Premartha

The last few days of Premartha’s life in his body were surrounded by an incredible peacefulness, and we all felt it and enjoyed it. We listened a lot to Maneesha’s Osho Bardo, and this was extremely supportive. In the already-diffused space he was in – distant and inside – Premartha shed a tear listening to it.

We sang Osho songs, and enjoyed moments of silence together.

Premartha was a real warrior, drinking life to the last drop – all of it!

My beloved soulmate, thank you for all the creativity, the love, the sensuousness, the meditation, the confrontations and the adventures we shared.

I love you forever,

Svarup

Premartha and Svarup

Anand Premartha de Koning was part of the Primal Tantra team (@svaprem). Svarup and Premartha – lovers, friends, and partners – had been working together in the field of spiritual therapy (Primal and emotional healing, Sexuality and transformation, and Essence) with people in the world of Osho for over thirty years.

They are the authors of Twice Born: Healing the Past-Creating a New Future and The Little Buddha and the Cosmos, publications that have also been translated in various languages.

Premartha ji ❤️,

This plain sound of your name opens a whole collection of moments that we spent together. The sum of your essence that comes up is: that sparkle of light in your eyes mixed with playfulness and depth.

Being with you is not knowing what comes next. You can easily go from a comment about the food, to an “in-depth” personal question supported by your penetrating eyes. Truth and only truth could be the answer, as it was the base of the question in the first place.

The prevalent feeling of being with you is that of playfulness, that of a child, mixed with the presence of a powerful soul. (I could liken it to that of a tiger.)

What I loved about you is the simplicity, directness and spontaneity in your behavior. You never cashed on your status in the commune. You have been my example of what it is to be, and to be called an ‘Osho therapist’.

The last years of your life have given you a difficult test, slowly slowly “losing your body.” Still you stayed unaffected and centered in your being, setting an example of courage and awareness to all of us.

Now you are free, totally free as you always loved freedom. I will not say “goodbye” – I never say that “dirty word!” Instead I will say, “Hasta la vista, brother, beloved soul, and partner in playfulness. Till we meet again, Beloved.”

Love 💚🙏💚,

Devo

It has been a real joy to know Premartha, since early Pune, and enjoy his intuitive brilliance, challenging, but oh-so-loving questions he would pop out in a conversation that hit the point, his gentleness. We had many evenings together, with Svarup and Anugito, sharing, laughing, singing… He had that gift to be so silly and fun but always tuned in to the profound significance of any moment.

I am especially grateful that I had the chance to meet him also in the last years when Parkinson’s had descended – in Italy, and in Greece – and it was deeply touching to feel how present he was. Though speech was getting harder, he remembered me each visit and we had a wonderful communication, as deep as ever.

Last year we had a wobbly walk around his home in Greece, and when I asked him how it was to be in this body now, he said, “Not so bad.”

I am relieved for him to be freed from the body’s pain, and so proud of all the work he has contributed to Osho’s work.

My brother, my friend, thank you for your grace. Fly high!

Maneesha McClure

Beloved Premartha,

you were a gift from existence to me. Without you and your beloved Svarup I wouldn’t be who I am now. With the two of you it really was a “Fresh Beginning”.

Thank you for all your love, sensitivity, understanding, gratefulness, intensity, and all the laughter we shared in Pune, Cologne, Miasto and in between. One day in the group room you called me an “Intensity Junky” – there is hardly anybody who knows me as well as you did. From the first moment we met, I had such a deep trust to open up to you. Thank you for your incredible gift in accepting people just the way they are. In your presence I felt Osho even deeper.

Unfortunately we didn’t see each other anymore these last years, but I have always been deeply heart-connected with you and Svarup – my favorite couple on earth. Sometimes I was traveling with the two of you thru the world while sitting here in Cologne, where I have finally found my home inside of me – thank you for bringing me here 27 years ago.

Since you have left your body I have been spending lots of time on our balcony and out in nature – feeling and seeing so many moments we have been sharing together. I am so grateful that I have had the luck to meet you on this planet. I wonder where we will meet again…

To be with you was full of love and often like a wonderful dance. Thinking about you I start singing and tears of gratefulness are running down my cheeks.

You will always have a place in my heart like you did from the first time we met, beloved friend.

I send you and Svarup all my love. Beloved Svarup, thanks for sharing this special moment in Miasto.

Fly high, beautiful soul – the healing has begun…

Mangala

Quel giorno di tanti anni fa, ti conobbi nel centro di Ushma e Nirodh a Varazze. Tu, Premartha, insieme alla tua compagna di vita, Svarup, stavate tenendo un gruppo sulle costellazioni familiari.

Fu amore subito, la leggerezza e la tua bellezza si espandevano per tutto lo spazio. Carisma e magnetismo, intuizioni e percezioni che arrivavano scivolando attraverso le tue vibrazioni. Ci incontrammo diverse volte e sempre e sempre il tuo sguardo sorrideva. Sí, sorridevi alla vita, e tante e tante anime sono state circondate e accarezzate dai tuoi sorrisi e dal tuo amore.

Incontrarti era essere a casa, era poter giocare e celebrare l’esistenza. Ora farai un altro viaggio, sarai tra le stelle tanto care a te nelle tue costellazioni e sarai sempre inondato di amore.

Buon ritorno a casa, buon cammino ovunque sia e con tanta gratitudine io, Parva, e tutto il Sun River ti salutiamo con amore.

 

Dear Premartha,

First time I saw you I was terrified. Terrified you would see me, who I really was, that you would say I was broken and could not be fixed. The first days of the group were all about impressing you, to be seen for my light and to show how driven I was to work on myself. Afterwards, I felt human enough to let myself been seen, taking the risk of being rejected. It didn’t happen; it never happened.

It’s been years spent together, meeting each other multiple times a year, and your humanity has never left. What you taught me was to strive and see the person in front as human as possible. And to embrace the humanity. I still struggle with that.

I will forever be grateful to you for teaching me that love means to embrace the whole me first, and afterwards the others as whole. It is not easy, sometimes not at all. Still, whenever it’s hard, your eyes come into my thoughts and your voice comes along with the words I hear plain and simple, “Kalyan, close your eyes, go in, feel. Don’t run away from the feeling. Just let yourself feel.”

Thank you, thank you, thank you,

Kalyan

 

Lieber, verehrter Premartha,

ich traf dich im Sommer 1985 im Osho Center in Köln.

Ich war kein Sannyassin und buchte völlig arglos eine Atemsitzung im Center für 5 DM. Ich war die einzige und war nur mit dir und jemandem vom Center im Gruppenraum.

Gleich nach Beginn der Sitzung bin ich in ein Rebirthing gekommen. Ich wusste nicht, wie mir geschah. Du und die andere Frau haben mich liebevoll, beruhigend und mit viel Ausdauer durch den Geburtsprozess begleitet.

Meine Geburt dauerte 36 Stunden und ich blieb im Geburtskanal stecken. Dies alles durfte ich durch dich, geliebter Premartha, nochmal durchleben und mich komplett von meiner schwierigen Geburt befreien.

Diese Atemsitzung mit dir hat mein Leben verändert.

Im Dezember 1985 bin ich nach Bombay geflogen und wurde am Ankunftstag, Oshos Geburtstag, Sannyassin !!!

In großer Dankbarkeit und Liebe für immer,

Ma Prem Kokila

Most beloveds,

I was saddened to learn of Premartha’s passing this morning after randomly googling his name for the first time since we met in Pune in 1989. But as I process the news, my heart soars, filled with gratitude for having met him and for the profound impact he had on my life.

During the Encounter, Primal, and Tantra courses, I kept an extensive journal, sometimes writing multiple entries in a single day. Things were unfolding quickly, and people were diving so deeply into themselves and into each other. Premartha ran the Encounter and Tantra groups.

Mostly I remember how “down to earth” he was, how he would sit on the floor with no shoes and talk to you like a person. And that one time, during an especially difficult moment in the course, he held me in his arms and said, “I love you, Shunyam.” When someone really means it, you never forget it. He also got me to take the color out of my hair and just be me.

What a great man – his life was devoted to consciousness, play, curiosity, and the courage to go within, no matter the cost. He also knew a lot of Osho quotes – I still don’t know any except “Don’t just do something! Sit there!”

I’m grateful to see that Premartha devoted his entire life to helping others. He certainly helped me. I love you, too, Premartha. You left this world better than you found it.

Swami Gyan Shunyam
Colorado

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