authentic experience.Ī little nervous and constantly trying to figure out who the head people were, I was being polite at all turns. The nightlife, I’d heard was roaming around in my maroon robes, chatting to spiritual freaks like me and seeing what happened. Staying onsite might allow me the luxury of getting more involved. I’d heard about the nightlife and wanted to try it out. I took about €200 for of INR (16000INR) out from the ATM and my wallet was nearly empty after I also decided to stay in the Osho guesthouse for about 7000INR (€88 for two nights). I spent about 9200 INR for a three day pass. Stroll in and you’ll be met with smiling faces all beaming with happiness. There are cheaper ones but this is close and well run. Stay at Panda Backpacker about 10 minutes walk from the Osho Meditation Resort. But if you want the basic experience and bang for your buck, here’s what you do. It took me a while to figure out exactly what I could get and what I wanted from the centre. (If you’re never going to go, skip this part ) Getting involved and making your visit to Osho less stressful Photos were limited as cameras and phones were not allowed anywhere throughout the resort. So now, you know who Osho is, you know I’m a little spiritually inclined at times and the controversy that surrounded him… I’m going to share with you two things.įirstly, I’ll show you how you can go and get involved with what is probably the most unusual place I’ve meditated and secondly, some of the unusual antics you’ll find and take part of when inside. Although no charges were made towards Osho, ‘Rajneesh’, over 6 countries refused to accept him and the ashram was set up in Pune once more.
His executive team were blamed, accused and found guilty. There, after several years, a scandal emerged where an assassination plot on a senator and a mass food poisoning incident occurred in what was labelled, America’s second largest chemical terrorist attack. In the documentary, they highlight how the group was ousted from India initially and set up in Oregon, US. Plenty of people warned me not to, or at least told me to watch the Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country first. The home of Osho’s ashram and this time I was determined to go. My return to India earlier this year while travelling through the country in a caravan with two other travel bloggers, Ankita and Rohith, saw me in Pune. Hours chanting mantras on a beach, smoking the local specialities and swimming in the waters of Gokarna. At the time, that’s what made more sense and I did too. So, I wanted to visit Osho’s ashram but my homework showed it was a little out of my budget and I could spend 2 weeks on a beach for the 2 nights in Osho. So buying yourself 120 Rolls Royce’s was a good thing… isn’t that right Osho? When it is held by a miserly few, it’s bad. In it, he justified his indulgent life of wealth and accumulating many Rolls Royce’s, by comparing the flow of money to the flow of blood in the body.īlood when flowing is good. The one that caught my eye and really summed up his teachings was ‘Money, Sex and Power’. I travelled though India and in doing so, read two Osho books. The road leading to the entrance and that cuts the centre into the east and west sections.Įnough about me. As much of a party animal, adventure junkie that I am, I’ve always has a spiritual side, going to the ‘Mind, Body and Spirit Expo’ in Dublin every year with my father since the age of 6. Its not uncommon for people to come to India in search of spiritual awakening, people have been doing it since the 60’s, even long beforehand actually and I’ll readily admit I was no different. I found myself in India in 2015 to give a TEDx but also primarily on a spiritual journey to deal with several events in my life that I needed the time to heal. If you don’t care about anything else but what happens when you walk through the doors, then skip to ( What happens inside) He viewed that people should be loving to each other and not in loving relationships as it was an eternal battle for power between two people. A constant critic of traditional religion and their institutions. He paraded the flow of wealth compared to the many other spiritual leaders who chose lives of abstinence and minimalism. Without a doubt, he was the rich mans guru. For others, he’s a fruitful conman who generated millions on the spiritual vulnerability of others. For some he was a spiritual god-man with many wise words to influence the way we live life and our eternal pursuit for happiness. Osho means very different things for different people.