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A Tribute to Krishna Prem’s Life

This is a tribute to our beloved Krishna Prem who left his body this past week on Sunday 9th – a few hours past Mahaparinirvana which is the day to celebrate the death of all enlightened beings. Very pertinent! It was also the day after the third anniversary of lovely Deesha’s death. He adored her so this again seemed fitting.

KP was well known and much loved by many, many sannyasins around the globe and was for me personally one of my oldest, closest and dearest friends. He came to Osho’s last Mount Abu Meditation camp in January 1974, participated in the famous ’Kailash’ experiment (the first ’survival’ reality situation even if it wasn’t filmed) and a few months later edited a book which is still one of the most loved by many sannyasins – The Way of the White Clouds. It was the first book to be produced after Osho moved to Poona.

Later Osho asked him to work in the Press Office and do PR for him and he travelled all over India talking to famous people like Indira Gandhi and Morarji Desai about Osho.

KP was always a writer and wrote the definitive English book on Peter Mandel and Colourpuncture, Colour me Healing, used world wide as a kind of text book. Before he died he was determined to finish his book on his life with Osho from 1974 to 1981 which Osho asked him to write. I have read bits of it. It is hilarious and we all look forward to its publication.

We will all remember KP for his incredible sense of humour and phenomenal, often bitingly acerbic, wit, and as one of the great individualistic characters of the planet. He was also an infinitely loving friend.

We would like to publish the letter he sent out to friends after a heart attack and when he learnt he had incurable cancer. A mind-blowing inspiration to all of us to consider when faced with our own inevitable death.

"Well the heart’s now OK, with its new stent, after the heart attack, but being in the hospital also revealed cancer (metastases) in the liver and lung, and it’s not curable. So no chemo or other treatments for this boy. My whole voyage with Osho has been about surrender and now that Existence obviously wants me to vacate this body, am going to surrender with grace. Medicine is about prolonging life; to me, if the signs are clear, that’s just needless interference.

I’m being and will be well taken care of – Sourabh (all that’s changed is the structure; the love and friendship are as deep as they ever were) and a circle of close friends to laugh with, and some excellent healthcare folk to make the body as comfortable as possible as I begin the vacating process.

As the news spreads the telephone is starting to ring a lot, so I’m going to write everyone and ask them to email not phone. I want my energy to be free to focus on travelling in towards the silence not outward into social intercourse. So there we go. No Canada for me, obviously.

I feel now like my ties are being cut and the balloon is beginning to float away.

It’s quite beautiful, actually.

I send you lots of love. Please write whenever you feel to.

Love, Krishna Prem"

There will be a mammoth celebration for KP in Byron Bay on Saturday 15th. In true KP fashion he has organised every detail of the celebration, down to who will carry his coffin, and written his own eulogy! (see this page)

Divyananda has hand-painted the silk lining of his coffin which was made by Manasvi and Padma (who designed the Osho Tarot deck) designed and made the robe he will be wearing.

A very sweet touch was that when the funeral people came to pick up KP’s body the stretcher was maroon and they had a special covering for the body, also maroon. A fitting sannyasin departure!

text by Veena – 17th September 2007 – More about KP:
www.otoons.com
Letter from Garimo with photos of Celebration