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	Swami Vivekananda: The First Great Social Revolutionary
	Swami Vivekananda: On Hinduism
	Summary: Information about "Vedic Mathematics"
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From rkrithiv@sedona.intel.com Thu Dec 31 12:32:06 1992
Subject: Swami Vivekananda: The First Great Social Revolutionary
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 10:34:29 MST



From: Tattva Darsana
Article: Swami Vivekananda and Modern Socialism
Author: Sibranjan Chatterjee

Associated with:
  Sister Nivedita Academy
  118, Big Street, 
  Triplicane, Madras: 600 005


Swami Vivekananda: The First Great Social Revolutionary
-------------------------------------------------------

Swami Vivekananda was the first great social revolutionary of India. 
He was the first among the 19th century Indians who strongly protested
against untouchability. He was the first monk and outstanding spiritual
leader in the history to uphold without any reservation the cause of 
women and the common people. Swamiji was again the first Indian who
firmly stood for social justice and for eradication of economic
inequality. As Swamiji said: "Remember the nation lives in the cottage. 
But alas! no body ever did anything for them... Can you raise them? Can
you give them back their lost individuality? Can you become the
occidental of occidentals in your spirit of equality, freedom, work and
energy, and in the same time a Hindu to the backbone in religious
culture and instincts? This is to be done and we will all do it. You are
all born to do it..Sympathy to the poor, to the down trodden, even unto
death --this is our motto.". Swamiji said elsewhere: "Engrossed in the
struggle for existence, they had not the opportunity for the awakening
of knowledge. They have worked so long like machines guided by human
intelligence, and the clever educated section have taken the substantial
part of the fruits of their labour. In every country this has been the
case. But times have changed. The lower classes have gradually awakening
to this fact and making a united front against this, determined to exact 
their legitimate dues... The upper clases will no longer be able to 
repress the lower, try they ever so much. The well-being of the higher 
classes now lies in the helping the lower to get their legitimate rights". 
Vivekananda was the first to draw the attention of the Indian leaders to
the social implication of the curse of mass poverty. Before him many
great people attempted in their individual ways to feed the starving.
But no person before Vivekananda had categorically pointed out that
freedom of the people from want of daily bread was the first condition
of national regeneration of India. As Swamiji pointed out: "Their
extreme poverty is one the causes why the Chinese and the Indians have
remained in a state of mummified civilization."

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From: rkrithiv@sedona.intel.com (Ramamurthy Krithivas)
Subject: Swami Vivekananda: On Hinduism
Date: Thu Jan  7 11:32:51 1993



Article from: Tattva Darsana
Titled : Swami Vivekananda's Mission

Published by: Sister Nivedita Academy
              118 Big Street, Triplicane
              Madras: 600 005

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                   On Hinduism
                   -----------

The vast complexus of systems which made up Hinduism, was in every case
based upon the experimental realisation of religion, and characterized
by an infinite inclusiveness. The only tests of conformity ever imposed
by the priesthood had been social, and while this has resulted in a 
great rigidity of custom, it implied that to their thinking the mind was
eternally free. But it could not be disputed that the thought area 
within Hinduism, as actually realised, had been coloured by the
acumulation of a few distinctive ideas, and these were the main subjects
of the Swami's Address before the Parliament of Religions, at Chicago,
in 1983. 

First of these special conceptions, with which India might be said to be
identified, was that of the cyclic nature of the cosmos. On the relation
of the creator and created, as equal elements in a dualism which can
never be more than a relative truth, Hinduism has a profound philosophy,
which Vivekananda, with his certanity of grasp, was able to set forth in
a few brief words. The next doctrine which he put forward, as
distinctive of India thought in general, was that of reincarnation and
karma, ending in the manifestation of the divine nature of man. And
finally universality of truth, whatever the form of thought or worship,
completed his enumeration of these secondary differentia. In a few clear
sentences, he had completely established the unity, and delineated the
salient features of Hinduism. The remainder of his work in the West was,
in the main, a free gift in the modern and universal forms, of the great
inspirations contained in the Eternal faith. To him as a religious
teacher, the whole world was India, and man, everywhere a member of his
fold. 

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Krithi

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From: newsmgr@mala.bc.ca
Subject: Summary: Information about "Vedic Mathematics"
Date: Fri Jan  1 10:36:25 1993

I have condensed the replies I received, from netters in response 
to my post. Thanks to all of them.

Best wishes for happy new year,
Jey.

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From: DCHATTERJEE@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu
Subject: Info. about Vedic Mathematics

  There is very good book by
   E.T.Bell, " The Development of Mathematics " - Dover, 1960.
  Also you may check on Morris Kline, " mathematics and culture " ...

    - deb chatterjee
   (a good samaritan)

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From: arun hariharan <U31336@UICVM.UIC.EDU>
Subject:      vedic mathematics

there is a book by HH the Shankaracharya of Puri entitled "VEDIC MATHEMATICS".
 i do not recall the publisher's name, but i am sure your university's library
will be able to locate it for you.

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From: Aayush Asthana <aa@iti.org>
Subject: Early Indian Mathematics cites (fwd)

From: Rajeev Gowda

I have the
following list that was sent to me nearly a couple of years ago by Professor
Kak of Louisiana State University.  Assuming that Professor Kak doesn't mind
dissemination of this list or his address, I enclose the following (it's not
exactly Vedic mathematics but might be relevant).

Rajeev Gowda
                                                                                ****************************************************************************

Papers On History Of Science And Indology Since 1986

compiled by:

Subhash C. Kak
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA
(504) 388-5552
E-mail: kak@max.ee.lsu.edu

"A selected list of such papers (and books) is :
Computational aspects of the Aryabhata algorithm, IJHS,vol. 21, 1986, pp.
62-71.
>The roots of science in India, IICQ, vol. 13, 1986, pp. 181-196.
>The Nature Of Physical Reality, New York: Peter Lang, 1986.
>The Paninian approach to natural language processing,
Int. J. of Approximate Reasoning, vol. 1, 1987, 117-130.
The study of the Indus script, Cryptologia, vol. 11, 1987, pp. 182-191.
On the decipherment of the Indus script, IJHS, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 41-62.
>On astronomy in ancient India, IJHS, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 205-221.
On chronology of ancient India, IJHS, vol. 22, 1987, pp. 222-234.
The Aryabhata algorithm for polynomials, Electronics Letters,
vol. 23, 1987, pp. 383-385.
Patanjali and Cognitive Science, Baton Rouge: Vitasta, 1987.
The Aryabhata cipher, Cryptologia, vol. 12, 1988, pp. 113-117.
A frequency analysis of the Indus script, Cryptologia,vol. 12, 1988,
129-143.
The lotus and the rainbow, IICQ, vol. 15, No. 3, 1988, pp. 9-20.
Some early codes and ciphers, IJHS, vol. 24, 1989, pp. 1-7.
The Brahmagupta algorithm for square rooting, Ganita Bharati,
vol. 11, 1989, pp. 27-29.
Bharatiya lekhana ke 5000 varsa, Kadambini, vol. 29, no. 6, 1989.
Indus writing, Mankind Quarterly, vol. 30, 1989, pp. 113-118.
The Vararuchi cipher, Cryptologia, vol. 14, 1990, pp. 79-83.
Indus and Brahmi: Further Connections, Cryptologia,vol. 14, 1990, pp.
169-183.
>The Riddle of Sankhya: The Indian Roots Of Computing And Cognitive
Sciences, New Delhi: Allied, 1991.
The sign for zero, Mankind Quarterly, vol. 30, 1990, pp. 199-204.
The Lotus and the Rainbow: Essays on Contemporary India, In Press.
Also see papers by
A. Seidenberg such as
The origin of mathematics, Archive for the History of Exact Sciences,
vol 18, 301-342, 1978."
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From: Aayush Asthana <aa@iti.org>
Subject: Re: Re indology (fwd)

From: Dominik Wujastyk <ucgadkw@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Re indology

Dear Vivek,

Welcome to the INDOLOGY discussion group.
I'm afraid I didn't see any query about "Vedic" mathematics in the
last few weeks.  But some months back there was an exchange in which
I and Michio Yano posted some literature references to this group.
It is possible to get the logs of past INDOLOGY discussions from the
Liverpool listserv.  Start by sending the message "help" to the
address "listserv@liverpool.ac.uk".  The message "index indology"
sent to the same address will return to you a list of all the
documents (including logs) that can be retrieved.  To get a file sent
to you I think you say something like "get filename indology".  I
*believe* there is even a way of having listserv do a subject or
keyword search through the files, but I don't know offhand how to
do that.
Best wishes,

Dominik
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From: Aayush Asthana <aa@iti.org>
Subject: List: Indology (fwd)

Hi Jey,

I am sending you the mail with info on the Indology list.  Just
follow the directions and you are all set.

By the way, I have also forwarded two other interesting peices.
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From: suresh@nit.PacTel.COM (Suresh Sukumaran)

Hi,
        There is this book call Vedic Mathematics by Bharati
Krishna Thirtha. I have not read it, but I have heard it is a
good book. It is available from South East Asia Books ( 314- 474 0116 ) 
        - costs about $12.00 I think.
Try it.
                        --- suresh@nit.pactel.com

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From: t1gopal@wrgate.wr.tek.com

There is one book titled 'Vedic Mathematics' by Bharati Krsna Thirta swamiji
of Puri Math. I personally felt that there is hardly anything even ancient
Indian Mathematics,
leave alone Vedic Mathematics in that book. I participated in a seminar on
Vedic Mathematics in Bangalore, sometime in 1991. I found that there were
attempts to only modify existing mathematical techniques and call them Vedic.
I resisted this to the core. There are also so many books around all based on
the same above book. Worse is that many people in Bangalore and someother
cities have started making money by taking tution classes, claiming that they
teach vedic mathematics. Especially, there was one prof from Ranchi engg
college, whose skills in oratory were par excellance. But stuff in his talk,
atleast I felt was all B.. 

So, in my opinion, if an American is interested in Vedic or ancient Indian
Mathematics, please do not refer him to this book. He may permenently dub all
Indian claims as B..

I could find a few really good books on ancient Indian Mathematics. I have
all these books in India. I can only very vaguely remember their titles:

        'Aryabhatiya' - This contains both the original sanskrit verses of
Aryabhatta and their translation in English. It is a very old publication.

Another book of interest would be 'Suryasiddanta'. This again is a very old 
publication. I remember another book on Bhaskaracharya's beeja ganitam. 
I don't exactly remember its title.

There is a book stall in chamaraj peth, B'lore by name 'Vedanta Book
House'. I have got most of these books from there. You may keep in touch 
with him. Very rarely he gets a few books of this type.

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From: Venkat Anant <venky@bert.eecs.uic.edu>

Hi,
        The information you requested follows.

Vedic Mathematics by Jagadguru Swami Sri Bharati Krsna Tirthaji Maharaja.
Sankaracharya of Govardhana Matha, Puri.

General Editor: Dr. V. S. Agrawala

Motilal Banarasidass Publishers Pvt. Ltd.
Delhi

Available at:
MOTILAL BANARASIDASS
(following addresses)

Bungalow Road,
Jawahar Nagar, Delhi 110 007

24, Race Course Road
Bangalore 560 001

120 Royapettah High Road
Mylapore, Madras 600 004

Chowk, Varanasi 221 001

Ashok Rajpath, Patna 800 004

        I hope this info. will be useful to you.

Venkat Anant

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From: rkrithiv@sedona.intel.com (Ramamurthy Krithivas)
Subject: The Cause that Needs You !!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 14:29:27 MST


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And now please read on ................................



[Begin : Editorial]
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                    THE CAUSE THAT NEEDS YOU
                    ------------------------

In  the mid  seventies, Indian  nation  passed throught  a  period of
crisis  threatening  the very  Independence  won by the country after
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Vande Mataram !

Signed:

Saadhu Rangaraajan.

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