Who Am I

Osho, Ch. 1.:

"There are only two alternatives: escape from the self or awakening in the self. There must be an external object for escape; and for awakening there must be a disillusionment about the utility of external attractions.

As long as God is external, it is mundane; it is an illusion; it is a hallucination. Man has invented Him to find an escape from the self and to run away from it.

Friend, the first thing, therefore, which I have to say is that we need not investigate God, Truth, Liberation, or Emancipation. Let us investigate the investigator himself."

translated from

Hindi: Main Kaun Hun? (मैं कौन हूं?) (writings) by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava

notes

The design of the cover is shared with The Earthen Lamps (1968), Seeds of Revolutionary Thought (1969) and Wings of Love and Random Thoughts (1969).

Later published as part of The Long and the Short and the All (1979), see the discussion there.

Later published, with a new translation, as Immortal Words, in the osho.com library.

Following chapters published in Sw Ageh Bharti's book Beloved Osho: chapter 1 as ch.10 there ("Who Am I?"), ch.15 as ch.11 ("Morality, Fear and Love")

time period of Osho's original talks/writings

<1967 : timeline

number of discourses/chapters

17   (see table of contents)

editions

Who Am I Year of publication : 1968 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN None Number of pages : 145 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : First edition 1968. © Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, 29, Eastern Chamber, 3rd Floor, 128, Poona Street, Bombay-9. Size : 178 x 124 x 6 mm Author as Acharya Rajaneesh Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava Printed in India by Shantilal Jain, Shri Jainendra Press, Bungalow Road, Jawaharnagar, Delhi-7, and Published by Sundarlal Jain, Motilal Banarsidass, Bungalow Road, Jawahar Nagar, Delhi-7. Cover back. Page IX.

Who Am I Year of publication : 1973 Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass ISBN 0-686-51839-X (No printed ISBN on the book) (click ISBN to buy online) Number of pages : 81 Hardcover / Paperback / Ebook : P Edition notes : Second revised edition 1973. © Motilal Banarsidass, by the arrangement with Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay. Size : 214 x 141 x 8 mm Author as Acharya Rajneesh Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava Edited by Miss Margaret Poss Printed in India at the Leader Press, Allahabad and Published by Sundarlal Jain for Motilal Banarsidass, Bungalow Road, Jawaharnagar Delhi-7

table of contents

editions 1968 and 1973 chapter titles		writings & discourses
		event	location	duration	media
1	Who Am I	< 1967	Jabalpur	unknown	none
2	What Is Dharma	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
3	Religious Faith in the Fire of Science	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
4	The Science of Man	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
5	Freedom from Thought for the Birth of Thoughts	< 1967	Jabalpur	unknown	none
6	Let Us Live and Know	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
7	The Aim of Education	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
8	The Right to the Property of Life	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
9	The Process of Meditation	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
10	The Unknown Roots of Life	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
11	What Is Non-Violence	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
12	The Direction of Happiness	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
13	Ask for and Get It (1973 edition: Ask and Receive)	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
14	Love Is God (1973 edition: TOC - God Is Love; ch-title - Love Is God)	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
15	Morality, Fear and Love	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
16	The Meaning of Non-Violence	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none
17	I Teach Death	< 1967	unknown	unknown	none