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The authorized biography of the Hare Krishna movement's founder.
When A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada entered the port of
New York City on September 17, 1965, few Americans took
notice—but he was not merely another immigrant. He was on a
mission to introduce ancient teachings of Vedic India to mainstream
America. Before Srila Prabhupada passed away at the age of
eighty-one on November 14, 1977, his mission was successful. He had
founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
(ISKCON), colloquially known as the ‘Hare Krishna Movement,’
and saw it grow into a worldwide confederation of more than 100
temples, ashrams, and cultural centers. This is the inspirational
story of Srila Prabhupada. As the founder of ISKCON, he ’emerged
as a major figure of Western counterculture, initiating thousands
of young Americans.’ He has been described as a charismatic
leader who was successful in acquiring followers in many countries,
including the United States, Europe, and India. Srila
Prabhupada’s story is bound to put you on a path of
self-realization.
This is the first intellectual history of political Hinduism from
its medieval origins to current-day India. It provides the
ideological context of India’s rise economically and politically
in the world in the last decade, illustrating not only where
political Hinduism comes from, but more importantly, where it seeks
to go. It provides an intellectual framework not only to understand
the rise of Narendra Modi and his politics in the world’s largest
democracy, but also India’s political, economic, and diplomatic
choices as it negotiates its space as a rapidly rising,
billion-strong democracy in a fluid and precarious world order.
Winner of the 2018 Wilbur Award There are more than one billion
Hindus in the world, but for those who don't practice the faith,
very little seems to be understood about it. Followers have not
only built and sustained the world's largest democracy but have
also sustained one of the greatest philosophical streams in the
world for more than three thousand years. So, what makes a Hindu?
Why is so little heard from the real practitioners of the everyday
faith? Why does information never go beyond cliches? Being Hindu is
a practitioner's guide that takes the reader on a journey to very
simply understand what the Hindu message is, where it stands in the
clash of civilizations between Islam and Christianity, and why the
Hindu way could yet be the path for plurality and progress in the
twenty-first century.
One of the world's oldest forms of faith, Hinduism has an unbroken
trajectory of beliefs and rituals that have continued for many
millennia through the footsteps of pilgrims and the pedagogies of
theologists; through myth, science and politics. But what does all
that mean to the modern Hindu today? Why do Hindus call themselves
so? Is it merely because their parents were Hindus? In what way
does the faith speak to those who profess to follow it? What does
Hinduism mean to the everyday-practicing or sometimes-accessing
ordinary Hindu? Away from the raucous debate around religion, this
is the journey of a common Hindu, an attempt to understand why, for
so many Hindus, their faith is one of the most powerful arguments
for plurality, for unity in diversity, and even more than the
omnipresent power of God, the sublime courage and conviction of
man. Being Hindu is an exploration of Hinduism in a way you have
never seen before, almost through your own eyes. This is the first
book on Hinduism to have won the Wilbur Award given by the Religion
Communicators Council of America for excellence in writing about
religion.
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