WHY OSHO LEFT HIS BODY AT 5:00 p.m. ON 19TH JANUARY 1990 ! - WHAT HAPPENES.....

I LEAVE YOU MY DREAM THE EVENING AFTER OSHO LEFT HIS BODY , SWAMI AMRITO ADDRESSED THE WHITE ROBE BROTHERHOOD AND MOVINGLY DESCRIBED OSHO’S LAST MOMENTS, INCLUDING HIS LAST MESSAGES TO HIS PEOPLE. THE COMPLETE TEXT FOLLOWS: AS YOU KNOW, OVER THESE LAST FEW DAYS OSHO’S BODY HAS BEEN BECOMING NOTICIABLY WEAKER. WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW IS THAT HE HAS ALSO BEEN IN CONSIDERABLE PAIN. BY THE NIGHT OF 18TH, THE PAIN IN HIS LEGS WAS SO SEVERE THAT HR WAS NOT ABLE EVEN TO COME STAND ON THE PODIUM AND BE WITH US. OVER THAT NIGHT HE BECAME WEAKER AND WEAKER. EVERY MOVEMENT OF THE BODY WAS OBVIOUSLY AGONISING. YESTERDAY MORNING I NOTICED THAT HIS PULSE WAS ALSO WEAK AND SLIGHTLY IRREGULAR.I SAIDI THOUGHT HE WAS DYING.HE NODDED.I ASKED HIM IF WE COULD CALL IN THE CARDIOLOGISTS AND PREPARE FOR CARDIAC RESUSCITATION.HE SAID, “NO, JUST LET ME GO.EXISTENCE DECIDES ITS TIMING.” I WAS HELPING HIM TO THE BATHROOM WHEN HE SAID, “AND YOU PUT WALL –TO-WALL CARPET IN HERE, JUST LIKE THIS BATH MAT.”THEN HE INSISTED ON WALKING OVER TO HIS CHAIR.HE SAT DOWN AND MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FEW ITEMS THAT HE HAS IN HIS ROOM. “WHO SHOULD THIS GO TO?”HE SAID, POINTING TO HIS SMALL STEREO.IT IS AUDIO? NIRUPA WOULD LIKE IT?” HE ASKED. NIRUPA HAS CLEANED HIS ROOM FOR SO MANY YEARS. AND THEN HE WENT CAREFULLY AROUND THE ROOM AND LEFT INSTRUCTIONS FOR EVERY ITEM. “THOSE YOU TAKE OUT,” HE SAID,POINTING TO THE DEHUMIDIFIERS WHICH HE HAD FOUND TOO NOISY RECENTLY.AND ALWAYS MAKE SURE ONE AIR CONDITIONER IS ON,” HE CONTINUED. IT WAS INCREDIBLE.VERY SIMPLE, IN A VERY MATTER –OF –FACT AND PRECISE WAY, HE LOOKED AT EVERYTHING.HE WAS SO RELAXED, AS IF HE WERE GOING FOR THE WEEKEND. HE SAT ON THE BED AND I ASKED WHAT WE SHOULD DO FOR HIS SAMADHI. “YOU JUST PUT MY ASHES IN CHUANG TZU, UNDER THE BED.AND THE PEOPLE CAN COME IN AND MEDITATE THERE.” “AND WHAT ABOUT THIS ROOM?” I ASKED. “THIS WOULD BE GOOD FOR SAMADHI?” HE ASKED. “NO,” I SAID, “CHAUNG TZU WILL BE BEAUTIFUL.” I SAID WE WOULD LIKE TO KEEP HIS PRESENT BEDROOM AS IT IS. “SO YOU MAKE IT NICE,”HE SAID.AND THEN HE SAID HE WOULD LIKE IT MARBLED. “AND WHAT ABOUT CELEBRATION?” I ASKED “JUST TAKE ME TO BUDDHA HALL FOR TEN MINUTES,”HE SAID, “AND THEN TAKE ME TO BURNING GHATS- AND PUT MY HAT AND SOCKS ON ME BEFORE YOU TAKE MY BODY.” I ASKED HIM WHAT I SHOULD SAY TO YOU ALL. HE SAID TO TELL YOU THAT SINCE HIS DAYS IN THE MARSHALL’S CELL IN CHARLOOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA, IN AMERICA, HIS BODY HAS BEEN DETERIORATING.HE SAID THAT IN OKLAHOMA JAIL THEY POISENED HIM WITH THALIUM AND EXPOSED HIM TO RADIATION, WHICH WE ONLY CAME TO KNOW WHEN THE MEDICAL EXPERTS WERE CONSULTED.HE SAID THEY HAD POISENED HIM IN SUCH A WAY THAT WOULD LEAVE NO PROOF. “MY CRIPPLED BODY IS THE WORK OF THE CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS IN THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.” HE SAID THAT HE HAD KEPT HIS PAIN TO HIMSELF, BUT “LIVING IN THIS BODY HAS BECOME A HELL.” HE LAY DOWN AND RESTED AGAIN.I WENT AND TOLD JAYESH WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND THAT OSHO WAS OBVIOUSLY LEAVING HIS BODY.WHEN OSHO CALLED AGAIN,I TOLD HIM JAYESH WAS HERE AND HE SAID FOR JAYESH TO COME IN.WE SAT ON THE BED AND OSHO GAVE US HIS FINAL WORDS. “NEVER SPEAK OF ME IN THE PAST TENSE,”HE SAID. “MY PRESENCE HERE WILL BE MANY TIMES GREATER WITHOUT THE BURDEN OF MY TORTURED BODY.REMIND MY PEOPLE THAT THEY WILL FEEL MUCH MORE-THEY WILL KNOW IMMEDIATELY.” AT ONE POINT I WAS HOLDING HIS HAND AND I STARTED TO CRY.HE LOOKED AT ME, ALMOST STERNLY. “NO, NO,” HE SAID, “THAT IS NOT THE WAY.” I IMMEDIATELY STOPPED AND HE JUST SMILED BEAUTIFULLY. OSHO THEN SPOKE TO JAYESH AND TALKED ABOUT HOW HE WANTED THE EXPANSION OF THE WORK TO CONTINUE.HE SAID THAT NOW THAT HE WAS LEAVING HIS BODY, MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD COME; MANY MORE PEOPLE’S INTEREST WOULD SHOW,AND HIS WORK WOULD EXPAND INCREDIBLY BEYOND OUR IDEAS.[ IN A SEPRATE PRESS STATEMENT AMRITO SAID. “IT WAS CLEAR TO HIM THAT HAVING THE BURDEN OF HIS BODY WOULD ACTUALLY HELP HIS WORK TO FLOURISH.”] THEN HE SAID, “I LEAVE YOU MY DREAM.” JAYESH THEN HE WHISPERED SO QUITELY THAT JAYESH HAD TO PUT HIS EAR VERY CLOSE TO HIM, AND OSHO SAID, “AND REMEMBER,ANANDO IS MY MESSENGER” THEN HE PAUSED, AND SAID, NO ANANDO WILL BE MY MEDIUM.AT THAT POINT JAYESH TO ONE SIDE, AND OSHO SAID TO ME, “MEDIUM’ WILL BE THE RIGHT WORD?” I HAD’T HEARD WHAT HAD PRECEDED IT SO I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND. “MEETING?” I SAID. “NO,” HE REPLIED, “FOR ANANDO, MEDIUM-SHE WILL BE MY MEDIUM.” HE LAY BACK QUITELY AND WE SAT WITH HIM WHILE I HELD HIS PULSE. SLOWELY IT FADED.WHEN I COULD HARDLY FEEL IT, I SAID, OSHO, I THINK THIS IS IT.” HE JUST NODDED GENTLY, AND CLOSED HIS EYES FOR THE LAST TIME. [A SEPARATE PRESS RELEASE FROM OSHO COMMUNE INTERNATIONAL STATED: “OSHO LEFT HIS BODY AT 5:00 PM. AN INDIAN PHYSICIAN, DR. GOKUL GOKHANI, GAVE THE CLINICAL CAUSE OF DEATH AS HEART DISEASE.”] OSHO HAS GIVEN SOME VERY SPECIFIC GUIDANCE FOR HIS WORK. ABOUT NINE MONTH AGO, OSHO FORMED “THE INNER CIRCLE,” A GROUP OF SANNYASINS NOW NUMBERING 21. OSHO SAID HE WOULD HAVE NO SUCCESSOR, THAT THE INNER CIRCLE WOULD BE HIS SUCCESSOR. THE FUNCTION OF THE INNER CIRCLE IS, IN OSHO’S WORDS, “TO REACH UNANIMOUS DECISIONS ABOUT THE CONTINUED FUNCTIONING AND EXPANSION OF THE COMMUNE AND OSHO’S WORK. ANANDO IS PREPARING A FULL ACCOUNT OF OSHO’S GUIDANCE ON THE WORKINGS OF THIS GROUP AND WHO IS IN IT. THE INNER CIRCLE ON APRIL6, 1989, OSHO GAVE INSTRUTIONS FOR THE SETTING UP OF A COMMITTEE TO BE CALLED “THE INNER CIRCLE.”THE AIM OF THE COMMITTEE HE SAID, WAS TO REACH UNANIMOUS DECISIONS ABOUT THE CONTINUED FUNCTIONING AND EXPANSION OF THE COMMUNE AND HIS WORK “I AM TIRED,”HE SAID, “AND I WANT TO RETIRE.” OVER THE NEW MONTHS OSHO KEPT CLOSE WATCH ON THE WORKINGS OF THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS, EVENTUALLY HE FINALIZED THE COMMITTEE AT 21 MEMBERS, WHOM HE SAID HAD BEEN CHOSEN TO REPRESENT THE COMMUNE DEPARTMENTS AND HIS WORK. HE STRESSED THAT THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE COMMITTEE WERE TO REMAIN SECRET. HE ALSO SAID THAT THE COMMITTEE IS NOT TO BE INVOLVED IN SPIRITUAL CONSIDERATIONS, BUT SHOULD LOOK TO THE MUNDANE WORK, THE PRACTICAL PROBLEMS OF THE COMMUNE:“THE INNER CIRCLE IS NOT A CLUB TO DISCUSS PHILOSOPHY.IT IS PRAGMATIC AND PRACTICAL WAY TO DECIDE THINGHS. OSHO SAID THAT WHEN ANY MEMBER DIES A NEW MEMBER IS TO CHOOSEN UNANIMOUSLY BY THE REMAINING MEMBERS.
THE 21 MEMBERS ARE:
JAYESH( CHAIRMAN )
AMRITO(VICE CHAIRMAN )
ANANDO (SECRETERY)
AMITABH
ANASHA
AVIRBHAVA
CHITTEN
DEVAGEET
GARIMO
HASYA
JAYANTIBHAI
KAVEESHA
MUKTA THE GREEK
NEELAM
PLOTINUS
PRASAD
TATHAGHAT
TURIYA
VEDANT
YOGI
ZAREEN