Talk:Main Kahta Aankhan Dekhi (मैं कहता आंखन देखी)
The principal source of the confusion surrounding and permeating this book appears to be a conflation with Gahre Pani Paith (गहरे पानी पैठ). Thus it will be useful to explore the relationship of these two books, since their overlapping/merging is deep-rooted and long-standing.
A good place to start will be the amazing variety of choices for number of discourses: In recent years, the Diamond and OMI editions have both had four chapters, with the same titles in the same order and with the page count the same order of magnitude. This is good, has an appearance of solidity. According to the CD-ROM, Dimensions Beyond the Known, MKAD's translation, has six chapter-discourses. This also seems like a relatively solid datum. Many of the Indian audio sites have seven mp3-discourses. Most will be based on Osho World's seven, and since they have no titles -- no OW audiobook was found, just the unnamed free download ones -- this might be considered a little less solid, but, okay, let that fact be noted.
For parallel universe fans, let it also be noted that Gahre has its four-and-six aspects. The six is again the CD-ROM, ie it shows six discourse-chapters for Gahre's translation, Hidden Mysteries, and the four is Gahre "itself." It is augmented by two one-chapter booklets on Jyotish, Indian Astrology, to make six in the translation. And a fairly useless factoid but nonetheless interesting: the 2012 Diamond edition of Gahre and the 2010 OMI edition of MKAD have exactly the same picture of Osho, not exactly a high-odds possibility. Got the hair on the back of your neck standing on end yet?
Anyway, back to the numbers of discourses, what about thirteen and 33? As it turns out, the one source of the thirteen info has an excellent record of sorting out these kinds of anomalies, and that is Tao Vision. So what do they have to offer this time? Well, they propose that MKAD is the über-name of an amalgamation of four smaller volumes: the four-discourse versions of MKAD and Gahre, two discourses worth of Jyotish and a three-discourse volume called "Sannyas." This thirteen-theory can thus account for all the other lower numbers AND for the confusion with Gahre. Is that all there is to it?
Well, not exactly. More to come . . . doofus-9 (talk) 00:14, 5 October 2014 (PDT)
Meanwhile, the four-discourse chapter titles of OMI's book, osho.com's audiobook and Diamond's book. And fwiw, the Hindi blurb for that book describes it as autobiographical:
- 1. सत्य सार्वभौम है
- 2. चिन्मय कौन? अजन्मा क्या?
- 3. आकाश जैसा शाश्वत है सत्य
- 4. धर्म की गति ओर तेज हो!
