Journey to Foreign Selves by Alan Roland Book Review Prabuddha Bharata February 2015

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

How to Organize Life Book Review Prabuddha Bharata June 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

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

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

An Unpublished Lecture of Swami Vivekananda at the Barber’s—Vedanta: The Soul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

This paper discusses the various tools and platforms available to disseminate and receive educate in an increasingly virtual world. It analyses the impact of MOOCs in the changing face of ICT based education. With many examples of life-transformations due to online learning platforms, this paper gives a glimpse of the sea transformations that…[Read more]

In this review of Abizadeh’s book, I question whether identifying a human ‘capacity for reason’ really resolves the problems with Hobbes’s philosophy’s distinctive combination of mechanistic materialism and moral normativity.

In this review, I propose that the core contribution of Skeaff’s book is to supplement existing discourses of non-domination and agonistic politics with the distinctly Spinozist concept of immanent normativity. However, I question whether this immanent normativity is so clearly and efficaciously democratic as Skeaff presumes.

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]

This article discusses the implications of the symbology of Kali from a different and fresh perspective and positions the worship of Kali in the bigger picture of the divinisation of everything in Sanatana Dharma. It also discusses the needless marginalisation of so-called ‘ugly’ and ‘terrible’ and how these prejudices have to be overcome to…[Read more]

This paper explores how one can go beyond social and other distinctions by the praxis of Advaita Vedanta

Explores the Indian perspectives on coping with Aging.

Translation and Annotation of ‘Svarajya Siddhi’ of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.

Translation and Annotation of ‘Svarajya Siddhi’ of Gangadharendra Sarasvati from the nineteenth century. This text is considered one of the five Siddhi texts, the other four being Naishkarmya Siddhi, Advaita Siddhi, Ishta Siddhi, and Brahma Siddhi. These texts have a very great value in Advaita Vedanta.

على أهمية النقود التي وجهت إلى هيغل في زمانه، وتلك التي قاربت نظامه الفلسفي بعد وفاته، تبقى متاخمات الفيلسوف الألماني المعاصر مارتن هايدغر “لهيغل والهيغلية” تحتل موضعاً مفارقاً في المراجعات النقدية لميتافيزيقا الحداثة.

في هذه الدراسة يسعى الباحث اللبناني البروفسور فرانك درويش إلى بيان العناصر الأساسية في نقد هايدغر للمنظومة الهيغلية. ورأى أنّ…[Read more]