Author: Swami Atmashraddhananda
Swami Gautamananda/Swami Siddhinathanda
Contributor(s)/Artiste(s): Arnold Toynbee/Kuvempu/Linda Prugh et al
Publisher: Sri Ramakrishna Math
Year: 2009
Language: English
Pages: 208
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788178235059
Description
We live in an age of violence. Though violence has been a scar on the human consciousness from time immemorial, never has it assumed such scale, shape and dimensions as in this age. Violence cannot be checked by merely providing arms to self-defence groups, making stringent laws and holding peace meets. While all these measures have a limited role to play, what is needed is a new and better perspective wherein humanity’s spiritual needs are met and nourished. It is only when a man is spiritually impoverished and is cut off from the Source of his being-which is full of peace, love and joy-that he becomes violent and cruel. In a relative perspective, to advocate non-violence means to spread the message of spiritual growth and strong personal character.
We hope this volume will help to understand the role of Sri Ramakrishna in preventing and curing humanity of the disease of violence.
COMMENTS
This is the message of Sri Ramakrishna to the modern world, ‘Do not care for doctrines, do not care for dogmas, or sects, or churches or temples; they count for little compared with the essence of existence in each man, which is spirituality; and the more that is spirituality; and the more powerful is he for good. Earn that first, acquire that, and criticize no one, for all doctrines and creeds have some good in them. Show by your lives that religion does not mean words, or names, or sects, but that it means spiritual realization.
- Swami Vivekananda
Contents
The Ultimate Antidote
SWAMI ATMASHRADDHANANDA
Sri Ramakrishna’s Uniqueness
ARNOLD TOYNBEE
Dharma-sthapaka Sri Ramakrishna
SWAMI SRIDHARANDA
Love, and Conquer
SWAMI SMARANANANDA
Sri Ramakrishna and his Message
SWAMI ADISWARANANDA
Sri Ramakrishna and Today’s World of Conflicting Ideals
SWAMI GAUTAMANANDA
The Gently Radiance of a Luminous Lamp
KUVEMPU
Religious Harmony and Disharmony
SWAMI BRAHMESHANANDA
Psychology of Violence
SWAMI NITYASTHANANDA
Quest for God in a Contemporary World
SWAMI ATMAJNANANANDA
Sri Ramakrishna: The Embodiment of Universal Religion
SWAMI SATYAMAYANANDA
Sri Ramakrishna’s Message of Peace to a Strife-torn World
SWAMI SARVAPRIYANANDA
The role of Devotees in Promoting Non-Violence
LINDA PRUGH
Anger and Hatred: Paycho-spiritual Dimensions
DR. THARA SRINIVASAN
Violence among Youth
RITA MOOKHERJI
Teachers’ Role in Imparting Education for Love, Non-Violence and Peace
DR H RAMACHANDRA SWAMY
Peace, Media and Paramahamsa
J SRI RAMAN
Agenda for World Peace: Lessons from Sri Ramakrishna
DR. SUBRAMANIAM CHANDRAN
Sri Ramakrishna’s Message of Love & Harmony
(E-symposium)
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