Talk:Panth Prem Ko Atpato (पंथ प्रेम को अटपटो)

There is another, likely earlier edition which came to light while researching this book, but information on it is so butchered that it doesn't really merit putting on the main page for this book. Images at right represent the purported front and back covers, more about them below.

The information was found at Osho World, and consisted of the images, an ISBN 81-8393-039-5, a publisher, Sadhana Pocket Books, and a short blurb. This ISBN (hyphenated) is found only there but when the hyphens are removed, it is found at four booksellers' pages. Great, except they're assigning that ISBN to another Osho book, Samund Samana Bund Mein (समुंद समाना बुंद में). Well, okay but, uh, they're listing it as "Samudra Samana Bund Main," and, oh well, never mind.

The images are unusual to say the least. There is no title on the front cover, a significant omission. And it is a very different dimension from the back cover. How are they going to fit together? If the left side of the square-ish front cover were folded to cover the book's spine, it would be a book as thick as War and Peace (Large Print edition), so no, that won't work. Maybe just a large piece of the cover is missing, where the title is? Who knows?

At least the back cover is a normal dimension. It also appears to have a different ISBN but too low-res to make out. But is very likely a genuine back cover, as some of the Panth Prem blurb from oshoonline.com can be made out:

ब्रह्मचर्य परम भोग है

मनुष्य विक्षिप्त क्यों है?

जागना ही एकमात्र तपश्चर्या है

ज्ञान भीख नहीं है

अहंकार से मुक्ति का उपाय क्या है?

So be it.

There was also a question of three vs five discourses/chapters. It seems that three is what you get from freebie audio download places and five from audiobooks and books. But there are a few twists. Below, a comparison of titles from book, Osho World audiobook and osho.com audiobook:

विषय सूची (the book's TOC):   . . . 1: ब्रह्मचर्य और समाधि 2: मनुष्य विक्षिप्त क्यों है? 3: होश से क्रांति 4: स्वयं का साक्षात . 5: अहंकार का भ्रम

प्रवचन (OW audiobook):   . . . 1. ब्रह्मचर्य और समाधि 2. मनुष्य विक्षिप्त क्यों है? . 3. स्वयं का साक्षात 4. कामऊर्जा का ऊध्र्वगमन 5. अहंकार का भ्रम

विषय सूची (o.com audiobook):   0. 0. 0. 1. ब्रह्मचर्य और समाधि 2. मनुष्य विक्षिप्त क्यों है? . . . .

For some reason, titles are different between OW's audiobook and the book for #3 and 4. Undoubtedly it all makes internal sense. -- Sarlo (talk) 09:38, 9 August 2014 (PDT)

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Anyway, the meaning of the chapters of the book are kind of exacly the same as the chapters of Breaking All Boundaries, the English translation. --Sugit (talk) 10:43, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

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