
An impressing a
positive report, the press office in Poona couldn't have produced any
better

A film like this was almost
inconceivable during Osho's lifetime:
an unbelievably positive
documentation about Osho and Sannyas from the year 1993.
This is the most comprehensive
documentation about the Sannyas movement.
It takes the spectator around
the world, beginning with Osho's Ashram in India, to the largest European
centre in Cologne, Veeresh's Humaniversity in Holland and finally to St.
Petersburg in Russia, where at that time a Sannyas movement just started to
emerge.
After a detailed contribution
about the centre in Cologne, the Humaniversity of Veeresh in Holland is
covered very detailed in a well-meaning manner.
This film has to offer some
absolute highlights. Thus e.g. for the first time after the destruction of
the Ranch in Oregon Sheela, one of the responsible actors for this disaster,
appears in front of a camera.
There is nothing left of the
complacent power greedy Sheela of the earlier years.
After seeing her interview,
one is tempted to ask the question: Has she been always in such a state of
mind? And why has no one ever taken notice of this?
A real Bummer is the interview
with Veeresh. He teaches us the different ways of how people use to hug each
other. Of course he cannot resist the temptation of personally demonstrating
the film crew all these strange positions. Subsequently, he outs himself as
fully enlightened and as the most beautiful man alive on earth, at least of
those he came to know up to now. And naturally all his friends can only
confirm that statement.
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Very
interesting is also the part about the Russian Sannyasins, which have
found shelter in a shockingly grey building from the remains of the
soviet empire. Everything here looks a lot different from what western
Sannyasins are used to.
Not many would have expected such a variety amongst the
Sannyasins.
This
documentary looks more like an advertisement for Osho and his movement
then an ordinary TV documentary. |
Osho centre in
St. Petersburg |
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