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 restored in the next Darshan Diary, Eighty Four Thousand Poems, beginning on Apr 1, so we can know that Rahiman's three days off happened in late Mar. -- updated doofus-9 (talk) 12:00, 26 January 2015 (PST)
As often, below is not a true TOC but an audiobook discourse title list:
- प्रवचन:
- 1. आंसू: चैतन्य के फूल
- 2. ध्यान ही मार्ग है
- 3. रसो वै सः
- 4. श्रद्धा की अनिवार्य सीढ़ी: संदेह
- 5. प्रार्थना और प्रतीक्षा
- 6. प्रेम का मार्ग अनूठा
- 7. मैं मधुशाला हूं
- 8. स्वानुभाव ही मुक्ति का द्वार है
- 9. अज्ञात का वरण करो
- 10. कस्तूरी कुंडल बसै
- 11. समाधि के फूल
- 12. प्रार्थना की गूंज
