The Riddle Of The Infinite Or Ananta
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The Riddle of the Infinite or Ananta
This book explores the bizarre but fascinating world of infinity in different disciplines of knowledge; mathematics, science, philosophy and religion. It projects the views of eastern as well as western scholars. This world is not only mysterious but also treacherous and conceals many conundrums such as a multitude of infinities, the mystic's experience of the infinite, conception of God as absolute infinity. The author also discusses many paradoxes relating to space and time. It is interesting to discover that some eastern philosophies try to reconcile two opposite concepts of sunya (zero) and Ananta (the infinite). The author also ventures to address a difficult question: Does infinity exist as a physical reality?
The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya
Author: Rebecca J. Manring
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2011-08-17
Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed to have caused Caitanya's advent by ceaselessly storming heaven, calling for the divine presence to come to earth. Advaita was a scholar and highly respected pillar of society, whose status lent respectability and credibility to the new movement. A significant body of hagiographical and related literature about Advaita Acarya has developed since his death, some as late as the early twentieth century. The three hagiographic texts included in The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya examine the years of Advaita's life that did not overlap with Caitanya's lifetime, and each paints a different picture of its protagonist. Each composition clearly advocates the view that Advaita was himself divine in some way, and a few go so far as to suggest that Advaita reflected even greater divinity than Caitanya, through miraculous stories that can be found nowhere else in Bengali Vaisnava literature. Manring provides a detailed introduction to these texts, as well as remarkably faithful translations of Haricarana Dasa's Advaita Mangala, Laudiya Krsnadasa's Balya-lila-sutra, and Isana Nagara's Advaita Prakasa.
Green Over Red
Author: Ram Chandra Ojha
language: en
Publisher: Astitva Prakashan
Release Date: 2024-11-15
Green over Red is a symbol of many good and evil things, prevailing one upon another in society. Readers themselves can explore this while reading the novel. The novel shows that the means adopted for the eradication of evils in society fail and often backfire, becoming the cause of even greater evils. Heroes and champions, both men and women, chosen for the remedy, appear on the horizon like stars but dwindle down on earth like meteors. It is not only the measures taken by the government but also social revolutions that meet the same fate. The inner contradictions devour the heroes, relegating them to penance. It appears that everything is necessary and preordained. The story starts in the crime-infested jungles of West Champaran, a district of Bihar bordering Nepal, where not only birds chirp but ""Tharu"" girls also frolic. Then, the story moves on to West Bengal. The two bosom friends, Dev and Abhigyan, both brilliant and from the same college in West Bengal, stand opposite to each other ideologically. Dev becomes a police officer in Bihar, and Abhigyan, influenced by Marxism, becomes a social activist. Abhigyan loses three fingers while making a bomb, whereas Dev becomes mentally ill after the interrogation and confession of a dreaded criminal. Both friends finally meet and discuss their inner jungles, which have grown over time. Finally, Abhigyan opens a school, but Dev is still sick. And thus, the novel ends.