Nirvanam

…left his body on 15th October 2016,

Anand Nirvanam took sannyas in 1977 in Pune. Osho spoke to him during darshan:

Anand means bliss, and nirvanam means the ultimate dissolution. One is completely lost, just like a river loses itself into the ocean.

In English there is only one word which can become close to it in its root sense; that is the word ‘absolute’. It comes from a Latin root which means dissolution, utter dissolution… when one is not separate, when one has become one with the whole. The latin word ‘absolutum’ (absolute) is the past participle of ‘absolvere’ which means to loosen, dissolve. That is the meaning of nirvanam: a blissful dissolution. And bliss is only when you are not; misery is there if you are there. Misery is another name for the ego; bliss is another name for egolessness.

So one can never say, “I am blissful,” no. Linguistically it is possible, existentially it is not. One cannot say existentially “I am blissful!” ‘I am’ is always miserable; ‘I’ is misery. When one is blissful one feels “Blissfulness is. Where am I?” Then blissfulness is found and the ‘I’ is not found at all. You can go on searching for it but you will not find a trace of it. That dissolution is nirvanam. So get lost in bliss… Or get lost and you will be blissful!

The Open Secret, Ch 25

Nirvanam worked for Audi automobiles for the last 20 years and lived in the countryside near Munich. He left his body in hospital where he was brought after a stroke. His wife Kavita and his best-loved friends where with him. As Osho had told him that to melt and merge with the ocean and be lost in it, was the final goal – he finally did. He left so peacefully.

Text and photos thanks to Kavita