Man in Search of Immortality Testimonials from the Hindu Scriptures by Swami Nikhilananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata January 2013

Jivanmukti Viveka of Vidyaranya by Swami Harshananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata September 2010

Introduction to Hindu Dharma by Chandrashekharendra Saraswati Book Review Prabuddha Bharata January 2013

Humour and Religion Challenges and Ambiguities Eds Hans Geybels and Walter Van Herck Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

How to Seek God by Swami Yatiswarananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata April 2010

Holy Mother, Swamiji, and Direct Disciples at Madras Book Review Prabuddha Bharata May 2011

Great Thinkers on Ramakrishna Vivekananda Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2012

God Without Being by Jean-Luc Marion Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

Fate and Fortune in the Indian Scriptures by Sukumari Bhattacharji Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gita Commentaries by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Dharma: Its Early History in Law, Religion, and Narrative by Alf Hiltebeitel Book Review Prabuddha Bharata March 2015

Bodhisattvas of the Forest and the Formation of the Mahayana Daniel Boucher Book Review Prabuddha Bharata August 2014

The Mahabharata / Srimad Bhagavata – in the Poet’s Own Words by Pandit A M Srinivasachariar Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 2010

Beyond Sacred Violence: A Comparative Study of Sacrifice by Kathryn McClymond Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

Exploring the retelling of Vedanta by Swami Vivekananda

Explores Swami Vivekananda’s concept of religion in the context of scientific and agnostic thinkers.

An Unpublished Lecture of Swami Vivekananda at the Barber’s—Vedanta: The Soul

Tripura Upanishad is a minor Shakta or Tantra Upanishad explaining the structure of and meditation on Sri Chakra or Sri Yantra—a diagrammatic representation of the universe through nine interlocking triangles coming out of a central point.
To date, there are two English translations of this Upanishad. The first and the earliest, by A G Krishna W…[Read more]

Swami Vivekananda lives even today through his words that shake the reader to one’s very foundations. He is fulfilling his prophecy: ‘It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body—to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with…[Read more]

The putting together in contradistinction of science and religion has been the task of philosophers, religion, sociologists, writers, and anyone who even cares to think, for many centuries now. So, here I would not go into the traditionally discussed aspects of this debate but rather would highlight some less or not discussed aspects. First, when…[Read more]