Author: Ram Swarup
Publisher: Voice of India
Year: 2000
Language: English
Pages: 232
ISBN/UPC (if available): 818599062X
Description
For those who really want to understand the heart and soul of Hindu Dharma, the work of Ram Swarup is perhaps the best place to start.
Many people today think that Hinduism is not an intellectual religion land does not have, in spite of its many great spiritual philosophies, any real modern intelligentsia to represent it. They look on Hinduism as a religion of an uncritical, if not nanve faith in various gods and gurus. Or if Hinduism has an intellectual side they see it only as a transcendent Vedanta that offers no real critique of other religions, no plan for society, and does not make itself relevant to current problems or pressing human needs.
Ram Swarup shows that this not all true. He reveals the Hindu mind in action as a creative and spiritual force to change both the individual and the society for both the inner and the outer good. He outlines s Hindu approach to the problems of the world that offers deep and ;lasting solutions that go beyond the limitation of Western religions or Western science, following the development of consciousness as the real thrust in civilization. .
Contents
Foreword by David Frawley
CHAPTER I
Sanatana Dharma : Anusmriti and Anudhyayana
CHAPTER II
Cultural Self-Alienation Among the Hindus
CHAPTER III
Buddhism vis-a-vis Hinduism
CHAPTER IV
Indo-European Encounter : An Indian Perspective
CHAPTER V
Development in Huxley's Thought : Hindu-Buddhist Influences
CHAPTER VI
The Hindu View of Education
CHAPTER VII
Educational System During Pre-British Days
CHAPTER VIII
India and Greece
Index