Author: R.K. DasGupta
Publisher: Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 348
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8185843813
Description
This volume contains its author’s lectures at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture in his capacity as the Institute’s Vivekananda professor of Indology and Idological Research. The author deals with swami Vivekanada’s approach to four of our six systems of philosophy and his observations are based on Swamiji’s references to them available in the eight volumes of his Completed Works. As a supplement to this material the author deals with Swami Vivekananda’s approach to the Upanishads and the Bhagavad-Gita. Swami Vivekananda’s ideas of comparative religion, his response to Western Indology, Western philosophy and his view of history are here discussed perhaps for the first time in some detail. The tenth chapter deals with swami Vivekananda and his Master Sri Ramakrishna to show that Swamiji interpreted Vedanta in terms of the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna who was to him Vedanta’s in terms of the teachings of Sri Ramakrishna who was to him Vedanta’s greatest human examplar. The twelfth chapter deals with a theme on which a great deal has been written. The author has tried to define Swami Vivekananda’s idea of universal religion with reference to his observations on it as available in his Complete Works.
Contents
Foreword
Swami Lokeswarananda
Preface
Chapter 1:
Swami Vivekananda’s idea
Of comparative religion
Chapter 2:
Swami Vivekananda and
Western Indology
Chapter 3:
Swami Vivekananda
On the Bhagavad Gita
Chapter 4:
Swami Vivekananda
On the Upanishads
Chapter 5:
Swami Vivekananda on
Badarayana’s Brahma-Sutra
Chapter 6:
Swami Vivekananda
On Sankhya
Chapter 7:
Swami Vivekananda
On Buddhism
Chapter 8:
Swami Vivekananda
On Purva-Mimamsa
Chapter 9:
Swami Vivekananda
On Patanjali’s Yoga-Sutra
Chapter 10:
Swami Vivekananda and
His master Sri Ramakrishna
Chapter 11:
Swami Vivekananda response
To Western Philosophy
Chapter 12:
Swami Vivekananda Idea
Of Universal Religion
Chapter 13:
Swami Vivekananda’s
View of History
Chapter 14:
Swami Vivekananda on the
Ramayana and the Mahabharata
Chapter 15:
Swami Vivekananda and
The Tantric Tradition
Chapter 16:
Sister Nivedita on
Swami Vivekananda
Chapter 17:
Western Response to
Swami Vivekananda
Chapter 18:
Swami Vivekananda and
Unity of Religious Thought
Chapter 19:
Swami Vivekananda and
The Problems of the
Modern world
Chapter 20:
Swami Vivekananda as a
Philosopher
Chapter 21:
Swami Vivekananda on
Indian Civilization and
Culture
Index