Ma Anand Parijat
(Jane Castles)
Born Aug 17, 1920. Left her body Oct 14, 2018
- Parijat graduated from Norman Hartnell's first intake at his fashion design school set up in Mayfair, London.
- This is where she leanrt her art as a seamstress.
- She later went on to design and model fashion clothes for various London fashion houses in the 1940's.
- While working in London, she undertook Jungian analysis. She was advised that she would make a good therapist and that there was a vacancy in Edinburgh. Paritosh turned out to be her mentor in Edinburgh.
- While living in Glasgow, Parijat and Paritosh were introduced to Sw Shiva Murti, which started them on their great, epic journey.
- She was a commune resident in Poona and one of Osho's seamstresses.
- "Just three things I had: my lungi, my robe and my towel. My lungi is gone, you can see. Parijat helped me to renounce it. Parijat is my official seamstress – appointed by His Holiness, Bhagwan Shree Shree Shree Rajneeshji Maharaj! She made the robe so beautifully that the lungi became almost absurd with it. It started looking like a bullock cart by the side of a Cadillac. So out of necessity I had to drop it." (Osho, The Art of Dying, Ch 10, Q 6)
- bibliography
- 1977 : Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (diaries) (editing)
- filmography
- 1947 : Fame Is the Spur (costume and wardrode department)
- see also
- Sw Deva Paritosh