Relevance of Self in The Bhagavad Gita to the Modern World

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The monograph reasonably elucidates the svabhava of self within the societal context of svadharma, i.e., performance of prescribed duties based on the gunas through niskamyakarma yoga. It authoritatively exerts the scientific treatment of the self in Bhagavad Gita with the background of absolutism, theistic absolutism and realism of astika as well as nastika systems; and highlights its uniqueness by comparing with Sankhya, Yoga, Jainism and Buddhism. It comprehensively analysis the Commentaries of Sri Sankara and Sri Ramanuja; and, because of its moernity and practical applicability, advocates the latter’s thematic principles. This philosophical piece with necessary arguments emphasizes, that, the sthitaprajna, by performing his ordained duties with the right perspectives of varnasramadharma along with the sense of material detachment and sattvika jnana; and following the middle path with self-determinism, he through the spiritual order could attain the final exancipation, i.e., mukti. The book authentically foresees the evolution of World Religion; within which all sciences, all religions and all philosophical speculations confirm the selfless service for the welfare of world humanity; and through it, not only the individual selves but also the animate the inanimate beings merge with Universal Self, which in turn, unveils the secret, i.e., the ever dynamic Spiritual Energy engulfs the conscious and non-conscious entities of the cosmos.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR J. Rangaswami

J. Rangaswami (b. 1956; Solaiudiyanpatty (Thirumalaipatty); Namakkal Dt., in Tamilnadu), Associate Professor, School of Philosophy, Tamil University, Thanjavur, India is the rank holder of M.A. (1980) and M.Phil (1981) in Philosophy along with Diploma in Sanskrit (1983); his Ph.D. thesis on Bhagavadgita was â€˜highly commendedâ€™ at the Department of Philosophy, Annamalai University. He has completed 10 research Projects at the School of Philosophy and credited â€˜UGC Research Associate (1994-1996) at the Department of Philosophy and Religion, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi; and Associate of Indian Institute of Advanced Study (1996-1998), Shimla. He has assiduously published more than 45 research articles and participated in 85 national and international conferences, seminars and symposia. He completes this book under the scheme (1999-2002) of Major Research Project, financed by UGC, New Delhi. Currently he is indefatigably translating Acarya Hrdaya, the another canonical text of Srivaisnavism with the Commentary of Manavalamamuni into English under the same scheme (2004). Recently, he, as Commonwealth Fellow visited the Department of Religious Studies, Lancaster University, United Kingdom and completed a project on Samkhya darsana, within which, by criticizing the dualistic Nirisvara Samkhya, authoritatively establishes the existence of third higher spiritual principle within the background of British Thinkers. His erudite scholarshi on Srivaisnavism fueled with modern trend of Western Philosophy is quite remarkable.