Talk:Osho Timeline 1980
As mentioned in the main page, some uncertainty exists about which venue in Shree Rajneesh Ashram was used for Hindi discourses in Pune One. As of this writing, no reliable source has been found for this information. Anecdotal sources and memory suggest different things, and the announcements (of dates and venues) at the beginnings of discourse tapes have been expunged by Pune authorities, citing (as they do) Osho's guidance.
The CD-ROM does state venues but only for English original talks and those Hindi talks that had been translated as of 1993 or so, only about thirty and most of them preceding Pune One. There are no Hindi discourses from 1980 that have been translated, so no record there. And furthermore, at the beginning of the Pune One period, neither Buddha Hall nor Chuang Tzu had been built, but the CD-ROM has the very first discourses in both English and Hindi in Buddha Hall, so we may have reliability issues there as well. Stay tuned.
About the Darshan Diaries linked to here in the main page:
1. If You Choose To Be With Me, You Must Risk Finding Yourself purported to be only one darshan talk, given on Feb 1. This appears to be a maladaptation of the record in the CD-ROM, which purports to have ten darshan talks, from Feb 1-10. This is itself maladapted, likely because wrong info was fed into it. In any case, the writer knows for a fact that there were darshans all that month, as normal, but the records were compressed and jumbled, with the result that one cannot know which days any of them happened.
2. Fingers Pointing to the Moon is likely in a similar boat. It purported to be seven darshan talks given on Mar 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 and 13. At least in this case the wiki followed the CD-ROM, but there is every reason to believe that the CD-ROM has this completely wrong as well, with Mar very likely another normal month, but somehow jumbled into these seven odd days. No such aberration happened, as far as the writer can remember. (Which sometimes isn't very far, but given the distortions of Feb, Mar too must be highly suspect.) A sample just now of the "Mar 1 darshan" showed 54 people taking sannyas. This would not have happened in one night, more like four, by the standard of those days. -- doofus-9 (talk) 00:13, 26 January 2015 (PST)
