Download or read book A Restatement of Religion written by Jyotirmaya Sharma and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a portrait of Swami Vivekananda and his relationship with his guru, the legendary Ramakrishna. This work focuses on Vivekananda's reinterpretation and formulation of diverse Indian spiritual and mystical traditions and practices as "Hinduism" and how it served to create, distort, and justify a national self-image.
Download or read book Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda written by Kalpana Mohapatra and published by Northern Book Centre. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present work is a modest attempt to systematise Vivekanandas political ideas and preachings for the glorification of todays politics. It deals with a rich legacy of political ideas, conceived and believed by Vivekananda in the context of social, political and economic tendencies of his time. A careful study of Vivekanandas philosophy in preparing the ground for the politics of independence and giving the country a new political ideology through his re-interpretation of Vedanta and the Hindu religion. The present work is divided into five distinct chapters, the political, social and economic crisis, the early days of Swami, the concept of Vedanta, and the concept of his political ideas, besides preface and bibliography.
Download or read book Religious Revivalism as Nationalist Discourse written by Shamita Basu and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines nineteenth-century religious movements and discourses in India. Concentrating on the philosophy propounded by Swami Vivekananda, the book explores the relation between nationalism and modernity in a colonial world.
Download or read book My Life and Mission written by Swami Vivekananda and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lecture was delivered by Swami Vivekananda in California. It gives a vivid picture of how his great heart bled for the suffering millions of India, and also his plan for the uplift of his motherland to the position of her past glory. In these pages the reader also finds the great Swami speaking so poignantly about himself, his inner struggle and sorrow. Pubished by Advaita Ashrama, a branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India, this book is a must for all those who want to feel the charm and force of Swamiji's thoughts.
Download or read book The Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda written by A. V. Rathna Reddy and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Socio Political Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda written by Bhaiya S. Prasad and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 1999-10 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hinduism written by Swami Nikhilananda and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1959, Hinduism written specifically for the modern readers describes and interprets one of the world’s chief religions. For thousands of years Indian sages have speculated on man, creation, and the universe. One result has been an astonishing amount of myth and ritual, of art, asceticism, and philosophy. Swami Nikhilananda provides a brief account of Hinduism in both its theoretical and its practical aspects. It is written mainly from the point of view of non-dualism which the author argues is the highest achievement of India’s mystical insights and philosophical speculation, and her real contribution to world culture. The volume deals with themes like Hindu Ethics; Karma-Yoga; Bhakti-Yoga; Jnana- Yoga; Raja-Yoga; and Tantra. This complete survey of Hindu beliefs and customs is indispensable for scholars and researchers of Hinduism, religion, Indian philosophy, Indian culture, and heritage.
Download or read book Cosmic Love And Human Apathy Swami Vivekananda s Restatement Of Religion written by Jyotirmaya Sharma and published by Harpercollins. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The truth is rarely simple. The common consensus is that Swami Vivekananda, as Sri Ramakrishna's chosen disciple, spread his master's message across the world. The fact, though, is that after Ramakrishna's death in 1886, Vivekananda not only shifted the devotional emphasis of the new monastic order from Kali to Shiva, he also embraced a world far removed from Ramakrishna's. Cosmic Love and Human Apathy is the story of this rupture. Integral to the tale is the issue of Hindu identity. The essays in this volume examine Vivekananda's formulation of Hinduism as religion: the most definitive restatement of Hinduism in modern history. Erudite yet accessible, consistently probing and sceptical of hoary traditions, controversial and thought-provoking, Cosmic Love and Human Apathy is an invaluable addition to the existing scholarship on one of India's greatest religious and social icons.
Download or read book Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality written by Ayon Maharaj and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sri Ramakrishna is widely known as a nineteenth-century Indian mystic who affirmed the harmony of all religions on the basis of his richly varied spiritual experiences and eclectic religious practices, both Hindu and non-Hindu. In Infinite Paths to Infinite Reality, Ayon Maharaj argues that Sri Ramakrishna was also a sophisticated philosopher of great contemporary relevance. Through a careful study of Sri Ramakrishna's recorded oral teachings in the original Bengali, Maharaj reconstructs his philosophical positions and analyzes them from a cross-cultural perspective. Sri Ramakrishna's spiritual journey culminated in the exalted state of "vijñana," his term for the "intimate knowledge" of God as the Infinite Reality that is both personal and impersonal, with and without form, immanent in the universe and beyond it. This expansive spiritual standpoint of vijñana, Maharaj contends, opens up a new paradigm for addressing central issues in cross-cultural philosophy of religion, including divine infinitude, religious pluralism, mystical experience, and the problem of evil. Sri Ramakrishna's vijñana-based religious pluralism--when grasped in all its subtlety--proves to have major philosophical advantages over dominant Western models. Moreover, his mystical testimony and teachings not only cut across long-standing debates about the nature of mystical experience but also bolster recent defenses of its epistemic value. Maharaj further demonstrates that Sri Ramakrishna's unique response to the problem of evil resonates strongly with Western "soul-making" theodicies and contemporary theories of skeptical theism. A pioneering interdisciplinary study of one of India's most important philosopher-mystics, Maharaj's book is essential reading for scholars and students in philosophy of religion, theology, religious studies, and Hindu studies.
Download or read book Social Philosophy of Vivekananda and Indian Nationalism written by Sebastian Velassery and published by Brown Walker Press. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the galaxy of scholars, Swami Vivekananda stands out as a majestic tower of light who has given a new tempo to the building up of a new sense of nationalism in modern India. The uniqueness of Vivekananda was his endeavour to translate every ounce of Vedanta into a social living and was never a cold theoretician or an abstract metaphysician. He was aware that India's life is governed by her sovereign sense of the infnite and inclusiveness which nourished her national life and India has been a spiritual strength for her people, implanting the seeds that have continuously sprouted and flowered in her art, literature, religion, philosophy, science and politics. It is a civilization that should be seen, not as a closed system or as a finished product, but as a dynamic and unfolding process. Whatever the differences, India's spiritual heritage should be recognized as the focal point and to be appropriated in the conception of a new resurgent India. Regrettably, what we had been glorifying as the central value of this culture and civilization is disorientated today due to the brutal exhibition of barbarous instincts which were exhibited through the rivalry between religious groups. What is being experienced is the loss of inherited values and our inability in reinventing new values. By virtue of its characteristic pluralism and its continuously evolving synthesis, India represents a nation which is continuously unfolding its civilizational potentialities. In making of such an Indian ethos, the foundational ideal which has been the basis of Indian culture and civilization is the concept of Dharma and Vivekananda was able to comprehend and articulate the relation between morality (dharma) and human affairs which are the concerns of practical Vedanta.
Download or read book The Vedanta Philosophy written by Swami Vivekananda and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Swami Vivekananda and Non Hindu Traditions written by Stephen E. Gregg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu thinker Swami Vivekananda (1863-1902) was and remains an important figure both within India, and in the West, where he was notable for preaching Vedanta. Scholarship surrounding Vivekananda is dominated by hagiography and his (mis)appropriation by the political Hindu Right. This work demonstrates that Vivekananda was no simplistic pluralist, as portrayed in hagiographical texts, nor narrow exclusivist, as portrayed by some modern Hindu nationalists, but a thoughtful, complex inclusivist. The book shows that Vivekananda formulated a hierarchical and inclusivistic framework of Hinduism, based upon his interpretations of a four-fold system of Yoga. It goes on to argue that Vivekananda understood his formulation of Vedanta to be universal, and applied it freely to non-Hindu traditions, and in so doing, demonstrates that Vivekananda was consistently critical of ‘low level’ spirituality, not only in non-Hindu traditions, but also within Hinduism. Demonstrating that Vivekananda is best understood within the context of ‘Advaitic primacy’, rather than ‘Hindu chauvinism’, this book will be of interest to scholars of Hinduism and South Asian religion and of South Asian diaspora communities and religious studies more generally.
Download or read book Swami Vivekananda written by Rita D. Sherma and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-01-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With historical-critical analysis and dialogical even-handedness, the essays of this book re-assess the life and legacy of Swami Vivekananda, forged at a time of colonial suppression, from the vantage point of socially-engaged religion at a time of global dislocations and international inequities. Due to the complexity of Vivekananda as a historical figure on the cusp of late modernity with its vast transformations, few works offer a contemporary, multi-vocal, nuanced, academic examination of his liberative vision and legacy in the way that this volume does. It brings together North American, European, British, and Indian scholars associated with a broad array of humanistic disciplines towards critical-constructive, contextually-sensitive reflections on one of the most important thinkers and theologians of the modern era.
Download or read book Swami Vivekananda s Ved ntic Cosmopolitanism written by Swami Medhananda and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Swami Vivekananda, the nineteenth-century Hindu monk who introduced Vedåanta to the West, is undoubtedly one of modern India's most influential philosophers. Unfortunately, his philosophy has too often been interpreted through reductive hermeneutic lenses. Typically, scholars have viewed him either as a modern-day exponent of âSaçnkara's Advaita Vedåanta or as a "Neo-Vedåantin" influenced more by Western ideas than indigenous Indian traditions. In Swami Vivekananda's Vedåantic Cosmopolitanism, Swami Medhananda rejects both of these prevailing approaches to offer a new interpretation of Vivekananda's philosophy, highlighting its originality, contemporary relevance, and cross-cultural significance. Vivekananda, the book argues, is best understood as a cosmopolitan Vedåantin who developed novel philosophical positions through creative dialectical engagement with both Indian and Western thinkers. Inspired by his guru Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda reconceived Advaita Vedåanta as a nonsectarian, life-affirming philosophy that provides an ontological basis for religious cosmopolitanism and a spiritual ethics of social service. He defended the scientific credentials of religion while criticizing the climate of scientism beginning to develop in the late nineteenth century. He was also one of the first philosophers to defend the evidential value of supersensuous perception on the basis of general epistemic principles. Finally, he adopted innovative cosmopolitan approaches to long-standing philosophical problems. Bringing him into dialogue with a galaxy of contemporary philosophers, Medhananda demonstrates the sophistication and enduring value of Vivekananda's views on the limits of reason, the dynamics of religious faith, and the hard problem of consciousness"--
Download or read book Hindutva written by Jyotirmaya Sharma and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is Vedanta The Future Religion written by Swami Vivekananda and published by Advaita Ashrama (A publication branch of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math). This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful lecture delivered by Swami Vivekananda in San Francisco in 1900. Published by Advaita Ashrama, a publication house of Ramakrishna Math, Belur Math, India , it is one of the best books delineating, in brief, the fundamentals of Vedanta in a lucid, authoritative and candid tone.
Download or read book Practical Vedanta written by SWAMI VIVEKANANDA and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Practical Vedanta (Swami Vivekananda Motivational & Inspirational Book) by Swami Vivekananda: Immerse yourself in the teachings of Swami Vivekananda with Practical Vedanta, a motivational and inspirational book that draws upon the wisdom of Vedanta philosophy. Through practical insights and profound guidance, Swami Vivekananda offers readers a transformative approach to spirituality, self-realization, and living a purposeful life. Key Aspects of the Book Practical Vedanta: Vedanta Philosophy: Practical Vedanta introduces readers to the principles of Vedanta, a timeless philosophical tradition rooted in the ancient scriptures of India. Swami Vivekananda's teachings delve into the core concepts of Vedanta, including self-realization, the nature of existence, and the pursuit of spiritual enlightenment. Practical Application: The book goes beyond theoretical discourse, providing practical guidance on how to integrate Vedanta principles into daily life. Swami Vivekananda offers insights on self-discipline, meditation, ethical living, and the cultivation of spiritual values, empowering readers to apply these teachings to enhance their personal growth and well-being. Motivation and Inspiration: Swami Vivekananda's words serve as a source of motivation and inspiration, encouraging readers to tap into their inner potential and awaken their spiritual consciousness. His teachings inspire individuals to live with purpose, embrace their innate divinity, and make a positive impact on the world around them. Swami Vivekananda was a revered spiritual leader and philosopher who played a pivotal role in introducing Vedanta and Yoga to the Western world. Known for his dynamic personality and profound teachings, Swami Vivekananda continues to inspire millions with his message of universal harmony, self-realization, and service to humanity. Practical Vedanta encapsulates his transformative wisdom and serves as a guide forthose seeking spiritual growth and a deeper understanding of life's purpose.
