Taaran Darshan Smarika 1974 (तारण दर्शन स्मारिका 1974)

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This publication documents 35 years of birth celebrations of Sant Taaran Taran (1448-1515), a Jain reformer who worked mainly in central India. Osho spoke at these celebrations for many years, starting when he was 22. Thus, though not officially a book about Osho, the book documents many of the occasions on which Osho spoke there, including a few pictures and his words. The "author"-publisher and sponsor of these events, Sarv Dharm Sammelan -- literally "all-religions conference" -- was also a sponsor / organizer of inter-faith gatherings.
According to Osho's brother Shailendra, their family were not mainstream Jains, but members of Taaran's group, Taran Panth. Taaran, variously rendered as Taran, Tāran, Taran Svami etc, was a rebel who rejected the then-prevalent practice of idol worship and attempted to restore a culture of meditation. In his temples there are no statues of Mahavir, or himself for that matter, just his books for reading. Osho has spoken on two of his books in Books I Have Loved.
His group remained limited to a small number of adherents, mostly in a few districts of Madhya Pradesh. Osho's uncle Amrit Lal Chanchal became well known for "translating" Taaran's books, from their 500-year-old language to a modern Hindi poetry form. He supported Osho at a early age to speak at Taaran Jayanti celebrations. Eventually Osho became the chief lecturer and presided over these functions for almost a decade, the last time being in 1969, the year he moved to Mumbai.
On that last occasion, he took with him some Bollywood celebrities, including singer Mahendra Kapoor, composer-directors Kalyanji-Anandji, poet Indivar and an orchestra to put on musical extravaganzas at Gadarwara and Jabalpur. The program at Gadarwara was a huge success but according to Neeten's Osho Source Book (end of section 2.6), the non-existent crowd control caused the program at Jabalpur to collapse in chaos.
author
Sarv Dharm Sammelan
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Hindi
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"Editions" shows the cover, see the Gallery below for inner page images.
The six pages captioned with years contain reports of those years about the Taaran Jayanti functions. Osho's name is rendered in various ways for each year (underlined in the images) from 1953 to 1969, except 1956 and 1959, which have no reports at all, and 1962, which does have a report but does not mention Osho. Osho is most commonly referred to as Acharya Rajneesh, occasionally Acharya Shri Rajneesh ji and once Shri Rajneesh ji Maharaj. The celebrations, when the date is mentioned, are all between Nov 26 and Dec 25, with Osho's birthday exactly in the middle fwiw.
Following the Gallery are some more notes concerning particular pages shown.

editions

तारण दर्शन स्मारिका 1974

Year of publication : 1974
Publisher : Sarv Dharm Sammelan
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Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P
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Gallery

Notes on the Gallery

Shailendra has supplied additional material on a couple of the pages imaged in the Gallery: In the second, with Osho's picture and message, the whole message reads:

"संत जलती हुई आग है, उसके जीवन पथ पर चलना, अपने ‘अहंकार’ को विसर्जित करके ही होता है।
संत तारण जयंती पर मेरी शुभकामनाएं, और व्यक्ति का अहं टूटकर परमात्मा की ओर यात्रा हो, ऐसी कामना है।"

This translates roughly as:

A Sant [not "Saint" in the Christian sense] is a burning fire; walking on his path is possible only by dissolving one's own "ego".
My good wishes on Sant Taaran's birth anniversary, and I wish that the ego of man shall disappear so that he may travel towards God.

And about the last page shown, the "overview" is actually introduced on the previous page, with the title and author's name:

विगत वर्षों के सर्व धर्म सम्मेलन का विहंगावलोकन
लेखकः घासीराम समैया
(Overview of All Religions Conferences of Past Years
Author: Ghasiram Samaiya)

The material shown starts with a quote from one of Taaran's books, Adhyatmata Ki Or (more about that in discussion); parts of that page's text relevant here are as follows:

विश्वयुद्ध के दौरान ही भारत में एक बड़ी राजनीतिक क्रांति हुई, सन १९४२ की- अंग्रेजो, भारत छोड़ो। इतिहास ने करवट ली और नए युग का सूत्रपात हुआ। १९४७ में भारत अंग्रेजों के बंधन से मुक्त हो गया। ... [१९३९ से संत तारण तरण जयंति पर सर्व धर्म सम्मेलन निरंतर चलता रहा]
(During World War II, there was a major political revolution in India, "British, Quit India" in 1942. History took a turn and the new era began. India became free from British bondage in 1947 ... [During these ups & downs, from 1939 onwards the Sarva Dharma Sammelan continued on Sant Taran Taran Jubilee.])
... आगे लगभग दस वर्ष तक ऐसा समय आया जब मेरे निर्बल कंधों पर ही सारा का सारा भार आ गया। तथापि बाद-बाद में समाज ने स्वयं अनुभव कर और प्रेरणा पाकर मेरे भार को तन-मन-धन से बंटा लिया। इन दिनों हमारी प्रेरणा के एक बड़े स्रोत आचार्य रजनीश ने अपनी वैचारिक परंपरा से हमें अभिभूत किया। संत की वाणी अधिक मुखरित तथा प्रभावशाली ढंग से जन मानस के हृदय पटल पर अंकित हुई। भाई अमृतलाल जी चंचल ने अपनी लेखनी से उसे अधिकाधिक संपन्न और सुस्पष्ट किया।
[इस वक्तव्य के पश्चात करीब पच्चीस अन्य प्रसिद्ध लोगों के नाम गिनाए गए हैं, जिन्होंने इस कार्य में अपना योगदान दिया है।]
(... For the next ten years, there was a time when all the loads came upon my weak shoulders. However later on, the society felt self-responsibility and motivation, and started sharing my burden physically, mentally and financially too. These days, Acharya Rajneesh became a great source of our inspiration, overwhelming us with his revolutionary thoughts, thus making Sant Taaran's message very prominent and effectively marked on the heart of the masses. [Osho's uncle] Amritlal ji Chanchal also made Taaran's Sayings clearer and richer with his writings. [After this statement, about 25 other well-known people are mentioned, who contributed in their own ways to spreading the teachings of Taaran.])