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296Book Review Self Knowledge by NomePrabuddha 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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606Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 20Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (3): 377-8. 2016.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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571Book Review Lectures on Patañjali’s Mahābhāsya Volumes IX and X by P S Subrahmanya SastriPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (6): 405. 2014.The ninth volume contains ahnikas, divisions, forty-two to forty-seven, and the tenth volume contains ahnikas forty-eight to fifty-six. Each Panini sutra is followed by the relevant bhashya, commentary, and the varttika, annotation, of Vararuchi. Each volume has indexes of the sutras, varttikas, nyayas, paribhashas, and important Sanskrit and English words.
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659Vivekadisha: Knowledge in All DirectionsPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (10): 570-575. 2010.A brief summary of the ICT based education conducted by the Ramakrishna Mission Vivekananda University.
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430Book Review How to Seek God by Swami YatiswaranandaPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 115 (4): 309. 2010.Book Review of How to Seek God by Swami Yatiswarananda
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536Review The Problem with Interreligious Dialogue Muthuraj Swamy Reading Religion October 2016Reading 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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597Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-Dominion 8Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (11): 568-71. 2012.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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515Book Review Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahāyāna by Daniel BoucherPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 119 (8): 502-4. 2014.A unique aspect of this book is that it ventures into an analysis of the extant translations of the Rashtrapalapariprichchha Sutra. Delineating the shortcomings of these translations, Boucher gives a new translation based on Sanskrit and Chinese texts of the sutra. We are reminded that translations differ not only because of the target language but also because of the milieu from which the translation is done. The new annotated translation of the Rashtrapalapariprichchha Sutra is lucid and an ea…Read more
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536Book Review Towards the Goal by Mrs Vandana Sarathy and Dr Rajeev RamakrishnaPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 116 (1): 228. 2011.This book is the history of the beginning of the Vedanta movement in Australia leading to the founding of the Vedanta Society in Sydney. The book brings out the undying spirit of the members of the Vedanta group in Australia and their unremitting efforts at spearheading the movement.
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625Svarajya Siddhi of Gangadharendra Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 16Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (10): 596-599. 2013.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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455Book Review Secularism and Religion in Multi-faith Societies: The Case of India by Ragini Sen, Wolfgang Wagner, and Caroline HowarthPrabuddha 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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559Virat 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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463Book Review Recovering the Lost Tongue by Rahul BanerjeePrabuddha 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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628Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati-Attaining Self Dominion 10Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (2): 210-213. 2013.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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584Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-Dominion 3Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (5): 281-3. 2012.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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513Book Review Introduction to Hindu Dharma by Sri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati SwamigalPrabuddha 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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1300The Story of Shyampukur BatiPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 116 (5). 2011.The history of the house in Shyampukur, Kolkata, India, where Sri Ramakrishna lived for sometime when he was ailing. And the history of the place till the present-day, when it is a branch centre of the Ramakrishna Math.
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541Book Review Fate and Fortune in the Indian Scriptures by Sukumari BhattacharjiPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 293-4. 2015.The author could have shown the other perspective also where fate or fortune is proclaimed to be in the hands of a person. It is notable that almost all of the translations and works she cites are by authors from outside the Indian tradition, with a Semitic bearing on their thought. The author comes a bit too strongly and without sufficient background material, in brushing aside as inconsequential, years of thought and philosophising in the Indian tradition. However, no Eastern tradition gives a…Read more
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1002Phalaharini Kali Hindu Vishva Malayalam September-October 2016Hindu Vishva 32 (5/6). 2016.This article discusses the implications of the symbology of Kali from a different and fresh perspective and positions the worship of Kali in the bigger picture of the divinisation of everything in Sanatana Dharma. It also discusses the needless marginalisation of so-called 'ugly' and 'terrible' and how these prejudices have to be overcome to realise the Divinity innate in all.
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618Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-dominion 4Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (6): 326-30. 2012.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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865Book Review Truth by Alexis G Burgess and John P BurgessPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (3): 295-6. 2015.Professors of philosophy, the authors have done a succinct and critical analysis of some theories of truth: deflationism, indeterminacy, insolubility, realism, and antirealism.
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667Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-dominion 1Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (3): 161-3. 2012.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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574Book Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan MohapatraPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (2): 140. 2012.In this book the author has equated Swaraj with Mahatma Gandhi’s ‘self-rule’, Bal Gangadhar Tilak’s ‘birthright for freedom’, Aurobindo’s ‘Sanatana Dharma’, Raja Rammohun Roy’s ‘individual liberty’, Rabindranath Tagore’s ‘humanity’, and Swami Vivekananda’s ‘love of the motherland’.
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530Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Saraswati–Attaining Self Dominion 21Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (4). 2016.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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574Book Review Man in Search of Immortality: Testimonials from the Hindu Scriptures by Swami NikhilanandaPrabuddha 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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2518‘Vedanta Brain and Islam Body’: Dr A P J Abdul KalamPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (10): 597-605. 2015.A brief life sketch of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
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498Book Review How to Organize Life? A Vedanta Kesari PresentationPrabuddha 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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417Review Why Grow Up Susan Neiman Prabuddha Bharata October 2016Prabuddha 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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565Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati-Attaining Self Dominion 11Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (3): 258-259. 2013.Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.
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529Book Review Cut of the Real by Katerina KolozovaPrabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (7): 576. 2016.This work is an intersection of gender studies, philosophy, culture studies, with pertinent aspects of subjectivity. Anyone interested in any of these fields or connected with the humanities should read this book to understand that the ‘non-philosophical discourse implies a constitutive entanglement of the real with the transcendental’ (146).
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