A true disciple of Osho

                                         

During world tour in 1986, Osho visited Nepal in search of beautiful location to set up his new spiritual commune as his wish to live in Himalaya in his old age but it was not materialised due to than political situation of Nepal. He stayed about 42 days at Hotel Soltee in Kathmandu and gave sermon and interview to the seekers. It would have been best if Osho was allowed to stay in Nepal to set up his spiritual commune. He is a supreme integrator bringing together the East and the West, Spirituality and Materialism, Science and Religion, The old and the new, in over-arching vision of giving rise to the new man, new humanity with conscious living. Osho’s Charisma is escalating day out and day in despite of his physical absence since last two decade. Those who came closer to Osho through his books and meditation therapy can only know him right way. Osho is the most controversial man since Jesus Christ, branded with spiritual terrorist.

All master were once a disciple of a certain guru and they passed through the same procedure to become an evolved disciple. Swami Ananda Arun was a man of spiritual quest, born on June 6, 1946 in spiritual city called Janakpur. According to his nature, he had visited many gurus during his adulthood and finally tuned with the fearlessly speaking master Osho on March 29, 1969. Swami Arun attended his first meditation camp in Dwarika, India where Osho was giving discourse on “Mai Mrityu Sikhata Hun”. According to the guidance of his master, he returned to Nepal on December 21, 1974 and then he started spreading Osho message and meditation therapy to the seekers from first meditation center of Nepal known as Rajanish Prem Pariwar in 1971 Pulchowk, second, Asheesh  Rajanish Meditation Center on December, 21 ,1974 Tahachhal, Kathmandu and finally Osho Tapoban, an International Commune and a Forest Retreat Center, Nagarjuna hills ,Kathmandu on March 21, 1990.

Swami Arun conducted his first meditation camp in 1974 in India. On June 29, 1984, Osho declared him Acharya and Bodhisattva. Bodhisatwa means a spiritual person who has sacrificed his personal comfort and desire to liberate seekers from worldly suffering. Osho further entitled him with the degree of a Director of Meditation and Spiritual Growth of the Rajneesh Mystery School on November, 1986 in Mumbai. Presently, Swami Ananda Arun is engaging as founder and coordinator of Osho Tapoban, He is a fluent orator of Nepali, Hindi and English, frequently appearing on T.V., Radio and print media, his book like “Santagatha”, “Santadarshan” and “Antaryatra” are very popular among Nepalese and bestselling book of Nepal. Recently, Pokhara University has included “Santadarshan” in its academic curriculum for Bachelors in Development Studies and Osho’s book on “A New Vision of Women’s Liberation”.

Apart from spiritual eminence, Bodhisatwa Swami Ananda Arun is known as Arun Kumar Singh in the field of engineering. In the initial years of student, he had a dream to be a railway officer in India with the anticipate to travel around in special royal cabin as facility provided to Indian railway officers, with his maturity, he had a dream to be a pilot but choose the job of engineer for the prestige of his family. He got scholarship from Government of Nepal in India for bachelor of engineering for the Karnali Project with five year agreement to accomplish the Karnali Project.  He worked in NCC-N as an assistant engineer. He became renowned second class engineer of government of Nepal but reigned early due to his dignity and straight forward nature of living. After resigning from government job, he started his own Consultancy Company, popularly known as Building Design Authority at Kamaladi in Kathmandu where he worked as a Managing director. As a professional Engineer, he involved in design, construction, supervision and consultancy work. He was personally involved in making and designing of more than one thousand building, some of the remarkable work of his twenty five years of engineering carrier is Royal Drugs Department of Nepal where he worked as supervision and construction engineer, involved in the re-construction of Singhdurbar after fire broke out, worked as a local consultant of main building in Tribhuvan International Airport and personally involve in construction of domestic airport terminal building of Nepal. Most renowned construction and design done by him were second phase of Hotel Soltee, Tribhuvan University main building of Kirtipur, U.N. residential building of Nepal and I.T. Park of Kavrey valley.

Bodhisatwa Swami Ananda Arun is a successful engineer and a spiritual celebrity; turning into 71 year old in June 2014.  Even in his old age he is maintaining his good health and travelling around the world to spread osho message of love, peace, laughter, dance, meditation and celebration. It is the pride of nation that Swami Anada Arun is managing Osho work from Nepal. Swami Arun believes that Nepal is reach in spirituality so it could be an exporting center of spirituality to the outer world. He is one of the few camp conductors among Osho circle travelling around the world spreading Osho message in USA, Canada, Germany, France, Italy, Holland, U.K, Ukraine, Russia and India. He has initiating more than 80 thousand people into neo-sannyas moment of Osho and has been supporting to establish more than hundreds of meditation center in different part of world including Nepal.

Swami Ananda Arun has proved the saying through his endless effort that “the body of master shall pass but his work shall continue”. In fact, Master interest is to help disciple in spiritual path and if the disciple want to sustain master work than credit goes to sustainer. Osho Tapoban is a byproduct of true disciple Swami Ananda Arun. Tapoban is an oasis, an excellent place to practice meditation; most of the meditation therapy were personally experience and designed by Osho for the contemporary people living in stress. Osho Tapoban is quite different than other meditation centers. It is contributing indirectly to create joyful and peaceful society and importing more than thousand of spiritual tourists every year around the world. Nepal is becoming fertile land for Osho’s neo-sannyas moment.   

Bodhisatwa Swami Ananda Arun is honest and respectful to the master so he does not like to call himself a Guru rather he want to recognize himself as a guru bhai (disciple of same master). Swami Arun says, “I have not initiated anybody, only master can initiate. I only inspire people. It is their decision to take sannyass and its Osho’s energy and love that accepts them. I am just a medium. I can become an empty vessel and through me Osho initiates his disciples.”  True disciple is always empowered by God and Master to establish divine relationship among seekers. Master, Osho is physically absent but he is living more than ever among his disciples who are tuned to him. The spiritual relation between guru and disciple is eternal and divine with full of love and friendship. It is said that when devotee intensely pray to God to know the truth than God send guru as a guide. Swami Ananda Arun, a true disciple of fearlessly speaking master OSHO.

By Giri Bahadur Sunar

The author is a meditation practitioner and sociologist by profession

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