Tathata (group)

Tathata was a Pune One therapy group. It was offered continuously from Dec 1975 till at least Mar 1978 (the cut-off date for group info in The Sound of Running Water) but possibly not long after that.

Maneesha writes about Tathata in the first text of the first day of the first Darshan Diary, Hammer on the Rock, dated Dec 10 1975:

This evening, members of the Tathata group (Unconditional Acceptance Seminar) had darshan. Each of the therapy groups available in the ashram has the opportunity, once during the course of the group, to bring to Bhagwan Shree their individual and shared experiences, and to discuss insights gained and blocks encountered.

The Tathata group aims to help individuals to learn to accept themselves and others, unconditionally, as they are. The process, the duration of which is anything from twenty-two to twenty-five hours, involves much physical and mental exertion. This brings the participants to a point of complete fatigue, in an effort to facilitate the dropping of defences and masks, so that people can face themselves and others honestly and authentically.