What remains undoubtedly constant is interest in Osho — especially his dynamic meditations, audio/video discourses, and books ...

The author with her mother and sister when her mother first came back from the India ashram. She's wearing the black-beaded Bhagwan mala and sunset colors.Courtesy of Ronit Plank My mother left me ...

Sarah T., a body therapist who had been practicing in California, went to the Shree Rajneesh Ashram in Pune in June 1978, after reading some of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh’s books and attending workshops ...

In the 1970s, the spiritual leader Osho, then called Bhagwan Rajneesh, began gaining a big following. Many famous Bollywood stars were attracted to his teachings. Actor Vinod Khanna even gave up his ...

“Before I left for Pune [Poona, India], I was a very capable, articulate, professional woman,” claims Roselyn Smith, a forty-one-year-old social worker who was known as Ma Prem Sugatha when she ...

Pune's Osho International Meditation Resort offers a unique spiritual getaway, blending meditation with celebration. It's not an ashram but a 'spiritual Club Med' for inner and outer abundance. As per ...

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My mother left me twice to go live in an ashram, once when I was 6 and then again when I was 12. When I was an adult, she told me her leader felt children were obstacles. After finding out how kids ...