01-31-2005, 08:53 AM
HINDU CIVILISATION AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/01/25/stories...12500051600.htm
HINDU CIVILISATION AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: V. Ramanathan;
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kulapati Munshi Marg, Mumbai-400007. Rs. 595.
THE BOOK offers a palliative to the western scholars' criticism that
the Hindu civilisation is a wounded one. He has made strenuous efforts
to establish the historical, sociological and Indological merits of
this civilisation in a vivid and lucid manner.
He has taken adequate care to present the knowledge of the past in a
scholarly fashion with a few objectives in mind like instructing the
youth, survival of Hinduism in India, organisation and methods
suitable for Hinduism.
This work is a systematic presentation covering several fields like
religion, spirituality, philosophy, history, mythology and literature.
The explanations and elucidations are exemplary. The encyclopaedic
technique with illustrations shows the author's erudition and
deep-rooted commitment to Hinduism.
In some places he develops his arguments concepts-wise and in others
he explains the Hindu doctrines as envisaged by thinkers and seers. In
some other places he resorts to the hermeneutic method of interpreting
the holy scriptures of the Hindu faith.
While analysing the philosophical schools of Hinduism, the author has
taken care to give the doctrinal expositions. Similarly, more than 100
pages are devoted to the origin, development, impact and the present
condition of caste system in India. A careful study of this portion
will clear all doubts from the minds of the people.
Hinduism is not viewed in this book as a bundle of creeds, doctrines
and rituals, but as a huge reservoir of the age-old civilisation and
culture, which would perpetuate the well-augmented philosophy of
religion in the 21st Century.
The book can be equated to the genre of Radhakrishnan's Hindu view of
Life but still it contains more than what Radhakrishnan has not
touched upon. It is really a treatise on the Hindu view as well as the
way of life.
R. GOPLAKRISHNAN
http://www.hindu.com/br/2005/01/25/stories...12500051600.htm
HINDU CIVILISATION AND THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: V. Ramanathan;
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kulapati Munshi Marg, Mumbai-400007. Rs. 595.
THE BOOK offers a palliative to the western scholars' criticism that
the Hindu civilisation is a wounded one. He has made strenuous efforts
to establish the historical, sociological and Indological merits of
this civilisation in a vivid and lucid manner.
He has taken adequate care to present the knowledge of the past in a
scholarly fashion with a few objectives in mind like instructing the
youth, survival of Hinduism in India, organisation and methods
suitable for Hinduism.
This work is a systematic presentation covering several fields like
religion, spirituality, philosophy, history, mythology and literature.
The explanations and elucidations are exemplary. The encyclopaedic
technique with illustrations shows the author's erudition and
deep-rooted commitment to Hinduism.
In some places he develops his arguments concepts-wise and in others
he explains the Hindu doctrines as envisaged by thinkers and seers. In
some other places he resorts to the hermeneutic method of interpreting
the holy scriptures of the Hindu faith.
While analysing the philosophical schools of Hinduism, the author has
taken care to give the doctrinal expositions. Similarly, more than 100
pages are devoted to the origin, development, impact and the present
condition of caste system in India. A careful study of this portion
will clear all doubts from the minds of the people.
Hinduism is not viewed in this book as a bundle of creeds, doctrines
and rituals, but as a huge reservoir of the age-old civilisation and
culture, which would perpetuate the well-augmented philosophy of
religion in the 21st Century.
The book can be equated to the genre of Radhakrishnan's Hindu view of
Life but still it contains more than what Radhakrishnan has not
touched upon. It is really a treatise on the Hindu view as well as the
way of life.
R. GOPLAKRISHNAN