Saturday, December 23, 2017

Shraddhanand

"If you hold dear the memory of Swami Shraddhanandji, you would help in purging the atmosphere of mutual hatred and calumny. You would help in boycotting papers which foment hatred and spread misrepresentation. I am sure that India would lose nothing if 90 per cent of the papers were to cease today. . . Now you will perhaps understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother and I repeat it. I do not even regard him as guilty of Swamiji's murder. Guilty indeed are all those who excited feelings of hatred against one another. For us Hindus the Gita enjoins on us the lesson of equi-mindedness; we are to cherish the same feelings towards a learned Brahman as towards a chandala, a dog, a cow or an elephant."

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Sunday, May 28, 2017

Two Saints Speculations Around and About Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Ramana Maharishi

Summary
The life of Ramakrishna Paramahamsa ‘enables us to see God face to face’, Gandhiji wrote. Similarly, when someone in his circle was distraught, the Mahatma sent him to spend time at the Ashram of Ramana Maharshi. The Paramahamsa and the Maharshi have been among the greatest spiritual figures of our country. They have transformed the lives of and have been a solace to millions. Their peak, mystic experience is what we yearn to have. But what if several of the experiences they had occur in other circumstances also? With the rigour and painstaking research that mark all his work, Shourie probes the lives of two of India’s greatest spiritual masters in the light of the breath-taking advances in neuroscience as well as psychology and sociology. The result is a book of remarkable vigour: an examination – and ultimately reconciliation – of science and faith as also of seemingly antagonistic, irreconcilable worldviews.

About the Author
Scholar, author, former editor and minister, Arun Shourie is one of the most prominent voices in our country’s public life and discourse. This is his twenty-seventh book.

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Wednesday, March 8, 2017

Harishchandra

Mohandas saw the play of the truthful king Harishchandra, and truth sunk deep into his inner self. Many people would have seen it for entertainment and the players also would have performed it so many times but when these teachings seep into the heart then only they guide a person in the right direction. It's well known how Mohandas took the shelter of truth and became Mahatma Gandhi.

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