That, perhaps, is why Sadhana and other women followers have shrugged off the prefix that had been theirs for years. “There are no Mas and Swamis here any more. We go by our names,” she says nonchalantly. Amrito talks about the 1989 public meeting in Buddha Hall, which, he says, was arranged on Osho’s directions, and where Amrito and two other senior disciples, Anando and Neelam, spoke.
The session was recorded and the video shown to Osho. “In that meeting, we told the people about the vision Osho had for the centre. He wanted us to create the most beautiful spiritual health club in the world. A kind of Club Med., spiritual Club Med., as in ‘meditation’. He wanted a huge swimming pool, tennis courts, a dojo for martial arts and a house for creative arts like painting, sculpture, dance, music, theatre and a mystery school with a complete smorgasbord of every kind of esoterica. He wanted a health club, beauty club, a spa, gymnasium, medical center, discos and restaurants. And that’s what we have done. The process started right then,” says Amrito.

They make no claims to a larger philosophy of freedom and the “new man”. The ashram is a more chilled out, if a less interesting place in terms of ideas.
And so you have the new resort complex that covers 2,50,000 square feet and comprises the guesthouse, the auditorium and the sprawling kitchen and dining area. The Osho auditorium is a pyramid-shaped meditation hall that reaches up to 84 feet in height. The guesthouse on top comprises 60 tastefully done up air-conditioned rooms with double beds and attached bathrooms, to give the visitor “a five-star facility at three-star rates”. All this is in addition to the earlier complex of the Buddha grove, the multiversity complex, meditation rooms and the boutique that sells Osho robes and the bookstore.

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