The Vedantic Relationality Of Rabindranath Tagore

Author : Ankur Barua
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498586238

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The Vedantic Relationality of Rabindranath Tagore by Ankur Barua Pdf

This book is a thematic study of the poet-thinker Rabindranath Tagore’s conceptual project of harmonizing the one and its many. Tagore’s writings, in Bengali and in English, on religious and social themes are held together by the leitmotif of a “harmony” which operates across several existential, religious, and social polarities – the finite and the infinite, the temporal and the eternal, and the individual and the universal. Tagore creatively appropriated materials from diverse sources such as the classical Hindu Vedāntic systems, the folk piety of Bengal, and others, to configure a dialectic which shapes his writings on both religious and social themes. On the one hand, each individual is irreducibly distinct from everyone else, and, on the other hand, each individual gains their spiritual depth precisely by being placed within the dynamic matrices of an interrelated whole. Thus, we find Tagore rejecting certain monastic forms of Hindu world-renunciation and also certain ecstatic dimensions of devotional worship – the former because they efface individuality and the latter because they can generate self-absorbed styles of living. Again, Tagore is as sharply opposed to Bengali imitativeness of English modes of being in the world as he is to Bengali forms of insularity – the former because it dilutes the concrete richness of indigenous lifeforms and the latter because it confines individuals to parochial enclosures. Tagore’s life-long endeavor was to configure a “third way” by rejecting both the blank homogeneity of an undifferentiated one and the particularistic insularities of a multitude without a deeper center of coherence.

Author : Uma Majmudar
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793612007

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Gandhi and Rajchandra by Uma Majmudar Pdf

Mahatma Gandhi, one of the greatest influencers in the world, was himself influenced by trailblazing thinkers and writers like Tolstoy, Ruskin, Thoreau, and others—each one contributing significantly to his moral and spiritual development. Yet only a few people know the most consequential person to have played a pivotal role in the making of the Mahatma: Shrimad Rajchandra. About the unparalleled influence of this person, Gandhi himself wrote: “I have met many a religious leader or teacher… and I must say that no one else ever made on me the impression that Raychandbhai did.” Uma Majmudar, digging deep into the original Gujarati writings of both Gandhi and Rajchandra, explores this important relationship and unfolds the unique impact of Rajchandra’s teachings and contributions upon Gandhi. The volume examines the contents and significance of their intimate spiritual discussions, letters, questions and answers. In this book, Dr. Majmudar brings to the forefront the scarcely known but critically important facts of how Rajchandra “molded Gandhi’s inner self, his character, his life, thoughts and actions.” This Jain zaveri (jeweller)-cum-spiritual seeker became Gandhi’s most trusted friend, as well as an exemplary mentor and “refuge in spiritual crisis.”

Author : Kusumita P. Pedersen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793618993

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The Philosophy of Sri Chinmoy by Kusumita P. Pedersen Pdf

This is the first book-length study of the thought of Sri Chinmoy (1931-2007), who became well known during his lifetime as the exponent of a dynamic spirituality of integral transformation, which he set forth in an extensive body of writings in both prose and poetry, mostly in English but also in his native Bengali. He held that all fields of human endeavor can be venues of spiritual transformation when founded in aspiration and contemplative practice. He is noted not only as a spiritual teacher but also as an advocate of peace, a composer and musician, an artist and a sportsman who created innovative programs promoting self-transcendence and understanding between people of all cultures and walks of life. This study of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy refers to these diverse activities, especially in the biographical first chapter, but is mainly based on his written works. The book’s aim is to give to the reader a straightforward and unembroidered account of Sri Chinmoy’s philosophy. It makes every attempt to allow Sri Chinmoy to speak for himself in his own words, and thus provides ample quotation and draws on his poetic works as much as on his other writings.

Author : Anjali Kanojia
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-17
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781498599351

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The Politics and Promise of Yoga by Anjali Kanojia Pdf

Yoga is many things to many people. However, the basics of yoga are worth understanding given its popularity and the benefits of the practice. This includes understanding yoga's roots, its origins, its development within and outside India as well as the research involving yoga as an integrative therapeutic modality. The author introduces the topic of yoga to healthcare officials, practitioners, skeptics, and a range of curious people in between. For yoga practitioners and those interested in the practice, The Politics and Promise of Yoga: Contemporary Relevance of an Ancient Practice outlines a condensed view of traditional yoga practices and provides a glimpse into the origin of yoga within Indian history and philosophy. The author hopes that policymakers will be interested in this evidence-based scientific practice so that it can be systematically incorporated into mainstream biomedical systems around the globe. This book also serves to confirm existing knowledge and historical nuances about yoga and also addresses contemporary debates and politics which revolve around the practice.

Author : Christopher Key Chapple,Ana Laura Funes Maderey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498570978

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Thinking with the Yoga Sutra of Patañjali by Christopher Key Chapple,Ana Laura Funes Maderey Pdf

This book explores Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra from a contemporary scholarly perspective. Chapters in this book explore questions regarding its metaphysics, epistemology, and praxis. Contributors to this volume guide us in a philosophical journey through this text that will be of interest to scholars and yoga practitioners alike.

Author : Rita D. Sherma
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498586054

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Swami Vivekananda by Rita D. Sherma Pdf

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.

Author : Pankaj Jain,Jeffery D. Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793623164

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Indian and Western Philosophical Concepts in Religion by Pankaj Jain,Jeffery D. Long Pdf

Philosophical concepts are influential in the theories and methods to study the world religions. Even though the disciplines of anthropology and religious studies now encompass communities and cultures across the world, the theories and methods used to study world religions and cultures continue to be rooted in Western philosophies. For instance, one of the most widely used textbooks used in introductory courses on religious studies, introduces major theoreticians such as Edward Burnett Tylor, James Frazer, Sigmund Freud, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Mircea Eliade, William James, E. E. Evans-Pritchard, and Clifford Geertz. Their theories are based on Western philosophy. In contrast, in Indic philosophical systems, such as Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism, one of the common views on reality is that the world both within one self and outside is a flow with nothing permanent, both the observer and the observed undergoing constant transformation. This volume is based on such innovative ideas coming from different Indic philosophies and how they can enrich the theory and methods in religious studies.

Author : Christopher Patrick Miller,Jeffery D. Long,Michael Reading
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781498564854

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Beacons of Dharma by Christopher Patrick Miller,Jeffery D. Long,Michael Reading Pdf

Today’s globalized society faces some of humanity’s most unprecedented social and environmental challenges. Presenting new and insightful approaches to a range of these challenges, the timely volume before you draws upon individual cases of exemplary leadership from the world’s Dharma traditions—Hinduism, Sikhism, Jainism, and Buddhism. The volume's authors refer to such exemplary leaders as “beacons of Dharma,” highlighting the ways in which each figure, via their inspirational life work, provide us with illuminating perspectives as we continue to confront cases of grave injustice and needless suffering in the world. Taking on difficult contemporary issues such as climate change, racial and gender inequality, industrial agriculture and animal rights, fair access to healthcare and education, and other such pressing concerns, Beacons of Dharma offers a promising and much needed contribution to our global remedial discussions. Seeking to help solve and alleviate such social and environmental issues, each of the chapters in the volume invites contemplation, inspires action, and offers a freshly invigorating source of hope.

Author : Ankur Barua
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781793642592

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The Hindu Self and Its Muslim Neighbors by Ankur Barua Pdf

In The Hindu Self and its Muslim Neighbors, the author sketches the contours of relations between Hindus and Muslims in Bengal. The central argument is that various patterns of amicability and antipathy have been generated towards Muslims over the last six hundred years and these patterns emerge at dynamic intersections between Hindu self-understandings and social shifts on contested landscapes. The core of the book is a set of translations of the Bengali writings of Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941), Kazi Nazrul Islam (1899–1976), and Annada Shankar Ray (1904–2002). Their lives were deeply interwoven with some Hindu–Muslim synthetic ideas and subjectivities, and these involvements are articulated throughout their writings which provide multiple vignettes of contemporary modes of amity and antagonism. Barua argues that the characterization of relations between Hindus and Muslims either in terms of an implacable hostility or of an unfragmented peace is historically inaccurate, for these relations were modulated by a shifting array of socio-economic and socio-political parameters. It is within these contexts that Rabindranath, Nazrul, and Annada Shankar are developing their thoughts on Hindus and Muslims through the prisms of religious humanism and universalism.

Author : Dr. Smita R. Deshmukh
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359414796

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Philosophy reflected in the poetry of Walt Whitman and Rabindranath Tagore by Dr. Smita R. Deshmukh Pdf

Author : Bhabani Charan Mukherji
Publisher : M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 8185880425

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Vedanta and Tagore by Bhabani Charan Mukherji Pdf

In this book Vedanta and Tagore the author has shown that Tagore's poems, especially songs are just a beautiful way of vedantic teaching which directly touches the most sensitive chords of human heart and thus sinks into its consciousness more deeply and intimately than any prose commentary or apperciation possibly can.

Author : Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3582582

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The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore by Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan Pdf

Author : Patrick Colm Hogan,Lalita Pandit
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0838639801

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Rabindranath Tagore by Patrick Colm Hogan,Lalita Pandit Pdf

This collection provides a lucid introduction for those unfamiliar with Tagore's work, while simultaneously presenting importnat new scholarship and novel interpretation. Rabindranath Tagore is considered the greatest modern writer of India. He is also one of the great social and political figures in modern Indian history. After he received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913, Tagore's reputation in the West has been based primarily on his mystical poetry. But beyond poetry, Tagore wrote novels of social realism, treating nationalism, religious intolerance, and violence. He wrote analytic works on social reform, education, and science- even engaging in a brief dialogue with Albert Einstein. Without ignoring religion and mysticism, the essays in this collection concentrate on this other Tagore. They explicate Tagore's writings in relation to its historical and literary context and, at the same time, draw out those aspects of Tagore's work that continue to bear on contemporary society.

Author : Translated from Bengali with an introduction by Amiya P. Sen
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199089338

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Religion and Rabindranath Tagore by Translated from Bengali with an introduction by Amiya P. Sen Pdf

This work focuses exclusively on Rabindranath Tagore's sermons/addresses and miscellaneous prose writings in Bengali. With a substantive introduction by Amiya P. Sen identifying various stages in the evolution of Tagore's religious thoughts, beginning from about the 1880s, the book includes representative writings from each of the stage so identified. It brings to light some of Tagore's speeches and writings on religion in the pre-Gitanjali phase, which are largely unknown and un-appreciated. The sermons collectively known as Santiniketan (delivered between 1908 and 1914) and which perhaps carry his deepest spiritual insights is a case in this point. Among other important essays of this genre yet un-translated and relatively unknown are those included in the collections Dharma (Religion), Alochana(Criticism), Parichay(Introduction), and Sanchay (Collection). This volume intends to recover them in translation.

Author : Kalyan Sen Gupta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317021421

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The Philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore by Kalyan Sen Gupta Pdf

The Nobel Prize winner, Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - 'the Indian Goethe', as Albert Schweitzer called him - was not only the foremost poet and playwright of modern India, but one of its most profound and influential thinkers. Kalyan Sen Gupta's book is the first comprehensive introduction to Tagore's philosophical, socio-political and religious thinking. Drawing on Rabindranath's poetry as well as his essays, and against the background theme of his deep sensitivity to the holistic character of human life and the natural world, Sen Gupta explores the wide range of Tagore's thought. His idea of spirituality, his reflections on the significance of death, his educational innovations and his relationship to his great contemporary, Gandhi, are among the topics that Sen Gupta discusses - as are Tagore's views on marriage, his distinctive understanding of Hinduism, and his prescient concerns for the natural environment. The author does not disguise the tensions to be found in Tagore's writings, but endorses the great poet's own conviction that these are tensions resolvable at the level of a creative life, if not at that of abstract thought.