Religion, Spirituality and Social Action: New Agenda for Humanity

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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, poverty and hunger, dearth and disease as and when they appear around him. Small wonder, then, his write-ups carry the colour of his activism. They pulsate with hot and healthy blood. They have refreshing energy and vigour. And they are so very impressive that one is bound to sit up and ask after going through them: how should I make use of the agenda for the humanity that Swamiji has presented here? Indeed, ‘the two hundred odd pages of pen power’, as rightly said by Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer in his learned Forword, ‘reveals the planetary patriotism of a great human wonder’.

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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Title
Religion, Spirituality and Social Action: New Agenda for Humanity
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Edition
2nd ed.
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ISBN
8178710005
Length
192p., Appendices; Index; 23cm.
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