Swami Ranganathananda Books

Vedanta exhorts man to arise.The risen man must awake.Then he must move onward and forward,inward and Godward,and manifest the divinity potentially present in him.This is true religion according to Swami Vivekananda,one of the greatest exponents of Vedanta in recent times.He was never tired of reminding us never to forget the glory of man.In this book this Vedanta is interpreted in a language that is easily understandable by common modern man.The contents of this brochure,based on the talk given by Swami Ranganathananda at the Ramakrishna Mission,New Delhi,on 14 Octomber 1979, was first published in the Ramakrishna Movement-Souvenir 1979-80,issued by the Ramakrishna Mission,New Delhi.

In "The Indian Vision of God as Mother" the learned author lifts a purely idolatrous, anthropomorphic concept of god-head, particularly Indian, to an ideal of universal significance, and explains how the awakening of a little of Mother-love, the realy significance of Mother-worship in Indian thought, can transform the entire world beyond recognition--take women to the highest pinnacle of their glory, make men more sublime, truthful and kind-hearted, and this world itself a better place fr living, free of all tension and bickerings.

Swami Ranganathananda was known for his ability to to express eternal truths in terms of the scientific, rational thought patterns of the present day. This lecture, The Approach to Truth in Vedanta was given in May 1981 on the occasion of the Golden Jubilee Celebration of the Vivekananda Vedanta Society, Chicago. In it, Swami Ranganathananda discusses the spirituality of Vedanta in terms of science and the rational mind.