Author: R K Das Gupta
Foreword/Introduction: Swami Prabhananda
Publisher: The Ramkrishna Mission
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 136
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8187332271
Description
Though Bengal is proud of having produced the great Vedantin Madhusudana Saraswati in the sixteenth century, Swami Vivekananda lamented in 1888, The Vedas may well be said to have fallen quite out of vogue in Bengal. And it was Swamiji’s desire to revive the study of the Vedas and Vedanta in this part of the country. The present volume, Vedanta in Bengal, by Dr R K Dasgupta, is based on twelve thought-provoking lectures given by the author at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture.
These lectures give a brief survey of the influence of Vedanta on Bengal’s religious and philosophical thoughts from the Pala-Sena period to the modern era, and they point to the undeniable fact that Vaishnavism, Shaktism, the Brahmo Movement, the Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Movement, and other religious movements in Bengal all had their foundation in Vedanta.
Contents
FOREWORD SWAMI PRABHANANDA
PREFACE
CHAPTER 1
Vedanta during the Pala-Sena Period
CHAPTER 2
Vedanta during the Pre-Chaitanya Period
CHAPTER 3
The Chaitanya Movement
CHAPTER 4
The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries
CHAPTER 5
Vedantic Renaissance-Rammohun Roy
CHAPTER 6
Devendranath and Keshab Chandra
CHAPTER 7
Other Nineteenth-Century Writers
CHAPTER 8
Sri Ramakrishna’sVedanta
CHAPTER 9
Swami Vivekananda’s Vedanta
CHAPTER 10
Rabindranath Tagore’s Vedanta
CHAPTER 11
Sri Aurobindo’s Vedanta
CHAPTER 12
Bengali Religious Songs
APPENDIX A
APPENDIX B
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX