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181Book Review Recovering the Lost Tongue by Rahul Banerjee (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (7): 454. 2010.This review is about a book by an Indian Institute of Technology graduate, Rahul Banerjee recounting his experiences of leaving a lucrative career to work among the bhils, tribals of Madhya Pradesh, India. This book talks about the cultural and social invasion going on in the name of civilisation.
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180Book Review Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 293. 2015.The author tries to interpret their commentaries on the Gita to ‘develop two competing visions of the relationship between metaphysics and theology, and therefore of how one may relate inquiry to faith’ (xx). In this task, the author has been remarkably successful and he also gives us a wonderful comparative study of Shankara and Ramanuja. Anyone interested in these two thinkers should definitely read this volume.
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179Virat Rupon Mein Kyon Hain Maa Kali 7 October 2016 Kalpavriksh PageAmar Ujala 2016 (10): 2. 2016.This article briefly analyses why Sri Ramakrishna was so happy that Swami Vivekananda had accepted Kali and tries to show that the worship of Kali is the ultimate step in accepting everything as divine.
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178Book Review Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies: The Case of India by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, and Caroline Howarth (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (12): 728. 2015.This book is the result of a survey conducted across different segments of Indian populace to understand the influence of religion on the country and how sometimes the political ideas and the ground realities are at loggerheads. The authors juxtapose their findings in India with the studies in the West:
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177Book Review Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility edited by Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 295. 2015.A collection of essays originally published in a special issue of Modern Asia Studies in March 2012, this volume comprises the interactions of various cultures including Singapore, Ladakh, Penang, and Istanbul. It also traces interactions over the sea and between various religious spaces. Businesses or inter-Asian joint-ventures are also included. Edited by professors of history, this book is a welcome addition to the scarce literature on transnational interactions within Asia.
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176Book Review Man in Search of Immortality: Testimonials from the Hindu Scriptures by Swami Nikhilananda (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (1): 164. 2013.In five articles Swami Nikhilananda shows the eternal nature of the soul, its three states, and the real nature of Being. Lucidly written, the book brings modern motifs to elucidate traditional beliefs. An appendix of quotations from the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads and an index adds to its value.
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175Book Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (11): 647. 2010.This book tries to collate the different ideas of socialistic thought contained in the vast corpus of Swami Vivekananda's writings and speeches. His humanism led to numerous social activities with the idea that God is present in human beings. He said that education was the solution to all social problems.
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175Book Review Family Values by Harry Brighouse and Adam Swift (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (2): 246. 2015.The authors definitely become the voice of countless parents. This book forces us to focus on the family, so neglected today, and emphasises its role in shaping values of future generations.
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175Book Review Introduction to Hindu Dharma by Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (1): 163-4. 2013.The present book is a painstaking labour of love displaying a selection of the Tamil discourses of Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Swamigal, the 68th pontiff of the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham, Kanchipuram, one of the great Hindu religious leaders of the last century. These discourses have been translated into English, edited, and topically arranged. The editor deserves special commendation for this marvellous work which has been culled from a transcript of more than 6,500 pages.
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173Book Review Pages from the Past: Part 1 by Rameshwar Tantia (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (2): 338. 2016.This slim yet elegant volume begins with accounts of Cicero and Alexander, and continues with the story of a millionaire who wanted to save for the next six generations, a rich man who broke caste barriers through a meal, a farmer who protected his cows transcending religious boundaries, a widow who lived frugally to save for digging a well in her village, dacoits who were more conscious of their reputation than others, a simpleton but generous person who gave up his family share to avoid disput…Read more
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169Book Review Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative by Alf Hiltebeitel (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 293. 2015.This book aims to give a better understanding of dharma through an extraordinarily exhaustive account of both the word and the concept through an incisive analysis of Vedic, Buddhist, Puranic, Smriti, and bhakti texts, and even some works of literature.
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168Review Why Grow Up Susan Neiman Prabuddha Bharata October 2016 (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (10): 719-720. 2016.This book shows the importance of growing up and how childhood and adolescence is overrated. Basing on Rousseau's philosophy Neiman shows us how it is important to understand the deeper aspects of life and to understand philosophy.
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168Review Sharing Wisdom Reading Religion June 2017 (review)Reading Religion 2 (6). 2017.Religious leaders often come together for a statement of their respective beliefs seeking a false satisfaction that they are working for world peace by a disparate series of talks meant to only emphasize differences among faith traditions. This book is a welcome departure from such meaningless exercises and hopes to create a tradition of “sharing wisdom” among the followers of different world religions.
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160Review The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue Muthuraj Swamy Reading Religion October 2016 (review)Reading Religion 2016 1. 2016.In this book, Muthuraj Swamy discusses how conflicts are usually caused by factors other than religious factors at the grassroots level, and how dialogue is an elitist phenomenon that does not percolate to the grassroots, who do not need it in the first place.
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156Book Review Management A New Look—Lessons from Sarada Ma’s Life and Teaching by Dr Abani Nath Mukhopadhyay (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (9): 552. 2014.The present book attempts to look out for management lessons in Holy Mother’s life. The author is a disciple of Sri Akshaya Chaitanya who was himself a disciple and biographer of Holy Mother. This book is thus a product of inspired effort. Various facets of the Holy Mother’s personality have been traced through incidents from her life and these have been classified into different sections such as planning, organisation, motivation, leadership, decision-making, communication, and inspiration.
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155Book Review How to Organize Life? A Vedanta Kesari Presentation (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 116 (6): 466-7. 2011.This book is a compilation of various articles published in the special issue of the English journal 'The Vedanta Kesari' of December 2002. Many monks and other thinkers have put forth their ideas on various methods to organise our lives.
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155Review of The Tagore Geddes Correspondence by Bashabi Fraser PB September 2016 (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (9): 674. 2016.This book is about the coming together of two great polyglot geniuses who were also autodidacts, who were concerned with the other’s nation, but though glorified in their own countries, remain relatively unknown in the nations of the other. Their friendship is, in many ways, a representation of the friendship of the East and the West, albeit more of a conceptual exchange than cultural. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were witness to the interchange of ideas among the East and West at vari…Read more
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155Book Review Minimal Theologies by Hent de Vries (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (2): 247. 2015.The author places this book as the last of a trilogy of which his Philosophy and the Turn to Religion and Religion and Violence are the first two. In a fresh approach to religious philosophy, de Vries brings to us the similarities in the thoughts of Adorno and Levinas, and shows us how taken together, they have much deeper impact, than considered separately. That the author discussed this book with Emmanuel Levinas in person adds authenticity to the work.
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153Book Review Holy Mother, Swamiji, and Direct Disciples at Madras (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 116 (5): 419. 2011.The book under review is a compilation of various accounts of the stay of Sri Sarada Devi, and Swamis Vivekananda, Brahmananda, Shivananda, Ramakrishnananda, Abhedananda, Vijnanananda, Subodhananda, Niranjanananda, Turiyananda, Trigunatitananda, and Premananda in the city.
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151Book Review Beyond Sacred Violence by Kathryn McClymond (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (2): 246. 2015.This book is also a call to situate Eastern religious traditions in their own framework, not borrowing from Western scholarly paradigms and also not being apologetic to the Western ideas of life, religion, and the beyond. Written in an engaging and informative style, this book would be interesting to both scholars and ordinary readers.
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145Book Review Humour and Religion: Challenges and Ambiguities edited by Hans Geybels and Walter Van Herck (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 294. 2015.This anthology is divided into two parts: religious laughter and laughing at religion. Caricature of religion through cartoons and the consequent politics is also examined through an analysis of Greek history. That guilelessness and simplicity are core spiritual values and spirituality has a close connection with humour is well established through this work.
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144Book Review Great Thinkers on Ramakrishna Vivekananda by Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (6): 333. 2012.This book documents the sublime and deep thoughts of great people worldwide on Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Vivekananda. While some had the privilege of meeting these divine personages, others have been deeply influenced by their life and teachings. A revised edition of the earlier book, this volume contains much new material like facsimiles of the tributes of Mahatma Gandhi and Rabindranath Tagore.
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144Beyond DistinctionsPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 113 (12): 628-32. 2008.This paper explores how one can go beyond social and other distinctions by the praxis of Advaita Vedanta.
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144Book Review The Rainforest or From Protozoa to God by Parimal Mukhopadhyay (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (9): 551. 2014.The present book lacks both purpose and depth. It is nothing more than a pointer to thinking beyond the established constructs and is another example of how a profound thought can be marred at the hands of inefficient writers and editors.
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142Book Review The Truth Will Set You Free by Swami Purna (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (1): 162. 2010.Book review of the book 'The Truth Will Set You Free' by Swami Purna.
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137Book Review How to Seek God by Swami Yatiswarananda (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (4): 309. 2010.Book Review of How to Seek God by Swami Yatiswarananda
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137Book Review Tragic Views of the Human Condition by Lourens Minnema (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 295. 2015.The author takes the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita as samples of the Eastern stand on tragedy and compares it with the Greek and Shakespearean literature. This in-depth analysis shows that the very meaning of the word ‘tragedy’ changes considerably between these cultures. The narrative, artistic, communicative, social, political, literary, cultural, martial, psychological, ethical, and religious aspects of tragedy are dealt with.
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122Book Review Self Knowledge by Nome (review)Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (11): 647. 2010.This book is the retelling of the tenets of Advaita Vedanta in the light of Sri Ramana Maharishi's teachings by Nome in simple and poetic English. This gives one access to these eternal truths in a simple and lucid language.
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15Philosophy in Colonial India ed. by Sharad DeshpandePhilosophy East and West 69 (2): 657-662. 2019.India has been the seat of deep philosophical engagements since the Vedic period. However, Indian philosophical wisdom, albeit different from Western philosophy in many respects, was not widely known to the rest of the world before colonial thinkers started their dialogue with Indian philosophy through their translations and academic exegeses. Western scholars, primarily the Indologists, analyzed Indian thought through the lens of Western thought in spite of the traditional insular approach of I…Read more
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10Absent Mother God of the West: A Kali Lover's Journey into Christianity and Judaism by Neela Bhattacharya SaxenaPhilosophy East and West 69 (3). 2019.Cross-cultural encounters often happen through cross-border journeys. Neela Bhattacharya Saxena, an English professor, takes the reader through such travel in Absent Mother God of the West. This is a work that stands at the intersection of many disciplines, such as women's and gender studies, anthropology, religious studies, cultural history, and environmental studies. Best of all, it is an engaging read. In the author's words, in "this book a personal journey takes the shape of a public discour…Read more
Swami Narasimhananda
Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kozhikode
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Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, KozhikodeAdministrator
Kozhikode, KL, India
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Philosophy of Religion |
Asian Philosophy |
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Asian Philosophy |
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