Archives

The Osho Carnival of Life was created and filmed in 1992 to celebrate the occasion of Osho leaving-the-body. This January 19th marks thirty-six years.

The carnival was the brain-child of Mohi and Francesca. A large workshop was created in the Pune Commune (now called The Resort) where hundreds of people participated in a huge, energetic happening making all manner of costumes, floats, and rehearsing various acts. As you will see, even an elephant joined the party.

The video concept and editing was done by Loki, Vimal, and myself. It was “lost” for many years, but Bhikkhu from New Earth Records recently discovered it on his hard drive and shared with me. I did some additional restoration to get it to its original length. I don’t think I have ever seen so much joy gathered in one place!

Osho continues to inspire seekers from around the world. His “carnival of life” sends a powerful message to live a life of totality overflowing with meditation, love, creativity, and celebration.

Osho stopped speaking publicly on April 10, 1989, his last words being: “The last word of Buddha was ‘sammasati’. Remember that you are a buddha – sammasati.” The subsequent months were a series of darshans consisting of celebration and silent sitting.

Osho attended these as often as his health permitted. When not able to attend, Osho suggested playing discourse videos as a way for his people to stay connected with him. It became more obvious as months went on that he was preparing us for a time he would no longer be with us physically in the body.

The format of the darshans slowly evolved into a three-stage meditation known as Evening Satsang With The Master, also known as the Osho White Robe Brotherhood. Night after night, Osho was honing the stages, especially the second stage. In the beginning, Osho would sit in silence for about ten minutes, then open his eyes, get up, and go out dancing. Initially, the music would play through these times he was in his chair. One particular evening, Osho’s hands suddenly began moving, gently keeping time to the music, and before the musicians knew it, he had raised his arms skyward as if raising the collective energy, all the while keeping time to the music. One particular evening, he suddenly clapped his hands together high above his head, signaling a stop. Unsure of what was happening, we (the musicians) played on. It was a situation we felt terrible about afterwards because we had not followed his direction. We decided that if he did it again the next night, we would stop with him. Alas, it happened again! This time after the stop, Osho brought his arms down and rested his palms on his lap. Lo and behold, after a few minutes, he started moving his hands again, and then his arms! Up they went, as did the music, to a peak, and again he stopped. This sequence happened a third time. After a few minutes, he opened his eyes, got up, and started celebrating with the hall. This format crystallized and eventually became the Music/Silence Stage we know today. Osho asked Nivedano to keep the time, and after ten minutes, he should hit his drum three times.

The musicians asked for a video feed and monitor from Nishkriya. Since we were sitting far back in the hall, it helped us see Osho’s movements (and his dancing!) and follow him better.

This music/silence sitting became quite wild with each progressive night. Osho would move his arms and hands in the most amazing ways — always giving and raising energy, which would deepen and intensify the gaps of silence. As everyone in Buddha Hall had their eyes closed, no one except the musicians could see what he was doing. At some point, Nishkriya set up a video monitor in the Book Store to play the previous night’s darshan so people could witness for themselves this amazing spectacle.

Another beautiful phenomenon developed whereby at the darshan’s end, Osho would get into his car, and people would rush to the perimeter of the hall. Osho would have Avesh drive slowly, and there was this lovely, sweet namaste communion that happened. During this time, the musicians would continue to play, grooving and jamming. One such track comes at the end of this clip, accompanying a few iconic photos of Osho from the darshan evenings.

Darsana is the Sanskrit root of the word ‘darshan’. It literally means “to see” or “to behold”. It is often used in a reciprocal sense to describe the melting of energies that occurs in the presence of the master.

Waduda and Bhikkhu made this footage available, formatting it with title and quotes. I did some additional editing of the soundtrack and added the ending. The live track can be heard on the CD “Lion’s Roar”. It is one of four tracks from this unique time, the last months Osho was in the body. It is available as a free download here: https://www.oneskymusic.com/instrumental/

This clip is a New Year’s reminder to live life to its fullest; not to take a single moment for granted; to live a life of joy, love, laughter, and celebration. It is one of the last darshans with Osho before he left his body, January 19, 1990.

Beloved Friends,

First of all, Happy New Year! 🎉✨
It promises to be an exciting, nourishing year of music, meditation, and celebration.

We have a great line-up for Oshofest Dallas this year:

Sofia–flute and vocals
Lee–saxophones
Milarepa–guitar, vocals
Prabodh–bass
Teerth–drums
And special guest, Aneesha Dillon

Join us for this Spring awakening, an inner reset in the best sense of the word.

The dates are April 3 – 5.
Plan to arrive Thursday as the event will start first thing Friday morning with, you guessed it, Dynamic Meditation!🙌💥🙌

Mark your calendar!
Book early!!
This is going to be amazing!!!

Details:
Osho Simran Center, Dallas, Texas
Contact: Sangeeta (phone 214-724-1991) (oshosimran2025@gmail.com)

Meditation reveals your subjectivity. Subjectivity is your consciousness. And your consciousness and its experience makes your life significant, meaningful, eternal, immortal, without any beginning and without any end, a celebration, a moment-to-moment dance. Unless you have transformed your life into a moment-to-moment dance, you have missed the opportunity that existence gives you.
Osho Yahoo! The Mystic Rose #30

* Archival Footage from Uruguay (photo session) and Portugal (Osho departing for India)