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Guru to the World - The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda (Hardcover)
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Guru to the World - The Life and Legacy of Vivekananda (Hardcover)
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From the Wolfson History Prize-winning author of The Man on Devil's
Island, the definitive biography of Vivekananda, the Indian monk
who shaped the intellectual and spiritual history of both East and
West. Few thinkers have had so enduring an impact on both Eastern
and Western life as Swami Vivekananda, the Indian monk who inspired
the likes of Freud, Gandhi, and Tagore. Blending science, religion,
and politics, Vivekananda introduced Westerners to yoga and the
universalist school of Hinduism called Vedanta. His teachings
fostered a more tolerant form of mainstream spirituality in Europe
and North America and forever changed the Western relationship to
meditation and spirituality. Guru to the World traces Vivekananda's
transformation from son of a Calcutta-based attorney into
saffron-robed ascetic. At the 1893 World Parliament of Religions in
Chicago, he fascinated audiences with teachings from Hinduism,
Western esoteric spirituality, physics, and the sciences of the
mind, in the process advocating a more inclusive conception of
religion and expounding the evils of colonialism. Vivekananda won
many disciples, most prominently the Irish activist Margaret Noble,
who disseminated his ideas in the face of much disdain for the
wisdom of a "subject race." At home, he challenged the notion that
religion was antithetical to nationalist goals, arguing that
Hinduism was intimately connected with Indian identity. Ruth Harris
offers an arresting biography, showing how Vivekananda's thought
spawned a global anticolonial movement and became a touchstone of
Hindu nationalist politics a century after his death. The iconic
monk emerges as a counterargument to Orientalist critiques, which
interpret East-West interactions as primarily instances of Western
borrowing. As Vivekananda demonstrates, we must not underestimate
Eastern agency in the global circulation of ideas.
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