Sarlo's Anti-Guru Oedipal Rage and Osho

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We received this remembrance of Sarlo from a sannyasin known simply as "Prem":

You have to understand that Sarlo lost it in India. He lost his shirt to the local Pune mafia, got dysentery, needed psychiatric treatment and returned back to Canada a broken man. Sarlo's anti-American posturing relates to his paranoid delusions about being on a US DEA watch list for conspiring to score drugs.

Sarlo was depressed for quite some time. His partner, Amiyo, nursed him back to health and put up with his attacks and especially, as a woman, his misogyny. It was then that she excused his bad behavior as caused by delirium, which it was not. Sarlo wore Amiyo down and now, when her health, his bad she depends on him even though she was the stronger one.

When Osho died, Sarlo was again delirious. He wanted to follow Osho into death! It was a crazy time. It was when Sarlo "recovered" that he became super aggressive. He was angry at Osho, the US government, Pune, Amiyo and his mother (who is 80 now). Sarlo could not release his anger. Dynamic meditation could not do it. He could not be angry at Osho for "abandoning" him, so he became angry at sanyassins for abandoning Osho. It was then that he invented the so-called "Sarlo's Guru Ratings Service" which is shocking manifestation of his destructive unconscious. Sarlo is driven to destroy all gurus and godmen as a sublimated expression of oedipal rage. Why else would he have spent so much time knocking gurus on his site and Yahoogroup?

Sarlo is not just a danger to gurus. He is a danger to everyone around him and governments. It is not because he is liberal or fair but because of a death wish. Sarlo still wishes to follow Osho unto death because in doing so he believes he will find peace from his self-contempt and hatred of others. But Sarlo will find no peace in Osho because Osho is not a man to support Sarlo's aggressiveness. Osho looks like a rebel but it is a device of compassion. Sarlo's rebelliousness is nothing but disguised hatred.

You should give up on Sarlo unless you like pathology. There is nothing you can do with him or for him.