Author: K R Srinivasa Iyengar
Editor: K R Srinivasa Iyengar
Publisher: Sahitya Akademi
Year: 1973
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172016328
Description
The book is a collection of a large number of learned essays all inspired by the life and work and enduring influence of Guru Nanak.
Nanak, whom Tagore called ‘Teacher of Mankind’ had, according to the Poet, a concept of religion not restricted by the limits of unconventional deity-worshiping restrained within the narrow idea and dead habit of a particular caste or country, which prevents universal man to find any identification. Nanak’s mind crossed the barriers of such narrow puranic religious dogmas and he laid down his life in propagating the massage of deliverance among mankind.
In 1969, the whole country celebrated the quincentenary of birth of this Great Teacher. As a part of these celebrations, Sahitya Akademi, in consultation with the Guru Nanak Foundation organized a National and four Regional Seminars on Guru Nanak’s Teachings. It was nothing odd for the Government of a Secular State asking a National Academy of Letters to organize seminars on a person who was not only a religious teacher but an inspired poet,-indeed the fountainhead of Punjabi poetic tradition. Guru Nanak’s poetry, at its mystical sublime, become bani, a prayer, a means of grace.
Again the seminars were organized at a time when disintegrating trends were at its height in the country. Ours is a pluralistic society and it is worth searching the potentiality for creative harmony in the teachings of great lover of mankind like Nanak
Regional Seminars were held in Calcutta, Madras, Bombay and Ludhiana and the National Seminar took place at New Delhi. About 60 Scholars representing a fair cross-section of Indian intellectuals and leaders of thought presented working papers.
The proceedings of the five Guru Nanak Seminars have been edited and published in this volume to give a permanent form and offer a National Homage on the occasion of Nanak’s fifth birth centenary celebrations. Among the contributors to this volume are Niharranjan Ray, Trilochan Singh. Raghvan, K.G. Saiyidain, Mulk Raj Anand, K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar and Suniti Kumar Chatterji. Besides papers, a Section includes Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji’s Sanskrit Poem with his own English translation, Srimati Amrita Pritam’s Punjabi poem as translated into English by Sri Suresh Kohli and three poems on Nanak from three Bengali Poets, Premendra Mitra, Bimal Chandra Ghosh and Manindra Ray.
Contents
Introduction
SUNITI KUMAR CHATTERJI
Sri-Guru-Nanaka-Deva-Puja-Pradakshina
NIHARRANHAN RAY
The Age and the Social Message of Guru Nanak
A. K. DESHPANDE
Guru Nanak and His Age
DR. S.S. DOSANJ
Guru Nanak’s Punjab: 1469-1539
ABDUL MAJID KHAN
The Punjab of Guru Nanak
H.I. SADARANGANI
Guru Nanak and the Movement of Sikhism in Sind
MAHESWAR NEOG
Guru Nanak, Sikhism and Assam
SATI KUMAR CHATTERJEE
Response of the Brahmo Samaj to the Message of Guru Nanak
G S. KHOSLA
Guru Nanak’s Conception of the Origin of the Universe
TRILOCHAN SINGH
Guru Nanak’s Approach to Contemporary Philosophies
K. SESHADRI
The Philosophy of Guru Nanak
GURBACHAN SING TALIB
A Perspective on Guru Nanak’s Teaching
MADHAO GOPAL DESHMUKH
Life and Teaching of Guru Nanak
K.G. Saiyidain
The Message of Guru Nanak
MULK RAJ ANAND
Guru Nanak’s Humanism
JAYALAL KAUL
Guru Nanak : His Relevance Today
K. R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR
Guru Nank’s Mystic and Devotional Poetry
V. RAGHAVAN
The Bhakti of Guru Nanak
BISWANARAYAN SHASTRI
Guru Nanak and the Bhakti Movement
KALINDI CHARAN PANIGRAHI
Guru Nanak and the Bhakti Cult
MASUD HUSAIN KHAN
Guru Nanak and the Bhakti Poets
T.P,. MEENAKSHISUNDARAN
Guru Nanak and the Tamil Saints
VINAYAK KRISHNA GOKAK
Guru Nanak: Dynamic Mystic and Prophet
R.S. MUGALI
Guru Nanak and Mystic Poetry
D. ANJANEYULU
Guru Nanak’s Mystic Poetry
K. M. GEORGE
Guru Nanak: Mystic Poet and Teacher
GOBIND SINGH MANSUKHANI
Guru Nanak: The Poet of Divine Love
ATTAR SING
The Impact of Guru Nanak’s Works on Punjabi
Poetic Tradition
SUNITI KUMAR CHATTERJI
Sri-Guru- Nanaka- Deva-Prasatih Slokaika-Vimsatika
AMRITA PRITAM
Nine Dreams and the Annunciation
SRI PREMENDRA MITRA
Guru Nanak
SRI BIMAL CHANDRA GHOSE
Bharat-guru Nanak
SRI MANINDRA RAY
Gurru Nanaker Jay
JNANI GURMUKH SINGH MUSAFIR
The Message of Guru Nanak Deva
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