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Heinz / Punam
Swami Punam (Heinz Schafer), originally from Germany, had been living in Sligo, Ireland for the last thirty years. He never lived in a commune. He always questioned life and theories with a great sense...
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Sarito
Prem Sarito (meaning ‘River of Love’, aka Andrew Young) was an architect, writer, painter and musician. He was born in 1927 in Northumberland, UK. His father was a mining engineer and lived for many...
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Swiss Nayana
Prem Nayana (aka Emilie Mahler) was born into a large family (in the b/w photo she is the third from the left) in summer 1940. She grew up in Rüti, Zürich Oberland, Switzerland and studied to become a...
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Kaviraj (Kavi)
Atit Kaviraj (aka Kavi) was born Alex Robert Lagger in St. Gallen, Switzerland in a very traditional family; father a dentist, mother a family woman and a supportive, sociable lady; both devoted to...
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Anurag
Anurag (Marianne Gala) fled from the former Czechoslovakia to Germany, in 1981, with her husband and her little daughter. After the birth of her second daughter and the separation from her husband she...
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Nirvanam
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...
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Dharmesh
Nishigandha writes from London: Our beloved friend, Dharmesh (Francisco Martinez Negrete) from Mexico left us last week. Swami Vichara, his loyal friend, was with him when he took his last breath in...
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Premda
Last May Mutribo wrote about the life of Premda Lowson (Dead Man Carries On Laughing) which we re-publish here in his tribute page. And what better way as a send-off to hear Premda himself tell stories...
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Subodhi
Subodhi was born in 1949 in Amsterdam and as a young woman enjoyed the ‘provo-time’ in her home city while working in a knitting shop. She met Veeresh at Emiliehoeve, a therapeutic community for...
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Yoga Mukta
Yoga Mukta (aka Greek Mukta, Catherine Mathilda Gregos) was born to a wealthy Greek oil shipping magnate. She married the grandson of the great statesman Elefthérios Venizélos, the maker of modern...
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Darshan
Ma Darshan (Walia) took sannyas in the early seventies and was always part of the Pune commune; whenever we visited, she was there. She contributed generously, and several times, to the publication of...
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Satyam (Attilio Piazza)
Photo credits: Satyam’s FB account, Satyam (Bidinotto), Sheelu, Navyo, Sumano Bio Sw Anand Satyam (aka Attilio Piazza) was born in 1952 and grew up in Treviso (Northern Italy). He studied Philosophy...
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Devadasi
Ma Devadasi, 1917 – 2017 Madhuri writes: Born in California to a doctor father and nurse/teacher mother, Devadasi had an idyllic childhood among the pines and meadows of rural northern California…...
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Vismay
Deva Bhavit writes: Prem Vismay was born in London in 1960 and left his body on 12th January 2017. He collapsed at a bus stop in Hampstead and died in the ambulance as the paramedic team worked to...
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Satyananda
His daughter Avinasho writes: Satyananda (Jörg Andrees Elten) was born in Dresden on March 30, 1927. In 1945 he completed an emergency baccalaureate at the Napola (Nationalpolitische Erziehungsanstalt...
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Samudaya
Photos thanks to Bhagawati, Maneesha, Bettina and Shunyo Bettina writes: Samudaya (aka Samu, David Eckstein) was born on 20th February 1929 in Czechoslovakia (now Czechia) and was the youngest of his...
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Meera
Anand Meera (Kasue Hashimoto) was born in Ishikawa, Japan, in 1947. She studied, from 1966–1969, at the Musashino Art University, Tokyo, and from 1970 started visiting European museums and then...
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Prem Wilfried
Chandana (aka Kalpana) writes: Prem Wilfried (Wilfried Maier) was born in a small village in the Allgäu region, Germany, as a farmer’s son. I met him in 1977 in a shared house at the Groschenweg in...
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Sarvam
Sarvam was born Pieter Cornelius Loopy in 1955 in Leerdam, Netherlands. He became a sannyasin at the end of 1980. He passed away suddenly; he had the flu for a couple of days, and then a massive heart...
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Gayan from Italy
Prem Gayan (aka Lucia) was born in 1966 and took sannyas in 2001 at Osho Miasto Center in Tuscany. Throughout the years she remained connected to Miasto and, whenever she had an opportunity, she would...
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