Who Am I

"There are only two alternatives: escape from the self or awakening in the self. There must be an external object for escape; and for awakening there must be a disillusionment about the utility of external attractions.

As long as God is external, it is mundane; it is an illusion; it is a hallucination. Man has invented Him to find an escape from the self and to run away from it.

Friend, the first thing, therefore, which I have to say is that we need not investigate God, Truth, Liberation, or Emancipation. Let us investigate the investigator himself." (Osho, Ch. I.)

translated from

Hindi : Main Kaun Hun? (मैं कौन हूं?)

notes

Later partly published in The Long and the Short and the All.

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

Unknown, though at least part of Main Kaun Hun? is from Mar 1967 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

17

editions

Who Am I Year of publication : 1968 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN None Number of pages : 145 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First edition 1968. © Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, 29, Eastern Chamber, 3rd Floor, 128, Poona Street, Bombay-9. Author as Acharya Rajaneesh Size : 178 x 124 x 6 mm Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava Printed in India by Shantilal Jain, Shri Jainendra Press, Bungalow Road, Jawaharnagar, Delhi-7, and Published by Sundarlal Jain, Motilal Banarsidass, Bungalow Road, Jawahar Nagar, Delhi-7. Page IX.

Who Am I Year of publication : 1973 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN 0-686-51839-X (No printed ISBN on the book) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 81 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : Second revised edition 1973. By the arrangement with Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay. Author as Acharya Rajneesh Size : 214 x 141 x 8 mm Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava Edited by Miss Margaret Poss Printed in India at the Leader Press, Allahabad and Published by Sundarlal Jain for Motilal Banarsidass, Bungalow Road, Jawaharnagar Delhi-7