George Meredith (sannyasin)

George Meredith, also known as Devaraj, Amrito, and John Andrews, is a notable member of the Rajneesh movement who served as personal physician to Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. He later became vice chair of the Osho International Foundation following Rajneesh's death in 1990. He initially came to public attention as a member of the party that fled Rajneeshpuram, with Rajneesh, following the 1984 Rajneeshee bioterror attack.
Early life, education, and medical practice
Meredith was born in 1944 in Quetta, in the British Raj (now Pakistan), the son of Lt. Col. J.W.-A. Meredith and Maureen (née Stowell) Meredith. His father was an army officer under the British Raj; his parents divorced when he was about four years old. As Member of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom, Meredith had a medical practice in Lewisham and had served in 1974 as the medical head of a Kuwait hospital.
Rajneesh movement
Abhay Vaidya describes the youthful Meredith as, "disillusioned with the Cold War, attracted by Communist ideology, and his readings in radical psychiatry and the break-up of families all around". and from 1978 through May 1981, Meredith was a doctor in the ashram's health clinic.
He has served as a board member of the Osho International Foundation, "a Switzerland-based nonprofit which owns all of Bhagwan’s (now called Osho’s) intellectual property and continues to run a vast meditation resort in Pune". He is now called either Amrito or John Andrews. and he was hospitalized in Bend, Oregon for ten days. Stork was sentenced to ten years in prison. Asked by Christopher Reed to give his account of that death, Amrito said,
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