The cow belonged to a poor woodcutter who lived near the ashram. I am afraid either the cow is very sick or she has died, and I have to go and look for her.” He lived on a mountain in the south of India, Arunachal. One day she did not appear, and Shri Raman said, “Today satsang cannot be held, because my real audience is absent. And as the satsang would disperse she would move away. People came and went, new people came, but the cow remained constant… and at the exact time, never late. But every morning he was sitting, people were sitting, and a cow would come and stand outside, putting her neck through the window, and she would remain standing there while the satsang lasted. Naturally, very few people were benefited by him. His teaching was mostly to be in silent communion with the disciples. His literature is confined to two, three small booklets. Then too his answer was very short - having profundity, but you had to look for it. He never talked much, unless asked something. Every morning he used to sit for a silent satsang, communion. Raman Maharshi was a silent pool of energy. Ouspensky who were only teachers - profound teachers, but not mystics. They don’t know him even as they know Sri Aurobindo or P.D. He was not a master that’s why people don’t know him as they know George Gurdjieff or J. In Shri Raman Maharshi’s ashram… and he was one of the most significant people of this century. Perhaps once in a while a rare animal uses the window. This is what Osho had to say about Bhagavan and Lakshmi: That is what I propose to do today by putting Osho's version of Lakshmi the cow first, and then following it with the real version. There is not much that I or anyone else can do about this except to point out errors as and when they come to our attention. This means that the vast majority of people who are interested in such matters are getting wildly inaccurate versions of Bhagavan's life. I would guess that in the spiritual bookstores of the world, books by Osho outsell those on Bhagavan by at least a hundred to one. Underneath both stories were many comments by people who had read them, saying (apart from my own dissenting voice) how much they had enjoyed and appreciated the narratives. This was also narrated by Osho, and it was just as inaccurate as his earlier story on Lakshmi. This afternoon I received another offering from this list which purported to be an account of Bhagavan's final days and hours. The stories narrated were extraordinarily inaccurate. This morning I was put on a Facebook list and sent a few paragraphs in which Osho spoke about Bhagavan and Lakshmi the cow.
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