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This is the first English translation of one of Rene Guenon's most important works, and constitutes a major contribution to the field of traditional studies. What is owed to Guenon for having outlined so clearly the causes of the spiritual crisis of the modern world, and for having offered remedies that are uncompromising in their application, is realized more and more by each generation of his readers. For Guenon presents an approach to religion that satisfies ...
The present work is reissue of English translation of Rene Guenon's work, Introduction Generale a I'Etude des Doctrines Hindoues.
This work instead of treating the Hindu doctrines as a "special field of research" with a view to derive results that could be of least importance to ordinary men takes an entirely different approach. The author starts out with quite other ends in view requiring an entirely different method for their realization, as well as ...
Hindu scriptures, the contributions of sages who visualized the ultimate principles through their intuitive power (rtambhara prajna), successfully unfold the science of daivi sampat (divine propriety) as a way out of the baneful influences of materialism. The author of this book represents those who attach more importance to the divine fibre in mankind than the outward phenomenon of prosperity. This bold exposition of the truth might arise reactions in modern ...
Richard C. Nicholson's translation of Rene Guenon's Man and His Becoming is an exposition of the 'nature and constitution of the human being' in the light of the doctrines of Vedanta which echoes the Upanishadic message, 'there traditional views like Nyaya, Vaisesika, Sankhya, Yoga and Mimamsa are referred to wherever necessary. The book opens with a broad outline of Vedanta and then passes on to a thorough discussion of other relevant topics ...
In the first half of the 20th century, a French man, RenèGuènon (1886-1951), struck the conscience of the Westernworld by reminding it about the spiritual knowledge that wasat the heart of all traditional civilizations but that the modernWest had completely lost sight of. A profound knower ofHindu, Islamic, Taoist and other traditions, Guènon expounded,in a similar way as Coomaraswamy with whom he regularlycorresponded, the traditional metaphysics which give ...