Talk:Varanasi Pravachanon (वाराणसी प्रवचनों)
वाराणसी प्रवचनों, the title of the page and possible "book" on which it is based, is provisional. Osho World's e-book is called simply वाराणसी, and Shailendra's info, posted at Shifting content in Hindi books (source document), calls each of the five talks simply वाराणसी प्रवचन, or Varanasi Pravachan (ie discourse singular). That source doc is where we learn that five talks were later published in Jeevan Ki Kala (जीवन की कला).
Nothing is known directly about the original collection. There may be more than five talks, but there are no direct indications of that. The e-book is the source of dates and times, but only has the first four chapters. They are not in precise chronological order. Info such as it is is translated below, page numbers are those of the e-book:
- Osho's first discourse, Rajghat Besant School Varanasi, 12 Aug 1968 -- p.1 [Rajghat is a school founded by J Krishnamurti ]
- DAV College, 14 Aug, 10 am -- p.9 [DAV College is a postgrad college affiliated with BHU (below)]
- 1968, Kashi Hindu Vishwa Vidhalaya, 13 Aug, third discourse of Acharya Shree Rajneesh, in Kashi -- p.18 [Kashi is an informal folk-name of Varanasi, and KHVV is better known as Banaras Hindu University, the center of the universe of Hindu-related education]
- Sarv Seva Sangh, Rajghat, Varanasi, given 13 Aug, 3:30 pm -- p.27 [SSS = roughly All Service Fellowship]
The last page ends with सबको प्रणाम, "salutations to all", which suggests the fourth talk is complete, though it is different from his usual मेरा प्रणाम स्वीकार करें of that era, "please accept my salutation". -- doofus-9 18:57, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
