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Part VI : Osho initiates Vivek, his long-time attendant
Vivek takes sannyas in April 1971, and is Osho's caretaker from
1973 onwards
I had a girlfriend when I was young. Then she died. But on her
deathbed she promised me she would came back. And she has come
back. The name of the girlfriend was Shashi. She died in '47.
She was the daughter of a certain doctor in my village, Dr. Sharma.
He is also dead now. And now she has come as Vivek to take care
of me. Vivek cannot remember it. I used to call Shashi Gudiya,
and I started calling Vivek Gudiya also, just to give a continuity.
Life is a great drama, a great play - it goes on from one
life to another to another. plove02
Yesterday, someone came to me in the morning, and I told her
to take sannyas. She was bewildered. She said to give her time
to think and decide, at least two days. I said to her, "Who
knows about two days? So much you require...take it today,
this moment." But she was not decisive, so I gave her two
days. The next morning she came and took it. She has not taken
two days, only one day. I asked her, "Why? You have been
given two days, why have you come so soon?" She said, "At
three o'clock at night, suddenly I was awake, and something went
deep within me telling me, 'Go take sannyas.'"
It is not a decision that she has made, but a decision that
has been made by her very deep-rooted mind. But the moment she
came in the room I knew her, I knew that mind which she came to
know twenty hours later. So when I say take sannyas, there are
so many reasons with every person to whom I tell it. Either he
has been a sannyasin in the last life, or somewhere in the long
journey he has been a sannyasin.
I had given her another name yesterday, but today I had to change
it because I gave her that name in her indecision. Now I am giving
her a different name that will be a help to her. When she came
this morning, she herself was decided. That other name was not
needed at all. And I have given her the name Ma Yoga Vivek, because
now the decision has come through her vivek - her awareness,
her consciousness. gate02 (16 April 1971)
In 1986 Osho was to say:
Vivek has been for sixteen years with me. When she came she was
only twenty years old; now she is thirty-six, almost twice the
age. And all these sixteen years, day in, day out, she has been
taking care of me with as much love as possible, with a deep devotion.
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