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| 27 Aug pm || Seminar for artists at Kala Niketan, Jabalpur, incl Q&A ||  
| 27 Aug pm || Seminar for artists at Kala Niketan, Jabalpur, incl Q&A ||  
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| 3-4 Sep am || <big>Sheet C-7</big> -- Speaking to students in Poona ||
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| 3 Sep pm || Speaking to students in Poona ||
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| 5-7 Sep || <big>Sheet C-8</big> -- Satsang in Ahmedabad, lecture series on the occasion of [[wikipedia:Paryushana | Paryushan]] || apparently a daily event separate from the afternoon talks below
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| 5 Sep om || talk with high school students in Ahmedabad ||
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| 6 Sep om || <big>Sheet C-9</big> -- Lecture to women of Sanskarteerth of Ajol || Ajol is perhaps an hour's drive from Ahmedabad; "Sanskarteerth" likely a social group rather than a location.
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| 7 Sep om || addressed college students of Ahmedabad in a public meeting also attended by many non-students ||
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| 8 Sep am || <big>Sheet C-10</big> -- addressed a large group at Birla Kreeda Kendra in Chowpatty, Bombay, with many standing outside, still on occasion of Paryushan ||
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| 8 Sep om || addressed students of Bombay University at University Club ||
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| 11 Sep pm || <big>Sheet C-11</big> -- addressed students of Science college at Ashok Hostel, Jabalpur University ||
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| 12 Sep pm || addressed a large group at Mahaveer Library in Jabalpur, with many standing outside listening ||
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| 13 Sep pm || <big>Sheet C-12</big> -- addressed an overflow crowd at Dashlakshan Vyayamshala, a gym in Jabalpur, with people standing outside in the rain ||
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| 14 Sep pm || discourse with students and teachers at Medical College in Jabalpur ||
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| 17 Sep am || first sermon in Balasinor (GJ) || rowspan="7" | see below re "Balasinor" and "Nadiad"
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| 17 Sep om || <big>Sheet C-13</big> -- second sermon in Balasinor
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| 18 Sep am || addressed students in Balasinor in an open courtyard
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| 18 Sep om || <big>Sheet C-14</big> -- addressed teachers of the colleges of Nadiad (GJ)
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| 18 Sep pm || public meeting in Nadiad Town Hall
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| 19 Sep am || <big>Sheet C-15</big> -- addressed a large group in Nadiad Women's College
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| 19 Sep om || another large group of students from all the colleges of Nadiad
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| 19 Sep pm || <big>Sheet C-16</big> -- talk at the Kapadvanj (GJ) Lions Club ||
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| 20 Sep am || addressed students of Kapadvanj College ||
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| 20 Sep pm || addressed a large group at Kapadvanj Town Hall || text overflows into C-17 but no new events there.
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===Analysis - C Sheets===
"Balasinor" was actually transcribed repeatedly as बालासितोर in Devanagari, which transliterates as Balasitor, but G**gle Maps cannot find this place. G**gle Translate suggests Balasore, a town in coastal Odisha (OD), formerly known as Orissa. This was at first attractive, as it would be (possibly) Osho's first known visit to India's East coast, but it ran into a wall with the event in "Nadiad" coming perhaps as little as four hours later on Sep 18. That town, with its "colleges" (plural, sic) was not to be found in Odisha or anywhere close, but in Gujarat. There are little villages named Nadia-this or Nadia-that in Odisha but none big enough for even one college, never mind plural.
A closer look at the manuscript reveals wiggle room enough to accept that Balasinor, in Gujarat about an hour's drive from Nadiad, was what was intended, with the नो being written in a way that would be easy to mistake for a तो. So that's what it shall be. To go with Balasore would require positing a mistake in Nadiad in addition to a weirder mistake in "Balasitor".

Revision as of 01:41, 21 April 2019

A correspondent has shared his research into Osho's Manuscripts. Some of Osho's early writings have turned out to be fact-based accounts of his travels, speeches, and the events of the time. The research is organized into four batches, corresponding to the particular groups of manuscripts where info was found. All info presented is annotated, ie which sheet of the manuscripts it derives from is clearly indicated, so one can also study them for oneself. In some cases, Osho's notes contain the full text of early unpublished discourses, though not in this batch, which has some text but nothing like complete.

Other batches in this series are:

(1) Manuscripts ~ Messages Timeline Extraction
(2) Manuscripts ~ Notebooks Timeline Extraction
(3) Manuscripts ~ Programmes Timeline Extraction

This batch, the fourth in the series, derives from a data-rich group of pages at Manuscripts ~ Reports, "Reports of Nation-Wide Programmes of Acharya Shri". One wondering that has been growing regarding these data-source manuscripts in general and which comes to a head with this batch in particular, is, "Is Osho really the author of these Reports, Programmes, etc?" Surely he would not refer to himself in the third person? Etc.

In fact, the first four lines of the first sheet in the batch declare, translated roughly:

News Department
Activation of the Wheel of Dharma
Countrywide Program of Acharyashri
Compilation: Jatubhai Mehta **

But does it matter for our purposes here? Perhaps this Jatubhai-ji did gather the information and Osho copied it here. Perhaps Jatubhai gathered it and wrote it. Or perhaps Osho did it all in Jatubhai's name, which may itself be made up. Osho is said to have attributed his writings to others many times, and in fact continued that "tradition" in his discourses by making up questions, attributing them to his sannyasins and then "answering" them. In the end, the information in the manuscripts is as reliable as anything else we're going to get about that era that hasn't otherwise been authenticated. And like other sources, it is fallible.

These manuscripts do not include the year, so we will need to compare with existing Timelines to see how they fit. Our correspondent has done some of this himself too. And we note that a rough time frame has already been created at the top of Manuscripts ~ Reports, bracketing each subgroup of sheets (there are five, from A to E), thusly:

A: 7 - 22 Apr 1968
B: 5 May - 29 Jul 1968
C: 2 Aug - 20 Sep 1968
D: 11 Nov 1968 - 18 Jan 1969
E: 4 Feb - 2 Apr 1969

See the Analysis below each section for details.

A Sheets (A-2 to A-4)

Dates Event Description and Notes Wiki Notes, Comments
7-10 Apr Sheet A-2 -- evenings, Bombay, Lectures at Cross Maidan. Message: Love life and live it to its totality or total depths because in temple called life, God resides.
and mornings, C J Hall - Q & A Message: Religion is only one and it is your real nature but we have caught hold of the finger pointing to the moon instead of looking at the Moon.
11 Apr am Poona, Hindvijay Theatre Lecture on the occasion of Mahavir Jayanti
11 Apr pm Sheet A-3 -- Poona, Addressed large public meeting. Message: Ask seed of drop of water about secret of religion.
14 Apr pm Jabalpur Lecture at meeting of Sindhi Society
17 Apr pm Sheet A-4 -- Jabalpur Lecture at Opening ceremony of Art exhibition. Message: One has to search, live and know religion and not try to search for it in religious literature.
22 Apr Delhi, addressed the Servants of the People Society in Lala Lajpat Rai Bhavan.

Analysis - A Sheets

(to come)

B Sheets (B-1 to B-13V)

The B group of sheets, next, also begins with four lines characterizing the collection. They are exactly the same as those introducing the A sheets, aside from a typo in the A-sheet intro. **

In the B group, there are discourse snippets throughout, interspersed with facts about events. There are also a relatively high number of "Verso" or reverse sides of sheets with some writing on them but no facts. Some make short, cryptic references to WW1 but most of those with clear messages are just fragments of discourses.

Dates Event Description and Notes Wiki Notes, Comments
5 - 8 May Sheet B-1 -- Indore, daily addressed a large public gathering in the courtyard of Rajwada See below re "Rajwada".
7 May Evening, Addressed members of Lions Clubs Indore. (In timeline this date conflicts Birla Krida Kendra Bombay). Message: Faith has killed religion
8 May am Sheet B-2R -- Indore, addressed a huge public gathering at Geetagyan Mandir (Ek naya dwar)
13-15 May Satsang in Damoh, ~60km NE of Jabalpur May be some uncertainty deriving from "Jatu Bhai" re precise dates
14 May pm Sheet B-3R -- Damoh Rotary Club, theme: Who am I?
15 May am a Jain temple in Damoh
20-23 May Bombay, large satsangs held in Cross Maidan
30 May Sheet B-4R -- Jabalpur, seminar organized by Jeevan Jagriti Kendra
2-3 Jun Matunga, Bombay, a large satsang
5-7 Jun Sheet B-5R -- Udaipur, Meditation camp ( Apane Mahi tatol – discourse as per timeline)
(10th to 13th June 1967 Chandrapur- Prabhu Madir ke dwar on Timeline seems to be correct but on Doc_X_(source_document) it is Oct 30 to Nov 3, 68)
13-14 Jun (Chandrapur/Chanda) marriage of Daughter of Rekhchand ji Parakh and Sau Madan Kunwar Parakh – Susheela’s Marriage. Year is 1967 as far as my research is pointing to See below re "Parakh"
14 Jun am Sheet B-6R -- seminar in Chanda
15 Jun pm seminar in Gondia, NE Maharashtra
25 Jun Sheet B-7R -- symposium in Jabalpur at Jeevan Jagriti Kendra
28-30 Jun Surat (Timeline of Agyat ki or – Q&A matches with dates of this program at Doc_X_(source_document))
28 Jun pm Sheet B-8R -- Theosophical Soc, Surat Date here given as 22 Jun in the transcription of the manuscript. See below for why this has been changed.
29 Jun pm Lions Club, Surat, a talk on policy and religion See below for a small translation.
30 Jun pm Sheet B-9R -- Rotary Club, Surat
1 Jul om SNDT Womens College, Matunga, Bombay, talk on becoming ourselves, not emulating.
10-12 Jul Sheet B-10R -- Satsang in Nandurbar MH, "I want to make you more and more dissatisfied, because whosoever is satisfied with vanity and wealth, his life becomes useless."
11 Jul om addressed students of Nandurbar College, re leaving behind the superstitions of mental slavery.
12 Jul pm Sheet B-11 -- addressed a large public gathering in Jalgaon MH
13 Jul am Teachers Training College in Jalgaon
13 Jul om Sheet B-12 -- Amalner MH, Amalner College
13 Jul pm Amalner, a large public gathering
28 Jul Sheet B-13R -- Seminar given at Jeevan Jagriti Kendra in Jabalpur
              Sheet B-13V -- The material inscribed here is unusual. It says only "Order -- 1 Shiksha Aur Dharm, 2 Vichar Vichar Bindu, 3 Phool Aur Phool Aur Phool, 4 Gyan Ganga". These appear to be references to titles: the 1st an obscure, poorly documented collection of Osho's talks, the 2nd and 3rd manuscript titles and the 4th heretofore unknown but credible as a missing title.

Analysis - B Sheets

Re "Rajwada": sheet B1 has it as राजबाडे, which transliterates to Rajbade, with "Rajwada" the rendering of our correspondent. This rendering is likely correct, as Rajwada is an iconic palace in Indore.

About "Parakh", we have encountered this name before, in Manuscripts ~ Notebooks Timeline Extraction. The mention here confirms fairly well that these folks are indeed Anandmayee and her husband.

About the date Jun 22 getting changed to 28, there are two things: The sheets appear to follow fairly faithfully in chronological order, and the 22nd would be out of order. Also in the text for the Surat event in general just before this entry, the writer declares that Jun 28-30 is Acharyashri's first visit to Surat.

Second thing is the manuscript itself. The actual writing of the 2 and 8, using Devanagari numerals, should come out something like २८. In the event, the second digit has had an apparent stroke added to it at the top to make it look more like a small misshapen २, hence it has been transcribed as a 2. But the 8 seems far more likely.

Translating here a snippet of the talk to the Lions Club in Surat, a nice example of infusing his "political" and social themes with the revolution of the heart. Small liberties have been taken with the translation, to make G**gle more idiomatic:

Religion [can become] a policy, but policy [cannot become] religion, because religion is a radical change in the person's heart, and when the consciousness changes then the behavior changes. But the opposite is not true. [...] Where there is suppression, the mind is unhealthy. I am not in favor of suppression because the whole of man's insomnia and morbidity are the fruits of it. I want to change the mind completely. This change comes from knowing self-awareness, which comes from inspection of the processes of the mind. Look at it. Understand it and that understanding becomes a transformation. This knowing is a revolution, and that revolution is a religion in itself.

Thus were the good burghers of Surat electrified.

C Sheets (C-1 to C-17)

The C group of sheets also begins with four lines characterizing the collection. They are exactly the same as those introducing the B sheets. In this group, there are discourse snippets throughout, interspersed with facts about events.

Dates Event Description and Notes Wiki Notes, Comments
2-5 Aug Sheet C-1 -- Satsang in Gyan Mandir, Gwalior
2 Aug om greeted at train station in Gwalior
2 Aug pm beginning of 3 day Satsang at Gyan Mandir, Lashkar, a part of Gwalior
3-4 Aug Madhav Ashram in Lashkar
4 Aug om Sheet C-2 -- Women's College, Morar, a part of Gwalior
5 Aug am Seminar in Savitri Sadan, Lashkar
5 Aug Sheet C-3 -- Q&A session with Jain Mitra Mandal (Jain Friends Board), at Patni's house in Gwalior
11 Aug Jabalpur, artists' seminar, theme = Artists closer to God than many so-called religious people
12-15 Aug Sheet C-4 -- Satsang in Ghatkopar, a neighbourhood of Bombay
14 Aug om Women's College in Ghatkopar
19-22 Aug Sheet C-5 -- Gadarwara, addressed students from his old school
22 Aug pm Seminar at Jeevan Jagriti Center, Gadarwara, talk plus Q&A
26 Aug pm Sheet C-6 -- Address and Q&A at Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Jabalpur
27 Aug pm Seminar for artists at Kala Niketan, Jabalpur, incl Q&A
3-4 Sep am Sheet C-7 -- Speaking to students in Poona
3 Sep pm Speaking to students in Poona
5-7 Sep Sheet C-8 -- Satsang in Ahmedabad, lecture series on the occasion of Paryushan apparently a daily event separate from the afternoon talks below
5 Sep om talk with high school students in Ahmedabad
6 Sep om Sheet C-9 -- Lecture to women of Sanskarteerth of Ajol Ajol is perhaps an hour's drive from Ahmedabad; "Sanskarteerth" likely a social group rather than a location.
7 Sep om addressed college students of Ahmedabad in a public meeting also attended by many non-students
8 Sep am Sheet C-10 -- addressed a large group at Birla Kreeda Kendra in Chowpatty, Bombay, with many standing outside, still on occasion of Paryushan
8 Sep om addressed students of Bombay University at University Club
11 Sep pm Sheet C-11 -- addressed students of Science college at Ashok Hostel, Jabalpur University
12 Sep pm addressed a large group at Mahaveer Library in Jabalpur, with many standing outside listening
13 Sep pm Sheet C-12 -- addressed an overflow crowd at Dashlakshan Vyayamshala, a gym in Jabalpur, with people standing outside in the rain
14 Sep pm discourse with students and teachers at Medical College in Jabalpur
17 Sep am first sermon in Balasinor (GJ) see below re "Balasinor" and "Nadiad"
17 Sep om Sheet C-13 -- second sermon in Balasinor
18 Sep am addressed students in Balasinor in an open courtyard
18 Sep om Sheet C-14 -- addressed teachers of the colleges of Nadiad (GJ)
18 Sep pm public meeting in Nadiad Town Hall
19 Sep am Sheet C-15 -- addressed a large group in Nadiad Women's College
19 Sep om another large group of students from all the colleges of Nadiad
19 Sep pm Sheet C-16 -- talk at the Kapadvanj (GJ) Lions Club
20 Sep am addressed students of Kapadvanj College
20 Sep pm addressed a large group at Kapadvanj Town Hall text overflows into C-17 but no new events there.

Analysis - C Sheets

"Balasinor" was actually transcribed repeatedly as बालासितोर in Devanagari, which transliterates as Balasitor, but G**gle Maps cannot find this place. G**gle Translate suggests Balasore, a town in coastal Odisha (OD), formerly known as Orissa. This was at first attractive, as it would be (possibly) Osho's first known visit to India's East coast, but it ran into a wall with the event in "Nadiad" coming perhaps as little as four hours later on Sep 18. That town, with its "colleges" (plural, sic) was not to be found in Odisha or anywhere close, but in Gujarat. There are little villages named Nadia-this or Nadia-that in Odisha but none big enough for even one college, never mind plural.

A closer look at the manuscript reveals wiggle room enough to accept that Balasinor, in Gujarat about an hour's drive from Nadiad, was what was intended, with the नो being written in a way that would be easy to mistake for a तो. So that's what it shall be. To go with Balasore would require positing a mistake in Nadiad in addition to a weirder mistake in "Balasitor".