Ultimate Woman, Enlightened Woman

The cherry on the top for UN Women's Day was the inauguration of Women Mystics Week at Osho World Galleria by the famous artist Arpana Caur on Wednesday, March 10, 2004

After hailing women's plight and achievements today, the ultimate flowering of woman as a mystic was commended by Osholovers at this event focused on enlightened women mystics such as Meera, Rabiya al-Adabiya, Sahajo, Daya, Lalla, among others. 

Osho says, "If all over the world the woman is allowed freedom to grow to her potential, there will be many, many women enlightened; many, many women mystics, poets, painters. And they will enhance not only the woman's part of the world -- because the world is one -- they will enhance the whole world. They will give man also new dimensions because their ways of seeing things are different. Man looks at things in one way; the woman looks from a different perspective. Life will become richer."

Launching an MP3 CD on Women Mystics by Osho, Arpana Caur said," I feel very very small and very limited launching this discourse on women mystics, some of whom I have tried to paint with my very limited capabilities." 

She recalled she had made some paintings of women mystics like Rabiya of whom there is no photographic reference. She said, "Recently, I have done a complete series of work on Nanak. I heard Osho's tape on Nanak about 15 years back. The paintings are mostly about Nanak going under water as a human being and emerging as Nanak and his mistrust of external rituals like the sacred thread (janeu) or keeping his feet in a certain direction in Mecca and traveling with a muslim and a Hindu accompanists, Bala and Mardana. This is a big lesson for the secular times."

"When I went to Baghdad in 1986, I found he is called Peer Nanak there and when I went to Leh and also Sikkim in the eighties at 18,000 feet from where he crossed on foot to China, he is called Lama Nanak by the locals. So this kind of secularism which Osho also talks about, all these mystics - whether men or women, its Jain or Zoroastrian - should be given equal reverence and passion," said Arpana Caur. 

Later, well-known classical singer Rashmi Agarwal presented devotional songs of Meera, Sahejo and Rani Rupkanwar.

"If women are leaders in politics, leaders in science, leaders in poetry, painting, they will bring a totally new perspective to everything. Women should be professors, educationists, they should be everywhere. They are half of the world -- they own half the world. And my experience here is that they are tremendously capable, reliable. You can trust them more because they connect with you not from the head, but from the heart."_Osho


Shubha Mudgal dedicates a musical evening to Osho

Shubha Mudgal enthralled the hearts of the audience as she sang devotional songs based on the verses of enlightened women mystics Meera and Sahajo, at Osho World galleria on 19th March 2004. Celebrating Osho enlightenment day that happens to be on 21st March 2004, Shubha dedicated the evening to Osho, the enlightened master of the modern times.

Bringing out the essence of the songs of Meera, Osho says, "Meera looks beautiful while she is dancing. In fact, it would have been unfortunate if she had not danced and simply sat under a tree; we would have missed the beautiful songs she sang. Nobody in the whole world has sung such beautiful songs. They come directly from the innermost core of her being. They are not ordinary poetry, they are divine. It is not that she is composing them; they are simply flowing through her naturally. She never learned to dance; it exploded! It was an explosion."

Similarly Osho has extolled Sahajo as a rare enlightened woman whose each word was spontaneous and unique. "An enlightened person's words will be spontaneous. They are just coming from the source -- fresh and new. These coins are just being minted, they have not been used in the market.
The words of Sahajo have just come from the mint. Sahajo is not a scholar, nor is she a poet. Her words are simple and straight -- there is not much fuss, nothing has been hidden. And she has spoken in such a way as no one else has before. So there was no way to borrow.
Whenever God descends into someone, he descends in a new way each time; God does not like repetition. Every single verse of Sahajo is unique. Never before and never after have there been such verses." 

Ma Krishna Radha, a long time disciple of Osho presented Ms. Mudgal with Osho World's latest book "Einstein the Buddha".