Swami Anand Arun
Osho in Nepal: A Disciple's Story of Devotion, Surrender and Unwavering Love for His Master
Swami Anand Arun was born in Janakpur, Nepal, and from childhood he felt a deep longing to explore the spiritual world and the truth of life.
On this journey of seeking he met many meditators and spiritual teachers, yet none of them could quench his thirst for truth.
An architectural engineer by profession, Swami Anand Arun built a successful career in Kathmandu with the architectural consultancy Building Design Authority.
When he first met Osho on March 29, 1969, while still at university, Arun felt strongly that he had at last found the soul he had been searching for all along. That October he joined his first camp, "Mein Mrityu Sikhata Hun," led by Osho himself in Dwarika, India.
Later, after the Poona commune was founded in India in 1974, Osho initiated him as a neo-sannyasin.
At Osho's direction to create a meditation center in Nepal, he founded the country's first center, the Asheesh Rajneesh Meditation Center, at Tahachal in Kathmandu in 1974.
This was the beginning of the Osho movement in Nepal.
On January 29, 1984, ten years after Arun began leading his first meditation camp in India in 1974, Osho declared him an Acharya and Bodhisattva. In November 1986, in Bombay, India, Osho appointed him a teacher of meditation and spiritual growth within the Rajneesh Mystery School.
To date he has initiated some 100,000 seekers from 90 countries into OSHO neo-sannyas.
He advises and guides six OSHO communes and 75 meditation centers in Nepal, one commune in the United States, and 150 meditation centers in 50 countries.
Articles by Swami Anand Arun (in Japanese)