Product Description<br/><br/><br/>The great Indian Monk Vivekananda had an overall mission for the world.To unite humanity under a universal religion,the fundamentals of which would be provided by Advaita,which will include all existing religions and will be scientific. But a short life did not let him to do so.In the afermath of the First world War,thinkers like Romain Rolland were attracted to him because of his ideas.Rolland therefore presented the theme and it's various aspects seperately in the second part of his bigraphy of Vivekananda to underline it's importance. A second world war has meanwhile happened with more disastrous results:and the millineum three is witnessing the worst kind of horrors perpetrated by essentially religion-based terrorism-which raises the relevance of hsi thinking once again.We may find his thesis useful in the present difficul times.<br/><br/><br/>About the Author<br/><br/><br/>Romain Rolland was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature for his famous novel Jean Christophe.A musician and pacifist,he was much attracted by Vivekananda's Advaita and ideas of World Religion,and disturbed by the first world war,he decided to learn more and write about not only him but also his Master.He also wrote the life-stories of Leo tolstoy and Mahatma Gandhi.For a while he worked wwith the Red Cross to serve the suffering.His literary writings set new trends in world literature.Romin rolland's reputation as an idealist and free thinker made him welcome all over the world.
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