Chetana: a periodical devoted to enlightenment [7 various issues] by Dikshit, Sudhakar, editor - 1960

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the January 1959 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 4 No. 1) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 8-1/2" by 11-3/8" and containing 16 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - Logic of the Heart; Mysticism by Sunyata (which begins, "Mysticism, in its essence, is a consciousness of the Beyond, an intuition of the Ultimate Reality"); Yajnopavit: The Second Thread by S. S. Murdeshwar; The Irrelevant (which begins, "The Reverend Malunkyaputta, a monk, while meditating one evening had the following reflection: The Enlightened One has never expounded his views on many important questions and has even evaded answering them. He has never explained whether the world is eternal or non-eternal, infinite or finite; whether life and the body are the same thing or two separate things; whether or not a truth-finder passes to another life… Read More

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the April 1958 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 3 No. 4) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 8-5/8" by 11-1/4" and containing eight pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - The True Role of Indian Film; Maitreyi: An Upanishadic Story by Swami Tattvananda (which begins, "Time waits for none. Months, seasons, years, the Sun and the Moon roll on and turn like wheels in the lap of Eternity. On observing his greying matted hair and emaciating body, which fore-boded the advent of old age, the sage Yajnavalkya felt that he should finish all his remaining duties before death, the sentinel, tolled the knell"); A Practical Guide to Samadhi [Yoga] (with topics Fate and Effort; Power of Discrimination; Different Conceptions; Seven Stages of Discrimination; Renunciation); Book Reviews. Light wear. . Very Good. Magazine. 1st… Read More

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the April 1959 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 4 No. 4) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 8-7/8" by 11-1/4" and containing eight pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - Philosophy and the Arts; Conversation with Saint Vinoba Bhave by Swami Madhavtirtha (which begins, "As the famous living Indian saint, Vinobaji, happened to come in December last to a village near Koba, where Kasturba Centre is located, I took the opportunity to discuss some social and religious questions with him. A brief summary of the discussion is given below"); Choosing One's Words (which begins, "Once when the Blessed One was staying at Rajagaha, Prince Abhaya invited him to dinner at his palace. The dinner over, the prince asked the Blessed One: 'Sir, would a Truth-finder say anything which could be disagreeable to others?'"); Mind and… Read More

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the March 1959 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 4 No. 3) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 8-5/8" by 11" and containing eight pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - Psychological Warfare (which begins, "A notable feature of contemporary society is the predominant role played by the psychological propagandist, to whose insidious attacks the modern man is becoming more and more vulnerable"); True Retirement (which begins, "Once when the Enlightened One was staying in the Anga country, there came to him a retired householder who had given all his property to his sons and retired from active life. The Enlightened One greeted him, saying, 'Pray be seated, householder.' This made the retired householder very angry and he entered into argument with the Enlightened One, asking why he addressed him as a householder when he… Read More

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the November 1960 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 5 No. 11) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - The Mission of Art; What Do We Mean By "Satyam"? by S. Subramanya Iyer (which begins, "Satyam, Shivam and Sundaram - Truth, Goodness and Beauty - are the three qualitative aspects of the Supreme Reality. They manifest as absolute values of life. They are interwoven and interrelated, and at the apex of the Spiritual plane, they merge into one" - the topics are: Jnana and Yoga, and Common Pool of Knowledge); poem "Flame of India" by Mahinda; The Rationale of Gem Therapy by Kumbha ("The rationale of gem therapy lies in the eternal forces of cosmic rays whose complex powers over man and matter are unquestioned and unquestionable"); Real Freedom by Nitya… Read More

Bombay, India: Chetana Ltd.. Offered is the October 1960 issue of "Chetana: A Periodical Devoted to Enlightenment" (Vol. 5 No. 10) edited by Sudhakar Dikshit and published by Chetana Ltd. out of Bombay, India. Text is in English. A magazine measuring 5-1/2" by 8-1/2" and containing 20 pages including front and rear covers. Contents include: Editorial - Subjugation of Imagination; What I Owe To [Jiddu] Krishnamurti by Rene Fouere (the topics are: Krishnamurti and [Georges] Chevrier; Know the Truth; Be Nothing; True Evolution; Escape is Childish; True Immortality); The Price of Meat by Bhikshu Anoma Mahinda ("Can any nation or any people be free from fear while they prey on creatures less powerful than themselves? It requires some horrible mental twist for a man to kill in cold blood a little calf or a tender lamb. Yet many who would shrink from such a task do not hesitate to sit down and eat the flesh of such creatures"); Book Reviews. Light cover wear; stamp of The American Academy of Asian… Read More