Swami Harideva

Swami Hardeva is a past director Zohar Institute in Tel Aviv,Crisis Institute in Cologne Germany, Aaah Yes Institute in Fairfax California and has conducted some of the largest mass social meditations in the world.

His activities have been reported in the Rajneesh Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Viha News, Osho Times and the Times of India (India).

The first records are from Gyuto Monastery in Dalhousie, India [now Bhutan] . He was the first Western student of Tara Tulku.

In 1970 he studied with Neemkerali baba, Gongka, and Swami Satchadananda.

In 1971 he had his first meetings with Acharya Rajneesh, who was later known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and later simply as "Osho" He remained an intimate disciple of Rajneesh for the next 19 years until Rajneesh' death in Poona India in 1990.

In March 1971 he introduced Rajneesh's work to the West and opened three meditation "houses" in America.

In 1988 he offered the name "Osho" to Rajneesh during creation and preparations for "Friends of Osho" programs. This name was a direct reference made by Rajneesh while giving talks on old Zen traditions in Japan while addressing their master teachers as "friends". "Osho" means "the friend"

In 1990 Osho died. Many of his close disciple including Harideva were "banned" by the two lawyers and a doctor who took control of the Poona commune while trying to turn it into a "meditation business".

Harideva or Lovebaba as some of his admirers have referred to him has opened several meditation and therapy centers in Paris, Moscow, Tel Aviv and Germany.

He is currently on world tour giving his signature talks on meditation, creativity and Osho's legacy.

Harideva is one of the original five Western disciples of Osho.