Author: Swami Swahananda
Publisher: Advaita Ashram
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 360
ISBN/UPC (if available): 9788175053663
Description
This book, ‘Vedanta, Holy Mother, Ideas and Disciplines’, has been compiled mostly from published articles in journals and books. These are a collection of self contained articles and not a planned book. Those who are interested in a particular topic and not its entire philosophy or background may find these separate treatments more useful.
These topics had been dealt with separately as lectures, essays, television talks and university lectures. There will be repetitions of ideas and language. They have often been retained for the sake of clarity and completeness of the topic.
The articles on Holy Mother had been written for periodicals, needing shorter ones. They will still be useful in this way. But they have been put in a continuous form. Some freedom has been taken I removing too many capitals of familiar Sanskrit words, and even appellations of God, and quotation marks.
Contents
Contents
Part 1 Holy mother
Twin Ideal and Holy Mother
Holy Mother and Simple Faith
Holy Mother: Life and Teachings
Inspiration of Holy Mother
As an Ideal
Character Building
Teacher
On Karma
On Spiritual Expectations
Holy Mother and Personal Qualities
Holy Mother and Social Qualities
Holy Mother as an Ideal for the Nation
Holy Mother as a Social Model
Holy Mother in the West
Convents in the West
Durga Puja
Part 2 Ideas
Religious Organizations
Sudden Conversion
Social Reform and the Ramakrishna Movement
What is Super Knowledge?
Service and Spirituality
The Social Necessity of Religion
The Youth and Spiritual Life
Life and Religion
In Search of Security
The Ideal of Saint Making
‘I am the Way’
The Struggle for the Ideal
Moral and Religious Education
Part 3 Disciplines
Meditation in the Scriptures
Types of Meditation
Japa
Japa in Different Traditions
The Divine Name
Prayer
Ritual
Image Worship
Self Negation or Self Expansion
Nine Means of Devotion