Talk:Rahiman Dhaga Prem Ka (रहिमन धागा प्रेम का)
Title of this book apparently derives from a couplet by Rahim, 1556-1626, a poet and minister in Akbar's court, the height of the Mughal Empire regime in India. The couplet is rendered in various ways, a sampling here:
| Rahiman dhaga prem ka mat toro chatkaay,
Tute to phir na judey, jude gaanth parh jaaye. |
Rahiman dhaga prem ka, mat todo chatkaaye,
Tote se phir na jude, jude ghanth pad jaaye. |
It means, roughly: Rahim says, "Be alert not to break the thread of love; if broken, it cannot be put back together except with a knot."
A couple of questions arise about the book. Osho.com has two pages for its audioboook offer, one suggesting that the book is about Dulandas, the other not (it's actually 404'd but still cached at search engines). As it's the only place suggesting any such thing, we'll stick with a Q&A theme. The other question concerns the 12 discourses. The period of time available would come to 15 discourses in the normal course of events, so something must have happened to cancel three days. The most common cause of such anomalies would be a chicken-pox quarantine but who knows?
Looking deeper into the comings and goings in Mar and Apr 1980 we find an unusual anomaly in the Darshan Diary records. In fact, the records for both Feb and Mar of that year are severely distorted. (See If You Choose to Be with Me, You Must Risk Finding Yourself (Feb) and Fingers Pointing to the Moon (Mar) for details.) Normally missing dates in a Darshan Diary can help to illuminate which dates are missing in a discourse series, but that can't happen for Rahiman. But at least order is almost restored in the next Darshan Diary, Eighty Four Thousand Poems, beginning on Apr 1, so we can narrow down the possibilities somewhat. Unfortunately, Poems is missing two nights in a row in early Apr (2nd and 3rd), so we can only be sure of Apr 5 onward. The candidates for Rahiman's three missing days are thus Mar 27-29, 28-30, 29-31, 30 - Apr 1 or Apr 2-4. And in fact, the most likely might be the Apr 2-4, since if that were not the case, a separate reason would have to be found for the absences of 84,000 (with no corresponding time off in Rahiman). -- updated doofus-9 18:46, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
Current dates of Timeline (27 Mar - 1 Apr, 5 Apr - 10 Apr) are correct, it confirmed by 1980 edition. The book gives a note that talks on 2, 3 and 4 did not happen, but no detailes.--DhyanAntar 05:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
About the "new pubs list", that is a list of Hindi books published within the previous six months, a feature of many books of those days which can be useful in ascertaining the vintage of an edition whose pub data is partially unavailable. In this case, there is no particular target but fwiw, the books involved are:
- Kahe Hot Adheer (काहे होत अधीर) (Paltu)
- Ramduware Jo Mare (रामदुवारे जो मरे) (Maluk)
- Jharat Dasahun Dis Moti (झरत दसहुं दिस मोती) (Gulal)
- Preetam Chhabi Nainan Basi (प्रीतम छबि नैनन बसी) (Q&A)
- Udiyo Pankh Pasar (उड़ियो पंख पसार) (Q&A)
and "Pocket editions" of:
- Tantra-Sutra, Bhag 1 (तंत्र-सूत्र, भाग एक) (10 volume set)
- Tantra-Sutra, Bhag 2 (तंत्र-सूत्र, भाग दो) (10 volume set)
- Dhyan-Sutra (ध्यान-सूत्र)
- Cheti Sake To Cheti (चेति सकै तो चेति)
- Chal Hansa Us Des (चल हंसा उस देस)
- Kaha Kahun Us Des Ki (कहा कहूं उस देस की)
- Kya Sove Tu Bavri (क्या सोवे तू बावरी)
- Panth Prem Ko Atpato (पंथ प्रेम को अटपटो)
The 1980 editions of most of these books were previously unknown by the wiki, and were/are the earliest known editions for most, so all in all a decent haul.
And note that the bluish colour of the pub info page does not reflect any difference in its actual colour, just a different scanner setting. -- doofus-9 08:09, 12 November 2017 (UTC)
