Jivan Mary

Jivan Mary left her body consciously and quite peacefully very early morning on 15th November 2010, at age 90. Sunder Sue, her daughter, and the rest of Jivan Mary’s family were with her at the time of her passing. We all may recall Jivan Mary’s larger-than-life presence!

She came to Osho late in her life when she was 63 and remained utterly devoted to Osho and her understanding of his vision for the rest of her days. She clearly let it be known to all and sundry that he was the primary love of her life!

During the time of Osho’s ‘world tour’, Mary used her ministerial government contacts with the then New Zealand Prime Minister, David Lange, and managed to inveigle a visa for him! In 1985 she received the Queen Service Medal (QSM) for her contributions to the development of theatre in New Zealand. Jivan Mary was given by Osho the role to be his ambassador to New Zealand and she devoted herself to that role. Jivan Mary will be remembered mainly for the many theatre workshops she ran in Pune 2 and the weekly satsangs she held until recently in her tiny Auckland cottage.

To celebrate Jivan Mary’s life there was a sitting meditation with silence and music on Saturday, 20th November (4-5pm) at 582 Remuera Road in Auckland, New Zealand and her funeral was held at St Heliers Presbyterian Church, 100 St Heliers Bay Road on Tuesday, 23rd November (11.30am).

 

Links

NEW: A website dedicated to Jivan Mary…

A public page on Facebook dedicated to Jivan Mary…

Jivan Mary’s bio as an actor and director: www.actors.co.nz

If you wish to leave a tribute…

Osho talking about the invitation to come to New Zealand…

 

Tributes

One of the mega-capacities in our Caravanserai of Osho lovers. A safe journey into unlimited bliss, you, wonderfun you!

Ageha

Jivan Mary – you have always been an inspiraton for me – travel lightly on – I am sure you enjoy….

Ajara

I remember Osho telling Jivan Mary that she will die enlightened! Good on her – she did it – bon voyage Darling Jivan Mary – I miss you still.

Jeevan

Beloved Jivan Mary,

wishing you a great flight

feeling you sooooooooooooo light

thank you for all the moments and love you shared with us

with your amizing creativity and beautiful presence.

…hum… such delight! See you

Ambu

Thank you beloved Jivan Mary for sharing all your loving light and beautiful creative spirit with us!

Thank you for bringing so much meditation and flowering conciousness into the world of theater!

I feel deeply grateful that I could learn from you and share and celebrate with you!

Farewell and fly high beloved friend !

All blessings and rosepetals for you dear Jivan Mary!

Oshooo !!! Namasté and all love for you from

Kamadevi

Oh… I had been thinking a lot of her just recently! What a woman! And what a journey!! Bon voyage beloved Jivan Mary!

Upchara

Thank you Jivan Mary, for being you. Fly, fly high, you beautiful wonderful being!

Marga

You know I just loved you, a present in my life, Jivan Mary!

Nisimo

Bon voyage, beloved – you have been such a bright glow of joy in my life, always, and still now, impish and generous and funny and compassionate role model for what I want to be when I grow up.

Sarito

Beloved Jivan Mary, I am ever so grateful for our connection. I will never forget you and what you have taught me. Inevitably, I remember you if I am involved in a show. I always appreciate your dedication to quality and the moment. You even die beautifully.

All my love to you. You live on (at least for as long as we live on) in the Jivan Mary-ness that is impressed in so many of us. Wow!

Devapria

Jivan Mary, when alive, she lived up to her name of Jivan or life. Having met her briefly during my visits to the Press Room at Pune Ashram, I found her bubbling with life and love and laughing easily. Bye Jivan!

Kul Bhushan

Jivan Mary was a ray of sunshine and a breath of fresh air and I will always remember her warmth and smile.

Samveda

Farewell strong Lady! Thank you for your teachings in theater and life. You will stay in my memory and heart. Until then!

♥ Jayadip

Good depart, Mary! Love

Taza

Wonderful adventure, Jivan Mary! I am delighted to witness your flight from afar… and I want to thank you for giving me such a gift that time in Pune, when I could stand up with my brother and dance, and it was because you invited… Thank you for the poetry we shared, and for being indefatigably there with yourself, on and on. Your passing feels like a breath of breeze from a leaf floating – that natural. Love

Madhuri

Jivan Mary, so many beautiful things we did together! Theatre in the Barn, variety shows in the Plaza, poetry readings and theatre improvisation in Auckland, meditating at your home with friends on a Wednesday and eating your lovingly prepared food…. My gratitude knows no bounds for the gift of your friendship. Travel well onwards, darling one!

Chinmaya

Jivan Mary – my memory of her is a lovely little being with a huge, high and refined vibration of wisdom. And yet she carried around her little graceful body leaving no footprints, almost invisible, leaving herself and her surrounding undisturbed. Now leaving no footprints in the vast blue sky….

Premo

Beloved Jivan Mary, Thank you so much for being in my life. I remember the beautiful poetry evenings in which I was so privileged to make music for you. How wonderful that you have been able to make this transition consciously: I hope that when my turn comes, I can do as well! Lots of love – for me your spirit will always remain alive!

Anuprada

Beloved Jivan Mary, you are such a great example for aging beautifully…. I always loved your presence and your spirit… and I think back with a lot of good feelings to some of our last meetings.

Narayani

 

Four Poems by Jivan Mary

Jivan Mary is reading her poems, accompanied by Chinmaya, on this video:

 

Osho to Jivan Mary

 

Jivan Mary, you are blessed that, far away from me, you experienced my enlightenment and you also experienced my transcendence of enlightenment. You are absolutely ripe, mature, to explode into the beyond, the unknowable, the ecstatic existence.

You are old, but only in the body. Your heart is younger than the so-called young generation. You have not just grown old, you have grown up, you have matured.

And I can say it without any hesitation: this is going to be your last life. You will not die without experiencing your immortality, your eternity.

It is very difficult to predict any such thing, because there are so many hazards. One can go astray from the very last step – just one step more and he would have arrived home, but one can go astray.

It is very difficult to predict that somebody is going to become enlightened, because people have slipped from the very last step – they were just at the door of the temple and they turned back… some idea….

But about Jivan Mary, I am saying she is going to make it in this life. Her experiences show the purity of her heart. She is not a woman of the mind. And her purity has been growing, and death cannot be so cruel. She is going to become enlightened any day… but certainly before her death.

She should go on just as simply, as ordinarily, as humbly as she has been going up to now. She should not start thinking that she is going to become enlightened; otherwise the idea has entered, and can distract.

She should not bother about enlightenment or no-enlightenment. She is perfectly good as she is, and she should continue in her humbleness, in her love, in her purity, in her compassion.

Enlightenment will come on its own accord. She is not to desire it, she is not to expect it.

Osho, The Osho Upanishad

Thanks for the contributions by Sambodhi Prem, Neelamber, Prem, Maneesha