Notebooks Timeline Extraction

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A correspondent has shared his research into Osho's Manuscripts. Some of Osho's early writings have turned out to be fact-based accounts of his travels, speeches, and the events of the time. The wiki will be presenting this research in several batches, corresponding to the particular groups of manuscripts where info was found. All info presented is annotated, ie which sheet of the manuscripts it derives from is clearly indicated, so one can also study them for oneself. In some cases, Osho's notes here contain the full text of early unpublished discourses.

This second batch derives from the five groups of manuscripts at Manuscripts ~ Notebooks, Vol 1 to Vol 5. The other batch in this series so far is Manuscripts ~ Messages Timeline Extraction. More will be added. Considerations of issues that arise can be found in the Analysis section under each notebook.

Notebooks, Vol 1

Dates Event Description and Notes Wiki Notes, Comments
Apr 1961 - Jul 1961 Cover -- 84 Pages Notes of Public Meetings, Addresses & Personal Meetings of Osho with Dignitaries. Last date may run into Aug 1961, see below.
Apr 14, 1961 Sheets 1 - 10 -- Full Lecture given in Eastern Ghamapur, a district of Jabalpur, on birthday of Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar, a prominent member of Constitution committee for preparing Draft of Constitution after independence of India in 1947. He represented the suppressed or underprivileged sections of Indian society, ie aboriginals and Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) to include safeguards for them and opportunities for social advancement. He adopted Buddhism along with 40,000 followers. More about Dr Ambedkar below
Apr 29, 1961 Sheets 11 - 25 -- Full Lecture given at Navin Vidhya Bhawan (New School Building) at Jabalpur during Shikshan saptah (Education Week) to Students of the School. Subject: Steps for building charter.
Apr 30, 1961 Sheets 26 - 41 -- Full lecture given on Buddha Poornima (Birthday of Lord Buddha as per Moon calendar) at Mahavir Library, Jabalpur.
May 6, 1961 Sheets 42 - 47 -- Talks with Shri Ram Dubey in Jabalpur about his views about Sangathan (Most probably Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangathan – a right wing Hindu ideologist group) and his message as Love, cooperation and peace only as right way to move forward. A Copy of these talks was sent to Jain Jagat, A magazine of Jain community, in Oct, 1961 to get it published. Prayer of Shri A K Jain on Nov 13 1961, Jabalpur AK Jain here is Osho's cousin Arvind, his secretary in Jabalpur. Section needs more work re Arvind and RSS.
no date Sheet 48 -- Second part of Talks on how things are to be seen as Objective or Subjective?
May 7 & 8, 1961 Sheets 49 - 61 -- Lectures on Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore at Jabalpur University and Debendra Bangali Club (Gun Carriage Factory) respectively.
May 9, 1961 Sheets 62 - 63 -- Jabalpur, Talks with Shri Ram Mishra about nature of religion as breaking away the society.
May 13, 1961 Sheets 64 - 65 -- Jabalpur, Talks with Devkinandanji and his wife on utility of Temples.
May 16, 1961 Sheets 66 - 77 -- Lecture given at Jain Temple, Jawaharganj, Jabalpur. Topic: Birth Centenary of Rabindranath Tagore.
May 17, 1961 Sheets 78 - 79 -- Jabalpur, Talks on what is worth achieving in human life, sent to “Jain Jagat”, a magazine of Jain Community, in Oct, 1961 for publication.
May 19, 1961 Sheets 80 - 81 -- (Jabalpur) Meeting with Sri Ram Mishra at Railway station while going to Sirpur. Topic: On postponement of beginning/attending his meditation training.
Jul 1 - 10, 1961 Sheets 82 - 85 -- (Jabalpur) Extract of talks with people came to meet with Acharya ji during this time.
Aug 7, 1961 Sheet 86 -- (Jabalpur) Talks with Konsa Devi, a Librarian at Jain Library established by Smt Sheelwati ji Samaiya about works of Smt Sheelwati ji (Probably on her death). Smt Sheelwati may be a sister of Kundan Lal Samaiya, who married Osho's father's sister. See Osho's family. More research needed.

Analysis Notebook 1

About the date range, Apr 1961 to Jul 1961, it may well be so. But there is one date outside of that range, the last one, apparently in Aug. It was actually written in the notebook as 7/8/61, which of course could be Jul 8. But a better case can be made for Aug 7 than Jul 8. It goes like this:

It is likely that Arvind wrote the date range of Apr 61 to Jul 61 on the cover, possibly many years later. A small mistake about the date range in that scenario is easy to imagine.

If the date were Jul 8, it would have been out of order AND using a different date format than Osho used for other dates in the same notebook; see sheets 61, 63 and 77, all having dates in May in the form x/5/61. All together, that combination of issues seems less likely than one simple mistake years later.

Notebooks, Vol 2

Dates Event Description and Notes Wiki Notes, Comments
Oct 62 - Nov 62 Cover -- 40 Pages, Notes on Life Awakening Talks
Oct 16 - 23, 1962 Sheet 1 -- talks given in Jabalpur Date and place info appears almost as a rubber-stamp form, superimposed on previous material on Sheet 1
Oct 26 - 31, 1962 Sheet 1 -- talks given in Gadarwara
Sheets 2 - 42 -- no more info about the talks, just the talks themselves, with no indication of particular dates or places