Sw Ishwar Samarpan
(Ishwarlal Naranji Shah, aka Ishwarbhai aka Ishwar Babu)
Ishwar Bhai was born in a village in Kutch, in Gujarat, in 1922. While still a teenager, he came under the influence of Gandhi and became a freedom fighter, a fiery speaker traveling around Gujarat. It was while doing this that he met his future wife Gunaben.
He met Osho in Mumbai in the 60s and fell in love again, applying his revolutionary energy to organizing events and publishing for Osho, in the process setting up his first organization, Jeevan Jagriti Kendra. He was a central figure in JJK before and during the Bombay/Mumbai era, known primarily for his role in publishing Osho's books but also for his early recording of Osho's talks, before Laherubhai came along to take that over. In the Bombay heyday, he and Laheru would meet Osho two and three times a day to talk about what needed to be done.
He also started Osho's first meditation center, Om Rajneesh Dhyan Kendra, in the heart of Bombay, and stayed behind when Osho moved to Pune, publishing more books under the banner of Om Rajneesh Dhyan Kendra Prakashan, books that he saw as being neglected by Osho's publishing arm in Pune. He first took sannyas as Sadhu Ishwar Samarpan but eventually converted that to "full Swami".
Ishwarbhai left his body in 2007.
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- the hereafter
- see also
- extensive remembrance in Osho News
