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BHARATI SHUDDHANANDA

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EAN : 9782889220137

Paru le : 31 mai 2018

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EAN13 : 9782889220137
Réf. éditeur : 112
Editeur : Assa
Date Parution : 31 mai 2018
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 291
Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:20 mm
Poids : 450gr

Résumé

Résumé : Preface

At the request of my friend Swami Shuddhananda Bharati I am delighted to write a short preface to this little work. I had the privilege of seeing it previously in its shortened form and was then greatly struck with the way in which he had worked out the ethical principles of India for modern life.

By adopting the Kural metre he has inevitably challenged comparison with the greatest work of Tamil literature. This was a very bold thing to do, and while it is only natural that his verses should suiffer as a result of this comparison, yet it must be said that they are written in simple and chaste Tamil. Swamiji's book is meant not for the elect, but for the common people, and so he has not followed his great predecessor in wrapping up his thought in such concise language that it requires considerable practice to understand it. Most of our author's stanzas are so simple that one with ans education at all can understand them.

Like the author of the Kural he has dealt with practical life and its needs, and he has done so from the point of view of today rather than that of yesterday.

The book will there-fore be found of real value from the ethical point of view. The modem conceptions of social service and national life fend their places in it. He takes up such subjects as disease, manual labour as well as the regular subjects of other. ethical preachers.

The author daims that it is a new gospel which came to him during, a special time of meditation when he sat silent communing with himself and God tor three months.

We venture to think that in the development of Indian ethical thought this book will occupy a distinct place. The author is one, who not only thinks but who also acts and he has been foremost in the application of his ideas.

It is theretore with very great pleasure that I comnend this book to the Tamil public in the hope that it may help them botte to think more deeply and truly about ethical problems and to apply the highest ethical principles to their daily life.

We would like to suggest to School Teachers and Inspectors that they will tend this book exceedingly useful as a moral text-book for Schools.

H. A. Popley
Biographie : Presentation of Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati 11th May 1897 – 7th March 1990

The wise one to the cosmic age.

Although more than 90 years old, in his school in the south of India, Kavi Yogi Maharishi (great divine visionary, wise poet), Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati worked like a young man of twenty. When he was asked his age, he answered: “My age is Courage!”

The Yogi wrote several hundred works in English, French, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu and Sanskrit: five thousand songs, and fifteen hundred poems in French. The magnum opus of the man conscious of the presence of God in him, Bharata Shakti, (in 50,000 verses) described his ideal: only One Humanity living in communion with only One God in a transformed world! Bharata Shakti is a monumental and unique work. The Yogi depicts the essence of all the religions, of all the prophets and saints, all the approaches of Yoga and all the cultures on an allegorical table. It is a book for any age which all spiritual researchers and all nations should read and meditate on. This work was completed and appreciated by Sri Aurobindo, the Mother, Mahatma Gandhi, Rabindranath Tagore, Romain Rolland, Annie Besant, Bertrand Russell, George Bernard Shaw and so many others. It installs the author among the great, men such as Dante, Homer, Racine, Shakespeare, Vyasa, and Valmiki.

Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is one of the greatest Tamil poet, having translated into this language: Gita, Upanishads, Veda, the Bible, the Koran, Avesta, the Buddha-Dhamma-Sangha and Tattvartha Sutra, the life and teachings of Lao-Tseu and Confucius. From their original languages, he also translated into Tamil The Divine Comedy of Dante, the tragedies of Racine, the comedies of Molière, the dramas of Corneille, Shakespeare, Goethe and the novels of Anatole France, Victor Hugo, Alexandre Dumas and others.

Shuddhananda’s works are innumerable. Malcolm Macdonald, who chaired the Congress on the Unity of the Conscience in Singapore, said in his short speech about him: “He is such a remarkable man, having such a diversity of raised gifts, that it is difficult to know where to start and where to finish when one speaks about Kavi Yogi Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati. Few men have achieved as many things in only one human life.” His name appears moreover in the Encyclopaedia of the World’s Great Men, which says: “Dr. Shuddhananda Bharati is the author of literary works of varied styles: works epic and lyric, melodramas, operas, comedies, pastoral, romance, novels, biographies, commentaries on famous works and texts. Bharata Shakti is his magnum opus.” He had a presentiment that he would receive the Nobel Prize for Peace or for Literature but did not live to see it. His commitment is summarized in his book celebrating his life, “Experiences of a Pilgrim Soul (Expérience d’une Âme de Pèlerin)”.

God I loved and lived in him,
Making His commandment
Leave to Man his entire talents
This is my will! Dr. Shuddhanananda Bharati

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