Satya Bodhisattva (Jayantibhai)

Satya Bodhisattva, but better known as Jayantibhai, left his body yesterday early morning, 22nd November 2011, at the age of 92. In the early days he had organised several Osho meditation camps in Mount Abu and facilitated many camps all over India and later was a constant presence in the Osho Commune / Meditation Resort in Pune. His Death Celebration was celebrated yesterday at 2pm.

From Jagdish Bharti we hear that just three days before he left his body he was in hospital for checkup, in care of the sannyasin doctor Narayan. Although the reports were normal, Jayantibhai did not want to return home. When on the morning of 22nd November his caretaker tried to give him his regular medicine he refused saying that no more medicine was required. He simply closed his eyes and within minutes ‘the drop had disappeared into the ocean’.

The ashes will be collected on 24th November at 11am at the Burning Ghats in Koregaon Park, Pune. Everybody is invited to join the celebration.

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Osho mentions Jayantibhai in a discourse

Osho has mentioned Jayantibhai many times, but this one is probably the most memorable one:

Jayantibhai used to be in charge of the camp in Mount Abu, and one of his closest friends took off all his clothes. That was a surprise! Jayantibhai was standing by my side, and he could not believe it. That man was a very serious man, very rich; what was he doing in front of one thousand people? And then he started pushing the car in which I had come to the place – it was Jayantibhai’s car. We were in the mountains, and just ahead there was a thousand-foot drop, and he was pushing the car, naked.

Jayantibhai asked me, “What has to be done? He is going to destroy the car, and I had never thought that this man was against my car. We are close friends.”

So I told him, “You push it from the other side; otherwise he is going to…”

So he was preventing the car… and his friend was jumping around and shouting, “Get out of my way! I have always hated this car.” – because he did not have an imported car, and this was an imported car which Jayantibhai was keeping for me. I was coming to Mount Abu three or four times a year, so he was keeping that car just for me.

His friend must have been feeling jealous inside because he did not have an imported car. And then a few people rushed to help, seeing the situation. When he saw that so many people were preventing him, just out of protest he climbed a tree in front of me. Naked, he sat in the top of the tree, and he started shaking the tree. There was every danger that he would fall on top of the thousand people with the tree. Jayantibhai asked me, “What has to be done now?”

I said, “He is your friend. Let him be, don’t be worried. Just move the people to this side and that, and let him do whatsoever he is doing. Now he is not destroying the car. At the most he will have multiple fractures.”

As people moved away, he stopped. Silently he sat in the tree. After the meditation was over, he was still sitting in the tree, and Jayantibhai said, “Now get down. The meditation is over.”

As if he woke up from a sleep, he looked all around and saw that he was naked! He jumped out of the tree, rushed to his clothes, and said, “What happened to me?” In the night he came to see me and he said, “This was a very dangerous meditation! I could have killed myself or somebody else. I could have destroyed the car, and I am a great friend of Jayantibhai, and I had never thought…but certainly there must have been this idea in me.

“I hated the idea that you always come in his car and I hated the idea that he has got an imported car, but it was not at all conscious in me. And what was I doing in the tree? I must have been carrying so much violence in me, I wanted to kill people.”

That meditation was immensely helpful. It relaxed people in one hour so much that they told me, “It seems a heavy load has disappeared from the head. We were not aware what we were carrying in the mind.” But upon becoming aware of it, there was no other way except an unlimited expression.

It was only a small experiment. I told people to continue it: Soon you will come to many more things, and one day you will come to a point where all is exhausted. Remember only not to interfere with anybody, not to be destructive. Say anything you want to say, shout, abuse – whatever you want – and exhaust all that you have been collecting.

But this is a strange world. The government of Rajasthan passed a resolution in their assembly that I cannot have camps in Mount Abu, because they had heard all these things were happening there – people who are perfectly alright become almost mad, start doing all kinds of things. Now these politicians in the assembly don’t have any idea of human mind, its inhibitions and how to exhaust them, how to burn them. I had to stop that meditation because otherwise they were not going to allow me to have camps in Mount Abu.

from Osho, The Great Zen Master Ta Hui, Ch 20