Over 200 Indian Osho Lovers Facebook Pages Suspended Again By Switzerland’s Osho International Foundation
Over 200 Indian Osho Lovers Facebook Pages Suspended Again By Switzerland's Osho International Foundation
New Delhi, 12 July, 2024- In an audacious move, 200 pages related to Osho on Facebook were removed by the management of Pune-based Osho International Foundation (which works under Switzerland’s Osho International Foundation) so that information about such celebrations does not reach all Osho’s disciples like before.
This is a conspiracy by Switzerland’s Osho International Foundation, which keeps declaring from time to time its monopoly on copyright and trademark on the name Osho. This foundation has got its name registered in Zurich. In Zurich, this foundation collects royalty on Osho’s books published in more than sixty languages of the world. The money generated through such sales does not come to the country. The self-appointed owners of Osho’s Intellectual Property Rights–in Zurich—have not allowed Osho’s teachings to spread in India and outside India. Crores of Indian viewers have been deprived of watching and listening to Osho’s discourses on Indian satellite TV channels for the last 3 decades.
The information of suspension of Facebook Pages was shared by Swami Chaitanya Keerti to Pune Pulse.
The Indian Facebook Pages are of Osho disciples and admirers who want to freely spread their Master’s word but Switzerland’s Osho International Foundation creates numerous obstacles in their way as this limits their earnings. One of the pages that was suspended yesterday was of Osho’s brother, “ Swami Shailendra Saraswati”.
Osho has millions of disciples and lovers in India and around the world. In India we have always believed that meditation or Dhyan is inestimable and no limitations should be placed on it. thousands of Osho lovers are preparing to knock on the doors of the court and challenge the unfair monopoly on Osho’s legacy.
This is not the first time this has happened and a trend has been observed that whenever there is an important occasion close to the heart of disciples…like Guru Poornima ( which is no longer celebrated in Osho Pune commune ), such harassment is more likely to occur.
It is indeed an irony, that a trademark and copyright has been placed on the teachings of a Master who never believed in the copyright of thoughts and meditation, as observed by the renowned author and journalist Khushwant Singh, who wrote: “How can you catch the sea breeze in a net? The slogan of true Osho disciples is “Osho, everybody’s birthright; nobody’s copyright.” ( Tribune India, This Above All Chandigarh: 22 July 2000):
