Talk:The Goose Is Out: Osho Letters
Osho and Kranti go way back. Sources are in major disagreement about how far back, however. This book, which was published by Kranti and her husband Kabeer, says she is his sister. Neeten's Osho Source Book has her as Osho's cousin, or the more culturally correct "cousin-sister," the daughter of his father's sister. This disagreement could be a big stumbling block in the study of this book, so we'll put it aside for now. At any rate, a long time.
Neeten has collected many stories involving Kranti, not least of which are about Osho's living with her and her brother Arvind in Jabalpur in his early days there, her caring for him when he was going through his hard time before becoming enlightened, and so on. She was his caregiver more or less the whole time in Jabalpur, and Arvind was his secretary. It is said that she had a hard time with the transitions that resulted from Osho's move to Mumbai, and that Osho wrote these letters to her to help her through that. So these might be considered "special" letters.
A few words about the Hindi title, Tera Tujhko Arpan: It seems to derive from a traditional aarti, or bhajan sung at the end of a puja session and representing its climax. Along with the bhajan, a flame/lamp is offered, burning camphor or ghee, which have no sooty residue and signify the disappearance of an ego with no trace. This aarti goes:
Swami sab kuch hi tera |
Everything is Yours |