Ramakrishna Vedanta Math
48 books
Swami Abhedananda was born in Calcutta on October 2, 1866. He was one of the direct disciples of Sree Ramakrishna Paramaham-sadeva and the spiritual brother of the Great Swami Vivekananda.
Swami Abhedananda was conferred with the honourable Ph.D. Degree by the University of California, Berkeley, sometimes in 1901-1902. He was also offered the honorary Chair of Sanskrit in the California University, which he refused with honour. Besides these, the Swami delivered ...
This book contains twelve chapters on philosophy and religion, together with three Appendices.
The book deals with the problems and origin of pantheistic idea in the domain of philosophy. The Swami has proved that pantheistic and non-dualistic ideas are not one and the same. Vedanta has synthesized the ideas of all religions, creeds and faiths, and has shown a common path to reach the ultimate goal of man, which is called Divine realization or inspiration.
The writings and speeches of Swami Abhedananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, were spread over a long period of spiritual ministration both in America and in India. His deep philosophical insight and unfathomed spirituality attracted the learned and the intelligentsia. All his writings and speeches are available in one set of eleven volumes entitled The Complete Works Of Swami Abhedananda, the last volume being a Guide to the Completed Works, edited in ...
In this book an attempt has been made to trace the origin and development of violin as a musical instrument throughout the world. The book seeks to establish that the violin originates in Indian in a primitive form in the hands of Ravana, the mighty king of Sri Lanka (Ceylon). It was then known as ravanastram or dhanuryantram. The author sketches, in the narrow compass of the book, a long history of the journey of this instrument covering an equally long period ...
The book, Thoughts on Yoga, Upanishad And Gita, comprises the philosophical and religious discussions on Patanjala-Dar-Shana, Kathopanishad and Bhagavad Gita. The writings are the critical analysis of Indian philosophy and religion and will give us the divine glimpse of the Absolute As they came out from the mouth of a man of Realization, they will console us forever and ever. And bestow upon us the everlasting bliss and happiness.
This book is a study of khyal, the genre of North Indian classical music which has dominated in performances by highly trained vocalists for at least the past 150 years. It is also a study of cultural history. Spanning as it does a good portion of the periods of the British Raj in India, the struggle for independence, and the flourishing of India as a republic, the history of khyal and of khyal singers is a story of generous patronage by native princes, of the ...
Swami Abhedananda says, "True Psychology recognizes the existence of body, mind and soul. But the modern Physiological Psychology admits the existence of body only, and nothing else. True Psychology tells us, what we call the physical body is the dwelling house of the soul. It is manfactured by the soul which is the source of intelligence and self - consciousness."Swami Abhedananda further states that we should know and realize what the true nature of ...
In the present educational scenario, residential educational system, though gained fast momentum, has lost sight of its objectives. So there is a great responsibility on the state to provide congenial environment to the inmates. This present study throws light on residential schools run by the state Government of Andhra Pradesh to provide qualitative education to the children of socially and economically backward communities. This study concentrated mainly on the ...
Teach yourselves, teach everyone his real nature, call upon the sleeping soul and see how it awakes. Power will come, glory will come, goodness will come, purity will come, and everything that is EXCELLENT, will come, when this sleeping soul is roused to self-con-scious activity. The Vivekananda Institute of Human Excellence (a centre for training teachers, youth and children in value oriented education) is an effort in this direction- to awaken dormant, ...
This book relates to the wonderful life, religion and ideal of Jesus Christ. From different source books the materials of this book have been collected. Besides, the mysterious legends and myths, those gathered around Christ's life, have been examined and adopted. Many pictures of Jesus Christ drawn by master artists have further enhanced the worth of the book.
Valmiki's Ramayana, consisting of 24000 verses, is one of the most famous epics in the world's literature. Apart from its literary grandeur, it is also looked upon by the Hindus as a holy text. Of the six sections or Kandas of the Ramayana, the present volume comprises the fifth, known as the Sundarakandam. Consisting as it does of 2885 Sanskrit verses, the Sundarakandam deals with the heroic exploits of Hanuman in one day and night, during which he crossed over ...
This book deals with the comparative study of different problems of life beyond death and with the different philosophical and psychological enquiries about God, the Soul and the World, together with his personal mystical experience in the field of spiritual sadhana.It has ably unlocked the mystery of the mystic dialogue between Yama, the Ruler of Death and Nachiketa by giving the best rational explanations, based upon the Upanishadic view point and scientific ...
The first word the baby utter is 'Ma' or 'Amma' which means mother. The baby invokes the mother as it were. Instinctively it realizes that from the mother it has come, by the mother it is nourished, with the mother it grows and by the mother it is protected in every way. To the baby the mother is all-in-all. Our case is the same with God. We are the children of God. From God we have come, by God are we sustained, with God-consciousness we evolve, and in God we ...
The Bhagavad Gita contains the divine dialogue between Sri Krishna and Arjuna the Guru and the disciple. In the Bhagavad Gita we find the discussions of Karma Yoga, Raja yoga, Bhakti Yoga, and Jnana Yoga, etc. and the Gita represents the philosophical systems and spiritual sadhana of India. Swami Abhedananda delivered the lectures on Philosophy and religion of the Bhagavad Gita before the talented audiences of America, beginning form 1907. Those lectures are now ...
Swami Abhedananda, the illustrious apostle of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansadev, visited London for the first time in the year 1896 at the clarion call of his brother-disciple Swami Vivekananda. After twenty-five years of spiritual ministration in England, America and many other European countries, he returned to India in the Year 1921 for serving his motherland till the end of his eventful life. While in America the Swami came across the book The Unknown Life of ...
VOLUME I: This volume contains discussions on primitive music, prehistoric music and Vedic music of Ancient India. Music and music materials of ancient India have paved the glorious path of the epitome of Art and Culture of Indian Music. The Indian peoples look back to the prosperous days of their cultural past and march forward for making the future bright and worth-full. VOLUME II:In this volume the author has critically discussed the Rig-Veda and the Sama-Veda ...
Dr. Alexis Carroll, a famous American doctor, towards the end of the last century wrote a book with this very title. He titled it Man the Unknown. Towards the end of the last century, this question had started agitating the scientific community: 'Is man only what we see about him, estimate about him with our sense organs? Has he a depth, a higher dimension? That is the subject Dr. Carroll handles in that great book. And since that time many scientists have tried ...
Unlike many of the books on Spiritualism, the present work has a special feature of its own. Its pages do not narrate the legends and tales of ghosts and other supernatural beings, as one in most cases finds in such books that claim to unveil the mystery of the world beyond the grave. The treatment of the subject is purely a scientific one, and it has taken a new departure from the prevailing methods and systems of presentation of this subject. The present work ...
Among the six systems of Indian philosophy, Vedanta the last is the most well-known and widely studied. Based in the writings of Sankara, Ramanuja and Madhva, it has branched off into three major traditions which are very much alive even today. Literature on the Advaita Vedanta is legion, thanks to the numerous descendants and defendants of the tradition. Among the simpler and more elementary treatises of Advaita, commonly called 'prakarana-grantha,' the ...