Author: Jayant R Joshi
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 72
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8171548806
Description
This work focuses attention on how Sane Guruji's awareness of both ancient Indian insights and the liberating potential of science helped him to launch ideas which can help us to meet the complex challenges of the new millennium.
Morals can be fun. Spinoza said that the greater the joy that affects us the greater the perfection we attain. Sane Guruji extends this wisdom to the social arena and shows a new way towards a just and humane society.
We have come a long way since our ancestors boldly got down from the trees. The tools that we fashioned, religions that promised other worldly rewards, systems of governance that made laws and revolutions that overthrew them have all helped us in our journey. Further progress depends not on newer systems but on changes in attitudes. Sane Guruji’s writings have the potential to do this.
Sane Guruji (1899-1950) spent his life in fighting against the colonial political system which denied freedom and the prevailing orthodox religious system which denied equality, his image as a ‘motherhearted’ saint-revolutionary hindered attention to his thoughts. ‘Roots and Wings: Ideas and Insights of Sane Guruji’ focuses attention on them and shows how Sane Guruji’s awareness of both ancient Indian insights and the liberating potential of science helps him to launch ideas which can help us to meet the complex challenges of the new millennium.
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgement
1. The Ultimate Single Parent
2. Yashoda Sadashiv Sane
3. Pandurang, Sane Sir, Sane Guruji
4. A Promethean Project
5. Pandharpur: The Testing Ground
6. Fire and Light
7. Roots and Wings: A Selection from the Sane Guruji’s Writings
8. Twentieth Century Blues and a Sane Solution