00:01:33.014 –> 00:01:40.745 At that time, my brother left Germany on the hippie trail,
00:01:41.879 –> 00:01:48.000 partly with a magic bus that went from London and Amsterdam to Kathmandu,
00:01:48.000 –> 00:01:51.858 overland and somewhere in Turkey he got off.
00:01:52.808 –> 00:01:59.685 He spent some time in Greece and in Turkey. Then he went overland from Turkey through Iran.
00:01:59.685 –> 00:02:05.042 This was just before the Russians invaded Afghanistan.
00:02:05.042 –> 00:02:11.433 He made it through Afghanistan and somehow he ended up in Poona
00:02:11.800 –> 00:02:17.900 with the notorious Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
00:02:18.475 –> 00:02:28.163 And then the first TV documentary appeared, people screaming and being completely crazy.
00:03:17.167 –> 00:03:23.063 And they showed this in Germany on television: this is what’s happening there.
00:03:23.363 –> 00:03:30.175 And we’re watching and we’re thinking, ‚Oh my God, now the boy has gone completely crazy!‘
00:03:30.175 –> 00:03:30.933 Poor Martin!
00:03:30.933 –> 00:03:41.787 Poor Martin, now he has lost the plot completely. He was alwas eccentric and always a worry for my parents,
00:03:41.787 –> 00:03:48.642 because nobody could control him. And now he was in this insane cult.
00:04:37.083 –> 00:04:42.191 And we would go, ‚Oh no, what are we going to do?‘
00:04:44.599 –> 00:04:52.158 So we decided, my parents and me, that I would go and take a look if he is okay.
00:04:52.683 –> 00:04:54.000 You’re 19 now?
00:04:54.000 –> 00:04:55.000 I’m 18.
00:04:56.000 –> 00:04:58.233 I’m still doing the farming apprenticeship.
00:04:58.525 –> 00:05:03.000 To look if he’s okay, and if he’s okay … okay, good.
00:05:03.000 –> 00:05:06.317 If he has found a place … My parents were amazing!
00:05:06.667 –> 00:05:11.825 They’re like, ‚if he finds a place where he is happy, we’re good.‘
00:05:12.000 –> 00:05:15.000 One worry less.
00:05:15.375 –> 00:05:21.134 And if he’s not okay, see if you keep persuade him to come back.
00:05:38.000 –> 00:05:46.703 So I went in my spring vacation to Poona.
00:05:46.703 –> 00:05:54.308 I still remember entering the gate. They had this beautiful wooden, massive wooden gate.
00:05:56.000 –> 00:06:04.325 It opened up, when you walk in there, it was like ‚boom‘, you entered like a time-warp space.
00:06:04.325 –> 00:06:08.121 I can’t explain it. It was magical really.
00:06:08.296 –> 00:06:13.733 I took one look around and I thought, I never wanted to leave from here ever again.
00:06:14.000 –> 00:06:16.479 Magnetic to the max.
00:06:17.495 –> 00:06:18.591 I was looking at …
00:06:18.716 –> 00:06:23.050 There were so many people, there were maybe 3000 people there at the time,
00:06:23.133 –> 00:06:29.336 working at the ashram, doing psychotherapy groups, doing meditations, meditation camps.
00:06:30.778 –> 00:06:43.250 Any kind of new age … Anything that you could possibly think of you could receive treatments or sessions there, or learn it from really good people.
00:06:44.425 –> 00:06:52.626 So I looked around at the people at the ashram, and I thought, they really reminded me of those Zen kind of characters,
00:06:52.626 –> 00:06:57.000 I thought, ‚I found my place, that’s it, I want to stay here.‘
00:06:58.100 –> 00:07:02.683 So instead of saving my brother, I saved myself.
00:07:03.875 –> 00:07:13.000 What an irony, you know, there he goes to save his brother in Poona and ends up staying there. I found that very amusing.
00:10:45.000 –> 00:10:49.646 I went back home to Germany, but before … I go back.
00:10:51.821 –> 00:10:59.000 I became his … Osho’s student, Bhagwan’s disciple at the time at the time.
00:11:00.550 –> 00:11:16.478 He called it Rajneesh Neo-Sannyas. ‚Sannyasin‘ is a recluse in India, somebody who is on the path of enlightenment to leave society behind and
00:11:17.786 –> 00:11:23.825 for finding out who he is and then to share that with others.
00:11:25.475 –> 00:11:34.130 At the time, there weren’t that many people there, you could still talk to Bhagwan and he …
00:11:34.755 –> 00:11:44.454 When I left, he said to me, ‚So how are you? What have you done?‘ I said, ‚Oh, I’ve done intensive enlightenment and some other
00:11:44.595 –> 00:11:53.392 groups similar to that, with some bio-energetics and things.‘ He said, ‚Good. When are you coming back?‘
00:12:32.192 –> 00:12:43.475 So, I’m looking at him, I go, ‚I don’t know‘ and he starts to smile and he says, ‚Don’t worry, I’m back at the right time.‘
00:13:26.000 –> 00:13:36.000 I went back. Instead of bringing my brother, I come back in red clothes with the wearing a picture of the Indian guru,
00:13:36.175 –> 00:13:48.000 My parents were like, ‚Oh!‘ My father didn’t talk to me for days. They thought, ‚Okay now the second son has gone bananas, brainwashed and …‘.
00:13:48.000 –> 00:13:59.000 But then, of course, with time, they realized that there was no brainwash, that I was actually content, I found also something that I really liked,
00:13:59.000 –> 00:14:11.420 something that gave me significance, it gave me significance in life, a purpose, thinking, ‚Buoah! I really want to go more into diving into myself.‘
00:14:11.420 –> 00:14:17.727 Very much like the situation I’m in now again, where I just really want to see
00:14:18.427 –> 00:14:25.663 who am I? And what is my purpose, and what is it that I really want to do?
00:14:27.222 –> 00:14:28.475 Nice!
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General: Everything around Osho and the commune (Ashram) is an eye catcher. Osho was of major influence on Arjava. And the comical story of him going to ’save‘ his brother and then staying on himself is highly entertaining.
General: Everything around Osho and the commune (Ashram) is an eye catcher. Osho was of major influence on Arjava. And the comical story of him going to ’save‘ his brother and then staying on himself is highly entertaining.