Patra

Ma Gyan Patra was instrumental, together with her husband, Swami Satya Tirth who died in January 2020, in contributing to Osho’s work, both in India and Japan.

In 1989 they opened a meditation centre in Tokyo, Osho Sakshin, and an ashram on the outskirts of town. Her publishing house Shimin in Japan published a few dozen books by Osho, the magazines Osho Times and Osho Darshan in Japanese and circulated them all over Japan.

In the late 90s they purchased Osho’s birth house in Kutchwada and turned it into Osho Tirth Centre.

Patra had been hospitalized in Bhopal since the first week of December.

Chaitanya Keerti writes, “Such a dedicated Osho disciple. She was the rarest of disciples in modern times. We can never forget her contribution and bow down to her in Gratitude and Love, Beloved Ma Gyan Patra.”

Thanks to Keerti and Sahaj for info and alert

Sahaj writes on 1.1.2024:

Ma Patra came to India on 24 November 2023 to conduct Osho’s birthday celebration on 11 December in Kuchwada and then caught pneumonia. It worsened and she was admitted at the Bhopal hospital for urgent medical help. After struggling for 20 days she died on 29 December and her body was cremated beside her husband’s memorial on 30th December 2023.

They are survived by daughter Julie, who was dancing and swaying while the pyre was burning. Now her samadhi will be near her beloved’s.

Many years back Swami Satyatirth told me that Kuchwada is his ‘Prem Ki Nagri’, village of love.

Patra as featured in Viha Connection Magazine

by Bhagawati in Bali, published in the November / December 2016 issue – oshoviha.org

A right kind of sannyasin takes responsibility for everything that happens anywhere in this wide world, even though he has no direct hand in any of it.”
– Osho, Krishna: the Man and his Philosophy, Ch 18, Q 2

I had heard from Sohana, who lives next door to us, that sannyasins from Japan had contacted her while they were staying in Ubud, the cultural hub of Bali in the hills. A few days later they arrived at her house and I went to meet the three female sannyasins and an elderly man with a long beard, dressed in a Balinese sarong. I thought he was a Balinese they might have become acquainted with and who accompanied them as a guide or such. On a second look he looked very familiar and suddenly those little grey memory cells shouted, it is Satyatirth Bharti!

Smiling at him I said, “I know you – I met you in Kuchwada at your Osho Tirth Meditation Center!” He looked rather nonplussed and so I shot off some more details about the place close to Osho’s birth house, which were eagerly confirmed by Gyan Patra, her daughter Medha, and friend Moti.

Satyatirth, who lives half a year in India and the other half in Japan, had accompanied Patra, Medha and Moti on this trip to Bali. Patra said, “We became interested in Bali because it is a sacred place called ‘the Island of the Gods’, and it is Hindu, like India. When we found out that there is an Osho Information Center in Bali (run by Sohana), we were really interested in visiting and also meeting Osho’s sannyasins in Bali.

“The nature in Bali is awesome and we had a wonderful time. There are lots of yoga and meditation programs offered all around and we could actually feel spirituality close to us.”

Besides frequently conducting meditation camps in India and in Japan where he established the Osho Sakshin Meditation Center, Satyatirth (originally from Ahmedabad; he took sannyas in 1978 in Pune) also created a string of four successful Indian Vegetarian restaurants in Tokyo, called ‘Nataraj’; the first one opened in 1989. The dishes shown on their website are mouth watering and the interiors of the restaurants are aesthetically beautiful. Swami Sadananda from Gujarat relocated and became head chef at the restaurants, taking care of the authentic Indian cuisine.

Also in 1989, the Osho Sakshin Meditation Center in Tokyo was established, offering three daily meditations, Osho White Robe Brotherhood and celebrations throughout the year. An in-house bookshop offers all goods connected to Osho, including of course his books, the Japanese Osho Times, CDs, DVDs, meditation robes in maroon and white, photos, postcards and much more.

Patra and friends – in particular Moti – also publish Osho’s books in Japanese and founded their own Shimin Publishing Company Ltd. They do all their editing, designing and marketing in-house.

In 1994, land was purchased located about 150 km from Tokyo to establish the Osho Prem Commune Meditation Center, where Osho Sakshin Center built a house and pyramid-shaped meditation hall (about 1/15th of the actual size of the pyramids in Egypt) to create space for groups, workshops and meditation. A meditation camp is held once a month. Especially on national holidays many sannyasins from Tokyo visit and share their love through creativity and meditation.

They practise agriculture by growing their own organic vegetables and also created the Annapurna project for which many kinds of fruit trees have been planted.

All those who are interested in exploring new dimensions of life through love, life and laughter, are most welcome to visit!

sakshin.com

With many thanks to Osho Viha – oshoviha.org

Related articles

• Satyatirth Bharti – (1 June 1950 – 30 January 2020)
• Visiting Osho’s Birth House in Kuchwada – by Bhagawati (2011)
• Meditation Camp at Osho Tirth, Kuchwada – by Amano Samarpan (2016)

More Tributes

Aho Bhav and Gratitude to Maa Patra.
Bhagwan’s blessing showers upon her.
She was living for the Master.
Truly in the heart.
Manoj

A rare, ardent and committed lover of work for Osho! In spite of some bias from other Japanese sannyasins, she continued the publication of Osho’s books in Japanese. Perhaps most of what is available of Osho in Japanese language comes from the Sakshin Meditation Center, i.e. from Patra. Hope the Center continues with these efforts.
Prem Asang

I was very much shocked to hear about Patra’s death of last December in Bhopal. My Feelings are with you all. Love to Moti, Sabera, Ambi, Sadanand and all who knew me from the 1987 Opening of the OSHO CAMP in Chitwan, Nepal. I remember that time with love and gratitude!
Ma Prem Smita

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