The Long and the Short and the All

"You ask what my message is? It is a brief one indeed: those who are awake are alive; those who are asleep miss everything.

No man is given manhood ready-made. He has to build it by himself. This is both a blessing and a bane. It is a blessing because he is free to create himself; it is a bane because there is always the possibility he will die without ever having become a man." (Osho, Ch. 1.)

translated from

Hindi :

Prem Ke Pankh (प्रेम के पंख) = "Wings of Love"

Amrit Kan (अमृत कण) = "Nectar Particles," previously translated with Wings of Love in Wings of Love and Random Thoughts.

Main Kaun Hun? (मैं कौन हूं?) = Who Am I?

Agyat Ki Aur (अज्ञात की ओर) = Towards the Unknown (now chapter 2 and 3).

(Hindi antecedent not known) = The Mysteries of Life and Death (now chapter 5).

notes

Details of when and where these discourses are from originally are scanty. Parts of Who Am I? are from Mar 1967 and Kullu Manali in Aug 1969 has been mentioned as a possibility. Amrit Kan is said to have been published before 1965, and Prem Ke Pankh sometime in 1969. Specific sources aside, the book is a collection of short and long extracts grouped thematically into six subject-chapters: Knowledge and Understanding, Truth and Science, Religion and Education, Thought and Vision, Life and Death, and Love and Happiness.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

(unknown)

number of discourses/chapters

6

editions

	The Long and the Short and the All Year of publication : 1975 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN Unknown (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : ? Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : ? Edition notes : Mentioned by Neeten in the bibliography of the Osho Source Book. The title is quoted as "The Long, the Short and the All".
	The Long and the Short and the All Year of publication : 1979 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN 0-89684-064-6 ("Paper", but this ISBN is printed in this cloth-bound hardcover.) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 260 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : H Edition notes : First Edition: Delhi, 1979. © 1979 Rajneesh Foundation, Poona (India) Size : 221 x 145 x 22 mm Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Editor Sw Krishna Prem Printed in India By Shantilal Jain, at Shri Jainendra Press, A45, Phase-1, Industrial Area, Naraina, New Delhi-110 028. Published by Narendra Prakash Jain, for Motilal Banarsidass, Bungalow Road, Jawahar Nagar, Delhi-110 007. Introduction Sw Krishna Prem, October, 1977, Poona.
	The Long and the Short and the All Year of publication : 1979 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN 0-89684-064-6 ("Paper") (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 260 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First Edition: Delhi, 1979. (As in the 1979 hardcover edition.)
	The Long and the Short and the All Excerpts from early discourses and letters Year of publication : 1984 Publisher : Rajneesh Foundation ISBN 0-88050-708-X (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 280 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First U.S. Printing: July 1984 - 10,000 copies. Copyright: © 1984 Rajneesh Foundation International. Size : 178 x 108 x 16 mm Author as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Published by Ma Anand Sheela M.M., D.Phil.M., D.Litt.M.(RIMU), Acharya Editor Sw Krishna Prem, M.M., D.Phil.M.(RIMU), Acharya Design Ma Deva Padma Direction: Ma Yoga Pratima, M.M., D.Phil.M.(RIMU), Arihanta Printed in U.S.A. Library of Congress Catalog Number 84-42806 Introduction Sw Krishna Prem, M.M., D.Phil.M.(RIMU), Acharya