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# Ask Osho - Question Answering System

This is a Streamlit application that allows users to ask questions and receive answers from Osho's teachings. The application uses a vector database of Osho's books to find relevant passages and provide meaningful answers.

## Features

- Ask questions about Osho's teachings
- Choose from example questions or ask your own
- Get answers with references to specific books
- Clean and intuitive user interface
- Additional book recommendations for further reading

## How it Works

The application uses:
- Sentence transformers for text embeddings
- ChromaDB for vector similarity search
- Streamlit for the user interface

## Usage

1. Select an example question or type your own
2. Click "Please Answer Osho"
3. View the answer and book references

## Development

To run this application locally:

```bash
pip install -r requirements.txt
streamlit run streamlit_app.py
```

## Deployment

This application is deployed on Hugging Face Spaces.