Talk:Ek Ek Kadam (एक एक कदम)
Two TOCs for the price of one! One from Osho World's e-book, one from osho.com's audiobook. A discussion follows.
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A number of the chapter titles have fairly political connotations. It is for this reason that the category was changed, from Meditation to Politics and Society. Some specifics:
One that really stands out is ch 6 of the e-book, "At the Crossroads of Social Change," which serves also as a chapter title in Swarn Pakhi Tha Jo Kabhi (स्वर्ण पाखी था जो कभी) (twice, ie for two consecutive chapters) and Dharm Aur Rajneeti (धर्म और राजनीति), both fiercely political books. But all the titles in the e-book have political overtones except the first; that chapter being very short in the e-book and non-existent in the audiobook may have taken the whole book's title on in a bit of ad-hockery.
In the audiobook, some titles are different, so the political angle is not so evident. But there are two chapters with the word "revolution" in them, the last chapter is on birth control, always a good hot-button social change topic, and the first title, "India's fate," is frankly political. So all-in-all ...
About the presumption of before 1972, this has to do with Osho's salutations in his discourses: his greeting at the beginning and sign-off at the end. Laherubhai tells a story reported by Neeten -- see Osho Source Book link at his page -- of a speech at Osho's birthday celebration in either 1970 or 1971 wherein the speaker made some suggestion about Osho's salutations and after that they stopped (not what the speaker wanted!) Thus their presence or absence can be used as a crude dating criterion. -- doofus-9 (talk) 23:25, 25 December 2014 (PST)
