Author: S K Chakrabortty
Publisher: Advaita Ashram
Year: 2012
Language: English
Pages: 231
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8175053631
Description
The author goes into some of the core issues faced by India today. This book is a sincere attempt at examining the present situation in the country on some of the major fronts and makes us realize the gross departure of our country’s populace from the ideals Swami Vivekananda placed before us for the making of an “ideal society”.
In the wake of Swami Vivekananda, the country had seen the emergence of great spiritual personalities like Mahatma Gandhi, Aurobindo, Ramana Maharshi and others. All these great figures together were the country’s bulwark against the dangerous ideology of Materialism and Sensuality.
It is needless to state that in spite of this, the damaging ideology of materialism has gripped the nation’s soul and infused her with thorough profaneness in every sphere of life. Swami Vivekananda, as a leader of sacred nationhood, is the torch to be lighted in these dismal and dark days that see the erosion of spiritual values in our society, especially among the younger generation.
Contents
Publisher’s Note
Author’s Note
Swami Vivekananda : The Master Architect of a Glorious Institution
1. The Supra-Secular
2. Metaphysical Keynote : The First Principle
3. Swami Vivekananda’s Insights into Leadership Qualities
4. Vivekananda’s Style of Institution-Making
5. Vivekananda’s Own Leadership Modelling
6. Towards Classical Love and Discipline
Swami Vivekananda : The Galvanizing Colossus
7. Saving a Culture Nailed to the Cross
8. Back to Rajarshi
9. The Thousand-Petalled Lotus
10. The Evangel of Rootedness
11. Crusader against Imitation
12. Slayer of Narcissism
13. Charismatic Servant Leader
14. Prophet of Sustainability and Ethicality
15. The “Machine” Builder
16. Education of the Heart
17. Three Mandates
Swami Vivekananda : Leadership Philosophy for Nationhood
18. Facing the Problem
19. Swami Vivekananda Begins to Galvanize
20. A Riddle of Vastness
21. Gross National Character
22. Progress and Renunciation
23. Back to the National Scene
24. The Moot Point
25. Atonement
Swami Vivekananda : From Bones to Corals
26. Gongs of the Bell
27. Karma – The Baseline
28. Poetry – The Peakline
29. Death – The Skyline
30. Farewell to “Quotients”
Swami Vivekananda : A Pilot, A Compass, and the Stormy Sea
31. Overview of the Stormy Sea of Unethicality
32. Towards Vedantic Ethics
33. Intellectual or Cognitive Ethics versus Consciousness Ethics
34. The Duty of the Time
Swami Vivekananda : Flashes of Omniscience
35. Bharatvarsha and the World
36. Caste (Varna)
37. Civilization, Culture
38. Competition, Progress
39. Consciousness
40. Death
41. Education, Character, Purity
42. Ego, Humility
43. Emotions / Feelings Versus Intellect / Reason
44. Ethics, Morals
45. Greed, Money, Commerce
46. History, Society
47. Karma, Rebirth, Ethicality
48. Leading, Following Discipline
49. Marriage, Mother, Woman
50. Politics
51. Rishis
52. Science, Technology
53. Self-SELF, Grabbing-GIVING
54. Slavery, Freedom, Rituals
55. Spirituality, Yoga
56. Within, Without
Swami Vivekananda : Inspirer of Some Poems
57. Ode to Mayavati
58. Smash the Cage–and Fly
59. Silence – My Virgin Mother
60. Ode to Gratitude
Appendix
East, West and Swami Vivekananda
Index