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Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture : In this book Barbara Holdrege has set a high standard for comparative work and has made an important contribution to both Hindu and Jewish studies. She has looked at Veda and Torah not simply as 'scripture', but as systems of meaning, symbol systems, each with its own affiliated meanings, each with its symbolic context, and each with its history of interpretation. By addressing the whole complex in which Veda and Torah have been transmitted and by seeing their uses and interpretations in the traditions that they enliven, Holdrege has problematized and expanded the usage of the term 'scripture' and has enriched the possibilities for significant comparative study.

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The book presents the traditional Vedantic teaching written in a simple and clear language which can be understood by a common man.
The book presents the Vedantic teaching on the lines of the unfolding according to the sampradaya by Pujya Swami Dayananda Saraswati & Swami Paramarthananda Saraswati. This is an admirable piece of authentic work, which is true to the sampradaya.

About The Author : D. Venugopal :
D. Venugopal is a student of Swami Parmarthananda and has also studied at Pujya Swamij'is gurukulam at Anaikatti from 2002 to 2005.

SPECIFICATION:

• Publisher : Ramakrishna Math
• By : Swami Satprakashananda (Author), Ray Ellis (Editor)
• Cover : Paperback
• Language : English
• Edition : 2001
• Pages : 277
• Weight : 200 gm
• Size : 4.7 x 0.5 x 7 inches
• ISBN-10 : 8171209343
• ISBN-13 : 978-8171209347

DESCRIPTION:

Swami Satprakashananda was a lecturer and author for almost four decades in America. The present volume is a collection of his class talks on different aspects of Vedanta.
In an almost conversational tone he discusses such topics as:
The role of the spiritual teacher,
The aura of meditation,
The dichotomy of good and evil,
The reconciliation between Divine Grace and the Law of Karma,
The significance of spiritual visions,
The power of mantras, and
What happens after death.

Saptavidha-anupapatti represents a live-debate in the traditions of Vedanta initiated by Ramanujacarya. The central issue of this debate is to examine whether maya-avidya, postulated by Advaita-vedant, is philosophically sustainable, logically viable, and experientially reliable. While Sankara builds up the superstructure of Advaita on the basis of this concept, Ramanuja vociferously reacts to its philosophical ingenuity. This dispute between the Advaita and Visistadvaita schools with seven objections, which forms the manor theme of this book, has been going on for more than a millennium and is alive even today among Vedanta scholars. The volume contains, besides historical as well as philosophical explorations of the concept of maya-avidya, the arguments and counter arguments, formulation and counter-formulation to accommodate and reject the corresponding philosophical predilections of both the above schools by some of the preeminent philosophical minds of Indian philosophy of our times.

About the Author   Godabarisha Mishra is the Chairman of the School of Philosophy and Religious Thought at the University of Madras. Formerly worked as an Editor at the Kuppuswami Sastri Research Institute, Chennai, he also served as the Member Secretary of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, New Delhi.