Sw Anand Crystalhenge
There were so many interesting people around in that ashram while Osho was still "in his body".
The letter below, along with a mala was given to me by a man that used to walk through Osho's ashram with a walking stick to support a supposedly bad leg.
We both happened to be in the Buddha hall one evening when there was some really ecstatic music being played.
The lights were mostly out except those around the hall and near the musicians.
He was close by me.
Even though this dancing was done almost completely for myself, while I was there or rather... perhaps, not there... every once in a while there was a tendency to come back down to earth and open my eyes to remember that there were others around me.
There were people between me and him and they seemed to be huddled around him, as if they were trying to build a protective wall around him and obstruct everyone's view of him, but since they were dancing too, they were in motion and I caught some glimpses of him whenever there was an "opening" there.
There he was, dancing in the twilight, with no cane and even though it was rather dark, my eyes saw that every once in a while not one of his feet were on the ground while he danced.
He was really in the air.
There used to always be this unbelieving mind that was telling me that this can't be and after the experience, it was still telling me that I certainly must have imagined it, but the eyes and the heart told me differently and I now know that this upliftedness that I felt that evening came directly from him.
Whenever he noticed that he was being watched by someone, he would stop and abruptly pick up that cane and pretend as if he was an old man attempting to dance with a cane.
But when he noticed that he couldn't fool me, he would give up and go back to daning.
He never fooled me.
That was definitely no old man and he definitely didn't need that cane, because more than once I walked around a corner and saw him walking rapidly without it.
That was unfortunately the last time that I saw him.
His name was Anand Maitreya.
Another individual that was really awesome was Sadar Gurudayal Singh...
When someone asked me to go to the back gate to take the next shift for gate guarding, there was Sadariji, sound asleep, snoring like a freight train.
When I decided to wake him up, I said to him, "You should be guarding Osho's life!".
He looked at me and said, "Are you kidding me? Osho should be protecting me!".
There was a funny experience I had when working in one of the small kiosk type stands.
We sold all kinds of small things a person would need around the ashram.
Swami Devapath, Osho's doctor came to the stand and first bought chocolate.
He later came back and bought some flowers.
After that he came by again and bought band-aids.
The next thing he bought was condomes... and that was the first time I saw his beautiful girlfriend.
