Swami Narasimhananda

Ramakrishna Mission Sevashrama, Kozhikode
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedānta and Nyāya Philosophy of Religion by Nirmalya Guha, Matthew Dasti, and Stephen PhillipsSwami Narasimhananda (bio)God and the World's Arrangement: Readings from Vedānta and Nyāya Philosophy of Religion. Translated, with Introduction and Explanatory Notes, by Nirmalya Guha, Matthew Dasti, and Stephen Phillips. Indianapolis: Hackett, 2021. Pp. xx + 91. Paperback $19.00, i…Read more
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    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
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    Philosophy in Colonial India ed. by Sharad Deshpande
    Philosophy 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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    Review Sharing Wisdom Reading Religion June 2017
    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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    This book could be seen as a novel method of tracing the history of a scripture. Jacob P. Dalton does this by “tracing the vicissitudes of a single ritual system—that of the Gathering of Intentions Sutra (Dgongs pa ’dus pa’i mdo)—from its ninth-century origins to the present day” (xv). This tantra is referred to as the “root tantra” and is vital for understanding the history of Tibetan Buddhism, particularly the Nyingma school. This book is divided into seven chapters focusing on the various for…Read more
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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-dominion 4
    Prabuddha 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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    Book Review Truth by Alexis G Burgess and John P Burgess
    Prabuddha 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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    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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-dominion 1
    Prabuddha 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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    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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Saraswati–Attaining Self Dominion 21
    Prabuddha 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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    ‘Vedanta Brain and Islam Body’: Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (10): 597-605. 2015.
    A brief life sketch of Dr A P J Abdul Kalam
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    Book Review How to Organize Life? A Vedanta Kesari Presentation
    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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    Review Why Grow Up Susan Neiman Prabuddha Bharata October 2016
    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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati-Attaining Self Dominion 11
    Prabuddha 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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    Book Review Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova
    Prabuddha 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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    Book Review The Labyrinth of Solitude by K D Prithipaul
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (5): 360-1. 2013.
    Bred in an intellectual and practising tradition, the author explores layers of dharma, with its meanings and influences, from the ancient to the present. He juxtaposes and contextualises this concept based on the Mahabharata and relates it to the problems of life vis-à-vis social strata. The work analyses philosophical concepts, readings, and re-readings in a novel way. The sceptre and solace of dharma are depicted and the political interpretation in the Indian Constitution is traced.
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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 17
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (11): 645-647. 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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    Book Review The Rainforest or From Protozoa to God by Parimal Mukhopadhyay
    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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    Book Review Religion Without God by Ronald Dworkin
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (5): 482. 2016.
    In this collection of the Einstein Lectures delivered by the author at the University of Bern in December 2011, we find succinct and striking arguments that try to distinguish the debates on God from those on religion. Dworkin points out the religiosity prevalent in science and situates atheism also as ‘religious’.
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    Beyond Distinctions
    Prabuddha 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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    Young India
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (1): 43-47. 2012.
    A study of the Indian youth from a sociological perspective analysing the present-day trends of youth psychology and their attitudes.
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    Book Review Intellectuals and Power by Francois Laruelle
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (7): 578. 2016.
    This book aims to see how the victim and the ‘identity of the Real’ are wedded to philosophers and intellectuals. Towards this aim Laruelle does not ‘leave philosophy to its own authority’ just as he does not ‘leave theology or religious beliefs to their own authorities’ (119).
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    Svarajya Siddhi of Gangadharendra Saraswati-Attaining Self-Dominion 9
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (12): 615-618. 2012.
    Translation and Annotation of 'Svarajya Siddhi' of Gangadharendra Saraswvati 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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    Uttara Gita by Minati Kar Review Prabuddha Bharata November 2008
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 113 (11): 612. 2008.
    A review of the translation of Uttara Gita by Minati Kar published by the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Kolkata, India. Though brief, the Uttara-gita clearly explains the nature of the Atman and the method to realize it,primarily through yoga. This book serves as a supplementary text to the Bhagavadgita. It is a text that inspires aspirants to intensify their spiritual practices. A Sanskrit commentary on the main text ascribed to Gaudapadacharya has also been provided. A glossary of …Read more
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    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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    Argument and Design: The Unity of the Mahābhārata is the outcome of a series of three panels dedicated to the renowned scholar of the Mahābhārata, Alf Hiltebeitel, organized by his favorite disciple, Vishwa Adluri on the occasion of Alf’s seventieth birthday. Per its author “whatever is found here [in the Mahābhārata] may be found elsewhere, but whatever is not, will be found nowhere else” (ix). In his foreword, Robert P. Goldman says that, despite having so many dimensions encompassing so many …Read more
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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-Dominion 6
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (9): 474-6. 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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    This paper follows Francois Laruelle’s non-philosophy and his non-religion and non-theology to suggest anon-philosophical approach to the sociology of religious pluralism. The entanglements of experiences of the religious end-user are analysed vis-a-vis Laruelle’s thought and a dogma free inclusive approach to religion is envisaged.
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    Book Review The Brahma Kumaris as a 'Reflexive Tradition' by John Walliss
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 114 (4): 303-4. 2009.
    Review of the book 'The Brahma Kumaris as a Reflexive Tradition' by John Wallis published by Motilal Banarsidass.