Talk:Jivan Jagruti Kendra (जीवन जागृति केन्द्र)
About the date, Neeten's Bibliography section (see Osho Source Book link at his page) names JJK as a publisher of Osho's books going as far back as 1962. But there is only one JJK book that early and then nothing more till Sadhana Path (साधना पथ) in 1964, then the stream slowly increases. It looks fairly safe in the light of this to date JJK back at least to 1964.
There is one other thing here. Four varieties of transliteration of जीवन जाग्रति केंद have been mentioned on the article page. Neeten has supplied many more, in connection with both English and Hindi books. But there may be an issue with the quality of the information. With Hindi books, most of them would not be very likely to render the publisher's name in Roman characters, so where Neeten got all these names is a bit of a mystery. It is possible that they have been created in the libraries and database places where he did his research, not supplied by JJK itself. Thus, their reliability may be uncertain. Anyway, here they all are, all found in citations of JJK and related books in Neeten's OSB Bibliography (first rough version).
Besides all the combinations of Jivan / Jeevan and Jagruti / Jagriti, there are the occasional Jiwans, Jevans, Jivanas, Jagratis, and, though Kendra has no alternative transliterations, it has on occasion been replaced by Sangh, Sangha, Kendra Prakashan, Andolan Prakashan and Andolana Prakashana.
Possibly notable in connection with the question of dates, ie when JJK began, are Jivan Jagriti Sangh, named as the publisher of Sadhana Path in Dec 1964, and a minor variant, Jivan Jagriti Sangha, named as the publisher of Sadhana Path's translation in 1965. There are few other books published in 1965. Of the four others mentioned, two have varieties of JJK in Mumbai, one the publisher is not stated and one is published by a private individual. JJ Sangh is not named again in connection with publishing. We may speculate that this was an early experimental name that was finally rejected in favour of JJK. -- doofus-9 02:04, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
