Talk:The Heartbeat of the Absolute
April 10 was given discourse number 13, and chapters in book are 20 (as well as on CD-ROM), so chapters 14-20 can not fit in any way on April 10. The exact dates of chapters 14-20 are not specified, only April 1971 is mentioned.
Second issue is the name of the place. The place doesn't correspond to the Hindi original, which was corrected. See that book's discussion page.
By the way, the interesting fact is that the translation has 20 chapters in contrast to the original - 13 (surface searches have confirmed this number of chapters).--DhyanAntar 08:13, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
Okay, will fix venue name. An interesting anomaly, the 13-vs-20 discourses. There is no obvious resolution of this seen right now. The CD-ROM has an unusual pattern for the first twelve talks, which is two each day, even the first day -- the first day of a camp usually being just one, on the night when everyone has arrived. And it doesn't say anything about Apr 10 or any dates for #13-20.
A look at the text for this book, especially the closing remarks for each talk, suggests that most of the even-numbered chapters are evening sessions. But some are indeterminate, and ch #2 seems to be a morning talk. (The CD-ROM states that all the even-numbered chapters from 1-12 are pm, the odd-numbered ones am.)
And many references in ch #1 indicate that it will be a seven-day camp, while the summation at the end of ch #20 indicates it has been a six-day camp. So a few things that don't add up. Hindi audio is available for discourses 1-13 only.
The Revision history of Osho Discourses 1971 shows that Heartbeat of the Absolute has been included from the page's very beginning, and with data agreeing with the CD-ROM. But things change. The last edit with those data intact was Jan 9 2014. The next two edits, on Mar 28 2014, have added in the "Bikaner Palace Hotel" as the venue and changed the dates, so that only the first talk is on Apr 4 (pm), and Apr 10 has been added, so that #12 and #13 are on that date, with all the odd-numbered talks now evening talks. Can we find out what the source for that change might have been? -- doofus-9 02:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
