This book on Modern Physics & Vedanta is written in the old Hindu tradition where its philosophy has been constantly modified over the ages in the light of social and intellectual changes of the day. Since Vedic times our thoughts have been influenced by social and political conditions and more recently by the impact of the rational sciences.Swami Vivekananda insisted that Vedantic thought was not inconsistent with science and the two should go hand in hand since then science and scientific thoughts have progressed enormously and taken very difference directions. The discovery of quantum mechanics and relativity have shaken the very foundations of epistemology. In spite of these violent changes it is only Vedanta which seems to be in a position to absorb the tremendous impact of the new science.In this small book of 96 pages, the learned author, who is both students of science as well as philosophy, has packed in an unbelievable amount of information on these subjects. The density of information is indeed startling. A student of both these fields of knowledge will appreciate the attempt at unification that has been brought about. Anybody who studies this book should be able to feel the mystic nature of physics.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Swami Jitatmananda
Swami Jitatmananda (Born 1941). Is a monk of the Ramakrishna order. He worked in the Mission's various centers as headmaster, and principal, Deputy director of the Schools of Foreign Languages in the Hyderabad center, as the editor of the Prabuddha Bharat, the monthly English journal started by Swami Vivekananda in 1896. He was incharge of the six massive rehabilitation township programes for the cyclone affected people of Andhra Pradesh (1990) and Gujarat (1998), in Saurashtra and Bhuj - Kutch region and took up a massive rehabilitation project worth Rs. 3 crores for the quake - affected people of the region in 2001. Swami has written eight books: 1. Swami Vivekananda: Prophet and Pathfinder 2. Modern Physics and Vedanta 3. Holistic Science and Vedanta 4. Indian Ethos for Modern Modern Management 5. Science, Ethics, and Holistic Values 6. Swami Vivekananda epoch - maker spiritual 7. Value Education 8. Immortal India (a book of nine short plays on Indian Heritage) Since 1986 the Swami has been representing India and various international conferences held in New Delhi. He also visits universities and institutions of scientific research and speaks on the co-relation of science and spirituality. In 1999 he acted as the chairman of the last session in the National Science Summit held in Bangalore. On invitation he visited Singapore and Malaysia (1994), and again Hong Kong, Australia, Fijio and New Zealand (1995) where he spoke in some forty institutions on Vedanta, Modern Management and Modern Science. In 1998 the Swami Went, on invitation from the Government of Sri Lanka, to give peace talks in Colombo, and other major cities of Sri Lanka. In 1999 the Swami was chosen by the Government of India to represent India in the International Millennium Celebration organized by Chicago Mayor at Chicago Mayor at Chicago, Thereafter he lectured in New York, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland, Hollywood, and other cities, and had interview with Physicist John A. Wheeler in Princeton. In August 2000, he was invited by the United Nations for the Millennium World Peace Summit of the Spiritual and Religious leaders of the world, where he spoke on the Neo-Hinduism of Shri Ramakrishna in the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations.
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