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Press Release of Religious Community Osho Ojas Meditation Center

Regarding Freedom of Spirit and Religion in Lithuania

On Nov. 13, 2005 during TV 3 broadcast “Comments of a Week” (“Savaites komentarai”, hereinafter – the Broadcast) information not corresponding to the facts regarding religious community Osho Ojas meditation center (hereinafter – the Community), humiliating reputation of members of the Community and the Community as a legal person, was disseminated.

Religious community Osho Ojas Meditation Center started to develop in the year 1992. The Community from the year 1997 several times applied to RL Ministry of Justice (MJ) asking to register it as a religious community, but MJ refused registration motivating on the one hand by imaginary violations of health and morality of their own Catholically orientated religious researchers (Arunas Peshkaitis, Donatas Glodenis) or experts invited by them (doc., dr. Gintaras Beresnevichius) but without presenting any facts, and on the other hand – by lack of God, messiahs and rituals.

In meditative religion that is followed and practiced by the Community, God, messiahs and rituals for spirituality are necessary only as much as police or Ministry of Justice – for morality and love. In meditative religion inner bodies, soul, death of body and birth of new body – reincarnation, other otherworldly matters, as well as the highest spiritual experience – enlightenment or nirvana are experienced directly. Those are experiences of deepening meditation. In it also transformation of kundalini, sexual and vital energy to any action, creativity and love is experienced clearly. Energy is defined as a capacity to perform a work in a certain sphere. In meditative religion, life, evolution of nature and consciousness, science and spirituality are absolutely harmonizable and meditation lifts them to the new, unseen heights. When meditating, the biggest part of obsessions, diseases, perversions and misfortunes fall away on their own and are replaced by health and well being, peace and blissfulness.

Unfortunately, without knowing this or being afraid of novation, some journalists, pulp and Catholically orientated media have been using that for about ten years, and the Community wasn’t a legal person and thus couldn’t defend its rights and freedoms. It is to be regretted that some Catholic officers: former advisor to RL Government on issues of religions Mr. P.Plumpa, the senior MJ specialist Arunas Peshkaitis, contributed especially to discrimination and humiliation of the Community. If Mr. P.Plumpa only discriminated and falsified data, an ordinand A.Peshkaitis besides also lied.

Just after entering European Union, after the Supreme Administrative Court of Lithuania by its Feb. 4, 2005 decision established that in “the by-laws presented” by the Community “there aren’t statements about group sex as a form of meditation or similar, the witnesses interrogated at the court denied such practice of meditation, there aren’t any factual findings gathered that would confirm that Osho Ojas Meditation Center practices such actions in its activity”, the Community, following the provisions of Law on Religious Communities and Societies of the Republic of Lithuania, on April 12, 2005 was registered within a RL Registrar of legal persons. Legal status: religious community. Leader of the community – Mechislovas Vrubliauskas.

The broadcast of television channel TV3 “Comments of a Week” presents itself as “overview and analysis of the most important events in Lithuania” by that making an image of a serious and objective analytical broadcast in society. However during November 13, 2005 TV3 broadcast “Comments of a Week” information not corresponding to the facts was disseminated despite that exact information was known according to the fact of Community’s registration as well as to November 11, 2005 interview of M. Vrubliauskas to TV 3 journalist Anna Cvetkova, in which he to the co-author of the broadcast “Comments of a Week” who was looking for violations of morality and sexual perversions, clearly stated that there weren’t and there aren’t such and similar matters in the religious community Osho Ojas meditation center.

Without having a single fact, statements of the journalists Jolanta Butkevichiene and Jurgita Barzdziuviene that are indicated below:

“J.Butkevichiene: “This time in “Comments of a Week” – about dangers: <…> prayers and orgies uniting sect <…> Sectarians, even settled in three biggest towns of Lithuania, from its prospective members demand certifications that they don’t have venereal diseases <…>.

J.Barzdziuviene: <…> according to our knowledge, the right meditation according to Osho has to end in a sexual intercourse and a good session – in true orgies. <…> Sectarians don’t deny uniting meditation with sex. <…> Sectarians, of course, denied that they organize orgies <…>,

clearly violates provisions of Article 26 of RL Constitution, Article 9 of Convention for Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, Articles 3, 6, 19, 38, 54, 56, 57 of RL Code of Journalist Ethics, Article 20 of RL Law on the Provision of Information to the Public, Articles 2.22 and 2.24 of RL Civil Code.

It is to be regretted that a lecturer of Vytautas Magnus University (VMU), Msgr. A.Jagelavicius, who participated in the broadcast, rather because of ignorance than lying, was telling: “Rajneesh <…> was expelled <…> also from India“ or „How while meditating to enter into that intercourse”.

It is known to us that because of false identification students from VMU Faculty of Catholic Theology get to psychiatric hospitals and meditation helps a lot to them in life and work, and even heals. Even more. LNK broadcasting “Sroves” falsifying tried to attribute the symptoms of psychiatric disease, that originated during studies in VMU, to Osho Ojas meditation center. Even a huge damage was done to a girl, falsification until now is still not properly known to public.

Because of aforementioned Broadcast and other maladies, the Community prepared and in a short time will present relevant documents to leaders of television channel TV 3 and the Inspector of Journalists Ethics.

The Community asks and invites all journalists who write on religious and spiritual subjects, not to waste words, but arrange them like jewels, grow them out of their heart as a rose or lotus, because only then they will be alive and could blossom. People, who go on a spiritual path, bring love, truth and freedom not only for themselves but also to all people of Lithuania and the World. Whether word and spirit searchers aren’t on the way?

Community Leader, Mechislovas Vrubliauskas.

Dec. 12, 2005

Published in BNS Dec. 12, 2005







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