Talk:Osho Timeline 1979
As mentioned in the main page, some uncertainty exists about which venue in Shree Rajneesh Ashram was used for Hindi discourses in Pune One. As of this writing, no reliable source has been found for this information. Anecdotal sources and memory suggest different things, and the announcements (of dates and venues) at the beginnings of discourse tapes have been expunged by Pune authorities, citing (as they do) Osho's guidance.
The CD-ROM does state venues but only for English original talks and those Hindi talks that had been translated as of 1993 or so, only about thirty and most of them preceding Pune One. As of the CD-ROM's creation, there were no Hindi discourses from 1979 that had been translated, so no record there. And furthermore, at the beginning of the Pune One period, neither Buddha Hall nor Chuang Tzu had been built, but the CD-ROM has the very first discourses in both English and Hindi in Buddha Hall, so we may have reliability issues there as well.
A more in-depth exploration of this theme can be found at the page on these venues.
About the gaps mentioned in the timeline, both are noteworthy in their different ways:
1. Jun 11-13 no darshans: This kind of gap happened from time to time and would not be noteworthy except for the accompanying gap of ten days in the discourse schedule. Usually one such gap would be very similar to the other but the difference of seven days is a real puzzler. Either a whole English discourse series has been lost -- very unlikely -- or possibly Osho had some kind of design for the discourse series that was to come next, the very first talks in The Dhammapada mega-series. ¿Quien sabe?
2. Jul 11 no darshan: It was absolutely normal for a darshan to be missed in July on the night/day of the full moon to make way for a Guru Purnima celebration, and that must have happened this year too. The mysterious thing here is that full moon in 1979 was on Jul 9 (UT, early am Jul 10 Indian Time). The celebration would not likely have been put on another day, so possibly one of the dates is wrong for the darshans, and either Jul 9 or 10 was actually the one skipped.
About Kahe Hot Adheer: This Hindi series spanned twenty days but actually consisted of only nineteen discourses. They have been entered as twenty so that their "space" is approximately represented, but the day off is not precisely known, so one of them did not really happen and all that followed will have a chapter number one less. Can be fixed if and when the day off date comes to be known.
About the Darshan Diary entries Sep 30 and Oct 1: These two books, Upset and Gawd, mark a shift to a new era (dispensation / paradigm) in Darshan Diary publishing. Upset was eventually published, as a cheapo ranch edition, Gawd and all but one which followed were never published. -- doofus-9 (talk) 17:02, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
