Sannyas News: Articles

Reiki: Puja discusses a simple method of Healing and Personal Growth (Oct,06)

Bhagwan - the Movie. This classic film from 1975 reviewed by Swami Prem Sakal. (Oct,06)

Osho on Broadway This year, Swami Manik, together with Ali and Krisana from the Meditation Module in New York City, organized the first Osho Film Festival in the US& (Oct,06)

Leaving the Mountain At the beginning of the year Sannyasnews published news of the first Sannyas Commune in China - here, nine months later we continue their story. (Sept,06)

Maneesha is looking to bring the taste and flavour of Osho and his meditations to the world. Here she reflects on the story so far, and her current interest to do so in the UK. (Sept,06)

Trademarks/Copyright in Osho's World: Sannyasnews gives the update (August,06)

In his own words, Dhanyam tells the story of his banning by Osho International from the Pune Resort (July,06)

Osho - The Window to Existence A letter of reply to Veetman about the banning of Dhanyam from the Pune Resort from Giten. (July,06)

Dhanyam, the Editor of Viha Connection for twenty years has been banned from the Pune Resort. Here Veetman gives his thought provoking reply to Giten's campaign against the banning. We will give Giten's response to this later, and also Dhanyam's. (July,06)

Number of Russian Sannyasins swells during Swami Arun's (of Nepal) Visit. (June,06)

Satish Edelberg, author of "Delicate Frequencies, The Life of a Sannyasin" has kindly offered Sannyasnews an English synopsis and his comment on Ma Anand Sheela's book in German called, TÖTET IHN NICHT, which many non-German readers have requested. Satish was a boy on the Ranch at the time of Sheela's power there. Needless to say Sannyasnews or Satish do not in any way support Sheela's views where translated here. (June,06)

Growing in the Chinese Commune Swami Vilas relates his personal experience over the last months (May,06)

Mantra Music hits the Mainstream Charts The world of old time sannyasins, Miten and Premal (May,06)

Welcome to the 21st century! Archa and Sans, two Brighton sannyasins report their recent visit to Poona. (March, 06)

Life in Sheelas Crack Legion:: Reflections on being a full commune member in the Osho communes of the eighties by Sannyasnews Editor Parmartha (March, 06)

American Judge shows mercy to the last of Sheela's co-conspirators in 1985 plot to kill US District Attorney, Charles Turner. Full Report. (Feb,06)

Chinese sannyasins "move to the mountain", and start first Osho commune there. The latest news out of China... (Jan,06)

First Time through the Gateless Gate The Interesting recent Impressions of a first time visitor to the Osho Pune Resort (Jan,06)

On January 8, one of Osho's most loved disciples, Swami Sardar Gurdayal Singh, left his body, in a small village called Rumi in the Punjab. Osho made Sardar Gurdayal Singh's name synonomous with jokes and laughter. Chaitanya Keerti reflects. (Jan,06)

Ranch round-up. the latest on the Rajneeshpuram Land in Oregon (Dec,05)

Unmani, a woman who was once a sannyasin and lived in Pune for several years, now gives satsang in Highgate, North London. Here is a taste (Dec,05)

Rajneeshpuram: Twenty years now since the end of the Ranch. Here the mature reflections of Tarshita who left the Ranch twenty years ago this month, like many of us. (Dec, 05)

The Lawyer's Tale: Niren, Osho's atttorny tells a fetching story from Pune two. (Nov,05)

Hugging: Veeresh the founder of Humaniversity Therapy gives the low-down on hugging (Nov,05)

Amrita Pritam, courageous defender of Osho, and Indian Poet, leaves her body (Nov, 05)

Becoming a sannyasin is a simple gesture that you are ready to become free. Especially free from nationality: The sannyasin will not think of himself as an Indian or a German or an Italian. Even if he has to carry a passport, he will not think deep down in his consciousness that he is an Italian. He is simply universal." Osho. Keerti reflects on this particular Osho invitation. (Oct, 05)

Washington concedes difference between Osho's work and Sheela's Rajneeshee Cult. (Oct, 05)

Swami Arun from Nepal takes sannyas across Russia. Hundreds take sannyas. (Oct,05)

"Rajneesh Cult" still linked with Al Qaeda and Jamyat Ul Islam by US (Oct,05)

Dhyan Giten makes strong supporting appeal for Osho Resort to be declassified as a Terrorist Centre by Washington. (Oct,05)

Recently the Terrorist Research Centre a well-known American government backed and funded research company in Washington named the Pune Osho Resort a terrorist organisation! Well I guess it is funny if it wasn't so serious! Here is the studied reply of one Osho lover, Dr Helmut Kroll. Would be good if anyone else motivated were to also write, saying how crazy they must be. (Sept,05)

Keerti's new book "Osho Fragrance" is launched in Delhi. Indian Cabinet Minister at launch says he is considering taking sannyas. (Sept,05)

Alok John interviewed. In a series of occasional short interviews the Editor explores some history and issues with long-time sannyasins. (Sept,05)

Ramana Garden Update There is quite a lot of interest in the orphanage school and commune that Prabhavati has set up at Rishikesh, in the foothills of the Himalayas. Here are extracts from their most recent newsletter. (Volunteers are welcome there for a minimum of two months). (Sept,05)

Disha. A contrast in Gratefulness. Links to features, etc covering the life and young death of Disha. Some of us knew her as a "kid" just like Tim Guest, but with her life represented a totally different response to being brought up a sannyasin. (Sept, 05)

To Russia with Love Arun's Initiative to take Osho to the former USSR bears fruit. (August,05)

Terence Stamp the Film Actor gave up his acting work for a while in 1976, and travelled to India on a personal search. He subseqently became a disciple of Osho. Here is an extracted account of the conversation between Osho and him at his initiation into sannyas. (August,05)

Spiritual Teacher and Londoner Dave Oshana comments on London Terrorist attacks (August, 05)

Swami Anand Arun Co-ordinator of Osho Tapoban and a major influence in the spread of Sannyas in Nepal is to publish a book "My days with Osho" - here we publish an excerpt. (July, 05)

Say Yes Now A Review of Prabhuvati and the film "Ramana's Garden" at the Flea Pit. (July, 05)

A review of Ma Krishna Radha's book "Tantralife: A Woman's Journey of Transformation" (Wisdom Tree, New Delhi, 2005, 222 pages, $12) which beautifully describes her thirty-one years as an Osho sannyasin. (June, 05)

Some accuse "Advaita Vedanta" of being a mystical fashion that leads to absurd conclusions. Here Maitreya Ishwara debunks the myths, and shows with a little pragmatism that Advaita can bear in on the truth. In the course of the article Maitreya controversally asserts that only about 12 enlightened people are alive on the planet today. (June,05)

Pankaja visits old time sannyasin Prabhavati in the foothills of the Himalayas where she has created a sannyas style orphanage called Ramana's Garden, and twinned it with an eco-lodge development in the dwindling forests. (May,05)

Veeresh the founder of the Humaniversity, Holland is in the UK this week. In this short text is the kernel of his therapeutic approach. (May,05)

Undermine Fundamentalism with Humour. Osho's 1970's wisdom on this seems even more apposite in today's world of Islamic and Christian fundamentalism. (May, 05)

Orange in the Rainbow Nation Prasado describes how Osho and sannyas currently grow in South Africa (May,05)

We learn that Tyohar is building up the energy in PachaMama - a Spiritual & Ecological Village he has inspired in Costa Rica, and that he does not intend travelling this year. (April, 05)

Madhakar Thompson, once Hareesh and Osho sannyasin, and now himself a well-known teacher of Advaita Vedanta in India reflects on his only question and answer interaction with Osho in 1987, which he sent Parmartha in response to the 'Pope' Editorial (April, 05)

The Life and Death of the Polack Pope A Scathing Editorial on the Pope from Parmartha (April, 05)

Maitreya Ishwara . Some have called him a real 'sannyas' teacher. In this article he talks about "Understanding the Ego" (April,05)

Interview with Vivek (Nirvano), Osho's longtime caretaker: Interview from 1978, with photographs. (March,05)

Simon Tzu in Pune makes a thoughtful contribution to the current debate over the Pune Resort under the title "If I ran the Commune". (March,05)

Alok John reviews the January and February Editions of the Osho Times published from the Pune Resort (Feb,05)

A review of the book "&And Nothing Has Ever Happened a compilation of talks given during two meditation retreats by Swami Chaitanya Bharti. Review by Tanmayo (Feb,05)

Enlightenment, before, during and after. An article by Rani who had previously been a well known therapist in the Osho movement and was one of a number of sannyasins who began their own "enlightened" teaching in the nineties. (Feb,05)

Death Gives Us More Than It Takes Away . Archas article tells of the recent death of her 87 year old mother, Margie Boase, the much loved Matriarch of the Freshford Street Sannyas Community in Brighton. UK (Feb, 05)

A review by Devoparma of Veena's recent book 'A Seam for the Master' - a humourous, and very personal account of the years she spent as seamstress to Osho. (Jan, 05)

Osho "Never born, never died" but left the body 15 years ago this week. Here Keerti's press release from Delhi on this. (Jan, 05)

Autumn Sun Pardee, brought up as a child on the Ranch (Osho's Oregon Commune) gives his assessment of the rights and wrongs of the experience. A sort of third view between Tim Guest's "My Life in Orange" and Satish Edelberg's "Delicate Frequencies", which were both books about their lives as the children of sannyasins. (Jan, 05)

I Have the Function of a Postman. The fourth and concluding part of the interview with Swami Anand Arun, coordinator of Osho Tapoban, Arun talks about the expansion of sannyas in Nepal. (Jan, 05)

What Happened to Sheela? 20 years have elapsed since Sheela was Osho's Secretary. Annotated extracts from an Oregon Newspaper give some of the answers. (Jan, 05)

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