Talk:Kya Sove Tu Bavri (क्या सोवे तू बावरी)

There are a few difficulties in trying to nail down solid info regarding this book. In many such cases, it is because there is little info. That is only partly so with Bavri. Here, the main difficulty is an inconsistency of data, starting with the most basic, how many discourses are there? Well, different sources say different things. Most audio sites offer just four mp3s. Osho World and osho.com, which generally have a decent credibility in this basic accounting, offer seven, but with twists and anomalies:

~ Osho World's audiobook offering ~	~ osho.com's audiobook offering ~
1. युवा क्रांति की रूप रेखा 2. पहले विचार फिर निर्विचार 3. मन से मुक्ति 4. विश्वास नहीं-स्वानुभव 5. संन्यास और अंतस क्रांति 6. ध्यान है: भगवत्ता 7. निजता की घोषणा	0: [sic] 0: [sic] 1: युवा-क्रांति की रूप-रेखा (54) 2: पहले विचार, फिर निर्विचार (54) 3: मन से मुक्ति (62) 4: विश्वास नहीं—स्वानुभव (118) 5: संन्यास और अंतस-क्रांति (44)

The numbers after the discourse titles at osho.com are timings in minutes, and the first four correspond fairly well to timings at other audio sites. The fifth, who knows. Meanwhile, what are these zeros? It will be noticed that the five titles of o.com correspond fairly well with those of OW's first five. But what of their 6 & 7? And where DO these extra discourses come from, especially given that even OW in its free download section only offers four? Hmmm.

Maybe we can approach this conundrum from another angle. There are free e-book pdfs of Bavri available as well; most are probably copied from Osho World's offering. Looking at that one, i found a few infobits at what i presumed to be the ends of chapters, indicating dates and locations. Excellent, as far as it goes! How far is that? Well ...

These pdfs do not have features like chapter titles or space indicating clear chapter ends, count the spaces and Bob's your uncle. No no no. So i scrolled slowly through and found, on p 11, 23 and 74 (of 74 total) three date and location infobits:

on p 11, words indicating a private home in Bombay, on Feb 1, 1969

on p 23, King Edward Memorial Hospital in Bombay, Feb 24, 1969

and on p 74, words indicating a dialog/conversation somewhere in Bombay, Nov 27, 1969

Osho.com's audio timings and the relative proportion of space taken by such "chapters" as are hinted at in the pdf might be sort of consistent if one takes the view that the first two pdf "chapters" correspond to the first two audios, and the last (p 23 to 74) corresponds to the total of the rest of the audio. (The math is: (54+54)/(54+54+62+118+44) ≈ 23/74.) In this view, the pdf rolls last three of the five audio chapters into one undifferentiated extended conversation. Making both that "chapter" and the whole book look like a kind of compilation, loose Q & A sessions of a certain vintage put together in a small book.

So perhaps the picture is not really so unclear, leaving aside the other two audio chapters, zero and zero / six and seven. Anyway, that's about all i could piece together so far. As with many Hindi titles, further resolution will depend mainly on a fluent Hindi speaker who has read the book and/or listened to the audios.

A small edition note about the Rebel edition. That info, such as it is, was found tucked away on a Jain library / bookseller site. Such orgs/places have respected Osho from the beginning as a legitimate and worthy commenter on spiritual matters, especially his books on their main man Mahavira. Thus, their sites occasionally will turn up books not found elsewhere, even old ones, since they don't move very quickly. -- Sarlo (talk) 10:26, 20 May 2014 (PDT)