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Studies in Vedanta...
Studies in Vedanta
Essays in Honour of Professor S.S. Rama Rao by: P. George Victor , V.V.S. SaibabaContaining both intellectually stimulating and academically entertaining essays and papers presented at the Fifteenth International Congress of Vedanta in the United States, this book honours the Congress founder, Professor Rama Rao Pappu. This volume analytically discusses the ideologies of Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Vallabha, Tyagaraja and Satya Sai Baba.
$22.00
ISBN: 9788124603505
Year Of Publication: 2006
Edition: 1st
Pages : xxi, 330
Bibliographic Details : Index
Language : English
Binding : Hardcover
Publisher: D.K. Printworld Pvt. Ltd.
Size: 23 cm.
Weight: 700
Professor Rama Rao Pappu, who has been teaching philosophy in US universities since the sixties founded the International Congress of Vedanta in 1986 at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, USA. Vedanta Congresses initiated and organized systematically and selflessly by Dr. Pappu during the past nineteen years have played a very productive and positive role. Most of the essays included here are the papers presented by the contributors at the Fifteenth International Congress of Vedanta apart from the invited essays contributed by Professor Pappus friends and admirers in India and abroad. Essays in this volume have been arranged in six sections covering the areas of Vedanta Metaphysics, Advaita Epistemology and Ethics, Schools of Vedanta and other systems, Global Parallels and finally Vedanta and the Contemporary World. Both intellectually stimulating and academically entertaining, this volume contains analytic discussions on Shankara, Ramanuja, Madhva, Vallabha and Tyagaraja. Enlightening articles on Radhakrishnan, Sri Satya Saibaba and Sunderlal Bahuguna are also included. As a whole, covering the concepts of Adhyasa, Sakshi, and Jivan-mukti, perspectives on Shruti, Yukti, and Tarka, discussions on Yoga, Tantra and Music and the East-West Parallels have culminated in Sartrean Existentialism and Chinese Dao.
Abhinandan Malika
Preface
Prologue
Section – I
Vedanta Metaphysics
1. The Paradigm of the Metaphysic of Experience: A Study of Gaudapadas Mandukya-karika
— Srinivasa Rao
2. The Viability of Non-Duality
— J.S.R.L. Narayana Moorty
3. Consciousness, Cosmology, and Science: An Advaitic Analysis
— R. Puligandla
4. The Advaitic Understanding of Self and Human Rationality
— K. Srinivas
Section – II
Advaita Epistemology, and Ethics
5. Shankara Vedanta on Shruti, Tarka and Adhyasa
— Bijayananda Kar
6. Tat tvam asi: Understanding in the Tradition of Shankara
— Godabarisha Mishra
7. Aham Brahmasmi: Its Logical Foundation and Value Implication
— Ganesh Prasad Das
8. Some Thoughts on Vedanta Ethics: An Analysis of the Vedanta-sara
— Maya Das
Section – III
Schools of Vedanta, and Compositions
9. Concept of Consciousness in Ramanujas Vishishtadvaita Vedanta
— Abha Singh
10. Doctrine of Sakshi in Madhvacaryas Darshana
— V.V.S. Saibaba
11. Vallabhas Interpretation of Vedanta
— K.A.P. Lakshmi
12. The Echo of Vedanta in Tyagarajas Musical Compositions
— Prabala Janaki
Section – IV
Vedanta and other Systems
13. Meditation in Yoga and Vedanta: A Comparison
— R. Venkata Reddy
14. Ultimate Reality in Advaita and Tantra
— Sree Jahennatha Swami
15. Householders and Renouncers: The Holistic Combination in Indian Thought
— Pankaj Jain
16. Music, Oral Tradition and Transcendental Bliss
— Sarada Purna Sonty
Section – V
Vedanta and Global Parallels
17. Vedanta Philosophy and Sartrean Existentialism
— Namboodri R. Jeevan Babu
18. Advaita and Aletheia: An East-West Parallel
— J.P. Johnson
19. Brahman and Dao: A Comparative Analysis of Hindu and Chinese Metaphysics
— K.R. Sundararajan
20. The Eternal Feminine in Traditional Hinduism
— Patricia Reynaud
Section – VI
Vedanta and Contemporary World
21. Transcendence in Modern Science and in Classical Vedanta
— V.V. Raman
22. Jivan-mukti and Spiritual Awakening in Radhakrishnan
— P. George Victor
23. The Three Akashas of Yoga-Vashishta as Interpreted by Sri Satya Saibaba
— Klaus Witz
24. Vedanta and Environmental Ethics: Sunderlal Bahuguna
— George A. James
Epilogue
Contributors
Index