Talk:Nav-Sannyas Kya? (नव-संन्यास क्या?)

Dates for talks and letters in this book are not known but should be in the period September 1970, when Osho first gave sannyas "officially," to 1972.

There are two versions of TOC here, one from the G**gle Books peek inside the Diamond edition, one from the e-book, with a few notes below.

e-book Preface by Sw Chaitanya Keerti 1. नव-संन्यास का सूत्रपात (corresponds to Diamond # 1)   2. संन्यास : नयी दिशा, नया बोध (Diamond # 7) 3. संन्यास और सार (Diamond # 2) 4. संन्यास के फूल : संसार की भूमि में (Diamond # 3) 5. आनंद व अहोभाव में डूबा हुआ नव-संन्यास (Diamond # 8) 6. संन्यास का एक नया अभियान (Diamond # 4) 7. सावधिक संन्यास की धरना (Diamond # 5) 8. पत्र-पाथेय (Diamond # 10)

Diamond 2007 1. नव-संन्यास का सूत्रपात 2. संन्यास और सार 3. संन्यास के फूल : संसार की भूमि में 4. संन्यास का एक नया अभियान 5. सावधिक संन्यास की धरना 6. संन्यास का निर्णय और ध्यान में छलांग 7. संन्यास : नयी दिशा, नया बोध 8. आनंद व अहोभाव में डूबा हुआ नव-संन्यास   9. पुरव की श्रेष्ठतम देन : संन्यास 10. पत्र-पाथेय

The last chapter of each is a collection of some 39 letters on the subject to various early sannyasins and other seekers. All but seven have named addressees but none are dated. Some may have appeared elsewhere. The name of the chapter may be of interest: transliterated, it reads Patra-Pathey. Patra is simple enough, meaning letter(s), but Pathey seems to be a fairly uncommon word, not known by all dictionaries, meaning roughly "provisions for the journey."

The note in the e-book about Chaitanya Keerti (author of the preface) states that he is editor of Osho Times International, which dates it after sometime in 1989, which suggests an edition in between the 1972 and 2007 ones. Possibly. It is not known whether this or another preface appears in the Diamond edition, as the pages in that part of the book are not shown.

There were two chapters in the Diamond edition not found in the e-book, 6 & 9. And at end of ch 1 in the Diamond edition is a note. Transliterated, it reads:

Nav-Sannyas Kya? :

Krishna Smriti pravachan 22 /

Main Kahta Aankhan Dekhi pravachan 34.

Pravachan means discourse. This clearly makes this book out to be a compilation, unless someone at Diamond is making it up as s/he goes along, which is not out of the question. In fact, looking more closely at it, we find that Smriti has only 21 chapters in the Hindi version. Humph! There is an extra chapter in the English version. Would this be a translation of that? Time to ratchet up the suspicion a little. Especially when we consider that MKAD is a book with multiple count and identity issues, with the previous known high chapter count 33. Humph again! MKAD's issues are too complicated to get into fully here but -- to keep it relatively simple -- the other chapter counts suggested by one source or another for this hapless tome do not get higher than 13, and the source for the 33 (and that not without problems) was none other than Diamond. All in all, we might well raise our eyebrows about this whole business. -- doofus-9 (talk) 23:48, 29 December 2014 (PST)