A small gathering of old friends
In addition to the three big meditation events in the UK during the Easter weekend, there was another, very special, event in Somerset. It was a meeting of so-called ‘golden oldies’ – sannyasins who have been around for a very long time! In this case everyone here had been a sannyasin for more than 30 years! And still going more or less strong (a few senior moments in the memory department) and still totally into Osho!
I have recently moved to a cute country cottage near Croydon Hall and because my good friend Neera had come over from Boulder, Colorado, to visit her brother in Devon I decided to have a kind of house-warming party to celebrate with some of my oldest and closest sannyasin friends.
Satgyana, Premgit, Neera, Anugyan, Prageet, Pankaja, Sandhya, Veena – click on photo to zoom in
We all came to Osho in the early seventies and have been through all the various ‘phases’ eg Poona 1, Rajneeshpuram and Poona 2 together. Now we are scattered all over the planet so it is a very special occasion when we find ourselves in the same country for a few days and are able to meet. I haven’t seen Neera, Satgyana and Anugyan for more than seventeen years and yet, such is that incredibly deep contact we have through being so close to Osho, there is not a second’s gap when we meet. We take up where we last left off – albeit many years ago with many countries in-between. This for me is one of the most precious legacies Osho left us.
Last week Neera flew in from Boulder, with Satgyana, Anugyan, Pankaja, Prageet and myself having returned from India within the last two months. Sandhya and Premgit returned two weeks ago from an extensive photographic trip to Burma, Calcutta, Orissa and Varanasi.
This was a very precious ‘gathering of friends’ – to use Osho’s words – and I felt my new cottage warmed and blessed by their presence. Osho also said ‘whenever two or more of my sannyasins have gathered together, I will be there.’ I felt very much that he was.
text by Veena – April 2007