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Osho
ISSUE SIXTY THREE, JUNE 2007 Ecological Balance
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Tantra- sannyas and death Celebrating the opposites

The Flower How many adventures in my life with Osho!

What I would have never imagined was to find myself in Italy having a sannyas celebration in the Temple of cremation of Viterbo.

Elsa, one of my young clients and now nearly a younger sister for me called me on May 21st pm totally upset.

Radha please help me!!!
Her younger sister (25 years old) had just died in a car accident and Elsa was deeply bonded to her sister. Her outcry of pain left me shocked and in confusion... what can I do?

Who am I in order to help someone to go trough this type of pain? What do I know about death? How many times someone died to whom I felt deeply tied to?
My experience with death is minimal considered that all members of my close family are all alive.
All these questions confronted me with the total impotence that any human being perceives face to face with death so, allowing myself to feel the uneasiness that this impotence provoked in me: uncertainty, “not knowing” and the absolute void in which this topic throws you in.

No, there were no answers to these questions but silence and a sense of mystery.
I decided to go even deeper into it, trying to find something to offer Elsa
And the reply did not take time to come.
Perhaps love, presence and the unexplainable sensation that I lived when Osho left his body is enough…. I said to my self.

How did I forget about the greatest death I lived.. my Master’s death and all the gifts that this experience gave me?

All this left me with the most tangible thing of all…LIGHT.
And how to find that light in a situation so far from the Pune Commune or an Osho energy field?
I called Elsa and told her to help her sister to go towards the light. I reminded her that even crying and her pain not to see her beautiful little sister close to her, had to include light and that would have been the only way to accompany her and to give her support.

All of us friends and acquaintances kept a candle lighted in all homes until the time of cremation to symbolize the light and to remind ourselves to accompany Elsa and her sister into the light.

The day of the funerals I was not there but Elsa told me that, even if the bishop of that church did not agree, she decided to let her friends play and sing the songs that her sister had loved so much.

It seems that Elsa suddenly felt to be transported in a totally new space; she said: “I did not imagine I could feel so much pain and at the same time so much love!

One or two weeks before this event Elsa had decided to become a sannyasin and she asked me to have a celebration as soon as we would have had a chance to meet next.

The day after the funerals it was decided to bring the body to the Temple of cremation in Viterbo. A small group of friends traveled all the way there to give support to Elsa and I decided to bring with me a mala and her new name.

I expected to meet a distraught and desperate Elsa, instead I found her and her mother surrounded by an absolutely tangible light and serenity.

The mother said:” I do not know what it is…perhaps you transmitted me something, but I feel full of peace.”

They also told me that the all family would have like to participate to Elsa’s sannyas celebration, included her sister that was there in the coffin.

I did not want to propose something out of place but the memory of Saraha, an enlightened Master, gave me the courage to offer Elsa and her family the possibility to celebrate her new name right there around the casket.

Saraha lived two centuries after Buddha in an area in India very close to Pune.

Born an Hindu, after having left his Brahmin family in search of enlightenment, shocked everyone first by dropping Hinduism to Buddhism and than leaving his studies to go and live with a low cast arrow smith woman that turn out to be a Tantra master. He lived with her in the sacred place reserved to cremations, singing, dancing, making love and celebrating. In this way he achieved enlightenment.

Celebration became his life style. Living in a crematorium and celebrating.
Living in the place where there is only death and living joyously!
This is the beauty of Tantra-it brings together the opposites, contradictions.
I had brought with me some Osho’s quotes on death; I read them and an energy far more intense started to be felt by all. After a while I came close to Elsa and put the mala around her neck and all together we surrounded the coffin.

The feeling to be totally present to life and to death could not be more real, followed by a sense of unity, emptiness and fullness ever so ecstatic.

Elsa’s new name is Prem Yamini: Prem means Love, Yamini means night.
Loosing yourself in the depth of love.
When you are in a state of love night does not exist….

- Ma Krishna Radha
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