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 (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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    Review The Gathering of Intentions Indian Philosophy Blog May 2017 (review)
    Indian Philosophy Blog 5. 2017.
    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 Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 15
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (9): 548-551. 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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    Aging: The Indian Context
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 114 (4): 273-278. 2009.
    Old age in the Indian context and facing it through Ayurveda.
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    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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    Tripura Upanishad
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 121 (1): 1-8. 2016.
    Tripura Upanishad is a minor Shakta or Tantra Upanishad explaining the structure of and meditation on Sri Chakra or Sri Yantra—a diagrammatic representation of the universe through nine interlocking triangles coming out of a central point. To date, there are two English translations of this Upanishad. The first and the earliest, by A G Krishna Warrier done in 1967, is a verse translation and because of the obvious constraints of such translation, fails to explain the intricacies and implied mea…Read more
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    Book 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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-Dominion 5
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (7): 377-9. 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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    Vivekananda's rereading of Vedanta
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (1): 141-148. 2013.
    An analysis of Swami Vivekananda's retelling of Vedanta
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    Book Review Journey to Foreign Selves by Alan Roland (review)
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 120 (2): 247. 2015.
    Drawing from the results of various case studies conducted in India, Japan, China, Korea, and New York, the author focuses on the cultural interplay of Asian and American individualities. T is century has also witnessed barbarous acts of terrorism. Taking the partition of India and Pakistan and the 9/11 tragedy as his points of departure, he traces the trauma and dissociation these events entailed.
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    The Journal of Oriental Research was started in 1927 by Prof. S Kuppuswami Sastri, who was also the founder of the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute. Originally an annual journal, its regularity has been disturbed due to financial difficulties. Th e present issue comprises volumes eighty-three to eighty-four and has been funded by the Dr V Raghavan Memorial Endowment.
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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati-Attaining Self-Dominion 13
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 118 (6): 403-406. 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 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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    Book 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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati —Attaining Self-dominion 2
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 117 (4): 233-5. 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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    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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    Peace or Perish by J P Vaswani Book Review Prabuddha Bharata December 2009 (review)
    Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India 114 (12): 687. 2009.
    Review of 'Peace or Perish' by J P Vaswani published by Gita Publishing House.
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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 Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 20
    Prabuddha 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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    Book 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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    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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    Vivekadisha: Knowledge in All Directions
    with Swami Divyasukahananda
    Prabuddha 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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    Book 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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    Book Review Towards the Goal by Mrs Vandana Sarathy and Dr Rajeev Ramakrishna (review)
    Prabuddha 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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    Svarajya Siddhih of Gangadharendra Sarasvati—Attaining Self-Dominion 8
    Prabuddha 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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    Book Review Fate and Fortune in the Indian Scriptures by Sukumari Bhattacharji (review)
    Prabuddha 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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    Svarajya Siddhi of Gangadharendra Saraswati-Attaining Self Dominion 16
    Prabuddha 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.