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description = "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. | description = "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. | :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 | :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." (Osho, Ch. I.)| | ||
translated = Hindi : ''[[Main Kaun | translated = Hindi : ''[[Main Kaun Hun? (मैं कौन हूं?)]]'' | | ||
notes = Later partly published in ''[[The Long and the Short and the All]]''.| | notes = Later partly published in ''[[The Long and the Short and the All]]''.| | ||
period = Unknown, | period = Unknown, though at least part of ''Main Kaun Hun?'' is from Mar 1967| | | ||
nofd = 17| | nofd = 17| | ||
editions = | editions = | ||
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::Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava | ::Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava | ||
::[[Image:Who Am I - p.IX.jpg|thumb|c|left|170px|Page IX.]] | ::[[Image:Who Am I - p.IX.jpg|thumb|c|left|170px|Page IX.]] | ||
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{{bookedition|who_am_i.jpg| |1973|Motilal Banarsidass|2|0-686-51839-X (No printed ISBN on the book)|81|P|Second revised edition 1973. By the arrangement with Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay. | {{bookedition|who_am_i.jpg| |1973|Motilal Banarsidass|2|0-686-51839-X (No printed ISBN on the book)|81|P|Second revised edition 1973. By the arrangement with Jeevan Jagriti Kendra, Bombay. | ||
::Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava | ::Translated by Dr. Dayanand Bhargava | ||
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[[category:Early Talks and Writings]] | [[category:Early Talks and Writings]] | ||
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Revision as of 15:38, 11 August 2014
- "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." (Osho, Ch. I.)
- translated from
- Hindi : Main Kaun Hun? (मैं कौन हूं?)
- notes
- Later partly published in The Long and the Short and the All.
- time period of Osho's original talks/writings
- Unknown, though at least part of Main Kaun Hun? is from Mar 1967 : timeline
- number of discourses/chapters
- 17
editions
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