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(David Goldberg)

Hi everyone, Sw. Deva here.

I am American and came to Pune in 1975. When Bhagwan gave me my name, it was Madhava Deva but he said “Let everyone call you Deva”, and that’s what it’s been since that night.

After being in Pune for about 6 months, I went back to Hawaii where I’d been living and brought my daughter, Gyana (her name was Jnana then, also an Indian word for wisdom), to Pune which is where we stayed until we all moved to the Ranch in ’81 and then back into the world in ’86.

In Pune I made malas, worked as Deeksha’s Handyman shopper (I even had a rickshaw) and then ran a department that fixed all the typewriters and other office equipment that I inherited from super-mechanic American Bindu. Since I’d spent most of my time there buying and selling for the Ashram in Pune and Bombay, when we left Pune Sheila asked me to oversee the selling of the Ashram and all its stuff which is what I did and stayed another 4 months longer after everyone left. Then Gyana and I went to Gitam for a couple of months and then the Ranch.

I had a lot of jobs on the Ranch but am mainly known for being Mr. Motorola. I designed and installed the Motorola radio system and then the telephone system for the Ranch. I was also in the [Country Band] with Milarepa, Gulabo, Bodhi, Buddha and Laleet for quite a while. You can read about that story [[1]].

Gyana once told me that while we were on the Ranch she lived in fear that my big mouth would get us kicked out. She was right to worry but although that never happened, I did get kicked out of and into a lot of different jobs. After being a telecom guy and running Gora, the equipment repair temple, I worked as a bus driver, an HVAC maintenance guy and all over the restaurants, on the Ranch and in Portland and at the Portland hotel. The best job I had was working at Khao Suan school on the Ranch. I taught and cared for the kids which was Sheila’s idea or punishment and my idea of heaven. I sometimes changed 15 diapers a day.

After the Ranch Gyana and I went to California, San Diego and then the Bay Area. I worked as a carpenter, General Contractor and then a computer tech. In ’93 I moved to Munich, Germany and spent 8 years there as a telecommunications specialist. Now I live in Santa Fe and make my way as a commercial photographer and a web developer. I still play guitar and am a singer-songwriter. I’m also writing my memoirs (aren’t we all), some of which are on my blog. I guess that’s about it until the next chapter.

Love to you all.

Deva

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email: ddgoldbergtelactive.net

websites: David Goldberg's Blog; David Goldberg Photography; TelActive, Inc. Web Development

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see also: Choosing the Moment - more amazing Ranch stories

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 (David Goldberg)
-(My full Sannyas name is Sw. Madhava Deva but when Bhagwan gave it to me, he said to let everyone call me Deva so no one really knows me by the Madhava part.)
+Hi everyone, Sw. Deva here.
-I’m an American who was in Mississippi and Georgia in 1964 for the Freedom Summer, lived with Tim Leary’s Brotherhood in the 60s,
+I am American and came to Pune in 1975. When Bhagwan gave me my name, it was Madhava Deva but he said “Let everyone call you Deva”, and that’s what it’s been since that night.
-dropped out in Hawaii and delivered my daughter at home in the 70s, moved to India for a number of years and later lived in Europe.
-[http://davidgoldbergblog.com/ My blog] includes my opinions on a million things I care about, some good ideas, as well as stories from an autobiography I will probably never publish called ''The Pieces Of My Heart''. I’m a musician, computer geek, publisher, writer, photographer and all around nice guy.
+After being in Pune for about 6 months, I went back to Hawaii where I’d been living and brought my daughter, Gyana (her name was Jnana then, also an Indian word for wisdom), to Pune which is where we stayed until we all moved to the Ranch in ’81 and then back into the world in ’86.
-:''The Rajneesh Country Band''
+In Pune I made malas, worked as Deeksha’s Handyman shopper (I even had a rickshaw) and then ran a department that fixed all the typewriters and other office equipment that I inherited from super-mechanic American Bindu. Since I’d spent most of my time there buying and selling for the Ashram in Pune and Bombay, when we left Pune Sheila asked me to oversee the selling of the Ashram and all its stuff which is what I did and stayed another 4 months longer after everyone left. Then Gyana and I went to Gitam for a couple of months and then the Ranch.
-:By Deva - January 17, 2015
-::My daughter Gyana and I arrived at the Ranch from Gitam when there were just 30 or 40 people there. We were still cooking meals in the original ranch house in what was to become Jesus Grove which was so small we all had to eat out in the yard even in raging snow storms.
-::Everything was about building then, and creating enough infrastructure – housing, radios and phones, power, plumbing, roads, etc., - to take care of the huge influx of Sannyasins who were being invited to come to live there with Osho and to visit during Celebrations. I had been a Handyman for [[Ma Deeksha]] and then run the typewriter and office equipment repair department in Pune and so I was given the job of keeping all the equipment we were using on the ranch running. My Temple was called Gora and eventually I was given a trailer on the muddy main street and a few helpers. I also had a car (a white Dodge Ram Charger) since I was designing and installing the Motorola radio system and then the telephone system. So, I was called Mr. Motorola and had a lot of freedom even though I didn’t have much time for anything other than work.
+I had a lot of jobs on the Ranch but am mainly known for being Mr. Motorola. I designed and installed the Motorola radio system and then the telephone system for the Ranch. I was also in the [[http://www.sannyas.org/index.php?title=The_Rajneesh_Country_Band|Rajneesh Country Band]] with Milarepa, Gulabo, Bodhi, Buddha and Laleet for quite a while. You can read about that story [[http://www.sannyas.org/index.php?title=The_Rajneesh_Country_Band|here]].
-::I had been a guitar player all my life. I had first gone to Poona in 1975 but had not played there much because of my other work and when we came back to America, the music I’d missed most was country/western  music (I’m from Arizona) so I had picked up a pedal steel guitar along the way and dragged it to the ranch. I had it set up in a corner of the Gora trailer and late at night, when I was alone, I’d practice.
+Gyana once told me that while we were on the Ranch she lived in fear that my big mouth would get us kicked out. She was right to worry but although that never happened, I did get kicked out of and into a lot of different jobs. After being a telecom guy and running Gora, the equipment repair temple, I worked as a bus driver, an HVAC maintenance guy and all over the restaurants, on the Ranch and in Portland and at the Portland hotel. The best job I had was working at Khao Suan school on the Ranch. I taught and cared for the kids which was Sheila’s idea or punishment and my idea of heaven. I sometimes changed 15 diapers a day.
-::Someone told me about a guy working on a construction crew who used to sit on the porch of his trailer at night and play banjo which sounded great so I got in touch with him. It was [[Sw Anand Milarepa]]. Mili started coming over after work and playing with me and soon he brought [[Ma Prem Gulabo]] along to sing. Not long after that, we invited [[Sw Bodhi]], who I’d lived with on Boat Club Road in Poona, to play drums and we had a band. We all liked country music and since we had no idea it would go anywhere else, that’s what we played.
-::We were just jamming at night in the trailer but soon had enough repertoire that we wanted to play for our friends. Magdalena had just been completed and we’d all started eating dinner there so we set up our equipment at one end of the room and just let it stay there so we could practice and play for everyone after we were done eating. This went on for a while until one day [[Ma Anand Sheela]] came by to listen. Not long after that, she came by again with [[Ma Prem Arup]] and told us,
+After the Ranch Gyana and I went to California, San Diego and then the Bay Area. I worked as a carpenter, General Contractor and then a computer tech. In ’93 I moved to Munich, Germany and spent 8 years there as a telecommunications specialist. Now I live in Santa Fe and make my way as a commercial photographer and a web developer. I still play guitar and am a singer-songwriter. I’m also writing my memoirs (aren’t we all), some of which are on my blog. I guess that’s about it until the next chapter.
-::::“We need a band. I just bought a nightclub in Portland and we need a live band to play there. You’re it. Start practicing.”
-::Sheila gave us cowboy hats and me a pair of cowboy boots (the best for pedal steel). So, that was the beginning of the ''[[The Rajneesh Country Band]]''. Read on [[The Rajneesh Country Band|there ...]].
+Love to you all.
+Deva

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