Letters to Anandmayee

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Osho wrote hundreds of letters to Ma Anandmayee, whom he recognised as his past-life mother, starting in 1960. Most were written in the early 60s. 120 of those letters were compiled into a book, Kranti Beej (क्रांति बीज), or "Seeds of Revolution", later translated as Seeds of Revolutionary Thought. Kranti Beej was one of his most influential early books.

Many letters were also published in Bhavna Ke Bhojpatron Par Osho (भावना के भोजपत्रों पर ओशो). The degree of overlap between these two books is unknown, as is Bhavna's First Edition history.

The wiki has been fortunate to obtain high-quality images of 221 of Osho's letters to her. Links to each are below, currently under construction. Stay tuned.

1960

Letter written on 5 Oct 1960
Letter written on 22 Nov 1960
Letter written on 25 Nov 1960
Letter written on 29 Nov 1960
Letter written on 8 Dec 1960
Letter written on 15 Dec 1960 om
Letter written on 15 Dec 1960 pm
Letter written on 27 Dec 1960

1961

Letter written on 3 Jan 1961
Letter written on 4 Jan 1961
Letter written on 10 Jan 1961
Letter written on 18 Jan 1961 xm
Letter written on 26 Jan 1961
Letter written on 30 Jan 1961 am
Letter written on 30 Jan 1961 om
Letter written on 7 Feb 1961 xm
Letter written on 12 Feb 1961
Letter written end of Feb 1961 am **
Letter written on 28 Feb 1961 xm
Letter written on 8 Mar 1961 am
Letter written on 16 Mar 1961 pm
Letter written on 26 Mar 1961 pm

Undated

As there is a rough correlation between file number order and chronological order among the dated letters, there is a reasonable chance that these undated letters can be approximately dated simply by putting them time-wise between letters they are between file-wise. This is far from guaranteed of course, but as a potential aid to rough placement, the date ranges as suggested by this method are included below. ** = special, see notes below the list.

Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 001 22 Nov - 25 Nov 1960
Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 002 29 Nov - 8 Dec 1960
Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 003 1 Jan - 15 Mar 1961 **
Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 004 12 Feb - 8 Mar 1961
Undated Letter written to Anandmayee 005 12 Feb - 8 Mar 1961

Notes re date range

Undated #003's possible date range is much larger than most, since the letters before and after it (in terms of file numbers) take a jump backward timewise.