Sahaj (group)

Sahaj was a group in Pune One, led by Sw Dhruva, whose name may be incomplete. The name Sahaj means spontaneity. According to the groups timeline chart in The Sound of Running Water, it was offered from Nov 1976 to Jun 1977, but it may also have made later appearances.

The group came to darshan after its first run on Nov 26 1976 and Maneesha records in the Darshan Diary The Shadow of the Whip that Dhruva reported that it had been a "very exciting group", with "a tremendous amount of life energy", developing "in an independent way each day. The first two days were a lot of fun, and a sense of community and love just happened in the room. And on the third day it was like tremendous life force was going on and deep feelings were being expressed by everyone spontaneously. [ ... ]
"And the third day was, I think, the peak of the life of the group, of the excitement. One participant -- a woman -- left on the third day. For the first two days she was able to be apart from the group, and if the group did one thing, she did another. On the third day it was sort of a breakthrough and she began to express some of her feelings that she was having, but then she left".
Osho made her leaving the focal point of what he had to say to Dhruva:

If it has come into somebody's mind to leave, then that is the spontaneous thing to do. Then forcing him or her to be in the group will be against the group, against the very philosophy of the group. Even if the person forces himself to be there and you come to know, just tell him not to force, because that is against the whole process. The process is to float... and who knows? Surprises will be there! Sometimes somebody comes floating to a point. where he simply jumps out of the river. That's how it happens to him -- so say good-bye! But don't make it in any way be felt as a rejection of the group -- because if you feel that it is a rejection of the group, then knowingly, unknowingly, you will create a guilt feeling in the person who has left. He will start feeling that he has done something wrong, that he should not have done it. No.

One thing has to be absolutely clear about my work: I don't want anybody to feel guilty about anything. I want humanity to be completely free from guilt. Now all the religions of the world have done just the opposite: they have made people feel very very guilty. They have made all people feel like sinners. That's why the world is so miserable. [ ... ]

The group worked well. That was my feeling about it -- that it should become very very spontaneous. That's why I have given the name Sahaj; it means spontaneity, natural; whatsoever is, is good and we accept it totally.

It will go on changing because a spontaneous group will change every time. It will bring many surprises to you too. You will never be fed up with it, because if it is structured, participants change but the leader remains the same, and every time he is repeating the same. But that will not happen in your group. It will be as new to you as it will be to the participants.

In fact the group has no leader really -- you are just a coordinator, just to be there to help, that's all... a midwife.

And that is the real function of a leader -- to be a midwife. If something is being born, you help. You cannot produce the child and you are not supposed to make a pregnancy. If somebody is carrying a pregnancy, you help. You just facilitate the process, and whatsoever is.... You are not worried whether a girl is born or a boy, or a fool or a wise man; you are not worried about it. That's not the point -- you simply help.

And each time there will be different things, because different people will be coming with different pregnancies. It is going to be a continuous surprise, and it will remain very very alive.

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