Talk:Udaipur Camp May 1965

A bare-bones outline of the nine talks:

1. 6 May 1965 pm (ratri), a Q&A talk

2. 7 May 1965 am (8:00 am)

3. 7 May 1965 (no further time info), Q&A

4. 8 May 1965 (aparaanh, "by day"), Q&A

5. 8 May 1965 pm (ratri, 8:30 pm)

6. 9 May 1965 am (8:00 am)

7. 9 May 1965 (?), "9-5-65" is crossed out, as is "prashnottar", Q&A, as are the small headers indicating individual questions and answers. More research needed!

8. 9 May 1965 pm (ratri)

9. 10 May 1965 (no further time info, but the word "samaadhaan", "solution" or "resolution", appears after the date.

None of the talks seem to have titles.

What are the sources regarding this mysterious, previously unknown camp? The wiki has come into the possession of pdf's of typed records of all the above nine discourses. "Friends in Pune" have confirmed their authenticity, and Osho himself has pointed in that direction with mentions in a couple of letters, details below. It should also be observed that the typing style is not one that one might find today. Many ligatures are present that are simply unavailable with current fonts, having been eliminated in Unicode. This testifies to a certain vintage.

Regarding the letters, first, in a Letter written on 24 Apr 1965 om to Sohan, Osho asks in the PS that she and her husband Manik meet him at Udaipur station at 9 am on May 6, giving them also a contact address in Udaipur of his presumed host Shri Hiralal Ji Kothari. This letter is published in Prem Ke Phool (प्रेम के फूल) as letter #11, though it leaves out the PS. The wiki has images of both sides of that letter.

We do not have an image of the original second letter, just a tantalizing reference. It was written on May 9, also to Sohan, and also published in Prem Ke Phool, as #126. The first distinctive sentence runs, "It was just this time of night, two days ago, that I left you at Chittor". Now Chittor(garh) is a good two-hour drive from Udaipur, but it does at least put him in the general area. Whether the camp is actually at Chittor, with "Udaipur" a kind of "nearest easily recognizable big city" handy reference point, or there was actual back-and-forthing during the camp remains to be sorted out. There's always something. -- doofus-9 09:39, 28 February 2020 (UTC)