Hypocrisy is rampant in every religion. When love is preached from the pulpit, hate often is in the minds of believers. When humility is set forth as a virtue, egotism frequently is on actual display.
Here's an example from Radha Soami Satsang Beas (RSSB), an Indian religious organization led by a guru that I belonged to for 35 years before I saw the light and deconverted.
What follows is the tale of a frequent commenter on this blog, Osho Robbins. He's a bit of an iconoclast, since he enjoys going to RSSB meetings, including those where the current RSSB guru (Gurinder Singh Dhillon) is speaking, where sometimes Robbins engages the guru in a spirited question and answer session.
But Robbins doesn't subscribe to the traditional RSSB teachings. At any rate, recently he went to the RSSB center in England, Haynes Park, where he was treated in a decidedly un-loving fashion by a bunch of RSSB volunteers, or sevadars.
In fact, he got punched in the face by one of them, as you can read below.
What I find interesting about Robbins' Haynes Park adventure is what it says about Radha Soami Satsang Beas. Where did these volunteers/sevadars get the idea that it was OK to act like jerks? From higher-up in the organization, of course.
The RSSB guru has been accused of making death threats, either directly or through RSSB associates, not once, but twice (see here and here). So I guess punching someone in the face is mild, by comparison. Still, this episode makes me glad I'm no longer involved with RSSB.
Robbins alludes to the fact that devotees of the RSSB guru are absurdly attached to their seva, volunteer work.
Because the guru is considered to be God in human form by the RSSB teachings, service to the guru is viewed as service to God. So members of RSSB take great pride in being allowed to perform volunteer work, often becoming inordinately rigid and dogmatic about their assigned task.
Here's three recent comments from Osho Robbins. I've separated them by dashes. "Baba Ji" refers to the RSSB guru. "Satsang" is a spiritual talk.
BIG news coming up about Haynes Park satsang. I attended Friday and Saturday. In two days I managed to hear exactly zero minutes of Baba Ji's words.
On the Friday it was because certain sevadars took my phone and refused to return it. I specifically said "I wish to leave Haynes Park immediately and would like my property returned to me immediately."
They said I could have it after the satsang. I explained that I am not staying, but am leaving immediately. Still they refused. So I said I would calk the police as this was theft of my phone.
I did in fact call the police exactly as promised. The police explained to them that they have no right to hold onto my phone without my permission.
Anyway, finally got my phone back at 3pm and was told that I am "banned" from Haynes Park and all satsangs. As far as I know, nobody is banned from attending public satsangs. But I guess there is always going to be a first.
Oh I forgot to mention the most important part. I did take the phone into the tent despite the notices. Guilty as charged.
I did also record about 5 minutes of the English speaker who did the satsang before the Q&A. Because he seemed to say some interesting things. Once again, guilty as charged.
Two major crimes that gave the sevadars permission, in their mind, to keep hold of my phone despite my request to have my phone back as I wish to leave Haynes.
One sevadar was forced to tell a lie in order to keep his seva. The sevadars don't care about what is "legal". They have their own rules that are above the law. Why? Because they said so.
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The sevadar who originally “clocked me” was asked what happened.
Now the thing was, I’d spoken to him while I was waiting for my phone and he was an okay guy. In fact he started feeling bad for taking the phone and wished he hadn’t. He was very fearful of losing his seva.
So when asked to say what had happened, I was surprised when he said “I don’t want to say it…. “ I naturally asked “ what exactly don’t you want to say, just say it.”
He then said that I had threatened to “kick him in the nuts”.
Not a phrase I would ever use. Naturally I denied it. The sevadar then said “I would rather believe my sevadar than you”.
Of course it was just too obvious what was going on. I had seen the sevadar have a meeting with this higher up sevadar just a few minutes earlier. So he had obviously told him to tell this lie when asked if he wishes to keep his seva.
So that sevadar said it hesitatingly because he was clearly having a conflict about if he should lie in order to save his seva.
If it was me, I would have simply spoken the truth and handed the sevadar my badge and walked away with a clear conscience. To me, that would be the only course of action possible. But that’s because I would not be desperate to keep my seva.
Someone who is desperate to keep his seva can be bribed. Of course if I was desperate, I too could be bribed.
So the sevadar lied to save his seva, and that was predictable and there was a brief moment when he could break out, that would change his life. Stand for truth instead of lying.
It’s not “wrong” as such. He only did what he was programmed to do. Neither is the higher up sevadar “wrong” as he too was only doing what he was programmed to do.
Liars lie. Thieves steal. It’s the way their life has programmed them. So even in the midst of all this happening against me I am saying it was all inevitable and unavoidable. Each person is acting according to the way they are programmed including me.
So all this was all happening perfectly, despite the fact that at that moment it was not in my favour.
Or was it? It was only against me if I am desperate to step this “calamity” from happening
But it’s seriously not a calamity. I was actually quite happy watching all this unfold. It was entertaining watching how it all happens. Only if I have no agenda. In this case I have no agenda, because I don’t care in the slightest about being “banned” as such.
I can’t be hurt by banning me. The sevadar picked on the wrong guy. I just find the whole thing entertaining. Gives me something to write about.
Of course I am not going to “stay banned”. I am going to test this to see what happens next. I am going to see how far this corruption at the top goes.
Obviously the higher up sevadar has a hold on the lower down sevadar that enables him to force him to lie. So the lower sevadar chose that path because he was desperate to save his seva.
There is no free will here. Nobody can break free unless he stops caring to save his seva. The higher up sevadar is just as bound because he wants me to be banned at any cost. Each is doing whatever they are doing to get the outcome they want.
Drop the outcome and it becomes a game. That’s why I found the whole thing entertaining and laughable. Including “me”. I am also part of the entertainment. If I stop, the entertainment stops.
That too is an option. I can stay banned. I am not desperate to go to satsang. My spiritual future is not in satsang. If it was I would be begging him not to ban me.
And that is what is getting to that sevadar. He wants power over everyone. He has it over the Sevadars because they want their seva. He thinks he got “a result”. But he has no idea what that result is yet. Neither do I.
That’s the only thing that makes it worth playing. Because in reality nobody including me is doing anything here of any real significance. It’s all a divine joke that we all take our personal agenda so seriously.
As I walked away from Haynes Park, I was with my cousin. He had patiently waited two hours after satsang for me. I had made it clear to the sevadars that I had a lift with someone to come to Haynes and he has a child with him. I don’t want to put him out.
They probably thought I was lying. But I wasn’t. I have told the truth from beginning to end. I have no reason to lie. I confessed my “big sin” openly from the start. I lied about nothing.
That’s what gives this whole thing credence. I have no agenda that would make me lie. I won’t lie for any outcome because I am not desperate for any outcome.
Am I bothered about “being banned”? Not in the slightest. Just as I had no care in the world when I was banned as a speaker,
My cousin asked me if I was upset about being banned from satsang. “Upset? Do I look upset?” I am about as upset as when I was banned from being a speaker.
In fact I will be the only person who has been banned from both giving satsang and attending satsang.
This “satsang” thing clearly “has it in for me” or so it seems. I hope you all find it as entertaining as I do. Because it’s about to be upped up a notch. I don’t let sleeping dogs lie.
I like a little entertainment. Hey maybe the baba is doing exactly the same, just a thought.
Stay tuned as the next episode unfolds. This was Friday. Saturday was a whole new day with a whole new adventure. Just like every episode of batman I watched as a child ( the one with Adam playing Batman).
“ Tune in tomorrow to see what happens. Same bat-time same bat-channel”. But don’t take it literally as “tomorrow” and call me a liar when it doesn’t happen tomorrow.
Till next time,. Over and out from “The ONE”.
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The full story is coming soon. It gets much much more interesting. Ends up in premeditated assault. Instigated by the sevadars.
And when I am saying I want to leave Haynes Park, six people grab me physically and take me where nobody can see and physically assault me by punching me in the face.
They think nobody will find out but don’t realise the power of truth. I am known by many of the old satsangis. I don’t tell lies. If I say it – it’s the truth regardless of if it works against me. And people who know me know this
I am not a violent person. Okay I did accept anami’s challenge to combat in jest . That’s about the extent of any violence in me. Whereas the sevadars in question might have a history of violence, who knows.
The matter will go all the way to the top to the guru himself. I have more than enough support to do this from satsangis who know me and my father and family.
Don’t forget, my father was one of the early uk satsangis from 1963.
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UPDATE: New comments from Osho Robbins. "Hukam" means divine order or command.
RSSB is meant to be a spiritual organisation and is also called Science of the Soul. I for one have always seen it that way right up to this incident.
Last Sunday, before the national satsang, Babaji said to me in the Q&A that everything always happens “in hukam” and I agree.
This too is in hukam. Nothing happens outside of hukam. Not even this. It was hukam that I get punched in the face. Obviously “The ONENESS” wants to stir things up for me. The Oneness is welcome. Let’s see what unfolds.
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There was zero resistance and zero retaliation from me during the entire two day episode. When the punching in the face incident happened I was on the way leaving Haynes Park, and my brother in law saw me leaving.
But the volunteers in question stopped me from leaving and then carried out the premeditated attack.
If anything they will be shocked at my level of nonviolence because apart from asking them to let me go, there was no other resistance from me. Six or seven guys onto one defenceless member of the sangat.
There was no reason for the attack as I was on the way out of Haynes Park. Hardly a sign of great bravery to attack a defenceless person who already wants to leave.
Of course if questioned they may lie but I can prove my position, that I was already leaving. This was a totally unprovoked attack to show me that the sevadars in question had the power to ban me. “Egos on steroids” is all I can say.
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RSSB is meant to be a spiritual organisation and is also called
Science of the soul.
I for one have always seen it that way right up to this incident. Last Sunday, before the national satsang, Babaji said to me in the Q&A that everything always happens “in hukam” and I agree.
This too is in hukam. Nothing happens outside of hukam. Not even this.
It was hukam that I get punched in the face. Obviously “The ONENESS” wants to stir things up for me.
The Oneness is welcome.
Let’s see what unfolds.
@ Osho. Could you remember the face of the person who punched you. This is so wrong. Makes me angry.
Osho
Will you be hanging from the Dias by one hand, desperately clinging on to avoid falling into the shark pool.
Or maybe they’ll strap you to a metal table with a laser slowly moving upwards to splice you in two.
Eekies 😱
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-43522574
https://churchofthechurchless.com/2018/07/rssb-fined-484000-after-haynes-park-death
First story from BBC News
Second story Brian’s Blog
I don’t buy this. Osho phones the police because they withold his phone but when someone then punches him the face he doesn’t make it a police matter?
I’ve never seen anyone punch anyone at Haynes. I highly doubt a sevadar, even as annoying and arrogant as some of them are, would do that during a national satsang.
And wouldn’t that be the crux of his first post lol rather than mentioning it as an afterthought?
I went to a Seventh Day Adventist Church twice with a friend. Both times volunteers /cogregants washed our feet. What a contrast? These volunteers likecRSSB sevadars are yearning to reach God.
Arjuna, many many years ago during a visist, before satsang started, my wife had to go to the bathroom. She laid a shawl on her chair before the went. On her return a sevadar started angrily shouting at her as if she had committed a kind of crime.
They had received instructions that nobody should claim a seat by laying personal stuff on the seat. That sevadar, an elderly gentle man, was known to all of as a kind person.
After the ceremony was over he went up to my wife to apologize. That would have been the conclusion of the incident were it not that he said something that made me think and remember.
He said that he never again would take such an seva as he was totally surprised that he reacted so out of his normal comfort zone without knowing and understanding what came over him.
I never forget this incident and in the years to follow I was witness of different incidents in which sevadars acted completed different from their normal way of behavior. Sometimes these incidents were hilarious.
Let me tell you one …. a lady sevadar was asked to clean a bathroom . When I walked in I saw her standing inside the bath with her shoes on. Surprised by what I saw, I asked her what she was doing. She answered that she was cleaning the bath. I reacted with `yes I know but why for heavens sake are you standing with your shoes in the bath ..,. do you clean your bath at home also this way?! No she said. When I asked her why she would do it here the way she was doing … she looked at me as if struck by lightning and said I don’t don’t know I have never done it before this way.
Even to day after all these years trying to find an answe I still don’t know what happens with people acting so out of their normal doing when doing seva when a guru is around.
There are quite a lot of these “strange” reactions.
I should add to it that I can’t remember that these incidents happend during the time of his uncle. Sevadars have become more and more strict over the years.
Often the orders are reasonable but the way they are excecuted can be weird, to say the least.
Again it makes me think of the transition of the feudal reign by the mandarins in China to the bureaucrats of the communist regime as to be seen in the movie “the last emperor”
It seems to me that everything is turned upside down and that everybody is duped like when an coloniy of ants is disturbed by an outside incident.
Mike,
Thank goodness you aren’t a Sevadar. LOL
There was zero resistance and zero retaliation from me during the entire two day episode.
When the punching in the face incident happened I was on the way leaving Haynes park, and my brother in law saw me leaving. But the volunteers in question stopped me from leaving and then carried out the premeditated attack.
If anything they will be shocked at my level of nonviolence because Apart from asking them to let me go, there was no other resistance from me.
Six or seven guys onto one defenceless member of the sangat. There was no reason for the attack as I was on the way out of Haynes park.
Hardly a sign of great bravery to attack a defenceless person who already wants to leave.
Of course if questioned they may lie but I can prove my position, that I was already leaving. This was a totally unprovoked attack to show me that the sevadars in question had the power to ban me.
“Egos on steroids” is all I can say
@ osho. You must have been seen as a threat for 6 guys to have come over.
I would have loved being in your place. 6 guys. Take the toughest looking guy out first. Another two will think they are hard and have a go. And the other 3 will run. Just saying. No one hits me. I would have defended myself and their ancestors in Punjab would have felt the upper cuts and body shots. Just saying.
Stay safe dude.
Ohso,
Did the puncher look Japanese… ?
P.S. Note item #4 below.
From “Striking with the Zen Stick” by Dan Prock
Japanese sensei would often strike a member of a kaizen team with a verbal or behavioral Zen stick. This watered-down Western version might have looked or sounded like:
1. Asking a question and allowing an awkward silence
2. A look that expressed doubt about an individual’s approach to a problem
3. A blunt, not-politically-correct comment
4. A series of “why-why” questions, revealing a lack of knowledge, with no hints offered
5. Negative body language indicating doubt or rejection of a quick solution idea
6. Just walking away, saying nothing, being rude without remorse
7. Allowing psychological tension to build in a team meeting and just waiting
8.Reviewing or challenging whether a change is actually working as planned; or isn’t
When those early Japanese sensei struck us with the Zen stick, it was a wake-up call. They used small doses of conflict to purposefully to inoculate us against our habits and approval-seeking and our being lost in self-centered thoughts or feelings.
They used the Zen stick to temporarily shift Western individuality to collaboration, to deflate our egos, and thus open our conscious bandwidth to be fully present.
There are books and a movie on love by RSSB, such as, labour of love, legacy of love, love in action, enigma of love.
I guess Osho’s interaction with sevadars is a real enigma of love in action and a legacy of love.
PJ
Whether you buy this or not makes no difference. You don’t have all the facts yet. The full story is coming soon.
The police were already onsite the first day when my phone stolen. The police classify it as theft.
The second day, I did file it with the police immediately after it happened.
The police were in traffic duty just outside Haynes. The same officers as the previous day.
I have no reason to lie or file a false allegation. That would be an offence anyway.
You don’t have the full story yet so don’t be so quick to judge.
That’s also the reason I don’t judge too hastily.
When the full story comes out next week, then you can judge
I went to Haynes Park on Saturday and Sunday.
My observations are that:
(a) the guru seemed incredibly objective and rational to me. I didn’t hear him raise a single religious concept. I did hear many people asking religious questions to which he kept trying to pull them out of it.
(b) I dint see any strong-arm security guards or Sevadars. I did see a lot of smiling ppl who clasped their hands together and bowed to welcome me.
(c) I didn’t see any police dealing with any such incident
(c) the rules clearly request each person to not make recordings. Why are you attending at all if you have no interest in respecting the rules? If you go looking for a fight and disrespecting rules – why cry when you get into one?
My overall and lasting impression was just how practical and objective the guru is. He seems like a v nice and wise uncle. Instead its many of the satsangis who insist on asking all the religious questions and getting blessed by his grace etc. Instead he keeps trying to patiently yet firmly try to snap them out of their supernatural beliefs and telling them he can not do smh such thing and bring them back to the practical principles of the path.
I get the feeling the whole thing and all it’s teachings have been grossly misrepresented. The guru said if anyone was perfect, he’d no longer be here. But he’s here, so he knows he’s not perfect – I dunno where you get all this GIHF claptrap from.
George, to be kind to those who are kind, behave as ordered etc, even dogs can do so.
Even in countries as North Korea, China and other totalitarian regimes, nobody will harm you and you can even feel at home, if you go with the flow … but if you question them or anything, you will see their other face.
It is the same what one can see in police corps all over the world. Some misuse the legal power given to them for their own selfish motives. When it becomes public the police authorities tend to play things down or cover it up in their desire to be seen as protectors of justice .ect.
Not to forget what happens in religious organisations
It is all too human.
” Osho phones the police because they withold his phone ”
How’d he prove they previously had his phone if he was calling them with his phone anyway? Did he use oneness magic and bilocate to where his phone was?
Who cares. It’s a clown show at this point. We got the “Gurinder is my homie” guy getting beat up (allegedly), Dungeness predictably calling it a spiritual exercise of enlightened Zen senseis, others saying Osho was wrong because holding a mobile phone in god’s presence is grounds for getting your face punched in and kidnapped.
Am I the only one who thinks that, assuming any part of this unlikely story is real, the best thing would have been Osho starting an all out brawl and going down throwing hands with these goons?
” I would have defended myself and their ancestors in Punjab would have felt the upper cuts and body shots. Just saying. ”
Arjun knows what’s up.
Uhoh Georgy Porgy!!! You fallen for the charisma of a cult leader!! In the words of Anakin: “Its working, its working!!!!”
Who cares. It’s a clown show at this point. We got the “Gurinder is my homie” guy getting beat up (allegedly), Dungeness predictably calling it a spiritual exercise of enlightened Zen senseis
No one is so impoverished as he who has no sense of humor.
No one has the authority to use violence, anywhere. I realize if someone is non violent by nature, they would have the reaction Osho had. Maybe it was the right decision for him.
Not for me. It becomes a case of self defense and that guy who punched me in the face would be picking his teeth up off the ground. Sevadars or anyone else, it doesn’t matter. GSD even says we aren’t supposed be push overs, have to stand up for ourselves.
Especially to rogue sevadars like you’ve alleged. Like Arjuna said. First one goes down, another one steps up, but the other 2 or 3 will back off.
What these sevadars allegedly did is completely wrong and need to be held accountable for their actions.
@Osho Fair enough, after all I wasn’t there.
The matter will go all the way to the top to the guru himself. I have more than enough support to do this from satsangis who know me and my father and family.
Don’t forget, my father was one of the early uk satsangis from 1963.
…..¿A Gang Rape victim appeals to the Gang Leader for justice?
Mobile phones can be used to detonate a bomb. Tomorrow, people will fight with all the institutions which restrict the use of mobile phones as per their policy of restriction.
“No one is so impoverished as he who has no sense of humor.”
I’ve no choice but to assume that you’re racist against autists.
I’ve been joking about all kinds of things here and nobody laughs, yet I’m easily the most funny person alive. Unquestionably the most funny man alive. Yet somehow you manage to turn your lack of a funny bone against me?
This will not stand. Do you know who my father is?
I figure you boys would get an ass-whipping from the sevadars, and that’s just the old ladies. They have the force with them.
This sounds bullshit to me. I never seen anything more genteel in my life – there was cups of tea on a pommie estate – dunno what Haynes park sessions you all going too
Friday: Fraudulent Satsangi saves Seva.
Saturday: Six senior satsangis sock ex speaker on jaw.
Can’t wait for Sunday’s episode.
Hi Georgy
You wrote
“I get the feeling the whole thing and all it’s teachings have been grossly misrepresented.”
This applies to everthing anyone taught.
Reality is way oversold, as is most fantasy.
Grorge
Ass-whipping from old sevadar ladies is that your fantasy as the Baba would ask you. Kinky thoughts dude. I suggest you don’t go for haynes if you want to be whipped by old woman.
Hi Osho
I think my earlier message got lost in cyber space.
Basically, I think that, if you didn’t provoke violence, either by verbal abuse, or physical threat (like swinging first) you should file a formal police complaint. This is, after all, unprovoked physical violence, right? And then a judge can take an objective view and render a judgment. And then you are just practicing good citizenship.
Once you feel calm and safe, that is…
@jesse
You quoted “Osho phones the police because they withold his phone ”
Then you go on to ask
“How’d he prove they previously had his phone if he was calling them with his phone anyway”
This is how the truth gets twisted. Firstly I didn’t phone the police. That was a comment by PJ, who made a false assumption.m that you took that as fact.
And before you know it you are questioning the truth but the reason is because you don’t have the facts.
The facts are.
I didn’t phone the police from my phone
They were already onsite so I just walked over to them.
However before I was made aware by the people at the information / lost property point that the police are already on site, I was going to phone them. So I asked them if I can use the office phone to make the call. They said “there is a public phone booth right across the walkway. Sure enough there was, only I had no money with me apart from a single £20 note. They have me some change and mentioned the police are already on site. I gave the money back, saying thank you, but I won’t need the money (change) since the police are already here.
Without the facts, all kinds of assumptions are made. The only person with the facts is me, as I was there in person.
This same principle applies to all situations, hence the reason I don’t personally judge the guru based on other people’s conclusions which could be wrong just as Jesse’s are here.
My own personal experience with him is that he is against violence, and would not tolerate any violence against a member of the sangat. Certainly not premeditated, unprovoked, bullying by any sevadar at any level.
The idea that he accepts this behaviour as okay, I find impossible to believe.
Of course I could be wrong, but that’s my firm belief based on the limited time I have spent with him in the Q&A sessions.
@Juan,
I don’t see any evidence for taking that position. I believe the sevadars in question acted on their own authority clearly against RSSB policy.
@Georgy
Apart from this incident, I agree violence is not the theme of the day there.
I am not saying people are being punched in the face all over Haynes Park. Most likely this was the only instance of a satsangi being punched In the face maybe for quite a while.
Some are obviously saying I instigated it by breaking the rules. But keep this in perspective. I didn’t go there looking for trouble. But the sevadars obviously went out of their way to create trouble.
I feel it’s already going too far on the first day by keeping me waiting for three hours for my phone.
Incidentally the police were there so they can verify the facts. It’s wasnt just a report made after the event.
Also thousands of people and the sevadars at the information point can all verify this. There is zero chance of this being fabricated.
Same with the second day. One sevadar saw me being dragged away by six sevadars and just turned a blind eye.
I said to him “This is seva, look” as they continued to drag me to the hall / building on the left.
Hi Amar,
I have too much respect for GSD to retaliate. I trust that he will take the appropriate action. If I retaliated, it would only make it worse.
As he often says
Rab de ghar dir ho Sakde ahneir nahin.
Spence wrote (above):
Basically, I think that, if you didn’t provoke violence, either by verbal abuse, or physical threat (like swinging first) you should file a formal police complaint. This is, after all, unprovoked physical violence, right? And then a judge can take an objective view and render a judgment.
Clearly I didn’t provoke violence as I was on the way out of the Haynes Park site.
I did firmly stand up for my rights by telling them “this is assault” when six people were grabbing onto me and not allowing me to walk away peacefully.
Never once did I say anything to further provoke the situation on day 1 or day 2.
I was not in a position to anyway. I am not a violent person so any accusations against me will fall on deaf ears. I am known to many of the older satsangis.
Since childhood all I wanted was to get to “meet god” who I thought lived in Sach khand.
Violence in any form even verbal threats are against my nature which is why the false allegation against me that I said “I will kick you in the nuts” would never hold up.
All I wanted was my phone back, so why on earth would I say “I will kick you in the nuts?”
What could that possibly achieve? Anyone hearing the story can clearly see that the sevadar who stated that, was forced to say it to save his seva. I had already spoken to him earlier and he regretted even taking action as now he could lose his Seva.
Babaji will get to the root of this in no time. No sevadar will lie to Babaji because what would be the purpose of Saving their seva by lying to the guru himself.
With the noted exception of the sevadars that punched me in the face. I feel they would think nothing of lying to Babaji
If they had any love or respect for Babaji they would never have carried out this act. It goes directly against his orders.
At the end they said “okay, nobody saw anything. Nothing happened” like a bunch of juvenile gangsters.
They have forgotten that god is omnipresent and obviously don’t believe in karma or that the dera was build on a foundation of love.
I personally can’t understand how these people can be doing seva for so long, as mostly they appeared to be in their fifties or older, and still be capable of this action.
Babaji said to me the Sunday before
“Everything happens in hukam”
Nothing happens outside of the will.
So I fully accepted it as it was happening. No disturbance, no reaction.
I simply watched it all unfolding. Nothing I could do anyway. Six against one.
I just watched it all unfolding almost as if it was happening to someone else.
It’s easy to say “all is in hukam” but the real test is if you say it while being punched in the face
“Without the facts, all kinds of assumptions are made. The only person with the facts is me, as I was there in person. ”
Well, you, the police, dozens of sevadars, and any number of satsangis who were potentially in the area too, but yeah. Only you. One person. And maybe a few hundred people. But aside from those other hundreds, it was just one. But they probably will agree with you wholeheartedly.
“which could be wrong just as Jesse’s are here. ”
What’s with the illiteracy here? I ask questions and two people accuse me of misstating facts. I don’t care about facts anyway, but I’m just saying “how did Osho and his extremely important father contact the police” isn’t much of a statement. You wrote your “story” in a bunch of scattered clips. Sorry for not perfectly memorizing the whole plot.
“My own personal experience with him is that he is against violence, and would not tolerate any violence against a member of the sangat.”
“my firm belief based on the limited time I have spent with him in the Q&A sessions. ”
Have you ever been at his house? You just said you haven’t so what are these “personal” experiences you talk about? Asking questions in front of a massive audience isn’t “time with him.” It’s time in a very controlled setting with a professional speaker doing his job. Also, you’re not a member of the sangat, strictly speaking.
But nobody cares, least of all myself. We just want to hear about people getting beat up, having their phones stolen,police arrests, and important family members raising issues that nobody will care about and then all the ensuing complaints about injustice that arise after your protests fail.
Bring the drama. Get your attention. We’re all served what we want this way.
So I fully accepted it as it was happening. No disturbance, no reaction.
I simply watched it all unfolding. Nothing I could do anyway. Six against one.
I just watched it all unfolding almost as if it was happening to someone else.
It’s easy to say “all is in hukam” but the real test is is if you say it while being punched in the face.
I had a similar test long ago in the states. With my shiny new letter of
approval in hand, I appeared for seva at GSD’s venue. The seva
intake committee bizarrely begin to treat me like one of Kal’s
agents, summarily rejected my credentials, and insisted I take a
humble seat among the unblessed, non-sevadar throngs. Arguing
coolly, I went on making my case.
Then, one goon, er, sevadar, put his hand on my arm to escort me
away in shame. I resisted and pulled out of his grasp firmly but non-
violently. No Kung-fu fantasies even entered my head. It was then
a soft-spoken sevadar appeared and overruled them. Vindication.
I was blessed again.
Sigh, not for long. Images of fistfights started to dance before my
eye as I assumed my sevadar station. Pounding my tormentors in
my imagination, I had somehow managed to snatch “defeat from
the jaws of victory”. The battle is always within.
Hi Osho. I understand what you’re saying, but I wouldn’t put too much faith in in GSD taking interest in this. I would think he’ll tell the management committee in Haynes to make the story go away. What else could he possibly do? Maybe that sevadar loses his seva…
I wasn’t there but you were, literally, in the middle of it. Keep us informed of what comes up.
Jesse writes
“ I ask questions and two people accuse me of misstating facts. I don’t care about facts anyway, but I’m just saying “how did Osho and his extremely important father contact the police” isn’t much of a statement.”
Firstly my father wasn’t there. He’s dead. I didn’t say anything about “extremely important”, you did. I just said he was initiated when RSSB was almost unheard of in the UK. 1962/63. So many of the older satsangis know him well. And they know me since I was a child.
If you don’t care about facts what is the basis of your opinions?
You called it an “unlikely story” based on your incorrect notions and apparent contradictions in the story, none of which are real because in your mind you have the answers to the questions you pose.
Now you know that I didn’t need to phone. They were already on site. Whether the first day incident happened is not even under debate. That’s unquestionable. Police are the evidence.
They were personally there asking for the phone and witness to all the stories being made up about why it cannot be returned immediately.
The other thing was, I waited calmly without causing any scenes for three hours for my phone. I took the opportunity to connect with and meet some of the older satsangis. Not the behaviour of a violent person.
@Amar
If Haynes monitors this site, they will already know by now. I really don’t believe GSD would take no action over a member of the sangat being assaulted in this manner while he is on his way leaving Haynes Park, and has made no threats to anyone. My sister and brother in law were witnesses to that because they asked the sevadar who was holding me to let me go.
I said “I don’t want to stay for satsang if this is how I am going to be treated. I am leaving now”
I then walked away, towards the front gates. Then the six sevadars forcibly stopped me from leaving. This was a premeditated and unprovoked attack on a person who did nothing at all to create this.
The reason? Because the ego of the higher up sevadar was hurt because this guy (me) dared to challenge his “ban” by turning up at satsang the next day.
Two years ago Brian wrote an article about “egos gone wild” at Haynes park. It was the same people who dealt with my situation back then. Only it was with folded hands at the time, no violence.
I immediately obeyed their request. A violent person would not have.
Osho, do you have autism? I’m not even asking as an insult. But your inability to separate the literal from the metaphorical or comical is really hard to understand.
You talked about your family and how they’re respected or something along those lines, and there is an expression that’s sort of a cliche in movies and stuff that is “do you know who my father is?” I’m not literally saying your father is going to do anything. It was just strange that your family’s respectability was even mentioned because you’re talking about a cult, some shady volunteers, and a phone. Most people wouldn’t mention their family in such circumstances.
I’m not saying what happened is impossible , but if you going to attend an event like this with the concerted and conscious intent of disobeying rules that have been clearly set out – what do you expect?
You are dealing with human beings who are defending what they consider to be most precious – why don’t you simply attend the event and obey the rules? Or if you don’t want to obey the rules, don’t attend. Who is really the goon, the instigator or the reactor? I don’t really understand the gripe.
When the sign says “Keep off the grass” and you take a dump on the lawn – what do you expect ? Tea and biscuits ?
I simply don’t understand the logic of various ex-satsangis on this site.
>>When the sign says “Keep off the grass” and you take a dump on the lawn – what do you expect ? Tea and biscuits ? << One can expect to be rebuked, reprimanded, get a fine, be arrested, for which just ONE officer would be sufficient but 6 and be punched in the face??? MIS-use of legal power is just that … not willing to address it in the end corrupts any institution be it the police, or religious institution etc.
osho robbins…. Thumbs up to you. what you say makes sense.
@Osho It wasn’t an assumption that you called the police, it’s what you yourself said, quoted below. Keep your story straight, eh?
“So I said I would calk the police as this was theft of my phone.
I did in fact call the police exactly as promised. The police explained to them that they have no right to hold onto my phone without my permission.”
George
Your master says you must live within the law of the land. Practice what you preach
Trust me if they had done that to me. I may have gone looking for them outside the scared grounds…
Be careful my friend in how you are reading what Osho has said. No one has the right to hit another.
@osho,
As interesting as your story is, how do we know it is true?
You were clearly motivated to break their rules by bringing in your phone and then recording? Was it just so you could write another post on this site?
They told you that you were not allowed to come back again yet you did? You were seeking out confrontation, what was your true motivation?
I’m a Sikh gentleman and in our temple it states you must respect the rules by covering your head, removing shoes etc etc, if someone was to break those rules then they too would be removed.
I don’t really see what your complaint is, you went to someone’s house, disrespected them and they told you to leave.
Life is fair.
Kind regards,
R. Singh
@Arjuna
“Be careful my friend in how you are reading what Osho has said. No one has the right to hit another.
Trust me if they had done that to me. I may have gone looking for them outside the scared grounds…”
I take it you would have had a stern word with them as ‘no one has the right to hit another’ …
Georgy Porgy wrote: “This sounds bullshit to me” & “I’m not saying what happened is impossible”
“Georgy”, I think we need to talk.
If I recall correctly, you have claimed on numerous occasions to have no connection to RSSB & Gurinder, incongruously & imo laughably trying to paint yourself as some sort of independent, objective & impartial judge of all the fraudulent Baba’s goings on! To be frank, I am not sure which is the more absurd & ridiculous suggestion, that you know more about quantum biology than world renowned physicists and biologists whose careers are centred around quantum biological research, or that you have no connection to RSSB & Gurinder? It really is a close call! 🙂
Come on now bro/sis, I don’t think there’s a single soul in the entire multi-verse that is buying that crock of shit you’re not connected to RSSB! If there is even the slightest hint of truth in these claims of yours, it is beyond obvious what you really mean is that you are related to older satsangis & are too young to be initiated yet, or only recently decided to finally get initiated into the family religion? My friend, you cannot even muster the slightest bit of honesty here in regards who you are, your history and your real association with Gurinder, yet you presumably imagine you are part of the 0.0000000000001% of infinite souls that are destined to reach “Sach” khand via the businessman Baba in the news for fraud on an obscene scale, death threats etc? Do you see something funny about this? WAKE UP!!
As for “Osho R”, he was probably holding (as a speaker, not listener) satsangs at his local centre when you was just a twinkle in Sat Purush’s eye. He has been going to satsang and having long conversations with your Baba for well over 20 years, and this has been witnessed by many, many thousands of people……I haven’t been to satsang for over 10 years, and about once or twice in 20 years, and even I have heard Osho having long chats with Gugu about the “ONE” on multiple occasions! Osho has released youtube videos of his actual self, discussing “Sant Mat 2.0”, so whilst he doesn’t use his actual full name (as I don’t my surname), it is clear he is not hiding behind silly monikors, pretending to be someone else, pretending to be multiple people etc. I personally believe he is simply too honest to do that here. His family connections to RSSB go as far back as probably anyone’s in the UK and he is known by many people. There is a poster here called “Chris” (MBW on the RSS forum), who is also well known online for being an RSSB apologist & never says a bad word about his religion or Pope, and he has met both me, and seen Osho R speaking at Haynes on numerous occasions (to offset the suggestion by 777 on another thread that there are “70 Oshos” and has anybody even heard him ask a question at Haynes).
Further, Osho hasn’t even told the full story and not provided any details, which may be a smart move. I don’t want to say too much, but I can assure you it was absolutely no surprise to me the persons involved, because I heard similar stories about them from 25 years ago, actually proudly told by satsangis in hushed tones (but deeply troubled me to hear them……you probably wasn’t even born then, right?). I can’t help but mention, perhaps hint, that I’m not surprised people with THE most intimate access to these sorts of religious-leader “gurus” tend to be generally very unpleasant and unspiritual people. THAT is the benefit of physical access to the “Satguru”, it seems……I think it’s very lucky there are a lot of very sincere and genuine seekers out there who don’t have access to the Baba, and instead only to the projections of their own loving hearts & minds. I think Spence has written very well on that, recently.
Personally, I think Osho’s notion that Gugu will do anything about it is deeply mistaken. I would be surprised if this is the first time their behaviour has been mentioned to him. We have had posters come here and mention missing people at Beas being swept under the rug, and other such claims about nothing being done about claims of abuse etc. I find them eminently believable, myself, but each to their own on that. I would say though, I don’t think there’s any question that some of the people Gurinder keeps closest to him are unpleasant “goons”. Rationalise that away as the master keeping his most needy disciples close to him, but I think in the real world it reveals something else.
Finally, Georgy wrote “I dunno where you get all this GIHF claptrap from.”
It’s in the thousands of books sold in the book store, right outside the satsang tent Gugu was sat in! You really should try exploring & learning more! 🙂
Cheers!
Roger Singh, if they had simply told him to leave, Osho wouldn’t be writing about this. Osho alleges he was mistreated by 6 sevadars and punched in the face, with witnesses.
Not sure what Osho expects to come out of this as far as an apology, or removal of a sevadar… Not sure what his end game on this is.
@ Roger Singh
I would have had a word with them but then again they would not have picked on me in the first place as I have been trained to handle myself to protect myself and others.
All the best
What happened on day 1 (Friday) was already taking things too far. Making me wait 3 hours for my phone.
Anyone who questions the validity of what I have stated needs to know the police were witnesses on the first day and I informed the same officers the second day. Then I filed a full police report, but further police action is on hold while I give RSSB the chance to sort this out in-house.
The irony is: I was “banned” by the sevadars making a false allegation of me threatening to “kick the sevadar”
So that means they said I made the threat.
However, the next day they have carried out an UNPROVOKED attack on someone who is walking towards the exit to leave ( I have witnesses). They can’t make up anything against me this time because my brother in law and sister were witnesses of that conversation, as I walked off to leave Haynes.
So they STOPPED me from leaving (6 sevadars grabbing me physically) then took me to a quiet private area (a hall on the left) then punched me in the Face.
Incidentally there were some sevadars there who saw me being led off, so any detailed enquiry will show I am being truthful.
An alleged threat is grounds for a ban.
So then actually carrying out an unprovoked and premeditated attack on a person who is already leaving Haynes Park deserves more than a ban for the 6 people involved.
Or is it one rule for me and a different one for them?
This is not an act of bravery or an act of self defence.
This is what cowards do. Six against one defenceless person who hurt the ego of one of them.
Hi Osho
I just wanted to say a few things to you
Firstly why do you think it was okay to film as you know that’s against the rules
Secondly your acting so big about this like you some boss
And lastly it’s good that you are banned
Because personally I don’t believe anything your saying as it’s pretty rare for a a group of Sevadars to take you to a place where you guys can’t be seen and then to supposedly Punch you in the face.
The sevadars heard the bell sound and thought it meant Round One, time to come out swinging.
@Roger Singh
You wrote:
“You were clearly motivated to break their rules by bringing in your phone and then recording? Was it just so you could write another post on this site?
They told you that you were not allowed to come back again yet you did? You were seeking out confrontation, what was your true motivation?”
1. Plenty of people bring in their phone into the back area of the tent. It’s not exactly crime of the century. What harm did I do? How many people did I hurt?
2. The incident created this post, otherwise I might have been writing about my good friend “The ONE”
3. Please tell me what gives a sevadar the authority to make a false allegation against me and then tell me I am banned. Is that seva? Is that why that sevadar is in a position of authority?
Do you not consider that an abuse of his position?
And what does it say about his honesty? Obviously he knows he is lying and making another sevadar lie. Will he lie to his guru if he asks him?
The other sevadar will almost certainly admit he lied.
This is a serious breach of trust.
4. Exactly how was I seeking a confrontation? I didn’t believe and I still maintain he had no grounds to ban me. He made up a false allegation against me. All I wanted to do was attend satsang, not seek a confrontation.
Never in a million years would I have imagined this was even possible.
Why was I attacked when I was in the process of leaving Haynes Park?
Nobody with a rational mind can possibly justify that action.
This is premeditated, unprovoked assault.
If I had retaliated, who knows how far this would have gone? If he had followed up with further punches or kicks and if I had visible signs of being attacked, it was game over for him so maybe he would not have let me leave at all.
Maybe I would have been a missing person statistic.
This is serious. If no action is taken then it’s time for any member of the sangat to realise satsang is not a safe place to go anymore.
“If no action is taken then it’s time for any member of the sangat to realise satsang is not a safe place to go anymore.” I like many others are on your side. But where is the filed police report for assault? This needs to be posted here and then to news outlets. akin to the Andy Ngo incident in Portland. Were you injured? Did you seek medical care at a hospital? Will you be going to criminal court to press charges? Were their witnesses? Again, many of us are sympathetic to your story and want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but evidence is called for before any of us can say satsang isn’t a safe place to go.
@ :The sevadars heard the bell sound and thought it meant Round One, time to come out swinging.:
Posted by: anami
Looooooool.
Osho must have a solid chim to take a punch or the sevadars there punch like girls . Lol
@ Osho if you want I will train you free . Brazilian jiu-jitsu OR my favourite that I learnt in the forces: Krav Maga.
If “Jesse” had any decency at all, he would apologize to OshoRobbins.
Hey Arjuna how long do you train bjj?
@James
1. When did I say I was filming?
What exactly is there to films there?
I recorded 5 mins of the English satsang speaker because what he was saying sounded interesting.
Is that a major crime?
2. Firstly – I am not banned. The corrupt sevadar forced another sevadar to lie in order to find some grounds to ban me.
You think that is acceptable for a sevadar in a trusted position to that ?
3. It happened exactly as I have stated, that’s why I filed a police report. Many people saw the evidence.
4. You think it’s okay to stop a person leaving Haynes park and instigate a fight of 6 against one? And then make further threats?
@J
Why do you think they dragged me to a quiet private area?
You really think they are going to punch me in public?
But some people saw me being taken away by the six sevadars
Krav Maga is better for self defense, BJJ is best if you want to fight professionally
Some of the sevadors at Haynes act strange, last year when I went to the National satsangs, I would be walking to the tent and one security male sevador would giving me dirty looks every time he saw me. I even smiled at him but he still looked like he wanted to fight me. He was quite a big guy, over 6ft and quite stocky.
Now I’m 6ft5 and weighed 215-220Ibs at the time so maybe he felt insecure
Satsangis 2 Osho Robbins 0
Osho
When these 6 satsangis hit you, did they threaten or warn you to stay away from Haynes?
Firstly the sevadar forces another sevadar to lie in order to save his seva.
That itself is serious.
Obviously he knew I was telling the truth because he told the other Sevadar to lie.
Then he says “Who do I believe? You, or the sevadar?”
He already knew the truth. He also knew he just wanted to find a reason to say I am banned.
No violence at this point. But he had already broken more rules than I had at that point.
The events of the next day take the while thing to a new level,
If Babaji rounds up all the sevadars the truth will come out unless of course they would even lie to their guru, in which case why are they even doing seva?
Osho was it a slap or a closed fist punch?
Also there seems to be quite a bit of history of you and the sevadars In the past. Read post below when you instigated them as well. While I do want to believe you I feel there is more to this story your not telling.
https://churchofthechurchless.com/2013/08/sevadar-egos-gone-wild-at-rssbs-haynes-park-center
Hi Osho.
My opinion….
Assuming your story is pretty accurate and youve blogged it out quite well here and feel justifiably abused and the need to look out for others in case it happens to them.
If it were( me ) at this point I would stop the discussion on line so you can save your integrity and not get the bloggers too involved ….
Then after its resolved however the law sets it of course we will love to hear the outcome.
You need to relax and do your legal work and keep yourself centered and focused and ask for ( inner guidance ) on what steps to take.
This way it remains on a legal level not turning into another brawl online.
Just my caring opinion..
Chy
Osho you should learn a Sockton slap…
Osho next time if you run into sevadars ego…tell them
https://youtu.be/jqakPlTdc7s
If Todd had any decency at all he’d apologize to me. For the crime of being born with a call center name and demanding apologies for no reason from and to people that don’t concern him.
Osho is a drama queen, bro. I wouldn’t apologize for anything I said to him. If 6 grown men beat him up I wanna see pictures of his face. I think nothing happened and he’s seeking attention as usual. Time will tell.
And do you know who my father is, Todd? Best show some respect.
https://youtu.be/W7-roiI5Vqc
“2. Firstly – I am not banned. The corrupt sevadar forced another sevadar to lie in order to find some grounds to ban me.
You think that is acceptable for a sevadar in a trusted position to that ?”
So you’re not banned, but someone tried banning you. Then an emotional appeal via rhetorical questing for James to take sides and simply believe that you were in the right, and that they were in the wrong.
None of us were there. Maybe you did something shadier than you’re admitting to here, and maybe they were given the authority to ban anyone who breaks rules. Maybe they’ve been requested to make judgment calls and ban anyone they want for whatever reason they want.
It’s not uncommon for organizations to give that power to its staff.
You claim you were punched in the face. Let’s see it.
And what’s with you getting in trouble in late August at the satsang spot, Osho?
Brain posted your other story on August 19, 2013.
Is it lunar cycles or something?
“The sevadars heard the bell sound and thought it meant Round One,”
Anami, this is classic.
ROFLMAO
Osho at first I believed your story but then I googled osho Haynes and the number of stories that come up written by you about your run in with the sevadars I can’t even count. They are obviously not made up as they are written by you. Yikes you sound like the boy who cried wolf.
Another osho vs sevadar incident in 2015. I see a pattern.
https://churchofthechurchless.com/2015/08/index
Jesse, GSD is typically in the UK 2nd week of August to the end of August. He typically ends his “world tour” there. Seems to be his second home.
Dear Osho,
First of all, no matter what, I would not support the physical violence at all.
And I feel that shouldn’t have taken place.
However, I also feel that whatever has happened afterwards has no essence, it’s just the repercussions of your not so wise actions.
You committed a mistake, your stance didn’t appear apologetic,
instead it appears that it was confrontational that “hey, I broke your security”
thereby giving more frustration to the sevadaars revealing that they didn’t do their duty correctly. And as if it was not enough and you ice it up with police complaint.
It appears that you sort of exaggerated the matter as well, where when you were found guilty, you could have simply resolved it by apologising (which you said you did) – and then simply waiting for the Satsang to over and receive back your phone instead of threatening them with police complaint.
After all it was you who were at the fault as per the decorum of the place.
It was just like when we used commit mistakes by bringing sports goods in our classroom..
and when teacher noticed, they confiscated the items in the staff room for the whole day and asked us to collect it only after school hours with an apology, because we were disrupting the decorum of an academic class where sports items made no sense and distracted others.
Also you mentioned earlier that your phone was on airplane mode.
That argument is not valid one.
So if they put up a guideline: “Phones allowed in airplane mode”
You think it can work? how will it be possible for sevadaars to ensure they all
have it on airplane mode? And how many will keep the promise?
You did not keep the promise of bringing the phone, you think everyone will keep it on airplane mode?
You did keep it on airplane, but that is not possibly a generalised guideline.
We are cribbing here that it was not a big crime to bring a phone. If a blast happens inside satsang center with a mobile phone, we would crib that the security sevadaars didn’t perform their duty correctly.
Don’t prove their faults, prove yours.
I would suggest instead of wasting such precious days of yours by getting into
legal about this, just go back and meet all of them you had altercations with and just
say “I am sorry for all what had happened”.
It will relax your mind and will invoke inner love.
Jesse wrote,
Do you know who my father is? Twice
I bet it’s Donald Trump
Manjit wrote,
We have had posters come here and mention missing people at Beas being swept under the rug, and other such claims about nothing being done about claims of abuse etc. I find them eminently believable, myself, but each to their own on that.
Curious to know more about this bit.
@one initiated
I did wait for three hours to get my phone back.
If I wish to leave I should be allowed to leave with my phone.
That is classified as theft. The sevadar is not allowed to keep my phone without my permission.
One initiated you say Osho apologizes, do you not think the sevadar should be the one apologizing?
Your logic is nonsensical. Here’s Osho’s apology, according to you: “I apologize for getting punched in the face. I’ll make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
This is not about the phone, it’s about him getting manhandled and punched in the face, while leaving the site, according to him.
Where is the accountability of the sevadar?
I called the police over (they were already onsite) to get them to help get my phone back so I could leave.
Why was my phone not returned to me immediately when I said I want to leave?
I believe they tried to get into it because they first said its in the IT Dept
Also illegal.
A far cry from the spiritual path.
Maharaj charan Singh said its best to stay away from satsang if it deteriorates to this level.
I may well take his advice and leave everyone to make up their own minds.
Just walk away and never look back as really its no longer my concern.
Who cares whether anyone believes what I have reported or not. I know the truth. That is all that matters.
Newsflash: Bollywood announces a new comedy soap coming in 2020.
First reports say it will be called “As the Fists Fly” in homage to the iconic
U.S. soap “As the World Turns”. Filming is scheduled in Haynes Park and
Beas India early next year.
Members of the beleaguered Dhillon family caught up in an Indian
corruption scandal in Beas, have agreed to several cameo roles.
Several RSSB followers -all with martial arts backgrounds- in Haynes
Park and other locales are in negotiations with film makers as well.
They declined to comment due to ongoing litigation and privacy
clauses.
Dear Amar,
Surely, we all should strive to find sense in our own comments.
I am trying that too.
Osho,
“If I wish to leave I should be allowed to leave with my phone. ”
I agree, that’s the normal practice around all Satsang centers.
however, this case was a bit different.
Obviously, teachers keeping hold of the sports goods could nowhere be tagged as “theft”
that was just a lite punishment. kids must learn their lesson and not repeat the offence. It’s in the best interest of kids’ own future itself.
You waited for 3 hours only after bringing the police in the picture, or just simply waited when they asked you to wait?
Waiting after enforcing the law would be different condition.
I hesitate to mention, because we are all full of flaws, but for the sake of discussions here,
your ego played wild there when you got caught red handed, you just wanted to flee from there and didn’t want to face them any further.
Of course how could you left the scene without picking up your phone.
Why couldn’t you just keep attending to the Satsang (the main motive you came here – the recording was always secondary). You could have just keep on attending to the Satsang and afterwards softly would have dealt with situation – but being hurt square in the ego – you took opposite steps. Probably, anyone would have fallen similar after being caught.
Who likes to be ashamed once, and twice again after 3 hours of waiting with that feeling.
but I feel for you for the bad feelings and experiences you’ve been through, all these could have been avoided, had you put control on your ego rightly.
I hope you will find peace soon.
“Do you know who my father is? Twice ”
I said it more than twice, and I’m gonna wear that joke out even more.
If you knew who my father was, you would treat me with more respect.
Dungeness, I haven’t been to the movies in years. But if your film idea comes to fruition, or any RS film, I’ll wait in line for a day to see it. Hopefully it will include a brawling satsangi, maybe boxing his way through a series of sevadars to earn his initiation.
Hopefully it will include a brawling satsangi, maybe boxing his way through a series of sevadars to earn his initiation.
I like it. If it were my call, Rocky’s “Gotta Fly Now” soundtrack would
play as our hero boxes his way up Satsang Ghar steps.
@ one initiated
You wrote
“You waited for 3 hours only after bringing the police in the picture, or just simply waited when they asked you to wait?
Waiting after enforcing the law would be different condition.”
But I only called the police into the matter when the sevadar point blank refused to return my phone.
I would quite happily have stayed. This is only abbreviated account. so I will explain why now. The sevadar claimed to have deposited my phone and also said it will go to IT DEPT for examination, which is illegal.
I knew they were not going to return my phone easily, and I was with my cousin and he had a child with him.
I didn’t want him to have to wait for me after satsang. Those are the type of rules I care about.
So I decided to forego satsang attendance for this purpose.
They still refused to return it.
So I agreed to stay as long as I could pick up my phone immediately after the satsang.
I asked exactly where to pick it from so they sent a sevadar to show me.
Once I got there, more lies. They said they havent got the phone.
That was when I called the police because this was now beyond a joke.
Also, one-initiated, we are not at school. Children at school don’t have the same rights. Even so, you cannot punch them either.
By the way, it was a closed hand punch, not a slap for whoever asked.
If I had not asked the police to intervene I am sure I would still be waiting now.
The police were a bit lame, as they got taken in by their lies.
If sevadars are allowed to lie, then this explains how things got to this level.
Then I agree with many of Spence’s observations that “its a slippery slope”
I am not a respecter of rules. I just make sure I don’t harm anyone. Or infringe on their rights. I act according to the situation.
The sevadars put their rules ABOVE the law and don’t care about humanity, other peoples feelings, or the law.
What happened to the teaching about
“Dye your prayer mat in alcohol rather than hurt a person’s feelings”
For a Muslim they cannot bring alcohol near the prayer mat.
So in summary
I care about what matters: love, respect, nonviolence and The law.
The sevadars care about rules rules rules and don’t care about people and don’t care about the law.
Which is better – you the reader decide for yourself.
By my actions, not a single person was hurt. Nobody’s rights were infringed.
The recording was for me to listen back to later. No harm to anyone.
That’s what I care about.
Anyways right or wrong,there is love but sometimes also ”powergames” in Sewa.
I think everywhere there are powergames.
So everybody goes around with that differently…
I am hurt a lot in earlier times also in Beas Dera..
I wrote a letter about that and indeed there was a difference aferwards.
But always new sewadars they have to learn also.
So it is good to mention things.
Look in your own inner why are you so hurt?
Also what is good for yourself in the first place to do.
It is anyway good to mention it,because everybody can always ”learn”(get insights)
Especially by looking in ”yourself” to see what really happenes/happened and why..
We should not bow for people when not deserved..love yourself first..then we can really see others too.
imho( in my humble opinion)
@ One.
Osho has no need to apologise. You are wrong. So do you think people should have apologised to Hitler???
An eye for an eye bro if someone did that to me or my family . Honesty I would hurt them badly. Rs and mediate hard bro
Lol. All the best.
Jesse,
Respecting someone because of who his father is….. Come-on come up with something better bro….. I’m sure you can.
Not my style anyways though.But am always into trying something new…. So if you tell us all about him, maybe it might be a honor for all we measly being and who knows you might earn some brownie points oops respect I mean.
🙂 🙂
S* says
Anyways right or wrong,there is love but sometimes also ”powergames” in Sewa.
Totally wrong. It’s only “powergames” in seva – everywhere and tons in Dera. It’s at obnoxious levels.
One has to be a बेशरम and मोटी चमड़ी to survive in seva. Of course a hypocrite too. Thinking and questioning are often fatal (for one’s seva). And then you have the super enthusiastic lowest level Sevadars who will blindly follow vigorously the oft completely distorted interpretation of of some rule drafted at 60 thousand feet ie Dera Secretariat.
Here is my apology.
I apologise for taking the phone in when it is against the rules.
I apologise for recording 5 minutes of the English speaker before the satsang.
I apologise for coming back to Haynes park after being banned.
I apologise for questioning the authority of the person who said I was banned.
I genuinely thought he did not have the authority to ban me. Maybe he did.
In which case I will not be attending Haynes park or any RSSB satsang centre again.
Not now not ever.
It’s not my job to reform RSSB or any person. I have enough trouble reforming myself.
It’s also not my concern.
I am walking away from the whole episode.
Osho you say “Maharaj charan Singh said its best to stay away from satsang if it deteriorates to this level.
I may well take his advice”
Had you really taken his advice back then there wouldn’t have been any incidents between you and sevadars ever! You should seriously take his advice and stop going as it is you know more than anyone in the world about Santmat. Hey, where are you latest videos? I want to watch them as it.is funnier than Mr Bean!
Osho R wrote: “I care about what matters: love, respect, nonviolence and The law.” & “A far cry from the spiritual path. Maharaj charan Singh said its best to stay away from satsang if it deteriorates to this level. I may well take his advice and leave everyone to make up their own minds. Just walk away and never look back as really its no longer my concern. Who cares whether anyone believes what I have reported or not. I know the truth. That is all that matters.”
Brother, I wasn’t going to comment again on this sad situation, but feel compelled to.
This is such an incredibly complex situation with multiple levels of meaning. I don’t think many people here will understand the full complexity (or even care to) with all it’s nuances and implications, and that perhaps includes me, you and everyone else too.
I feel for you on this one. Though I’m glad you appear to understand that people’s opinions here don’t matter at all, and that YOU know the truth as you experienced it, that the lesson was for YOU, and those like me who know you & appreciate your UNUSUAL honesty & sincerity.
I wouldn’t take too seriously at all the scepticism, questions, doubts etc of those anonymous posters who come here, don’t share a single fact about themselves, their history, their life etc, using blatantly made up names, initials etc, and expect anyone to care or believe THEM! In your posts here, and in person, you have revealed incredible amounts of your own history & background, and openly shared the most intimate and vulnerable moments of your life. In my opinion it is sad & shameful for completely anonymous posters to criticise, judge or abuse posters like yourself who have the honesty to share at least something from their own life and experiences. It’s the easy, cheap & lazy way. Also quite cowardly, imo.
Most of it is no doubt motivated by dark tide of religious/cultic denialism, justification, rationalisation, hypocrisy etc. An irony I personally note is that many of these anonymous posters don’t realise is that, I believe, you still deeply love & respect Gurinder yourself! Without exception, over the past several months you have either excused or refused to judge Gugu about any of the numerous “allegations” made against him and his cronies (see, your very real experience is now merely an “allegation”. Reality is a slippery sod :). Your passion is discussing the “ONE” (that is generally considered the end-goal of most metaphysical systems humanity has known, and that certainly includes RS) with Gurinder. People here will not understand that, Osho, they think this passion of yours is all about ego. They cannot differentiate between a playful, mischievous spirit, and the sinister, disproportionate, illegal, thuggish, wannabe gangster spirit of Gurinder’s cronies (not random sevadars, CRONIES – go google the meaning if anyone doesn’t know it).
Imo, in the genuine mystical path, there is a strong element of the “trickster”, of humour, mischief, provocation. But it is all done with a deep underlying spirit of love, compassion and a passion for truth that the average religious seeker will not understand or comprehend as it is alien to them. I personally believe that is the spirit with which Osho R attends satsang, and with deep respect and admiration speaks to Gurinder.
The response Osho received from Gugu’s CRONIES was disproportionate, illegal, sinister, thuggish & completely unjustified on any level in any context LET ALONE at the satsang of an alleged Sant!!! It really is beyond ridiculous.
Yes, Osho, this isn’t a lesson for the readers here…….it is a lesson for YOU!!! Now you yourself are facing the tide of religious denial, justification, absurd accusations etc! Now YOU must face whatever action or inaction Gugu will take………
…….Personally, I see a pattern in the disturbing turn of events at RSSB and with Gurinder since at least his cancer scare. There can be no doubt. The doors of grace have closed, my friend. You’ve seen the thugs in action. There is no playfulness there, no interest in “Sach”, no love, just religious belief & devotion.
The readers here won’t know, but you are honorable in your absolving Gugu of any knowledge or even involvement in this. You are a good devotee of his in that sense! I am not so sure, myself. But perhaps complete freedom is now just around the corner for you? Again, you wrote:
“A far cry from the spiritual path. Maharaj charan Singh said its best to stay away from satsang if it deteriorates to this level. I may well take his advice and leave everyone to make up their own minds. Just walk away and never look back as really its no longer my concern.”
Peace & love my brother!
A Fan,
Incidents occur at the venue. Someone is at fault. Either or both and incidents have fixes if handled appropriately.
But satsang is not about incidents It’s contents to the best of my knowledge have never been lowly – unless it’s the case with speakers in the UK
And thus I refuse to believe that Hazur (and especially Him) would have said it’s best to stay away from Satsangs.
What did he usually say at the end (even Babaji says it) – Agla satsang 26 January (eg) nu hoga. Jo koi aana chahata hai badi kushi nal aaye. From his perspective it’s all up to us whether we want to or not attend.
Divinity is in our deeds, not our beliefs, religions or rules.
Come on brother Osho, why are you lamenting so much?
Ask Brian, he will tell you:
LIFE IS FAIR
and Baba Sawan Singh Ji, as you surely know,has written a book with the title:
MY SUBMISSION
Nevertheless, nobody is perfect and we all are struggling souls..
Love to you!
Hey you welcome to be an iconoclast , but don’t cry when you get a smack on the hooter.
The choice was yours:
a) go to the event and obey the rules
b) don’t go to the event.
No one forced you to go.
I see there’s a history of this guy crying wolf. Attention seeker, move on, next thing he’ll be thinking he’s a guru and launching his own religion or something.
The only sevadars I saw were little ladies and old men with cataracts and smiles.
All I want to know is which of the 6 old ladies sorted this trouble-maker out?
They should be given an award for service to humanity, not a scolding.
As for Arjuna and his thousand fists of fury, I’m 99.999999% sure that one slap would put him straight into krav maya neverneverland – maybe a backhander is all the jumped-up excitable wee fella needs.
I always leave 0.00001% chance that Manjit and you lot are not total bullshitters. Much like the tooth fairy, anything is possible but v v v v v unlikely.
Dear Manjit,
I assume you are probably pointing me (or at least including me as I’ve been discussing/debating with Osho on the current incident), and that I am also one of the commenters who have not revealed their real names, neither I feel it changes anything, we all are real individuals not bots.
however, on this Brian’s blog, since last 3-4 years, I have fairly shared a lot of real things including family and personal background and also my experiences to an extent which I found viable to share.
Your comment applies to yourself too, isn’t it ?
You mentioned that nobody could understand Osho’s love for The One and tagging it wrongly with ego.
No, that is totally wrong, actually you totally misunderstood my feelings just like you pointed me / others there misunderstood Osho.
Just a few days ago I was thanking Brian and Osho for sharing such precious conversations… and admiring Osho for being able to connect with my Master so often and it’s so loving that he shares all these conversations with HIM on this Brian’s blog.
Why I have been writing all this to Osho is because I felt exactly the same as you felt for him.
I could feel the love inside Osho and I was actually regretting and feeling bad that this sad incident happened with him, I am not pin pointing that it happened due to his ego, everyone has ego, we can not survive without it and it gets hurt too. I was thinking aloud that he could have played the ego better to skip it.
What I meant is that it would have been great if he didn’t allow this to have happened to him by tricking the mind instead of getting tricked.
Anyways, Osho, I just hope you will soon be in peace and back into The Oneness business 🙂
Love to everyone.
@ george.
Nice one that does make me laugh. What a dope. Easy saying that online son- isn’t it?
My post did not work out good..so it lost..long story short..,
I tell you I was once banned too..
I know, it does’nt feel fine and also not right.
There must be more more openess over these kind of things.
Misbehavier from sewadars.. I had also in Dera,long ago..but it costed me a lot of sadness
for a long period,because it was difficult to explain to most satsangi’s in that time.
So I took the ”blame”..
Gdam maybe I musta gone to the wrong Haynes park event or something – I didn’t realize there was a cassias “Arjuna” clay version.
All I saw was nice old ladies, a polite objective guru, and tea and schones…
One initiated your comments are always a pleasure to read. You come across as compassionate and kind. Thank you and continue posting.
Well said Manjit. I agree with a lot of what you say regarding Osho’s focus. I enjoy reading his comments about the ‘Oneness’ and I believe he’s always pretty consistent in what he says and the way he says it. He is a truth seeker.
Also while Osho probably does not see it this way – it’s my view that for your average RSSB punter it takes ‘guts’ and clear thinking to stand up there and engage with GSD. So thanks Osho for your past sharings even though it appears most of the folk present do not ‘hear’ what is being said.
Interesting you (Manjit) raise the point about how things changed after GSD’s cancer – you made it once before, not much was said but it did not go unnoticed. Could well be something in it.
BTW – anyone worked out who Jesse’s father is?! :-).
Hi all,
A very interesting and thought provoking blog. Plenty of people bring in mobile phones to Haynes park as they are not checked by security at the back of the tent. Generally not a high risk security issue. Although it is against the man made rule at Haynes Park. I personally watched Osho being man handled by 6 sevadars. As Osho agreed to leave in a calm manner, I thought that was the end of it until we left Haynes park and were informed of the event. To be honest this whole episode has really put me off the path and the people ‘in charge’. I believe that the person should be held accountable for their actions. I can’t believe this is the first or final incident with the man being such a bully. The truth always prevails.
Proud of Osho and his actions.
Breaking News !!! Stop the press !!!
I have learnt that 6 sewadars/sewadarnis have been appointed on secret CoC duty and are on their way.
The rules they are going to enforce are: no caps; no talk about one (zero and two are okay expect Sant Mat 2.0 ); no talk about haynes incident; no cell phones/taking notes/thinking.
We need volunteers to form a security ring around Osho.
May Radhasoami shower his blessings on the faithful and the unthinkers
Osho, please do not walk away from this episode. Make sure the perpetrators face the legal consequences of assault and theft, so that these types of issues don’t happen again. These sevadars have way too much ego and are so rigid in their behavior and think they are above the law. Sorry that this happened to you, but please be strong and fight for justice. Johnny Singh
“I wouldn’t take too seriously at all the skepticism, questions, doubts etc of those anonymous posters who come here, don’t share a single fact about themselves, their history, their life etc, using blatantly made up names, initials etc, and expect anyone to care or believe THEM!”
Ahem, yes. If I recall correct, you’ve told us that you’ve been to Haynes Park and many satsangs. But in oh so many years, I haven’t heard you or anyone else tell a story about being assaulted there. Nor have I heard tell of anyone getting a thumping at any RSSB event, at least since Julian Johnson’s putative pummeling by Paul Petzold some 80 years ago.
I feel that I and everyone else here have the right to ask for evidence when someone makes a bold claim. An account of a sevadar mugging at an RSSB event? That’s there’s a bonafide bold claim. By all means, let people keep making bold claims on this forum. But let the rest of us ask for evidence for those claims.
I don’t think anyone here would support sevadars who model themselves on the Altamont security force. At least I hope not. But to suggest we must believe things are now this way just because someone said so in this forum? And there are apparently no witnesses, no police report? It’s a bit much imho. In any case, the story could well be true. And I credit Osho for going to the event and trying to make a recording. Just asking for evidence is all. And not for my own benefit, but to encourage said party and everyone who’s had a bad encounter with RSSB to put their evidence out there.
little j
Thanks Vijay,
Yeah, I think at times the comments does not fully convey the expression of the commenter,
and the readers assumes in a different direction… probably the commenter lacking command over the language.
I believe that kindness shall be the only way to deal with others,
we shall only be mean with ourselves, as Masters said.
Love to you brother!
On Jesses father and who is he?
Curiosity of course understandable and he will share if he wants to..
.
Folks you shouldnt have to know who somebody is IS in order to guide your comment style out of fears of
Oooops somebody is going to get me.
Be kind benevolent and non attackibg and you dont have to worry about repercussions.
The old saying
If it hurts somebody
If its unnecessary
If its untrue to the best of your knowledge
THEN DONT SAY IT…IN HERE ITS WRITING IT..
IMO..
Chy
“I tell you I was once banned too..
I know, it does’nt feel fine and also not right.”. – s*
Thank you for sharing that. Many people get banned for various reasons. After all they DO have rules, and I have broken them on numerous occasions.
I feel fine about being banned and it also feels right.
The only thing that bothered me a tiny bit was that another sevadar had to lie to create a reason for the ban.
The guy who banned me only had to say, ” you’re banned”
That was more acceptable. Even better would have been if he said that babaji authorised him to ban me.
I came the next day to calmly attend satsang and leave because I really did not think it was a real ban.
Because the grounds for it were based on a lie.
Now I will not be attending any satsang again.
Obviously the incident will be known now to babaji himself and he can handle it as he chooses.
Whatever he chooses, I accept it.
I have dropped the police action. The report was filed but I am not pressing charges.
No point.
I have already apologised and when I apologize its real. I don’t do fake apologies made only of words.
I don’t need “justice”
Justice has already been
Done. I broke the rules and I was banned. End of story.
I accept the ban. I don’t want to be
Reinstated.
The events of the Saturday happened exactly as I have written. The police report will confirm this.
However, I am not interested in taking this further.
I forgive the people involved. The chapter is over.
I believe they were carrying out their seva correctly but got a little carried away.
Can happen to anyone.
After all, I too got carried away.
Literally, by six people. LoL.
In all this happening, I wasn’t afraid, because I was confident that they would just talk to me and tell me the ban is real.
I even shook his hand when he came to talk to me with the six guys holding me.
But he refused.
He clearly felt better after the punch because we shook hands at the end.
This time he happily shook hands.
At least some good came from the punch.
No real harm done. No injury to me, just the broken glasses and a slightly bruised ego.
Which I claimed didn’t exist but it’s obviously there, hiding in the bushes.
He did me a great favour, so “thank you” to the sevadar.
I don’t classify it as “wrong”. He acted in that moment as he was trained to. Everyone does. The thief, the murderer, everyone.
Including everyone’s opinion about what happened.
There are so many opinions because everyone brings their history with them, which they consider is ” right”
It only appears to be right.
Gurbani says (p196)
Paap pun dhui bhaiee.
Sin / virtue are two brothers.
Dhuhee mil ke sirasht aupaiee.
Together they made the world (duality)
Now the solution is given:
Dhovai maar jai ikat ghar aavai guramat sehaj samaavaniaa.
If you kill (subdue) both brothers, you will enter the house of “The ONE”
And enter sehaj.
So that is what this was all about.
Its all about my old friend, “The ONE”
Nothing ever goes wrong unless I am attached to one side “the good”
The sevadar in question gets caught, is that good or bad from his viewpoint?
Good and bad only exist from a view point. No viewpoint and they both make a hasty retreat.
The real lessons are taught by real life and real punches. Until then its a theory.
This was a tiny little lesson. A mild punch that caused no injury and broken glasses. Only the left lens was broken, in two pieces, that fell on the floor. I told the guys I needed the glasses to drive home.
So if I drop the “wow, this is really bad” perception, nothing happened.
Just a free lesson for me.
People will say things like “god is watching, he knows the truth, he will give Justice”
Yes god is watching, but only for entertainment. Not to create a solution as there is none.
In duality good and bad will interact.
But there is no good or bad.
This incident was not “bad”
It wasn’t good either.
Both are perceptions.
Actually it was all happening perfectly. Even the punch was a perfect precision punch. No harm at all.
This is what Nanak was really teaching
When he says “every thing happens in hukam. Don’t be attached to any outcome.”
Just a week earlier baba said “everything happens in hukam” directly to me.
So while this was all unfolding, it was all in hukam.
So does “God” or The One
Make any mistakes?
If, yes, then you correct them.
O
I’m on the side of The ONE. No mistakes.
You and I will die one day. That too is perfect and in hukam.
Hukam means accept
Jo kush hoi so tera bhana.
Whatever happens is in your will.
Even the punch.
Even me recording.
Even me getting caught.
Accept that, then you are in tune with the one.
Its easy to accept, until the punch lands.
Accept that too.
Then the ONE will be your friend
Until then he is a distant theory
The ego has a certain line it likes to use constantly.
Its this:
“Do you know who I am?”
The correct response to this is:
“No idea mate. Sorry about your memory lapse, hope you get well soon”
Or
“God maybe?”
Or
“Sorry mate, can’t help you there. I am still trying to figure out who I am”
Or
“Best to ask your mother, that’s if she knows”
Or
“No mate, but if you wait there I will make some enquiries”
Or
“No, but the real question is,
Do YOU know who you are”
Or
“Sorry mate, might be worth raising it in Q&A with BabaJi though”
That was the question the guy who took my phone asked me.
The higher up one, who came later.
Interestingly the lower down ones never ask that question. Perhaps they already know they are nothing.
Babaji said directly in response to me question, “there is no good or bad”
Then this tiny insignificant incident happens and everyone says
“My God, this is so BAD”
Some say it to me for recording
Some say it about the six guys.
Nobody says “it’s perfect”
So obviously what we hear from stage doesn’t sink in.
We all firmly believe in good and bad.
But if everything is in hukam,
Then there is no good and no bad
Not even what I did
Not even what the six sevadars did.
Its a divine play. Watch and enjoy
And enjoy the punch too.
Because one day soon there is coming
The “second coming”
The mother of all punches
The punch of God.
Otherwise known as death.
And even the highest form of karate
Or kick boxing or whatever is going to
Help you.
You can’t punch God back, so may was well learn from the small punches.
Osho
Banned from Speaking
Banned from Satsang
At leases you can go to the banned-ara
@ One
What would you do if someone was holding a knife to your loved ones. You dont live in the UK do you. Im sure that if your reasoned with them here they would listen to your new age hippy love.
Take is cheap when its others affected. I used to get bullied when I was a teenager but then I joined the forces and the rest is history. I was then a different Arjuna. You see people like you would pray to an imaginary God whereas I would probably put my life on the line by trying to save people.
Rs bro keep living in the dream world.
Jhonnybigbananas you sound like a joker. Are you trying to wind Osho up so that he can keep beating the drums for you? Osho is being made to do and say things here i think otherwise he seems like a knowledgeable man but with his ego getting the better of him. If he has any sense he will let things go and calm down. The most respectful thing he has done here is apologise for his mistakes which will help him in his inner journey. As a Muslim myself I feel he should think about sufism rather than santmat he will have no restrictions there and can do whatever he likes. May peace be upon you 🙂
Apology is a simple one if sincere:
I shouldn’t have tried to record the guru on my phone when I knew full well this was not allowed.
Nothing else needed. But there’s a psychological issue here. One run-in okay, benefit of the doubt and all that, but there’s a history of it.
Provocateur and shit-stirrer is my call. Peace and love and all that other crud if I’m wrong, but I’m mostly not.
@sufi
Since you mention think about Sufism rather than Santmat let’s hear from you what makes Sufism a better alternate – and let’s limit it to the teachings and restrictions (or absence thereof) so long as they pertain to the teachings
SP, I am only saying from restrictions point of view as Osho likes to break rules it seems and here there are no rules as such and he can records all the sufi singers as much as he likes. With regards to teachings santmat has a living master who guides (which again Osho doesn’t likes it seems because he keeps talking against him here) sufism doesn’t have a master as such as all the singers tends to get respect.
Hi Sufi.
Sufism does not have ( saviour) teachers but there are master teachers to guide people in the sufi way…
Sufi way…as I learned it does teach the inner master and the spirit.
It does not have dhyan and simran the way sant mat does.
No visualization of a persons face in order to gain salvation.
There is chanting of various chants which I know somewhat from experiences in sufi path of the 99 names of God but in sant mat its a bit more regimented with dhyan and simran and then bhajan set time everyday…guru in place to become like your saviour …not so the sufi masters.
All are just opening to the awarenesses and wherever you start is where you are . nobody is higher or lower just opening from this area to that. No labels as such for achievements.
Opening to the spirit and being aware of ones inner being..
Chy
@sufi
You can relax
I am not going to join Sufism
Or any “ism” for that matter.
Babaji is interesting because he is waking people up from blind following.
I don’t speak against him. Many of the dialogues I have had with him are about clarification of complex issues such as
Nishkaam
He challenges people to think for themselves.
Everyone keeps asking about my father. Just know that 6 sevadars couldn’t stop him with jiu jitsu and hammer fists.
Do you even know who he is? Show some respect.
Osho
Because one day soon there is coming
The “second coming”
The mother of all punches
The punch of God.
Otherwise known as death
Since you have understood Oneness which is beyond good and bad, maybe you need just one more ‘punch’.
The Oneness you talk about seems distant, but aren’t you that Oneness itself. Truly, the essence of all of us is that unborn, undying, awareness consciousness which is the One in all. But get identified with a body, and we take ourselves to be limited to gender, age etc.
When identified with the mind, we get involved with our emotions, the good and bad, the cause and effect. The Oneness is beyond that body and mind. It is where you can play as God watching the whole entertainment with dispassion in the now.
So, don’t wait for (future) that ‘one day’, ‘the second coming’ or ‘death’. As Oneness you can never die.
Bulleh Shah said something along this line: From here, place it There.
From the body (face) that was punched, from the mind that modulated about good and bad of the whole incident, from the intellectual mind that is understanding One as something different from yourself…place your identity in One – that effortless, inborn, undying , unchanging awareness that you already are and remain as so. All is because of mis-identification.
A word of advice you didn’t as for :)..me bad.
Dear Osho,
that was nice to read about the Hukam.
One of the my all time favourite quote in that context:
“Believe in God, but lock your car”
i.e. we shall not consider our stupidity as Hukam.
or shall we?
Dear Arjuna,
This life is a dream too.
Saving people is your profession, and yes it’s a noble and respectable one, which has much more dignity than many other professions.
But it’s a profession, it gives you a living, it has nothing to do directly with your spirituality.
It gives you more opportunities of being compassionate, if you do, will surely help you.
We can be compassionate in each and every profession and situation which will help us in our journey.
Brother, you are missing and mistaking, big time.
I believe you are not even spending the 5 minutes daily, are you?
You will realise only when you start attending to your meditation.
Cribbing about your teacher that you saw Him on the beach with ladies,
is not an excuse for you not doing your homework.
It is not about RSSB or Babaji.
It is about you it is about each one of us individual.
Why do you try so much to prove that you are a tough guy?
I actually feel the totally opposite for you.
that you are really a soft hearted and gentle person,
who can not see others in pain.
Love to you brother.
Thugs guised as sevadars. Actually that’s wrong too, its one Thug leading a pack of sheep sevadars. The head Thug is past pensionable age but gets his kicks from smacking people who are not likely to hit him back. Why is the RS head allowing known thugs to head up security? Clear sign of ignorance. I’m not advocating retaliation but I’d like to see how the Thug would react in same situation where person who challenged said Thugs ego with equal physical strength and equally if not bigger Thuggish connections? Time to reevaluate who heads up “security”..the Thug is damaging the RS brand!
I respect Oshos stance and understand why he apologised..however what this does is empower Thugs like the RS head of Security to make up the rules as dictated by his over inflated ego..big ego small brain & likely to meet his match sooner than he thinks possible…unless ofcourse the real head of RS kicks the mans ego into touch…to protect his brand that preaches peace.
The Oneness you talk about seems distant, but aren’t you that Oneness itself. – hardeepsingh
Distant? It cannot be distant.
The meaning of ONENESS is:
There IS only the ONE. Nothing else is real
Paltu ikoi ik hai, dusar nahin koi.
.
I used to say that before.
“I am the ONE”
Babaji correctly pointed out to “me” many years ago, that “YOU are the ONE” is more accurate.
I pointed out at the time that “You” creates a duality.
Then we both agreed that words get in the way.
Because ONE means no “me” and no
“YOU”.
So this whole drama is all the play of the ONE. Nothing is ” wrong” ever.
From that perspective there is no need for justice. No need for revenge. No need to “teach anyone a lesson”
The sevadar and all the actions are not “wrong”
They are only wrong in duality because duality is based on right / wrong.
From the ONENESS nothing is wrong. Not even my action of taking the phone in or recording.
“Wrong” simply does not exist
“When identified with the mind, we get involved with our emotions, the good and bad, the cause and effect. The Oneness is beyond that body and mind. It is where you can play as God watching the whole entertainment with dispassion in the now.”. -HardeepSingh
We all are and will remain identified with the body and the mind and everything else including family, possessions. That will always remain, because this play in maya that I call Unreal, is also happening in this time and space. It is real in the moment. It is maya – it is happening.
How will you ever watch with dispassion? Look at this realistically. If someone is torturing your wife or child in front of you. Can you watch with dispassion?
Will you say “it’s all in hukam and let it happen?”
If you are strong enough to stop it and fight off the offenders, will you do it or will you accept it all as hukam?
Your call. You tell me.
Will you say it’s wrong or right?
Will you take revenge?
My incident I can walk away from and say it was all in hukam and fully accept that position, because it’s not that serious.
I have no injury. Only a pair of broken glasses. My nose hurt for a day but was okay the next day. Nobody else was hurt. It’s a minor incident. I don’t bear any grudge against any of the six sevadars.
A major incident, I would not walk away from. The gurus did, even with major incidents, then after guru Arjun dev, they took up the sword.
Now they decided it was time to fight against all this. That too is in hukam.
Hukam includes the way you act too. It’s not a reason to not act.
Hukam does not exclude any action or any thought.
The tenth guru fought with his sword, but had no enemies, he was not operating from revenge or anger.
One of his own people that he trained challenged him to a sword fight. Guru Gobind won. Now the guy is asking him to finish him off and kill him.
Guru Gobind says “I have never pickup up the sword, I have no enemies. You are my own, why would I kill you?”
This incident is no big deal. It has been brought to the attention of those who can now act accordingly. I personally have no ill feelings towards any of the six. They are doing their duty. If they have opersteped the line, it is up to the people in charge to take action, not my call.
I am part of the solution not part of the problem.
I have apologised and I walk away from it. I will not instigate it further.
I will not be challenging the ban. I will not go to any satsang centre unless I am told I have permission.
Even then I might not go.
I have not publicised the incident for revenge, but to bring it to the attention of the people who need to know. They can decide from there. I am not attached to the result of this.
@one-initiated
You wrote
“that was nice to read about the Hukam.
One of the my all time favourite quote in that context:
“Believe in God, but lock your car”
i.e. we shall not consider our stupidity as Hukam. or shall we?”
We shall.
Hukam means everything that happens.
It might be my stupidity to have gone to Haynes on day two alone. But that too was in hukam.
If I was accompanied by a few people, this would not have happened.
I walked into the lions den alone
Everything is in hukam means the doer is the one god. All is done by him.
Your free will is only apparent
You are a puppet thinking you are alive.
But you only live out your programming
How is that different from a man made robot?
Dear Osho,
I like your post,very much so..for yourself,it’s happily to see it that way,and it is very true also.
There are more sides to the coin,sometimes we should react and sometimes not..
I wrote a letter to Babaji about it,about my point, and that was beneficial for me to do and also for the sewadar(I think)
So it depends..
It is good to come in peace with things..definitely so..
”Everything has a reason”or ”happens for a reason”,is one of the things Babaji said when he was just
became the master.
That must be true!
To be in peace is a great thing..
I too love the” ONE..”
By the way I love Sufi’s,I go there also a lot.
Peace..
s*
Babaji when asked states that nobody is ever enlightened because he would no longer be alive.
I now agree with him. The fully enlightened person doesn’t even care about holding onto his body.
He has dropped all agendas and attachments. So what will keep him alive?
Any person including me who feels it has happened, is still not there because the let go is not complete.
I am prepared to let this go, only because this is minor.
How far does it need to go before I reach a limit and say, “no more. Now I will not let it go”
Let’s imagine things continued and got progressively worse. I will reach a certain limit.
It’s like Jesus said to peter, forgive seven times.
Okay, said Peter.
The way the said “okay” Jesus got suspicious. Maybe he will count.
So he said “I say forgive 77 times”
Still Peter said okay, because 77 is still a number. At 78 he can get his revenge
But what Jesus is saying is
Drop the very notion of revenge
Forgive, forget, move on.
Keep ranting about 10 Gurus when you see the history of nations, thousands and even lakhs of soldiers have sacrificed lives for their countries. Now do the homework, in which video is this expression- I met a Sikh man, not sick man. Same applies to Hindus and Moslems, they are not better.
Forgive forget move on after making such a big hoo haa!
This just sounds like another soapbox – like you want to create another version of sant mat 2.0 or something and to be lauded as a guru in your own right.
Bottomline – No. You. Are. No. Guru.
You got a pop on the hooter because you are a trouble-maker. And I suspect you will get many more.
Accept responsibility for your actions properly. You purposefully disobeyed the rules and so one of the 6 sweet granny sevadars flew into a rage and bopper you one. You should accept it and apologize for being in the wrong, instead of trying to pretend you’re above it all when you are a repeat provocateur.
777 is quite correct on the other thread – he can spot a bullshitter from 777 yards.
George, have a look around, more camera’s are watching the people. In China they have coupled the face recognition with an algoritme that turn citizens in good and bad ones.
That wind is blowing all over the earth … big brother watching you
Naturally, there are those who don’t care, as … “they have nothing to hide” … what makes it possible for them to ignore what is going on.
That wind blows everywhere, not only In China or Northern Korea and not only in political environments, it blows through every organisation in culture also those that cater for the welfare of humanity.
Things are what they are
bur seldom what they look like
let alone how they are presented by “interested” minds.
There is use and mis-use of legal power
And those who misuse that power use to hide that misuse behind the excuses that this power was legally given to them … so it can never be mis used.
Um
What mis-use of power?
The rules say:
No phones and recording equipment.
Clear as day.
There are reasons for these rules, not least security concerns.
These rules were intentionally, willfully and purposefully disobeyed by a repeat offender. He should be banned outright.
OSHO ROBBINS:
You come back here and we’ll kick your ass.
That last message from “Haynes Park Mgmt” is clearly a hoax, as they would never act in that way.
Haynes Park Management – it’s time for you to find a new volunteer gig. Soon Haynes Park will be sold to pay GSD’s debts. Maybe that’s why sevadars are angry and being violent. It’s the fear talkin’
George, one can see the tip of the iceberg, one sees the erupting volcano and the the puss that comes out of an pimpel.
Under the tip is an whole mountain of actions that pushes the tip out of the water so that everybody can see it.
The eruption of the volcano makes terrible things visible that are going on under the earth.
Puss that is emitted by the body shows its disease.
These events make something visible
@Haynes Park Mgmt one hopes this is a parody account and not representatives of Babajis management team…
I will say though if it is indeed the head of sevadar Thug himself monitoring and posting here..then you my friend (sic) are in for a very rude awakening of the spiritual and not so spiritual sort. You are a has been throwing your weight around on non violent satsangis. As someone past pensionable age you are no longer able to use that iron fist in the real world so lets wait & watch who kicks whose backside! Not all satsangis are enlightened so we will be forgiven for not forgiving. Unlike Osho some of us don’t take to being threatened kindly especially by pensioners with inflated egos and deflated punches.
Osho Robbins.
We shall meet again..,
Your face and my fist will become ONE.
Radhosoami…
Osho people on this site are mocking you now by creating false Haynes accounts.
Haynes Park Mgmt…see you tomorrow big man!
Mr. Curious.
GSD debts are not attached to the RS centers. If Im wrong show the legal proof that you are right otherwise shape up your accusations or move on..
Chy
@georgy porgy
Can you explain what the security risks are with a mobile phone?
I do enjoy all the comments here on CofC. I watch my thoughts and reactions to the different viewpoints. Very revealing in my ongoing understanding of who and what I am now and how I felt in the past as a true believer.
Lots of information about the Dera and Baba Ji which I find very interesting. Thanks guys. Its a never ending story of how we see the world, each of us in our own way, believers and ex-believers.
Hearing about Osho being punched is very strange compared to my one and only visit to the Dera in 1998 when it was so peaceful and I really appreciated the sevadars who were so friendly and helpful.
Osho you wrote “We all are and will remain identified with the body and the mind and everything else including “…And you continued with… “this play in Maya is Unreal is also happening in this time and space. It is real in the moment…”
At the superficial level everyone is identified with the body/mind. No denying. But the level of attachment to body/mind for each one is very different. Consider the wave and ocean…(names and form) but both are essentially water. We go to the beach and we get ‘see, identified’ with the waves and the ocean…and with just a flick of understanding..Wow it is water!
At the battle field Krishna expounded the highest teachings (everything begins in Me, happening in Me and ends in Me, but nothing is effected by Me) to Arjun who had to fight his ‘own’, but Arjun could not understand so the teachings was diluted to Dharma…so do your duty, he was told. Arjun being a warrior must fight as a warrior. Being ‘very identified’ to his role as a warrior, Arjun wasted his chance (maybe next life).
What can we do? Churn the milk to butter. As Xsevadar I am thankful to the RS teachings for the seva (where ego/identity can be bleached IF performed selflessly) for the meditation exercises (where mind from multi-pointedness can come to single pointedness)…I.e. milk processing to butter. But, alas, the last process is the jump into the true ‘understanding’ of Oneness – Just Be It.. that One. In It, the play in Maya which is unreal will continue…and you, the One, will contune spontaneously with actions, non judgementally. If someone is torturing my wife, in that moment I will leave it to that spontaneous action that will spring forth. And it can come out any which way..Hukam. You are right “Hukam includes the way you act too. It’s not a reason to not act.” Not to act is also Hukam.
When you can act or not act and ‘Know’ that you are acting or not acting, it is a beautiful play.
Swami Anubhavana likes to put it “as a man, you ‘play’ the role of a husband. If the wife dies, will the man die too. Is it not the ‘husband’ role that dies with the ‘wife’. And yet, the man is still alive.” Where will you place your true identity? On the role ‘husband’ or the ‘man’ that supports the role of the husband. Which is True? If we take husband to be Real, it is the end of hus (laughter) band (ends).
RS – “We ARE spiritual beings having human experiences”. But where is our identity? The spirit? The One? Or just the measly human being and its experiences? We all have that highest power to make this choice. It is within the reach of everyone because essential we are That, but with a misunderstanding of our true nature. Admittedly, it is not easy but it is not difficult too. How long does it take a husband to realise he is man? The ego me, to know that I am That? Spiritual journey is the dropping off of all imagined superficial layers..Neti, Neti.
Osho, thanks for your posts…everyone can learn from each other’s experiences.
Any situation that occurs in life
There are two ways to handle it:
You can fight for revenge and justice because after all you are right.
You can take it so far, then drop it. Forgive and forget. Not so easy because the ego is involved and the ego always wants to win.
That is what is behind the “Do you know who I am?” Expression.
There is the perception that I am important. This is backed by our legal system which gives everyone freedom to speak, act and live as they choose as long as they cause no harm to another.
Farid: jo tuj Maran mukyian……
The non violence route creates a solution not a problem.
Violence never ends, each side continues to react, driven by ego.
The further it goes, the harder it is to back down.
For example if I turn up at Haynes disguised, it’s not so hard to get passed the security. Especially as I have a face mask that completely changes the way my face looks. Now it’s not so easy to stop me. Naturally I would not be alone this time.
So what would happen next?
I am not saying I am going to go. Just speculating as to how far they would go the next time. After all this would be the second challenge of their authority.
Makes you wonder if all this is worth the effort. Why not just officially release recordings of the satsangs and Q&A?
Would save a lot of hassle and extra work. And would clarify his message because then nobody can say “he never said that, I heard it differently “
Osho – Before the event I too was wondering why they had such rules. But that’s immaterial – YOU chose to attend the event, knowing these rules full well, and yet YOU still chose to flagrantly disobey them. Not for the first time.
What is the point of taunting ppl and then complaining when you get your come uppance?
The sevadars don’t want to enter into a philosophical debate with you – they are too ensure the rules are followed, large numbers of ppl are marshalled and that their guru is protected. if someone disobeys the rules, they are ejected ASAP and they are probably all sick to their back teeth of your argumentative trouble-making attitude.
I think there are a number of reasons why those rules exist. The first became pretty obvious to me when I sat down – any large religious gathering is a prime target. Those phones must be a security nightmare. I suspect the other reasons include that the guru believes RS should be a more private matter where you gain more from the direct experience rather than the words being used. I also suspect he and others don’t want a cacophony of calls going off in a tent filled with thousands and for ppl there go want to listen (like me) to be able to do so. And finally I suspect he is a more pvt individual who doesn’t want his teachings quoted out of context, much like the scriptures, which many on this blog seem to have academically studied without truly understanding them.
Yep Jen – it’s completely and utterly different to my experience at the same event also, which I also found very peaceful, pleasant and polite.
So I think it’s either total BS or this guy has been goading Haynes ppl for a while and got some sort of overdue ego equalizer. Who knows what actually happened and what was said. These ‘violent’ run-ins keep happening to the same guy – I mean how lucky can you get. All I got was smiles, tea and schones – wierd.
@hardeepsingh
Excellent comments. I have only read the paragraph yet that I am copying below
“At the superficial level everyone is identified with the body/mind. No denying. But the level of attachment to body/mind for each one is very different. Consider the wave and ocean…(names and form) but both are essentially water. We go to the beach and we get ‘see, identified’ with the waves and the ocean…and with just a flick of understanding..Wow it is water!”
Brilliant. At the level of living our life we are identified with body and mind. Not just that, also all the “mines”
My family, my money, my house etc even my honour.
All seems very real and it is, in THIS moment. But in the next moment, it’s a memory only.
So when gurbani says this is unreal, it simply means it is going to END. Everything is born, lives, ends. Gurbani says that is unreal because real means forever.
So that instant realisation that it is all water means that the waves are unreal. They arise, they grow to a max size, then they disappear.
Exactly like your and my body.
Hindus have three gods for each one.
Brahma, Vishnu. Shiva. Birth, living, end. Shiva is the god of death.
He is worshipped to ask him to please go right passed my house, don’t drop in for tea, thank you.
All is water. All is god. Formless.
@HardeepSingh
It is within the reach of everyone because essential we are That, but with a misunderstanding of our true nature.
Amazing. The ONE is all there is, that’s why it is called The ONE. All else is just a passing phase.
Identifying with the passing show of maya we begin to think this is reality.
It is, but only in this moment, not ultimate reality. Ultimate reality is that in which there is no time, no space, no boundaries, no me, no you, nothing happens. It is the same state as unconscious sleep. Emptiness.
Email me at
Oshorobbins@gmail.com
Are you in the uk?
This oneness stuff has the danger of deteriorating into philosophical nonsense. With such navel-gazing, ppl risk disappearing up their own assholes before getting brought back to reality with a good smack on the hooter.
It’s pretty simple, I am not you and you are not me.
We might be made of the same stuff (atoms), but it’s put together differently. Small differences can mean huge differences. The chimp has 99% of our dna , yet you don’t see any of them designing Saturn V rockets or playing Rachmaninov.
We not only look different, but think differently and independently.
If I were you, I could read your thoughts and you mine. That is not, and has never been, the case.
I am a conscious being with my own senses and mind. I accept that we are all made from the same stuff (albeit put together differently) and I am open to the possibility that there may be a different state of universal consciousness that we can access through practiced focus and stilling our own subjective mind and senses.
The wave and still ocean is made of the same stuff, water, but they are different things shaped by different forces. And as far as I know although both the human body and ocean are made of water – the ocean definitely is not conscious at least in a human sense. The tree does fall in the forest , whether or not it is heard or seen to fall. There are limits to this Oneness claptrap.
Next thing Manjit and Spence are going to flap on about quantum sparrows or some other conspiracy theory, or Osho is going to be giving lectures on SM2.0 . Instead why don’t you just listen to what the guru is saying , it’s far more practical than your own flakey philosophies and enlightenment theories.
@ George
To be fair in Osho. He was asking the master questions with some very interesting responses.
Whilst you were stuffing your mouth with scones and perving at the old grannies who can whip- ass as you previously said.
Think Osho being there had more impact with chats he had with master than your visits of drinking tea and wanting people to smile at you. #get a life
A wake up call to all the sewadars. Your mid-term test is fast approaching. Do you have enough points? If not practical test to boost your grades is just around the corner.
Kal is going to attack Hynes Park again. You have been warned. Be ready. Time to get your fists dirty again. Don’t think just act.
Kal is persistent in its attacks and may even disguise as an old lady in pink suit and red bangles to gain entry into the holy hynes park AGAIN where the almighty Radhasoami bestows darshan to the unthinking faithful. Kal will try to sneak in cell phone to record or may even try to take notes with pen and paper. Instead he should first burn old books so he can buy newer books. The old masters were SO wrong. They taught all wrong things. People are getting smart now and many don’t buy the Guru is God-in-Human-Form crap any more. Need to cook up some new fast food type spiritual junk so they keep coming back offering money and free sewa… the footfalls attract businessmen politicians who have deep pockets.
Sewadars please take this fatwa seriously.
Here is the proof of Kal’s plan.
>> @Osho Robbins — For example if I turn up at Haynes disguised, it’s not so hard to get passed the security.
You will also come across Georgy Porgy hanging near old ladies section stuffing his mouth with scones and washing them down tea.
Keep a close eye on how many scones he is making disappear. Big Boss wants to know. Ungrateful people are already questioning where all the Ranbaxy money disappeared. These scones don’t come cheap.
Georgy Porgy writes
“I suspect he is a more pvt individual who doesn’t want his teachings quoted out of context”
Where is the logic in that statement?
If you don’t want to be quoted out of context, it makes more sense to release audio cds.
Because then there is no dispute over what the words were.
Then you write:
“What is the point of taunting ppl and then complaining when you get your come uppance?”
Really? So you support and condone physical assault?
You should register for seva.
Your next argument is
“I also suspect he and others don’t want a cacophony of calls going off in a tent filled with thousands and for ppl there go want to listen (like me) to be able to do so.”
If that was the reason, you simply say “turn your phone off”
I have been to seminars and very large events like Tony Robbins. There are no phones going off there. And no security risk from phones.
How come the sevadars don’t search people in the back of the tent if it’s that big a deal?
It’s clearly because they are not that bothered and there is no security risk
@georgy porgy
“ These ‘violent’ run-ins keep happening to the same guy – I mean how lucky can you get. All I got was smiles, tea and schones – wierd.”
What violent run-ins?
Can you quote a single one?
Never happened before to me in my life.
Up until now they have always been civil.
That is why this was shocking.
When did I say this was happening all over Haynes? So your argument about what you saw is illogical and irrelevant.
It’s like if I go to an event and someone is knifed and I say, “well I never saw any knives”
That is irrelevant and doesn’t prove anything.
If that is the level of your logic, best if you never apply to be a judge.
Georgy Porgy says the oneness arguments are nonsense but forgets that BabaJi constantly speaks of oneness
One of his favourite quotes is
Paltu these is only ONE, there is no other.
“If I were you, I could read your thoughts and you mine. That is not, and has never been, the case.” Says Georgy.
That’s not even what oneness means.
You have no understanding of the meaning of ONENESS.
Do you understand “non-duality”?
Might be an idea if you actuality listened to what BabaJi says on stage, as you clearly don’t realise he speaks of ONENESS.
Another reason to release CDs then hopefully people like Georgy might actually realise what he is saying.
Hi Osho
You wrote
“The further it goes, the harder it is to back down.”
This is when you adopt a fixed point of view. One that gives yourself permission to violate club rules on club grounds. And of course that creates more unnecessary drama when the inevitable response from volunteers (not professional security) happens.
You have the choice to file a charge of assault , because the attention of the police may help the organization pay closer attention to how they recruit, train and supervise their own security team in the future. But a judge will of course scrutinize not only the Sevadars behavior but your own.
Apparently you are trying to get something you want or need from the organization or from Baba Ji. Is it possible that things would become easier, instead of harder, simply lowering your own expectations of that organization and its leader?
It isn’t going to supply you with what you want. That seems to be the lesson here, at least from one reader’s perspective.
And what was the reason for Arjuna the Great gracing that occasion?
Honestly I am amazed at how despite the years into the philosophy one hasn’t been able to understand how RSSB and even GSD views the the One and interprets references to the One by other past masters . Osho takes it a bit to far.
It’s pretty simple
Whilst we are no different from the One and have arisen from the One, today we all are in a state disconnected with that One. Each soul has a distinct identity in this creation ruled by Kaal and has its own karmas which need to be cleared/accounted for.
The creation (Kaal’s kingdom) is real. So are the stages in the creation and beyond and whilst the One exists in everything in this creation yet he remains unaffected by it. Infact the One sustains the creation. Real also is the journey back ie the stages one has to pass through (and this has been vividly and on numerous instances mentioned by various past masters including Soamiji). But at the same time it’s not real (from Santmat perspective for real in Santmat is that’s what’s permanent).
When Paltu says doosra na koi….. it’s contrasting that One with the rest – where the rest being Maya can never be anybody’s forever. It doesn’t mean that there is nothing except him. Whatever besides him is all Maya and not worthy of human’s attention/focus.
Any reference to Ek is to mean that there is only One God and it’s only that Ek who is worthy of our worship and not some Master/teacher like GSD or Hazur or Nanak etc who come into this world representing the Almighty to guide and more importantly teach how the connection can be reestablished.
So Georgy on the Oneness bit, I am inclined to you irrespective of what your agenda was for attending satsang.
I am not privy to his interactions with sangat in the west – but I am pretty certain of what he speaks to his sangat here in India – whether in Hindi or Punjabi or even English.
Chy ~ I’ll go one step further. According to this article, GSD offered to sell the Guruship itself (to Shivinder) to absolve the debt.
https://www.newsindiatimes.com/indian-tycoon-accuses-brother-spiritual-guru-of-fraud/
“Shivinder Singh allegedly directed the holding company to acquire debt-ridden firms which collectively lent 10 billion rupees ($140 million) to the family and associates of their guru, Gurinder Singh Dhillon, according to a complaint filed to the Economic Offenses Wing of the New Delhi police seen by Bloomberg. In return, the younger Singh was promised he would succeed the guru as head of one of India’s most powerful spiritual sects, according to the document.”
Correction: GSD offered to trade the guruship for $$$
Mr Curious,
Investigative agencies are known for being a caged parrot (as the CBI was referred to by the Supreme Court of India) of it’s masters ie politicians or over zealous in their charge sheets which often fail the legal test.
Indian media only seeks to improve it’s TRP ratings and sensationalize matters with little or no understanding of the issue at hand apart from peddling political agendas.
So it’s best to be careful when commenting basis both – the news clippings and filings by the investigative agencies and better still simply wait for the final judicial pronouncement.
Bear in mind the following
– who are the perpetrators of the economic offences? Monies have been laundered out of firms under the management of Singh brothers. Breach of statutes have been caused by their firms and only after the go-ahead of the Singh brothers.
– intent to defraud : on the part of both the Singh brothers and Dhillon family is a key bit that will not only have to be established but proved as well – per law.
– wilful defaulter: whilst Singh brothers fall into this category, am not sure if the Dhillon family members can be similarly categoried
– Ranbaxy has a long checkered history of wrongdoings- much before GSD came into the picture.
– family disputes run long and deep in the Singh clan
@SP
You write
“(from Santmat perspective for real in Santmat is that’s what’s permanent).”
What does permanent mean?
Does it change?
Is it born?
Does it have form?
Does it move?
Does it have a boundary?
Is it good? Or bad?
Is it love? Or hate?
Is it kind? Gentle? Joy?
If you say yes to any of the above you simply have not understood.
Without understanding it’s all theory and just a concept. It is book knowledge until you realise it. Baba is talking about realisation.
That permanent thing you refer to…..
Can there be two of them?
Yes or no?
And explain why
@ osho
Hello Brother. Think you do ask the right questions – you gave certainly got me thinking.
And I want to say thank you.
All the best and if you need a wingman- I am here ,
Well it appears to me and it may of course have many dimensions…
Some folks on here just hate sant mat want to see babaji fall and smash him in the face cause dissention for everyone …..others love the path and some are intertwining it with whatever they are doing and/or trying to understand better where they are going and if or how RS fits in…
What I dont understand is if people resent RS resent babaji to the extent that they just want to constantly bash !! the whole thing why do they get on this blog? If you hate this entire sant mat..tell us and go away..its ok no one is asking you or judging you to like the path or any path just be a benevolent caring person on here but its not about hate and politics on here. IMO.
IMO this blog is a philosophical area with some news but should be constructive news to help us all and be supportive…Or to learn something.
It seems theres a troll type system running through here as well as general bloggers with differences which is why this is here to open channels help people to grow in their needs…..
So thats my thought for the day..
Chy
Chy wrote
“What I dont understand is if people resent RS resent babaji to the extent that they just want to constantly bash !! the whole thing why do they get on this blog? If you hate this entire sant mat..tell us and go away..its ok no one is asking you or judging you to like the path or any path just be a benevolent caring person on here but its not about hate and politics on here. IMO.”
I have wondered the same thing as you do and my theory is that these people who hate are exers and either they are pissed off that they even got initiated in the first place or they have to hate to prove to themselves that they were right for leaving. It’s what would make them feel justified in their choices.
Hey Dear Osho,
Profound questions indeed. Shaken me right through to my core despite my over 50 years of association with RSSB.
It’s a pity you answered the questions simultaneously. You should have waited for me to place my ignorance of the path and the One on public display.
I take it from your posts your comments are all based on a few PUBLIC question and answers opportunities you have had with GSD and of course your interpretation of what he said.
Better than book knowledge right? Not that I can lay a claim to book knowledge – for I have never felt the need to read a book and so have never read one.
Great you are able to understand the master and his utterances exactly as what He meant.
Now waiting for the day you realise that GSD plays to the gallery and often says exactly what the questioner wants to actually hear.
Anyways Satsangis like me ought to be extremely grateful to you for providing extreme clarity of what Babaji preaches. Will certainly mention your selfless seva to Babaji if and when I meet him next (and I hope he will grant me this request later this year).
Now, the answer to four questions you ask is YES. The Permanent is love, kind, gentle, a source of eternal joy. And a lot more that you haven’t listed. The PLM’s ran out of words trying to describe the permanent. So don’t blame you for your impoverished list.
And if PLM’s have used these attributes for the Permanent your views aren’t worth two cents ya.
Wingman get ready to jump in support of the Enlightened Osho.
LOL
Georgy porgy writes about oneness:
“This oneness stuff has the danger of deteriorating into philosophical nonsense.
It’s pretty simple, I am not you and you are not me.
We might be made of the same stuff (atoms), but it’s put together differently”
You don’t understand what oneness is about. Its not a theory. Its what the japji is referring to. Its the realization that only the ONE exists, all else is momentary, a passing phase. But the ONE remains forever.
Its not saying anything about atoms or that we are the same physically
@ chy
Some if us have lead very moral lives. I grew up without parents and went many a day without much food- as there was no one to look after me. Hence- you join the forces to get meaning and direction.
After this struggle- you realise as Brian did, something is amiss. It’s all about money and this may have been the biggest con since the Rosewel Landings yes we have a right to bash. It’s a democracy where we are !
Have a think – how much money and the big man and his cronies are generating with all this crap about the One. To keep minds discussing something that cannot be proved objectively – whilst they get away with your money.
I wish you all the best as your posts are interesting to read but on this one – I had to answer.
This message is making its rounds on social media …..
25th of august 2019 Haynes park
Babaji appeared for satsang. A lady gave 30 minute satsang in Punjabi. After that Q&A. Most questions were in Punjabi only a few in English.
One man asked Babaji about violence.
He talked about a man refusing to hand his phone over to the sevadars. I understood that the man got violent with the sewadars and the sewadars reacted.
Babaji said that satsang and Q&A are only possible if there is a certain amount of discipline. The sewadars are working long hours and are making it possible for all of us to be here. Babaji stood up for his sewadars.
He emphazized that we have to follow the discipline.
Hi Arjuna.
That was a nice post to me..
I agree if theres bad business running in RS now it will be looked at and all this scuttle and news etc etc is just brining things out in the open.
My experience in RS dor52 years thats its been in my life has been lovely and there are/were many wonderful people trying to be on a road to higher consciousness and the teachings of the masters are excellent. The life of M. Charan singh was very devoted to the sangat. He was not out shopping decorating his home travelling to party and sight see and collect thibgs to ship home drink drug carouse around. It was all for the development of the sangat.
If we consider him a human then he was an advanced soul here. The teachings are in metaohors and not to all be taken literally. You know this.
Now then the sangat has grown into millions of people wishing for a better souls growth and if you stay positive you will get it as well. Look to the deeper teachings of RS not the pitfalls that have possibly hit this new babaji.
These are there for a reason. The outcome of this whole babaji disaster is not going to be what anyones mind is currently assessing it to be. We do not know. We/ rather some judge that he stole money and now the entire centuries of a spiritual way of thinking is over and done with and so where in fear does everyone go now?
This is a mind trap/game to waste ones time.
Forget about babaji and focus on your own soul growth. Step over this baba issue and just worry about onesself.
Its true there are what appears to be waaay too many satsangis now and no personal time for each one its bloated and overgrown. Thus people get lost and confused with not a stable foundation stress becomes paramount and well its just the times folks.Im truly grateful of my time in the smaller early days.The path was full of richness then. M Charan said…to me the brick and stone of the dera is not the REAL DERA . that is within. Find that atmosphere and take it with you forever.
The lord marks souls and today millions have come why? We dont know all these answers but if we focus on the singh brothers thats not focusing on yourself what will you create? Disharmony within. Babaji may be here to teach us how to focus within by having all of HIS problems. He teaches us.
Try not to lose focus on inner work thats where you will find solace not reading indianews on the crisis of the singh brothers…that is a waste of your attention.
On an old bookmark from the 70s that is faded and bern around here I found a quote written and he said it as well.
MAHARAJ CHARAN SINGH
“MY ONLY ADVICE IS THAT WHATEVER WE MAY DO AND WHATEVER CIRCUMSTANCES WE MAY LIVE, OUR MEDITATION SHOULD BE OUR MAIN CONCERN, AND THIS SHOULD NEVER BE SACRIFICED TO ANYTHING OF THIS LIFE.”
Chy
Hi Arjuna.
You wrote
“To keep minds discussing something that cannot be proved objectively”
You said it . ….all there… but look at what you said. Now I dont beat on people Im being a friend to anyone I write to on here…
The MIND…not the soul.
The mind is in the field of illusion so anything we experience here is of the mind. The senses all of it is the mind and objectivity is of the mind as well.
Everything being done now with this babaji is to drive the people INWARDS.
You cant get close to him and chit chat grt your tears wiped and cuddled. He tells you hes not the master. Why? So you will find him inside yourself.
Now then different teacher different times and consciousness easier times than now as was with Charan. We had more time to waste to dream to romanticize about life to fall in love with everything…
He was our handkedchief. All love no matter what. He cuddled us all wiped our tears and held our hand….but stressed that its all within our meditation ….not the outer dera or satsangs. Satsangiis opinions. Chys opinions. These are all the mind.
Now then life has twists and turns paths have new information and lessons. we have babaji now with his kink in many lives. Another illusion.
Hes appearing to do everything to throw everyone off the path according to the news…which distorts it all but may have some truths. Time will tell but you keep meditating anyway it suits you just do something!!
So lets give it….
Lets say babaji is all screwed up…IS HE.?
Not for people who need to turn within which may be also nonsatsangiis. Within is a path for anyone who wants to grow beyond this dimension.
If you donated all your money to RS thats ok if it turns you within!. You would have spent it on something else and not learned anything.
You get so tired of THIS ILLUSION OF LIES that you give up and turn within..
Things will get easier if you make that curve perhaps you are but babaji is here to teach us that not to chase him for a hug a darshan a material world boon miracles and repeats of m. Charan.
He is a different soul with a different presentation..
Chy
Georgy porgy
You wrote
”The rules say:
No phones and recording equipment.
Clear as day. There are reasons for these rules, not least security concerns.
These rules were intentionally, willfully and purposefully disobeyed by a repeat offender. He should be banned outright.”
Was the response appropriate?
Have you ever broken any of their rules?
Think carefully before answering because if you lie then six guys will come knocking on your door….,.
What I did caused zero harm to anyone.
What they did was illegal
1. Theft
2. Assault
I won’t even mention lying Anami causing another sevadar to lie as those are now quite normal
# Osho think you are wasting your time with Georgy.
How could he have seen what was happening to you when:
1.he was scoffing scones
2. Checking the aunties out- who in his words can ass- whip. (Bit wrong but each to their own)
3. Drinking copious amounts of tea – so busy again.
3 he claims people were smiling so clearly he saw what he wanted to see. I can imagine this guy with folded hands and a wall to wall smile. #fake!
Take care osho
Osho–
“lying Anami?”
Me? Osho, no, I’m not a Haynes Park sevadar. I live in NYC and have no ties to the UK or to the organizational structure of RSSB. Can’t you tell I’m a Yank by my spellings?
Hi Anami
It was a typo
This sentence
“I won’t even mention lying Anami causing another sevadar to lie as those are now quite normal”
Should be:
“I won’t even mention lying and causing another sevadar to lie as those are now quite normal”
“And” auto corrected to your name.
Sorry Anami.
Obviously you know I won’t say anything against you.
Osho–
That’s good. Paranoia could take hold. I worried you were going crackers.
“The handshake mystery”
There is a whole mystery yet around “handshakes”
I am civil towards all people. No exceptions.
The week before, guru ji had said directly to me, two things, in response to my question about “Nishkaam”
1. There is no good or bad.
It will certainly appear like there is, but there isn’t.
2. Everything happens in his hukam, nothing ever happens outside. So you may as well enjoy the ride.
So think for a moment.
Longer, it might turn into meditation and we don’t want that now, do we?
We all have an agenda, the way we want things to happen.
So for example when they caught me with the phone, my preferred outcome is: the sevadar tells me its against the rules, and walks away. That would be cool.
But preferred outcomes only happen sometimes.
My preferred outcome in life is that I remain always in good health. That I have a healthy and strong body; that I never die.
My preferred outcome in family life is that I have exactly 2.4 children, and they always obey me, and turn into exceptional and model humans.
My preferred outcome in business life that I start a business and it generates for me 10 gazillion dollars per month with no effort. All delegated.
Life doesn’t always deal me the cards I want. Sometimes it will deal me better than expected cards.
Sometimes it will deal me really shitty cards.
“Jo kush hoi so tera bhana”
Whatever happens is your will.
Accept that and everything changes. You will still have your agenda, your preferred outcome, that cannot be avoided.
However you will also accept the cards you are dealt.
Sometimes it will appear as if the deck is stacked (i.e. its all happening perfectly). But it’s a perception.
Zen says “The Great Way is easy for those who have no preferences, bring in the slightest preference, however, and it becomes impossible”
Zen gives great wisdom. Allow everything to unfold and its perfect. Start dictating to life with a list of your demands and you are miserable
Continued……..
Solomon,
Focusing more on content than construct of your post, I won’t be surprised if this were to be the official response of the Dera if one were to write to them on hand phones. Little do the likes of Osho realise how disruptive their actions can be to the Sevadars efforts towards ensuring a safe hosting of a satsang program.
Best part the cribbers will act and behave in a similar manner if ever they are honoured with a seva.
This whole incident – why isn’t Osho taking it to it’s logical conclusion? If he is convinced he was wronged/assaulted, the centre/Sevadars have breached a law, why doesn’t he
– put in a written complaint to the Secretary RSSB (with a copy to the UK representative) detailing the assault of course naming the 6 Sevadars involved. Surely it shouldn’t be hard for an old satsangi to get the names of those involved.
– make it clear that he expects demonstrable action from Dera on this else he will be compelled to take legal recourse
– highlight that phones are allowed at the backside of the tent and if it’s a breach of guidelines why shouldn’t the Sevadars responsible be show caused and seek out the action taken. Ask for the Dera’s official guidelines on phones on satsang grounds/Dera and inside the tent/shed. If he has supporting evidence that’s super
– ask Dera for their guidelines on banning Satsangis from attending Satsangs. Dera has guidelines for almost everything so they should have one for this too.
– send reminders in case he doesn’t hear from them
– take next steps basis the results of the above listed.
The handshake mystery. Continued……
So it’s impossible that everything happens according to my will all the time.
However it is possible to do the next best thing:
Drop “my will”
And replace it with
“Your Will”
Let life unfold and accept.
You still have a desired outcome but
You have only a slight attachment to it.
“Let go, Let go….. Let go……”
Becomes your meditation.
Now cool things begin to happen.
Like getting punched in the face, yet you accept the punch.
Here “punch” means any outcome you didn’t want.
So let’s get back to the handshake mystery.
Day 1. When I met the guy who eventually punched me, the first thing I did was shake his hand. I had met him before, I had great respect for him. .
He also shook my hand. But of course he had plans to set me up so he could justify a ban.
I had no idea. So I played along not even suspecting foul play about to happen.
When he asked the sevadar to give his version of events, the sevadar said “I don’t want to say what he then said to me”
I knew there was not a single thing I said I that was out of order, so I said “go ahead and say it”
He said “he said he would kick me in the nuts” replied the sevadar.
I laughed.
“I said no such thing” and “I never say such things”
Its clearly out of character.
He said “well who do I believe? A sevadar, or you?” Implying the sevadar.
I said “I am telling you the truth”
Then he said he believes his sevadar and tells me “we are not going to get along. You are banned from satsang, local, and national and international”
He handed the phone back to me
After getting me to sign a statement that I have had my phone back.
I shook his hand and left.
I cared nothing about the ban but I was wondering why the sevadar lied.
Then it all became obvious. The higher up guy had called the sevadar over and they chatted for a few minutes before he drove off.
I now knew why. He had told him to say those exact words when asked.
It was a setup. But it was perfect. I wasn’t in the slightest upset because coming to satsang was for me interesting entertainment but nothing more.
Naturally I would miss the conversations with guruji but no big deal…….
Day 2. When the 6 guys were holding me, waiting for their boss to come, he finally came.
I extended my hand for a handshake but he refused. “I am not going to shake hands with you” he said.
I was the enemy and you don’t shake hands with the enemy.
However I didn’t see him as the enemy which is why I offered to shake hands.
“The final handshake”
After he punched me, and as the van was called, I again offered to shake his hand, and this time he shook my hand.
Clearly I had no malice towards him. I did of course report it to the police but I told them not to take any action against him.
The police report confirms it all happened and I reported it immediately while it was still fresh in my mind. I had no reason to make anything up.
The handshake mystery proves I had no malice towards the guy.
Everything happens in hukam. Whether I like it or not is irrelevant.
The hukam continues, regardless.
@Anami
If I started seeing you in Haynes
When you are in NY
It could means you are a lot more
Spiritually advanced than you are admitting on here.
And that it was the radiant form of Anami that I saw.
And if you deny it, I know you’re just being humble.
That’s how beliefs become formed.
@SP & Solomon
If this is the narrative of what happened then it’s a lie:
“He talked about a man refusing to hand his phone over to the sevadars. I understood that the man got violent with the sewadars and the sewadars reacted.”
The Sevadars already had my phone, which they grabbed from me to delete the files. I absolutely did not get violent, instead I firmly stood up to my legal right to be given my phone back. It was a £1000 iPhone X.
I said I would report it to the police if they did not hand the phone back to me.
Clearly their story cannot be true because if I had the phone, why would I call the police?
They were illegally holding onto my phone and simply wanted my phone back which is my legal right.
They can enforce their rules, but cannot break the law.
They were breaking the law, not just rules.
I made it clear that I wish to leave Haynes Park. What right did they have to make me wait till around 3pm for my phone?
I was firm in requesting my phone back, and said I would call the police.
I only carried out the action I said I would if the phone was not returned to me.
I absolutely never made any threat to anyone. The sevadar was made to lie to fabricate evidence to give the other sevadar a reason to ban me.
The phone incident itself was not grounds to ban me. He had to create something more serious, so he did.
I don’t have witnesses on my side. I have the truth only. He has witnesses but not the truth.
I know the truth, I don’t need to prove it to anyone, as I don’t want any action taken. I reported it to the police while it was fresh in my mind, but I am not taking legal action.
I have no injuries, just broken glasses, which the police photographed.
Arjuna and the other wingmen (of Osho)
I sense hesitancy on Osho’s part to take the incident to it’s logical conclusion. So why don’t you all join hands and write to the Secretary RSSB Beas and get Dera’s version.
Send in the police report at the very minimum.
Get the official position on hand phones at grounds and inside the tent.
Bring to Dera’s notice that Sevadars allow phones at the backside of the tent.
Get guidelines on getting banned.
You all will be doing us great service as well.
Drop the legal angle if there is no intention to go down that route.
Extend your online support to the next logical steps.
What if this incident beers him off the path.Sad.
In Spiritual perspectives vol 3, letter 170 (second to last paragraph) Hazoor states if the atmosphere of satsang is not there, it is much better to sit at home and read santmat books and attend to your meditation, rather than waste your time.
He says it again in the last paragraph.
A month ago I went to a “simran / katha” programme in Walsall. It was arranged in someone’s house. First time I ever went to one.
I couldn’t see anything there to cover my head so I went in without covering my head.
Did all he’ll break loose? Was I assaulted?
No. One person took it upon himself to find a head covering and gave it to me. I am not too good at using it, so I asked him to help and he tied it for me.
No threats, no man handling, no assault.
I was breaking their rule there too.
Here’s the question you need to ask.
Once I said “I am leaving Haynes Park immediately” then what should be their course of action?
The reason I said I was leaving was because I went there in my cousin’s car. He had a child with him. The last thing I wanted was to inconvenience him. If that meant I miss the satsang, I didn’t care anymore.
So I said “I am leaving Haynes Park” and politely asked for my phone back, so I could leave.
I should have been handed my phone back and if they wished they could escort me to outside Haynes Park.
That would have been the legal and civil thing to do.
Instead they refused to return my phone, even to the police.
I had to wait till approx 3pm before I got my phone back.
That is not legal or the proper way to deal with the matter. I am pretty sure that is not standard procedure.
The police involvement was their choice, as I had made it totally clear that unless they gave my phone back I would call the police.
One more very important point. The sevadar who later claimed that I said “I will kick you in the nuts” never said a word to the police even though he came back to the police to take responsibility for the phone.
Why not? Because it wasn’t true and it was only later on that he was instructed to say those words.
Obviously if it was true it made sense to inform the police at that time. After all they were right there, asking questions.
Di, thanks for that. Huzoor used to say that we have to be practical. If something causes us to lose our balance, then we need to make an adjustment.
25th of august 2019 Haynes park
Babaji appeared for satsang. A lady gave 30 minute satsang in Punjabi.
After that Q&A. Most questions were in Punjabi only a few in English.
One man asked Babaji about violence.
He talked about a man refusing to hand his phone over to the sevadars. It was understood that the “man got violent with the sewadars and the sewadars reacted. ”
Babaji said that satsang and Q&A are only possible if there is a certain amount of discipline.
The sewadars are working long hours and are making it possible for all of us to be here. Babaji stood up for his sewadars.
He emphazized that we have to follow the discipline.
Yes Di
On satsang.
He also says on the RSSB questions recordings I dont know which one but he says M. Charan that is.
Satsang is good to go for some time and as time goes on it changes and we may stop going due to changes and thats ok..WE NEED to learn how TO BUILD THE INNER ATMOSPHERE. That is what we need .
Soooooo yes me talking now.
After sometime many do feel the need to just be with ones own self and try to learn meditate and grow…for me I have brought in other teachings that I have learned from over the 52 years that I have been involved with RS starting at a very early age and an earlier than 20 years old initiation.
Long story…its not that the satsang is no good any more but one can just feel the need to not go and its ok.
If you want to go back….I find the shoes just dont fit but being in the masters presence is another post another day.
Do what you feel YOU NEED not what other satsangiis tell you that you need to do.
They do not know what YOU need most..
Chy
Osho hasn’t made his story up, his story is doing the rounds at Haynes, I was quite surprised to hear of the sevador who hit him.
Arnie – how are they telling the story at Haynes?
Arnie, do you go there to spy? If yes, then you need to learn and get a full story. Give further details pls.
Hi Osho
You did nothing wrong. There is no point in dwelling on it.
You were physically assaulted. What do you want to do about it?
What else matters?
Chy, a couple of weeks ago someone on this blog had asked if it was written anywhere that a master tells disciples not to attend external satsangs.
I came across this letter and posted it.
I agree with you, the path is inside. In our lives we need to create a conducive atmosphere to hear the inner satsang.
I don’t think complex policies are needed for external satsangs.
Hazoor in the same letter, I mentioned earlier, states that if you get that atmosphere on a footpath sitting with 4 satsangis, you should go there instead of formal satsangs in beautiful halls.
Di
Chy,
About a week ago someone on this blog had asked if a master had ever instructed disciples to not attend satsangs. I came across this letter a couple nights ago.
I agree with you that the real path is inside and all of our external activities should create a conducive atmosphere, and aid us in attending inner satsang daily.
As Hazoor states in the same letter, if we find that atmosphere sitting on a footpath with 4 satsangis, we should continue it, instead of attending formal meetings in beautiful halls which lack the atmosphere.
@ chy
Just read your beautiful responses. A lot to take in. So I will read again tomorrow with a clearer mind.
All the very best
If I were Judge Judy, I’d yell at Osho for testing the boundaries, but I’d yell at the sevadars even harder for assault and battery. I couldn’t lift the ban, but judgment for the plaintiff, cost of eyeglasses plus pain and suffering. :::gavel:::
“You don’t understand what oneness is about. Its not a theory. Its what the japji is referring to. Its the realization that only the ONE exists, all else is momentary, a passing phase. But the ONE remains forever.”
Ah, so it’s not a theory, and there you’ve copied the theory as written in a religious scripture. You’re really honest and smart. I’m glad that here at this churchless place we’re all learning that completely unfounded religious ideas aren’t actually that at all. We’re all just too stupid to know how non-religious these religious ideas are.
Tomorrow I’ll come back for “Jesus is Lord. It’s not a theory. You just don’t understand.” Maybe next week “La IlahaIlallah Mohamed Rasul” will be proven to be a simple fact that’s totally not a theory, and definitely not religious. But I’m too stupid to understand that one about Mohamed. I’m not at that advanced level of superconsciousness yet. But I’ll get there. Believe that.
Let me know when you get there Jesse – that advanced level.
Will step ‘down’ to meet you. LOL.
Just kidding Jesse. Let me know if you ever wish to meet the worst disciple ever. Will send you the address with perfect directions. Know it all very well for it’s my address.
Btw what’s your objective to get to that advanced level? To understand Osho bro concept of Oneness. If yes God speed to you.
Hopefully you will be able to better explain Osho’s concept of Oneness.
Cheers
@ Osho Robbins
The purpose of my post on Q&A session held on 25th was not to portray your incident in a negative way.
It was to show all how they at Haynes have probably twisted it and Babaj’s response.
I know you are telling the truth as it happened. Sorry if my.post was misinterpreted.
@solomon
No need to apologise. All I was doing was pointing out that it is incorrect, not holding you accountable
This doesn’t seem to be true. I have been with RSSB since my childhood.. I am 30 now.. no sevadar would do this what you said.. they can be harsh and arrogant which is okay since sometimes the seekers don’t follow the rules made by them.. they are humans and get angry if something doesn’t work according to them..
Also you dare to Record the satsang and could manage to take the phone inside.. Dera rules specifically says if you are caught taking the phone inside the premises where sermons are being conducted your phone will be detained for three months..
Nitedh,
Are you able to share a copy of the Dera rules.
Thanks
@osho can you show us a copy of the police report? Some of the things you say dont sound genuine tbh. Only because you wanted to leave and wanted to shake someone’s hand after and was patiently waiting for your phone to be returned does not mean you were not violent before all this and that you are not guilty! Also, lying to the police is also a punishable offence dont forget!
“Dera rules specifically says if you are caught taking the phone inside the premises where sermons are being conducted your phone will be detained for three months..”
One more reason to avoid RSSB at all costs. That’s one of the most totalitarian and unnecessary policies I’ve ever heard.
Also Nitesh, he wasn’t at the Dera. He was at Haynes Park in England.You can’t legally take people’s property out of the childish spite of a mystic in the first world.
Nitesh Matta
It really doesn’t matter whether you think it is true or not.
It happened to me and I am having a hard time believing things went that far.
Already the events of the Friday were extreme and I was kept waiting for four hours before my phone was returned to me.
I have been in RSSB all my life. My father was initiated 1962. There was so much love between satsangis in those days. In fact I met one of my fathers old friends there while I was waiting for my phone. It had been a long time since I saw him, so I approached him.
“Do you recognise me?” I asked
(Not “do you know who I am?”)
He looked at me and said
“Can anyone ever forget their own son?”
WOW. I was in tears.
He used to do the tape seva in the 1970’s
In charge of recording satsangs.
How ironic that now I was waiting for the return of my phone for recording and back then recording was a Seva.
You must live in a different world.
In the UK that would be illegal
Perhaps you are in India and perhaps the law allows that, but I would be surprised if it does.
If a rule is illegal, it needs changing because nobody is above the law.
If your phone is kept by RSSB for three months it would seriously disrupt your life and I can’t imagine they would really do that. if they did, it would be unreasonable and I cannot imagine anyone going back to such a satsang.
I believe your information is incorrect
@kaal
I have no reason to lie about anything.
I have nothing against RSSB.
In fact go check my comments. I have been actively supporting RSSB.
Also I am well known in RSSB circles.
I don’t need to produce any police reports because I have nothing to prove.
If you don’t believe me, you are welcome to not believe. I am not trying to convince you.
I have simply stated exactly what happened exactly as it happened.
I don’t blame you for not believing me – I too would not believe if anyone told me because it appears impossible.
However, it did happen. I am not pressing charges. The people in charge are aware of what happened. I bear no grudge or lay any blame.
In fact I apologise for taking the first step by breaking the rules. I apologised to the sevadar at the time too.
But never imagined things would go this far.
After 700 hyper defensive histrionic comments he says “If you don’t believe me, you are welcome to not believe. I am not trying to convince you.”
Yeah. Ok.
@ osho. They are probably laughing at you.
I would have knocked the shit out of them . Say no more. Even Gurus in the past ha e picked up the sword.
Arjuna
This is a perfect case to seek advice on from GSD
Osho should Just state the happenings and seek his view on what and how should a Sevadar and Osho he should have acted? Were the acts and behaviour of Sevadars appropriate? Were his acts and behaviour appropriate? Did the Sevadars follow the rules or went beyond? Is it possible to have a copy of the rules published by Dera – so that even the Sangat is aware of the consequences blah blah.
He doesn’t want to press charges, fine. Atleast this he can do.
For anyone who doubts, what reason would I have to lie?
Day 1 is impossible to fabricate because there were many witnesses throughout.
My cousin is also a clear witness to the lies the sevadar fabricated because I told him exactly what happened as we walked to his car.
He witnessed the meeting with the sevadar.
Day 2 I have no witnesses because they took me to a quiet place away from the crowds.
However my sister and brother in law saw me being held against my permission by the side of the walkway. They also saw me walking back towards my car to leave Haynes.
Quite a number of people saw six people holding me and taking me forcibly to the hall on the left.
One sevadar saw it from a few feet away because I said to him “look, this is called seva”
The sevadar in the front of the hall they took me too also saw it.
And enquiry into this will show it is true.
The sevadar at the front gate saw me coming out of the van, and was told not to let me back in. That’s another witness.
Then the police report to the three police officers on traffic duty who also took a picture of my broken glasses.
I had met them the previous day too.
Then the full report at Bedford police station.
Why would I go to that length to report it if it was not true?
I was already on the way exiting Haynes Park. So if this incident had not happened, I would already have been driving home.
Arjuna – That wouldn’t be too smart, my friend. Sevadars are protected by a force field of grace and energy. Your fist would become instantly enfeebled by love on impact, and you would never be able to make a fist again in anger. Your wrists would stay limp with devotion like Osho’s.
@ SP. Totally agree with what you wrote.
Thought. Some people can die with a punch to the head. Luckily Osho took it without any lasting damage.
Say if he had died or gone into a coma (The Rea God forbid).
This would have been a more serious investigation or a murder investigation people need to think. Mind you some of the numbnuts would have said the Baba took Osho to heaven lol.
It’s all a bloody joke . Wish I had never heard of RSSB. A bigger con than Madoff!!!
@ GSD Lover! Shame masters grace didn’t extend to protecting osho. I would have knocked all 6 out with love off course.
Ps don’t ever tell me what to do. I will decide what is smart. Not you.
Oaho is not lying, people are talking about what happened at Haynes, I know the person who punched him, he’s quite well known. I didn’t believe Osho at first, I never thought anything like this could actually happen.
@Arnie Maybe it’s misdirection to get people focused on this rather than GSD’s exploits.
People at Haynes talk about this, but not all the non-GIHF quotes, Sheena’s book, selling the mastership to a relative etc.etc.
May be I am wrong, but to me the whole idea behind spirituality and santmat is to broaden our perspective (the 30,000 feet view if you will) and become totally aware of the world/universe surrounding us. We had left the rigid rituals of our previous religions for the sake of spiritual ascent. It seems RSSB policies are becoming just as rigid.
As seekers of the ultimate truth, we have to live the path! WE should not force others to follow our shallow rules which are man made. Same God resides in Osho and the sevadar. If a sevadar punches Osho in the face, he is punching his God in the face. The entire management team pats him on the back for teaching Osho a lesson, and making him an example for the sangat. Yet everyone expects to reach sach khand.
Brothers and sisters we have to remember that our deeds (karni) bring us closer to the divine and make us holier.
During initiation we are given a yardstick by which to live: “will our actions bring us closer to God or take us away from God?” We should step away from an assignments that involve hurting another person.
GM: hurting the feelings of someone else is the worst of all sins. Even God doesn’t forgive us for it.
I wish all satsangis (sangat and sevadars alike) would ask themselves this question, and live according to the universal laws of humanity (love, compassion, kindness, truthfulness, forgiveness, tolerance, industry, etc. ) Even BBji tells everyone to become better human beings first. These principles are to become the foundation of spirituality.
Ultimately only we are responsible for our souls. On day of judgement, our adherence to our religious beliefs/policies or the excuse of “We were just doing what we are told to do by someone higher up” won’t help us. Only our spiritual attainment will help our souls.
Wish you all happy meditation.
Di
@Arnie,
So then let all these witnesses speak up for their co-satsangi. Write to Dera/GSD on lines I have been repeatedly stating.
That’s the least he (with or without witnesses and luckily there are many who saw the happenings) should be doing
Send in a letter to Dera now. GSD is gonna be at Dera next 2weeks.
No point simply whining in here.
@arnie you said
I know the person who punched him, he’s quite well known.
So does this well known personality have a name?
@Osho, do all Satsangis a favour –
1) write to Dera ,- let me know if you need help with the names of the Secretary, Head of Security and the individual responsible for overseas centres.
2) post a copy of both the letter written and Dera’s response in here.
Appaling that you were punched. What has this become….scien(ceOfTheSoul)tology?
Part 2 – the next day
Has just been posted by Brian.
Just to make it clear. I know the names of those involved, however I purposely kept their names out of the report as My intention was not to escalate this, but just to state what happened.
Naturally, the police report contains actual names, but I will not be taking any legal action against anyone. Neither will the police as I am not pressing charges.
My purpose in writing here was so the truth is told and from what I have been told RSSB officially reads this blog
So they will know. I am not seeking any specific outcome
Osho my friend, a few commenters here have repeatedly asked that you write in to Dera Beas secretary and to Babaji as well. Please do so asap !
Although you say RSSB officials read this blog they may choose to ignore this matter unlike your official written letters to which Babaji or the secretary will have to respond.
Lately so much of negativity about Rssb…
At times i wish i was born during the era of Great Master Baba Sawan Singh Ji !