Ageh Bharti hears a story from Ma Dharm Jyoti, about Ma Bhagwati from Mumbai
When Osho lived in Woodland, Mumbai, there was around him a group of young sannyasin women, including Ma Bhagwati and Ma Dharm Jyoti. Ma Bhagwati was very active, yet serene, and, as I noticed, very helpful to people she knew and also those she did not know.
Yesterday I contacted Dharm Jyoti to find out more about Bhagwati. All I knew was that she had died very young. She used to be so involved that I felt her death was a great loss to Osho’s work.
Dharm Jyoti told me that before her passing they had been to see Osho at Woodland. Osho had asked Dharm Jyoti if she was coming to the Mount Abu Meditation Camp, and she told him that this time she could not come because of too much work in the office.
Then Osho asked Bhagwati if she was coming. She also said she was unable to come this time, the reason being that the exams of her brother’s children were close, and she was the one teaching them. Osho then asked her who would teach the children when she had died. She subsequently agreed to attend the Camp, and did so.
Ma Dharm Jyoti said to me that Osho had never insisted with anybody in this manner. She felt as if Osho knew of Bhagwati’s forthcoming death.
It so happened that when Bhagwati was on her way to attend Osho’s talk in Cross Maidan, where she was supposed to look after the book stall, she got down at a station to get some change. She got the change from an acquaintance and boarded another local train for Church Gate, to travel to Cross Maidan where Osho was going to speak.
When she was about to arrive at Church Gate she opened her bag to count the money. At that moment some boys attempted to snatch the money, while she tried to protect the bag. At that same moment the train came to a halt and she fell between the platform and the rail, injuring her leg.
Some people rushed to help her to get back onto the platform, and she somehow managed to get to Cross Maidan. Osho had not yet arrived. She gave the change to someone and asked them to take care of the book stall, while she went to see a doctor about her damaged leg.
The doctor operated on the leg, but when she started walking again, Bhagwati felt that it had become about one inch shorter than the other. She saw the doctor again and he reassured her, saying not to worry about it, and that a minor operation would put the leg right. But after that operation she never came back. Maybe the doctor made a mistake in the dose of anaesthesia, and perhaps this was the cause of her death.
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