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Publisher: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, Hoshiarpur |
| Author Ananda Acharya | |
| Language: English | |
| Pages: 450 | |
| Cover: HARDCOVER | |
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9.0x6.0 Inch |
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Weight 640 gm |
| Edition: 1985 | |
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HBX842 |
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A serial of lectures on Indian philosophy as delivered by
Swami Sri Ananda Acharya, in 1916, at the University of Stockholm in Sweden
constitutes the contents of the present book. It contains six chapters named as
First Evening. Second Evening, etc. so as to indicate the contents thereof in
the form of lectures. The First evening effectively serves the purpose of an
introduction to the major philosophical systems of Vedic India. In the Second
Evening the Theistic Realism as revealed in the Vaisesika-darśana of the sage
Kanāda has been discussed at great length. The Third Evening treats,
exhaustively, the Spiritual Naturalism as propounded by the sage Kapila in his
Sankhya-darśana. In the Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Evenings, the three mystic
topics, namely, (1) Exi-stential import of Words, (2) Being and Knowing, and
(3) Dreams and Beyond are interpreted. Besides these s chapters, short notes on
as many as other relevant topics are also appended to the book. For the benefit
of the readers an informative Foreword and a brief Biographical Sketch of the
author have been included in the beginning of the book. Towards enhancing the
reference-value of the volume an Index of important words has also been
provided at the end.
Swami Sri Ananda Acharya who spent the major part of his
life in promoting world peace and harmony through the propagation of Indian
philosophical and cultural ideals among the people of Norway and other West
European countries was one of the little known but the most enligh-tened
scholar-sages of modern India. He, the Maitreya Buddha as he is known among his
followers in Europe, was born in an orthodox Brahmin family of Hooghly in West
Bengal on December 29, 1881 and he attained the state of Nirvana by absorbing
himself in the Eternal Spiritual Bliss at his cottage on the slopes of Mt. Tron
in Norway on May 8, 1945, the day on which the armistice was signed marking the
end of the Second World War. Thus, a staunch votary of universal peace and
harmony calmly passed away on the same day, at the very same hour, when peace
was declared in Europe. Indeed, it is a curious but fitting coincidence. As
back as in 1957, our Institute had the privilege of publishing a book entitled
Spiritual Talks, the contents thereof were culled, in the form of extracts
arranged under different topical headings, from the major works of the late
Swami Sri Ananda Acharya. Later on, in 1971, at the instance of Mr. Einar Beer
of Norway, a most devoted disciple of the Swami Ji, the Institute decided to
start a new spirituo-cultural series under the caption of Anandacharya
Universal Series. In pursuance of this decision, with the financial help so
dutifully extended by the said devout disciple of the Swami Ji, the Institute
was able to publish, during 1971-74, four works of the late Swami Ji, to wit,
(1) Karlima Rani or Lectures on Yoga, (2) Yoga of Conquest, (3) Snow-Birds and
Other Poems, and (4) Arctic Swallows and Other Poems. These four books appeared
in the aforesaid Series as its Nos. 1 to 4. And now, the Institute deems it
again a privilege to issue the present book of the Swami Ji through the same
Series as its No. 5. With a view to interpreting the spirituo-cultural values
of the ancient India to the West, in 1911, at the young age of 30, Surendranath
Boral, by which name Swami Sri Ananda Acharya was known then, left his
motherland for ever and reached England after a voyage extending over a month.
After staying in that country for a period of about three years, in 1914, he
crossed over to the main Continent and came to Norway. Before settling
per-manently in this "Land of the mid-night sun" from 1917 onwards,
he toured extensively in Norway and Sweden delivering several serials of
lectures on Indian philosophy at the leading Scandinavian Universities of
Christiana and Oslo in Norway and of Stockholm and Uppsala in Sweden. One of
such serials of lectures delivered at the University of Stockholm, in 1916,
constitutes the contents of the present publication. This serial of lectures,
in book-form, had first been published in Swedish language from Stockholm in
1917 and later on, an English version of the same was issued under the title
Tattvajñānam: The Quest of Cosmic Consciousness from Alvdal (Norway) in 1921.
The one which is being issued now, is the first Indian edition of the said
English version of the book, in a revised form. The book contains six chapters
named as First Evening, Second Evening, etc. so as to indicate the contents
thereof in the form of lectures. The First Evening effec-tively serves the
purpose of an introduction to the major philosophical systems of Vedic India.
In the Second Evening, the Vaiśeşika-darśana or the Theistic realism of the
sage Uluka, also known as Kanāda, has been discussed at great length.
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