In Memoriam of Ma Yoga Laxmi, who left her body 30 years ago, by Ma Dharm Jyoti
As reported in the Osho Times International, March 1995:
Ma Yoga Laxmi, Osho’s exuberant secretary who ran the Poona Ashram in the seventies, left her body on January 6, 1995 after a long battle with cancer.
Laxmi had been living in Bombay since leaving the Commune in the mid-eighties. She told her friend Ma Jyoti that she was tremendously grateful to Osho, particularly for his last message to her. She said, “I understood that it was time for me to stop putting energy into outer things and to go in. He knows better than the rest of us what we need. Now the bells have started ringing and the bird has flown this cage anytime, and Laxmi* is ready for that.”
Her last day began with listening to an Osho discourse. Shortly afterwards she simply slipped away, her hand on her heart, whispering, “Osho is here…”
She said that nobody should mourn her, but celebrate her death.
Bombay sannyasins celebrated her death with a beautiful kirtan on her birthday, February 12.
(* Ed. note: Laxmi often referred to herself in the third person)
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Thanks to Osho Resources Centre (oshoresourcecenter.com – facebook.com).
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