Svayambodha And Shatrubodha - Hindu View Of Self And The World
Authored by: Pankaj Saxena
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
Published by: BluOne Ink
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9789365473797
Pages: 608
Weight: 650g
Dimensions: 22.86 x 15.24 x 3.51 cm
Book Brief -
Svayambodha and Shatrubodha aims to build a foundational framework to help Hindus discover who they are and who they are not. The Hindu consciousness is built upon the wisdom to differentiate between dharma and adharma. As long as this viveka is alive, Hindu society thrives. A loss of this discriminating power leads to decay and degeneration. In the last few hundred years, especially in the post-independence era, this core Hindu aptitude to survive and thrive has been lost. As a result, the very fabric of Hindu society developed ruptures, leading to socio-political and civilizational decline.
Great saints, thinkers, and leaders like Swami Vivekananda, Shri Aurobindo, Lokmanya Tilak, Veer Savarkar, Ram Swarup, and Sita Ram Goel started and continued the revival of the Hindu intellect. This book is a small attempt to take that intellectual Hindu renaissance forward by rekindling the viveka that is necessary to differentiate between dharma and adharma.
The Svayambodha–Shatrubodha framework does this by making Hindus aware of their civilizational core on one hand and by sensitizing them about the civilizational threats that Sanatana Dharma and Hindu society face today.
Author Brief -
Pankaj Saxena is a leading Hindu thinker and author. His writing explains the beauty of Sanatana Dharma and Hindu culture, contrasting the dharmic worldview with the Judeo-Christian paradigm. He has observed and documented the Hindu renaissance movement for more than two decades. Having a deep interest in Hindu arts, aesthetics, and, particularly, Hindu temple architecture, he has visited and documented more than fourteen hundred ancient Hindu temples in Bharata. He has been writing in various magazines and journals for the past several years. He is the co-founder of B hat, an organization dedicated to the revival of Indian knowledge system and linking India’s policy with Hindu culture. This is his first book in a series of books on Shatrubodha.