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 underprivileged sections of society. He reasons how religion and spirituality can be applied in our day-to-day lives so as to make them resonate in a more practical manner.
Addressing issues as diverse as increasing religious intolerance, Naxalism and social injustice, human rights, world trade and women’s empowerment, Swami Agnivesh calls for a transformation of society through a multi-pronged approach that involves extensive interfaith dialogue.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Swami Agnivesh
Grandson of the Diwan (Finance Minister) of Shakti, an erstwhile princely state in Madhya Pradesh, Vepa Shyam Rao (now Swami Agnivesh) was born on 21 Sptember 1939 at Berhampur in Srikakulam district of Andhra Pradesh. He had his schooling at Shakti, and higher education (M.com., L.L.B.) in Calcutta. He taught at the St. Xavier College, Calcutta for some time and later look up legal practice for a while under Sabyasachi Mukherjee, an eminent lawyer, who later on became chief Justice of India. He, however, gave up his legal practice soon and became a sanyasi in 1970. Meantime, he shifted to Haryana State and took up social and cultural work. He later formed a political party, Arya Sabha, got eleceted to the Haryana Legislative Assembly and became Education Minister in the State Government. But soon after, he gave up the job to devote all his energies and time to social movements and struggle for social justice. He is currently Chairperson of the United Nations Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery.
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