Download or read book Ghalib Gandhi and the Gita written by Vivek Iyer and published by Polyglot Publications London. This book was released on 2012 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meta-metaphoricity in Ghalib, Gandhi & the Gita.
Download or read book Gandhi Ghalib and the Gita written by Vivek Iyer and published by . This book was released on 2012-04-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about three potent sources of modern Indian identity- viz. the Urdu poetry of Mirza Ghalib, the politics of Mahatma Gandhi and the philosophy of the Bhagvad Gita. What they have in common is 'meta-metaphoricity'- they take a metaphor for reality and construct another metaphor, itself to be taken as even more real, on that basis. Normally, this is a recipe for bad poetry, bad politics and bad religion. However, if Ghalib's poetry is read in the light of Ibn Arabi's concept of 'barzakh', or if the Gita is read in the light of Game Theory, then 'meta-metaphoricity' comes into its own. On the other hand, the reckless application of tendentious Western hermeneutics to Ghalib, Gandhi & the Gita creates a sort of slapstick comedy such that great savants end up making incredibly foolish and grotesque claims. Translations and commentaries on Ghalib, by stubbornly refusing to engage with his Islamic side, turn his lovely lyrics into something harsh, dissonant and bizarre. Similarly, Economists, like Nobel Laureate, Amartya Sen- who are thoroughly familiar with Game Theory- completely fail to understand its place in the Mahabharata. Thus, they end up saying very foolish things about the Gita. The case of Mahatma Gandhi is quite different. His 'meta-metaphoricity' was indeed a recipe for disaster because it turned its back on reality. Here, distinguished Professors make the mistake of ignoring the historical record to spin fantasies about Gandhi's true motivation- so as to gain currency for their own philosophical ideas. This book, 'Gandhi, Ghalib & the Gita', features original translations and commentaries on some of Ghalib's best loved Ghazals. While paying tribute to the sterling contribution of Prof. Shamsur Rehman Faruqi and Prof. Frances Pritchett, it takes issue with their methodological Secularism which scrupulously omits references to Islamic Scripture and the great Muslim Scholar-Saints who endowed the ghazal with a great Spiritual and Moral purpose. This approach is the opposite of the Indian tradition of promoting brotherly feeling between members of different creeds by appealing directly to the heart's univocity, rather than the head's delight in cerebral 'distinctions without a difference'. The Mahabharata is a text which displays a highly symmetric structure such that every episode and character has a 'dual'. To treat the Gita as a stand-alone text, especially if you ignore its Occasionalist metaphysics, is either to endorse a 'casteist' hierarchy or to equate Hinduism with the evils of caste based discrimination. If this were the 'natural' or 'canonical' way to read the Gita then, by all means, let the book be banned. However, such is not case. The Gita is a highly dramatic work and every utterance within it contains a sort of ironic pathos. Rather than representing God as a sort of puppet-master, it displays the Passion of God for His Creatures in an awe-inspiring and cathartic manner. The Mahabharata is the only ancient Epic which shows that the Just King must learn Game theory to properly discharge his duty. Yet, famous economists of Indian, that too Hindu, origin say very foolish things about the Gita. Truly- 'the blind spot of the savants constitutes the darkness of the age'. Turning to Mahatma Gandhi, and the 'Gandhian' Anna Hazare, is their success in politics attributable to purity of principle or to a corrupt sort of 'interessement mechanism'- i.e. the peddling of a nostrum by means of relentless self-publicity? The answer to this question may not be pleasant to hear, but the question must be posed.
Download or read book Gandhi on the Gita written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by College Classics. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gandhi used his time in prison corresponding with followers. One asked about the ethical questions in the Bhagavad Gita, and Gandhi replied to this, and to other questions. Finally, he put together his comments and analysis of the lessons that Krishna was sharing with Arjuna in a little book, his most concise expression of this Hindu holy book as he understood it. After his autobiography, this may be the closest record of Gandhi's spiritual understanding. A sample chapter is available at www.bandannabooks.com/free/gandhisample.zip. For a different view on the Indian subcontinent, you might like Ghazals of Ghalib, a 19th-century poet who wrote in Persian and Urdu. His ghazals are witty, self-revealing, thoughtful. He lived through the Sepoy Mutiny and the British Raj, asking Queen Victoria to support poetry as the rajahs had done, by direct donation.
Download or read book The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi written by Mohandas K. Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And I read as many translations as I could lay hold of. But all such reading can give me no passport for presenting my own translation. Then again my knowledge of Sanskrit is limited, my knowledge of Gujarati too is in no way scholarly. How could I then dare present the public with my translation? It has been my endeavor, as also that of some companions, to reduce to practice the teaching of the Gita as I have understood it. The Gita has become for us a spiritual reference book. I am aware that we ever fail to act in perfect accord with the teaching. The failure is not due to want of effort, but is in spite of it. Even though the failures we seem to see rays of hope. The accompanying rendering contains the meaning of the Gita message which this little band is trying to enforce in its daily conduct.--Mahatma Gandhi Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
Download or read book Ghazals of Ghalib written by Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib and published by College Classics. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New! Compare this edition with six others at http: //www.bandannabooks.com/vsghalib.php. Ghalib, a court poet in India during the period of British takeover, excelled in poetry both in Urdu and Persian. Ghazals are a poetry genre with couplets gathered that share a common theme but do not form a narrative sequence. With these two-liners, Ghalib was a master. His subjects range from personal to cosmic, and includes his metaphoric "love affair" with God, in which he protests the neglect or spurning by The Beloved. Ghalib lived by his wits, with cleverness and astuteness. He did not regard himself as a mystic, yet he marvels at the wonders of existence. Ghalib's work gives a sense of the state of India as it came under the British. He himself was not political; Gandhi came to represent that dimension of Indian philosophy with satyagraha. Gandhi's best thought might be seen in Gandhi on the Gita (Bhagavad Gita) (www.createspace.com/4035181).
Download or read book The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi written by Mahatma Gandhi and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ghandi gives his interpretation of the sacred work that contains the essence of Hindu wisdom and philosophy in this first volume to include his "Gita" text and commentary together in their entirety.
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Download or read book Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi written by Indira Gandhi and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Path of Mahatma Gandhi written by George Catlin and published by K.K. Publications. This book was released on 2022-02-20 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN THE PATH OF MAHATMA GANDHI George Catlin The life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is the most significant life in the world today —only those of Albert Schweitzer, the Alsatian Musician, and Toyokito Kagasaa, the apostle of Japan, approach it MINire The careen of Hitler and Stalin it has broken, a new way. The author offers this volume because perhaps caws would feel as to do so. This book is a quest to find an answer to something which concerns all of 11k By what role should a man in these years beet live his fife? It is a piece of autobiography; a travel diary, a record of this quest in India_
Download or read book Indian National Bibliography written by B. S. Kesavan and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indira Gandhi Selected Speeches and Writings 1972 to 1977 written by Publications Division and published by Publications Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compilation of Speeches by Indira Gandhi
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