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SEMETIC CHALLENGES

This book is a collection of essays which include:

¨ Image worship

¨ Of Gods, Devils, and human destiny in between.

¨ Spiritual Universalism (Hindusim) as the only answer for all challenges of varied form of fundamentalism.

FUNDAMENTALISM VERSUS HINDUISM

Essays in this book include:

¨ Fundamentalism –Its nature, origin, network of organisation and goal.

¨ Hindutva - Threat or National Security ?

¨ Between the devil and the deep sea.

¨ Saffronisation ? Secularism ?

¨ Islam or Terrorism - Which is the culprit ?

¨ Is Hindutva a form of fundamentalism ?

¨ War and Violence - the Hindu View

¨ Relevence of ancient vision for modern education

¨ Precepts and practices in value education

¨ Emerging identities and the role of education in shaping them

SRI RAMANUJA, MELUKOTE AND SRIVAISHNAVISM

This book focuses on

 

¨ The historicity, or otherwise, of Sri Ramanujacharya’s visit to Melkote in Karnataka.

¨ A reasonable estimate of the Acharya’s contribution to Indian thought.

 

             Sri Ramanuja is well known as a synthesizer par excellence. The Karma Kanda, Jnana Kanda and Upasana Kanda ( the knowledge portions, the worship portions,  and meditative portions, respectively) of the Vedas and the Upanishads, all find an inclusive mutually complementary amalgamation in his works. God with form, and God without form, Image worship and meditation find mutual positions side by side. All are eligible for God’s grace without differences of status as high or low. Caste is no barrier for immortality. Social reform, he showed, was within the broad perimeters of benevolent social vision as envisaged by sages of the past. He reconciled tradition with social changes necessitated by time’s flow and its vicissitudes.

 

             This books attempts to look at his works and thought from a composite angle of the totality of all life and its values and not from partisan angles created by his predecessors in other systems of thought in India and abroad.

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