Talk:Kya Manushya Ek Yantra Hai? (क्या मनुष्य एक यंत्र है?)

"Alt-facts" refers to some sources attributing publisher status to Rebel Publishing House Pvt Ltd, and the year 2012. No big deal.

The dating guess derives from the introduction to Keerti's book The Osho Way: In Romance with Life. That reads:

Meditation

A Way of Life

It was in 1970 that I read Osho's first article in Dharmayug, a popular Hindi magazine edited by the brilliant Dharamvir Bharti. Dharmayug was famous for presenting revolutionary ideas. Osho was known as Acharya Rajneesh then, and in the same year when he started intitiating people into his Neo-Sannyas, his disciples decided to address him as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh. But the newspapers like Dharmayug continued to call him Acharya.

The name of the article was "Kya Manushya Ek Yantra Hai?"

"Is Man a Machine?"

Dharmayug carried a regular column: Dharmacharcha. But I never read this column. The Dharma (religion) I knew was a humbug, and a noisy non-sense and I had become totally disgusted with it. I had stopped going to temples and gurudwaras in my city. But I did not wish to harbour prejudice against anything, and the first time I did decide to read that column, it was this article, "Kya Manushya Ek Yantra Hai?" by Acharya Rajneesh.

The article transformed my idea of Religion or Dharma completely! For the first time I understood the meaning of being religious. In this article, Osho talked about how we live our lives unconsciously like a machine and how we can bring awareness into whatever we do, thereby realizing our Human nature. That, for me, became the foundation for a totally different kind of religiousness which took me a year later to the Master to be initiated into his Neo-Sannyas on September 4, 1971.

Meditation is the foundation of Osho's Neo-Sannyas Movement, and it is a way of life for those who accept his teachings.

This article of course does not necessarily derive from this book, but it is suggestive and worth going with provisionally. -- doofus-9 20:27, 27 January 2017 (UTC)

अनुक्रम (TOC):

1. मनुष्य एक यंत्र है

2. यांत्रिकता को जानना क्रांति है

3. जागरण के सूत्र

4. जाग जाना धर्म है

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List "Rabia Osho Books" says: "KYA MANUSHYA ROG HAI, 1 talk, 14 Oct 1970." Unclear what talk and how it fits in Timeline.--DhyanAntar 06:12, 22 April 2020 (UTC)

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Talks were given during four days (Osho says about it himself in discourses) and at least last talk was in evening (the clue is in the end of talk #3). We can conclude that they all were in evenings.--DhyanAntar 05:33, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

media status

See Talk:Kya Ishwar Mar Gaya Hai?. --Sugit (talk) 18:15, 5 December 2018 (UTC)

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