Swami Vivekananda: A ReassessmentSusquehanna University Press, 1997 - 250 páginas For the first time since Swami Vivekananda's famous address to the World's Parliament of Religions in Chicago on 11 September 1893, this provocative study seeks to rescue the historical Vivekananda from the celebrated Swamiji of the legend and hagiography. Using a variety of primary and contemporary secondary sources, including eyewitness accounts in English as well as Bengali, Professor Narasingha P. Sil examines Vivekananda's early life and education, his meeting and relationship with his future mentor Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, and the circumstances leading to his embracing monastic life. Analyzing Vivekananda's numerous sermons, speeches, conversations, and letters, Sil exposes the Swami's deliberate distortion of facts and purposive misinformation on, and misleading and tendentious interpretation of, aspects of Hindu society and culture. |
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 83 - I will sleep, without caring what will be next; and may I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls; and above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.
Página 65 - Hail Columbia, motherland of liberty! It has been given to thee, who never dipped her hand in her neighbour's blood, who never found out that the shortest way of becoming rich was by robbing one's neighbours, it has been given to thee to march at the vanguard of civilization with the flag of harmony.
Página 132 - Now, if the mountain does not come to Mohammed, Mohammed must go to the mountain.
Página 120 - O Thou Mother of the Universe, vouchsafe manliness unto me ! O Thou Mother of strength, take away my weakness, take away my unmanliness, and — Make me a Man...
Página 76 - Religions of the world have become lifeless mockeries. What the world wants is character. The world is in need of those whose life is one burning love, selfless. That love will make every word tell like thunderbolt.
Página 76 - Let her arise — out of the peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of the huts of the fisherman, the cobbler and the sweeper. Let her spring from the grocer's shop, from beside the oven of the fritter-seller. Let her emanate from the factory, from marts and from markets. Let her emerge from the groves and forests, from hills and mountains.
Página 107 - It is indeed wonderful. The move is quite original and never was the life of a great teacher brought before the public untarnished by the writer's mind as you are doing. The language also is beyond all praise, so fresh, so pointed and withal so plain, and easy. I cannot express in adequate terms how I have enjoyed them.
Página 111 - The time was ripe for one to be born, the embodiment of both this head and heart ; the time was ripe for one to be born, who in one body would have the brilliant intellect of Shankara and the wonderfully expansive, infinite heart of Chaitanya ; one who would see in every sect the same spirit working, the same God ; one who would see God in every being, one whose heart would weep for the poor, for the weak, for the outcast, for the downtrodden, for...
Referencias a este libro
Make Me a Man!: Masculinity, Hinduism, and Nationalism in India Sikata Banerjee Vista previa limitada - 2012 |
Hindu Selves in a Modern World: Guru Faith in the Mata Amritanandamayi Mission Maya Warrier Sin vista previa disponible - 2004 |