Gwilym Beckerlegge

Swami Vivekananda's Legacy of Service

A Study of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission

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Produktbeschreibung

The study is rooted in substantial direct encounters with the Ramakrishna Math and Mission's contemporary practice of the sadhana of service in both India and Bangladesh. It includes material taken from interviews conducted with members of the movement, and is enriched by reference to literature produced by individual Math and Mission centers which is not very widely known.

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This book deals specifically with the contentious issue of seva, organized service to humanity, which was Vivekananda's legacy to his followers. It is a distinctive contribution to the study of the Ramakrishna movement in its exclusive focus on the idea of service.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 306
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 145mm x 218mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9780195673883
• ISBN-10: 0195673883
• Artikelnr.: 21008599

Autorenporträt

BECKERLEGGE, GWILYM

Inhaltsangabe

* Abbreviations
* List of Illustrations
* Acknowledgements
* Frontispiece
* Introduction: 'A Precious Acquisition in the World's Storehouse of
Religious Sadhanas'
* PART ONE SEVA IN THE RAMAKRISHNA MATH AND MISSION: ITS DEVELOPMENT
AND APPEAL Chapter 1 : The Birth of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission
* Chapter 2: The Ramakrishna Math and Mission and Service to Humanity
* Chapter 3: Understandings of Seva and Continuity Within the
Ramakrishna Math and Mission
* PART TWO RAMAKRISHNA AS THE INNOVATOR OF THE SADHANA OF SERVICE TO
HUMANITY Chapter 4: Ramakrishna as the Instigator of a Sadhana of
Service to Humanity: His Actions
* Chapter 5: Ramakrishna's Teachings on the Subject of Service and
Philanthropy: His Judgment on the Nature of Human Beings
* Chapter 6: Ramakrishna and Seva: Some Conclusions
* PART THREE VIVEKANANDA AND 'ORGANISED SEVA' Chapter 7: Setting a
'Frame' around Vivekananda's Organisation of Seva
* Chapter 8: Vivekananda's Early Exposure to Ideas of Service
* Chapter 9: The Beginnings of
* an Idea in India: From the Quest for Self-perfection to Seva
* Chapter 10: Swami Vivekananda in Action: A New Response to the
Pressing Social Problem of Modern Famine
* Chapter 11: Vivekananda in the United States and Swami Akhandananda
in India
* Chapter 12 : A Planned Programme of Practical Vedanta
* Conclusion
* Appendix
* Bibliography