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A call to make religion and spirituality applicable to our everyday lives from one of the most prominent names in our social-political religious discourses
Swami Agnivesh is a swami with a difference, a holy man who is as much an untiring social worker as he is a political activist. In Applied Spirituality, he discusses his views on religion and spirituality from the vantage point of his religious learning, leavened by his decades-long work with the ...
Harvest of Hate: Gujarat Under Siege is the product of a rare inter-religious partnership. The authors, pioneers in multi-faith spirituality of social engagement, have been at the forefront of the humane responses to the horror that stalked Gujarat. The articles that comprise this volume have emerged largely from a multi-religious pilgrimage of compassion they, along with seventy other religious leaders, undertook to Gujarat in the wake of the communal carnage ...
This is a collection of important writings and speeches of Swami Agnivesh on three important themes: (i) religion, (ii) spirituality, and (iii) social action. Together, these thought-provoking write-ups constitute the agenda that Swamiji offers to the humanity for its well being and happiness. Swamiji is not a mere thinker or a monk preaching religious ideals. He is essentially a social activist who fights injustice and untruth, oppression and exploitation, ...
It is a powerful critique of Hinduism in the present times by Swami Agnivesh. The vested interest, powerful and well organized, has, says the author, corrupted and crippled the oldest and the greatest of the world faiths to subserve their purpose. And, mercifully, he also gives us as to how to reform and restore the great belief system to its real self and how to create a world, with its help, full of love, compassion and justice! An ascetic, thinker and social ...