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Avinash and Gyandeva are traveling the globe since many years, sharing 'Simply Being'.
This work reflects a life of dedication to spirituality and the direct teaching of their masters Osho and Papaji.
In a clear and unpretentious way, Avinash and Gyandeva help many people to get obstacles out of the way and with their loving presence facilitate the experience of peace and freedom beyond the mind.
Participants of 'Simply Being' value the quality of effortless awareness, take it with them into their daily lives and get motivated to live in the heart of the moment (see feedbacks).
The meetings, intensives and retreats are happening in Germany, Brazil and India - accompanied by individual sessions. |
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Avinash
born 1961 in Brazil, was already interested in spirituality during childhood.
She loved to talk to the trees, the flowers and animals, and at the age of four she saw the image of Virgin Mary in the sky.
"What I saw was beyond the physical eyes, beyond time. The blessings that descended on me cannot be expressed in words."
She first met the Indian master Osho 1977, when she became one of the first Sannyasins in Brazil.
"I came to Osho when I was only 16 years old. My heart got touched of something I could not describe, but I was clear that a new life had just begun: one of awareness and love.
I immediately started to dye all my clothes orange and was wearing His picture around my neck. From then on there was only one priority in life: to know myself - and I dedicated time for meditation everyday."
With seventeen Avinash started working as a meditation leader and later became an experienced therapist in Counseling, Tarot, Chakra-Balancing, Psychic Massage, Reiki and Breath Therapy.
In this area she worked at the Osho Institute in Hamburg/Germany, in Portugal and in Brazil.
1989 she met her partner Gyandeva with whom she went to Sri Poonjaji (Papaji) in Lucknow in September 1991.
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"Going there happened by itself, following a mysterious call.
Just to be with Him was a tremendous gift - so close, so intimate in Oneness. Every time I was in His physical presence there was deep gratefulness, respect for what He was giving. So much love, unwavering truth, simplicity and nothingness. It never left me."
In 1992 Papaji asked Avinash to 'speak the silence she had found like the Buddha did' after his realization. This Papaji said pointing with a finger at her face, and:
"Once you know the silence you have to speak. Speak!“
She says, that after the silence that followed in this meeting she dried her tears, and Papaji also dried his own tears, and silence continued.
In another moment Papaji said "Gyandeva and Avinash are going to bring many people Here!“
They stayed for six years in Lucknow (till He left the body in 1997), in His presence, at His feet, in Satsang.
Ever since Avinash shares Advaita Satsang, Truth beyond duality: as spiritual teacher and as a friend.
Directly from the heart and her own experience, she brings you back home to your own essence of Being.
"This is an invitation for you to see what really matters, and become aware of the true priority in life: to find inner peace, and to be happy in the here and now.“
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Gyandeva
born 1954 in Cologne/Germany, had a first intense experience of the inner reality doing the meditation techniques of Osho Rajneesh in 1980.
"It felt like I had just fallen in love. Totally blissful and contented. Just that there was nobody else. The source of this happiness was inside and not outside, in the other. I had always searched in the wrong place.“
A few months later he went to the Poona Ashram/India and got initiated by Osho receiving the name 'Dhyandeva' - Divine meditation (more...).
When in 1982 the commune moved to Oregon/USA, he donated his inheritance and went to live and participate in this project.
“It was a big jump into the unknown, following only the voice of the heart.
Simultaneously it resulted in burning down the bridges behind me, as only very few of my old relations could understand my decision.“
He lived initially at the Geetam Center/California where he graduated as one of the first trainees of 'Rebalancing' (holistic bodywork).
The following three years he spent at the Oregon commune, a period of hard work in all kind of different areas when every day became a challenging meditation.
"I was able to perform any given job and found contentment even under difficult circumstances. Because the contact to the essential never left me.“
After the commune had finished, he ran a bodywork practice in Munich while spending long stretches in Poona, extending his experience of therapy techniques (i.e. Spinal Adjustment, Craniosacral and Energy Work) and working as a co-trainer and session giver at the 'Multiversity'. |
During this time he came to know Avinash.
In 1991, a year after Osho had left the body, he went with her to see Sri Poonja (Papaji) in Lucknow, following a strong, mysterious pull.
In the first weeks which followed, in the fire of Papaji's presence, a long search ended (more ...).
“Words can hardly express what was going on inside of me. An overwhelming bliss in the recognition and acceptance of what IS. Nothing to be searched any more, nothing to be found or to be improved. What a freedom, what a joy.“
He started to put this experience into the form of poetry (more ...) which Papaji read out in Satsang, enjoying and commenting it. The name got changed to 'Gyandeva', referring to the enlightened 13th century mystic and poet of Maharashtra, Gyaneshwar.
For six years onwards he stayed in Lucknow, attending the daily Satsang meetings, and what was happening could settle and integrate.
After Papaji's samadhi in 1997 he started working with people again, co-hosting the 'Simply Being' meetings and retreats and giving sessions in bodywork.
Ever since the Lucknow years Avinash and Gyandeva go on long pilgrimage treks traveling through their beloved Himalayan Mountains and visit the holy places of Shiva and Buddha.
"Nobody speaking – everything said
No ear listening – everything heard
No eye watching – everything seen
No mind thinking – everything understood.
So simple - so still." |
In deep gratitude to the Satguru, the true teacher, the divine Self in the form of
Osho and Papaji.
Forever at Your feet.
Om Shanti Om
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