'Charaiveti' (Vivekananda's Dialogue on People, Politics & Space)

'Charaiveti' (Vivekananda's Dialogue on People, Politics & Space)

Author: Dr Subhashis Banerjee

Publisher: Book Rivers

Published: 2020-08-19

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 9389914647

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Vivekananda had travelled within India as a 'parivrajaka' (the travelling monk) from 1888 to 1893 and in May 1893 crossed the 'kalapani' (crossing the inland water boundary) to represent India in the Parliament of World's Religion held in Chicago. This incident led to many more travels within India and the West. He was a traveller who left his impressions, views and observations in the form of letters, diaries and memoirs. A close study of such documents, as well as secondary materials, leads to questions of imperialism, identity, self-other dichotomy, comparative religion, women and acculturation.


Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

Sociological Theory Beyond the Canon

Author: Syed Farid Alatas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-05-27

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 1137411341

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This book expands the sociological canon by introducing non-Western and female voices, and subjects the existing canon itself to critique. Including chapters on both the ‘founding fathers’ of sociology and neglected thinkers it highlights the biases of Eurocentrism and androcentrism, while also offering much-needed correctives to them. The authors challenge a dominant account of the development of sociological theory which would have us believe that it was only Western European and later North American white males in the nineteenth and early twentieth century who thought in a creative and systematic manner about the origins and nature of the emerging modernity of their time. This integrated and contextualised account seeks to restructure the ways in which we theorise the emergence of the classical sociological canon. This book’s global scope fills a significant lacuna and provides a unique teaching resource to students of classical sociological theory.


The Golden Future

The Golden Future

Author: Osho

Publisher: Fivestar

Published: 2023-09-15

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13:

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Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it is not empty. It is overflowing with a music that you have never heard before, with a fragrance that is unfamiliar to you, with a light that can only be seen by the inner eyes. It is not something fictitious; it is a reality, and a reality which is already present in everyone -- just we never look in. All our senses are extrovert. Our eyes open outside, our ears open outside, our hands move outside, our legs... all our senses are meant to explore the outside world.


Silence of the Heart

Silence of the Heart

Author: Robert Adams

Publisher: Acropolis Books (GA)

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781889051536

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One of the clearest presentations of India's Advaita Vedanta, the doctrine of Oneness. Adams, an American student of the great master, Ramana Maharshi, discourses with wisdom and delightful humor as he clarifies for Westerners India's teaching of Ultimate Reality.


Insights into The Bhagavad Gita

Insights into The Bhagavad Gita

Author: Vimala Thakar

Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 8120826752

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Vimala Thakar gave a series of inspiring talks on the Bhagavad Gita in three separate seminars, during 1992 and 1993 in Italy. To her, Bhagavad Gita is sacred because it deals with the organic wholeness of life and the inbuilt complexity of life and affirms the interplay between the microcosm and macrocosm. Moreover, persuades us to remain united with the ultimate reality, not only to intellectual understanding but through everything that we do, at every moment.


Here and Now

Here and Now

Author: Osho

Publisher: Diamond Pocket Books (P) Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9788184192070

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Discourses by an Indian sectarian religious leader.


The Silence of the Mind

The Silence of the Mind

Author: Ilie Cioara

Publisher: John Hunt Publishing

Published: 2011-10-16

Total Pages: 145

ISBN-13: 1846948304

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A practical book on meditation and enlightenment, a must read for any spiritual seeker. A more poetic Eckhart Tolle; Kahlil Gibran meets Krishnamurti. Ilie Cioara's message is original and unique, as he never travelled to India and never belonged to any traditional school. By practicing the silence of the mind, through an all-encompassing attention, we discover and fulfill our innermost potential of becoming one with the divine spark that lies dormant within us.


Colpetty People

Colpetty People

Author: Ashok Ferry

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2017-04-17

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 818400365X

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In this extraordinary debut, Ashok Ferry chronicles, in a gently probing voice, the journeys of characters seeking something beyond the barriers of nations and generations. His tales of social-climbing Sri Lankans, of the pathos of immigration, of rich people with poor taste, of ice-cream karma, of innocent love, eternity, and more take us to Colombo’s nouveau riche, hoity-toity returnees, ladies with buttery skin and square fingernails, old-fashioned aristocrats, and the poor mortals trapped between them. Ferry’s stories comprise characters that are ‘serious and fine and upstanding, and infinitely dull’, but also others like young John-John, who loses his childhood somewhere ‘high up in the air between Asmara and Rome’; the maid, Agnes of God, whose mango-sucking teeth ‘fly out at you like bats out of the mouth of a cave’; Ashoka, the immigrant who embodies his Sri Lankan identity only on the bus ride between home and work; and Professor Jayaweera who finds sterile freedoms caged in the ‘unbending, straight lines of Western Justice’. Absurd, sad, scathing and generous, but mostly wickedly funny, Colpetty People presents modern Sri Lankans as they navigate worlds between Ceylon and the West.


Jean Dunn Journals

Jean Dunn Journals

Author: JEAN. DUNN

Publisher:

Published: 2018-12-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781999357801

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Jean Dunn was one of Nisargadatta's closest devotees. These are her original journals covering 1977-1981 when she was with the Master. They offer great insights into Sri Nisargadatta's highest teachings, during the last period of his life. They reveal Jean Dunn's closeness with her Guru and her journey from illusion to Reality. A riveting read!