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  Sita Ram Goel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Together with Ram Swarup he kept the flame of Hindu critique burning during the socialist years of Nehru.
Ram Swarup became his ideological mentor and strongly influenced his views on Communism, Islam and Christianity.
Sita Ram Goel is the author of various tracts in defense of Hinduism and Hindu society and criticizing Christianity, Marxism and Islam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sita_Ram_Goel   (418 words)

  
 Prometheus Books
Noted Indian writer and polymath Ram Swarup explores the meaning of Islam through the words of the Sahih Muslim, considered by Muslims to be one of the most authoritative of the collections of "traditions" (Arabic Hadith) about the life of the Prophet Muhammad.
As Swarup notes in his introduction, to Muslims the Hadith literature represents the Koran in action, stories of "revelation made concrete in the life of the Prophet." Among the orthodox they are considered as sacred as the Koran itself.
Ram Swarup was one of India's leading intellectuals and a distinguished representative of renascent Hinduism.
www.prometheusbooks.com /site/catalog/book_1258.html   (279 words)

  
 Fake Encounter at Bihta on Dec. 10, '99
Ram Sahay Rai, the officer in charge of Bihta PS, the he was the main person responsible for the whole incident and it was he who arrested Pratap from shop in the Bihta market while he was purchasing something from the shop.
Ram Sahay Rai is still lamenting that he has missed the opportunity to establish his bravery in killing such a hard-core criminal about whom he knew right from his tenure at Masaurhi.
Ram Sahay Rai and his men at the Bihta PS might have been in the raid and might have played a vital role in arresting PP.
www.pucl.org /reports/Bihar/bihta.htm   (1372 words)

  
 6. Are Hindu reformists Hindus?
Ram Swarup replies to those who take Vivekananda’s optimistic belief in a “universal religion” for a goodbye to Hinduism: “Vivekananda believed in a universal religion, but to him it was not an artificial product made up of quotations culled from various scriptures, the current idea of universal religion.
Ram Swarup reflects a bit a more deeply on the RK Mission lore about Ramakrishna’s visions: “The students of Yoga know that ‘visions’ are of a limited value and they prove very little.
Ram Swarup points out that yogic writings like Patanjali’s Yoga Sûtra always stress the importance of careful observation and discrimination, quite the opposite of the facile and sweeping conclusions which the RK Mission monks draw from one or two alleged visions.
koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/wiah/ch6.htm   (5589 words)

  
 Ram Swarup - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ram Swarup (राम स्‍वरूप) (1920 - December 26, 1998) was perhaps the most influential Hindu thinker in the second half of the 20th century.
Understanding Islam through Hadis (1983 in the USA by Arvind Ghosh, Houston; Indian reprint by Voice of India, 1984); The Hindi translation was banned in 1990.
Ram Swarup (1920-1998) – Outline of a Biography
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ram_Swarup   (119 words)

  
 How I Became A Hindu - Chapter 6 - Ram Swarup To The Rescue
Ram Swarup's conclusions about Communism were revealed to me dramatically a few days after his arrival when there were some fireworks between him and my Marwari friend who had come specifically to meet a person about whom I had always talked so warmly and so highly.
There could be no agreement because Ram Swarup was convinced that another depression would not be permitted by the capitalists who had acquired a fairly good grasp of their economies.
Ram Swarup told me that at one time or the other he had studied all of them but had found them irrelevant and useless.
www.bharatvani.org /books/hibh/ch6.htm   (2651 words)

  
 Hinduism Today | Jan 1984
Ram Swarup is one of the principle author/lecturers of the fiesty Hindu watchdog publishing concern, Voice of India, which is regarded as a virtual think tank on contemporary Hindu religious, social and cultural affairs.
Ram Swarup displayed the kind of candor and let's-face-reality rhetoric the Voice of India group is known for.
Swarup presented his view that religion is concerned with fundamental questions of life and death, with the quality of life and with the expansion and deepening of man's consciousness.
www.hinduism-today.com /archives/1984/01/1984-01-02.shtml   (533 words)

  
 Hinduism Today | Apr 1999
Ram Swarup, who peacefully left his body on December 26, 1998, was born in 1920 as the son of a banker in Sonipat, Haryana, in the Garg gotra of the merchant Agrawal caste.
Ram Swarup was the perfect link between Hindu Renaissance and renascent Paganism in the West and elsewhere.
For those who had the good fortune of knowing Ram Swarup and his work, he represented the fusion of the rational and the mystical that is the source of both Vedic and the Pagan Greek thought.
www.hinduism-today.com /archives/1999/4/1999-4-10.shtml   (2825 words)

  
 8. Are Sikhs Hindus?
Ram Swarup relates how the British had been disappointed with the conclusions of the first scholar who investigated and translated Sikh Scriptures, the German Indologist and missionary Dr.
This number may be exaggerated: Ram Swarup counts “19.2% in 1914”, falling to “13.58% in 1930” (because by then, “the Government was less sure of their unquestioning loyalty”).
Ram Swarup hints at the question of the historicity of the belief that “Sikhism is the sword-arm of Hinduism”, widespread among Hindus.
koenraadelst.bharatvani.org /books/wiah/ch8.htm   (10949 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : Sport   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 62-year-old Swarup, instrumental in Sunita Rani’s rise as a top athlete of the country, died at the Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana, on April 29.
Swarup is survived by his wife, son and two daughters.
Swarup was admitted to the hospital after a brain haemorrhage on April 18, the sources added.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040504/asp/sports/story_3203591.asp   (579 words)

  
 sita ram goel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sita Ram Goel (1921 - 2003), author and publisher, is an important figure amongst late 20th century Hindu thinkers.
Sitaram Goel is the author of various tracts in defense of Hinduism and Hindu society.
He sought to set record straight by putting forth before the public the "correct" information about Hindu society.
www.yourencyclopedia.net /Sita_Ram_Goel   (285 words)

  
 Sanatana Dharma and Persecutory Cults - NOWHERE SIMILAR - www.ezboard.com
Ram Swarup’s statement that hatred for others is a theological requirement for them is very much true.
But it was Shri Ram Swarup, who had the necessary scholarship and courage, examined these cults critically and found them simply to be an imperialist ideology meant to use in the conquest of the world under the cover of the name of god.
Shri Ram Swarup advises the Hindus to find out whether christianity and islam are religions at all as the word is ordinarily understood, or are they political hegemonic systems.
p081.ezboard.com /fhinduunityhinduismhottopics.showMessage?topicID=22938.topic   (4329 words)

  
 IndiaStar Review of Books. Voice of India publications, reviewed by C.J.S. Wallia
The concept of one God and his chosen, holy people, writes Swarup, "brought in the concept of two humanities and religious aggression became the highest duty and morality.
Swarup's central thesis is that Semitic religions are not religions at all -- in the sense of spiritual religions -- but political ideologies.
Swarup sees a growing recognition of these impositions: "Europe is witnessing a revival of its ancient religion...
www.indiastar.com /wallia13.htm   (1579 words)

  
 Swaveda - Articles - Hinduism, Environmentalism and the Nazi ...
Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel were witnesses to the untiring aggression against Hinduism by Christian missionaries, they deemed Christianity a serious problem, and so they took aim at Christianity.
Ram Swarup, though acknowledged by Goel as a more original thinker, did not have Goel's typical scepticism and sometimes went along with good-sounding ideas, one instance being the trend of identifying non-monotheistic religions as more ecological and also more woman-friendly.
One remarkable contribution which Ram Swarup did make, was to bring a typically Hindu insight to the debate on monotheism, viz.
www.swaveda.com /articles.php?action=show&id=54   (9049 words)

  
 The Yogic View of the Quranic Trance
Ram Swarup (Hindu View of Christianity and Islam, p.45-46) argues that the methodical and systematic "science of yoga" has a substantial qualitative edge over other forms of mysticism or mediumism.
In recent years, Ram Swarup and Sita Ram Goel have further developed Swami Vivekananda's position on the nature of Quranic revelation.
Ram Swarup has elaborated on the yogic theory of samadhi (enstasis) states of different levels of purity, which allows for states of high concentration tainted by delusion (Hindu View of Christianity and Islam, p.107).
www.kashmirherald.com /featuredarticle/elst-wahi-part1.html   (1855 words)

  
 Bhadra and not so Bhadra Thoughts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In fact, he was the first to whom Ram Swarup and I had gone in order to seek his blessings for our anti communist work.
Ram Swarup was not satisfied with a merely rationalist review of Islam and Christianity.
Ram Swarup was sure that the only effective way to stop street riots was to move the Hindu Muslim dialogue from the streets to the level of human minds.
bhadraandnotsobhadra.blogspot.com   (20040 words)

  
 tribuneindia... Haryana
She said that the centres were being set up to create awareness among the public about reducing infant mortality rate, improving health and nutritional status of women and children and preventing school dropouts.
Bed Ram, Bal Kishen, Jagdish, Satish and Manoj of the opposite party were also sentenced to undergo imprisonment for two years for causing injuries to Ram Swarup.
Sita Ram, a resident of Kalayat, died on the spot and five others, Ram Pal, Pala, Kala and Joginder of Kalayat and Randhir Singh, driver, were injured and admitted to Civil Hospital, Kaithal.
www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99oct13/haryana.htm   (3688 words)

  
 Foreign Correspondent - 08/11/2005: India - Medical Tourism
RAM SWARUP: His poo canal comes from his stomach.
RAM SWARUP: Then the doctor examines the child and asks us to go away — and come back in ten days or a month.
For Ram Swarup and his son, Apollo’s medical marvels are nothing but a fantasy.
www.abc.net.au /foreign/content/2005/s1500757.htm   (3035 words)

  
 Q&A | The A.V. Club
Rescued from imminent torture by a female lawyer who shows up to defend him, Ram insists that he was merely lucky—he was asked just the right questions.
Swarup knows some of these people and venues well; his description of the chawls, the rental slums of India's urban underbelly, and the servants' quarters of rich houses have a quiet, observational quality.
After explaining every detail of his many rises and falls, Swarup drops Ram's perceptive first-person narration and acute sense of fate's vagaries, and rushes through the outcome as if his parking meter were running out.
avclub.com /content/node/40221   (485 words)

  
 Ved Mandir
Arun Kumar: I read on vedmandir.com that Sita was with Ram during the Ashwamedha Yagya and Luv and Kush were born in the palace and Ram never sent her to jungle.
Then Shri Ram told before everybody that he (Shri Ram) knew that Sita was the purest and can never think about any other person except him, but nobdoy knew the said fact due to which he asked Sita to go to pyre for knowing the purity of Sita by all.
The lectures on Yoga are prepared by Swami Ram Swarup Ji.
www.vedmandir.com   (2299 words)

  
 RSS and Christians
Ram Swarup's tract Hinduism vis-a-vis Christianity and Islam continued his refrain about "native" faiths.
Ram Swarup goes on to quote approvingly: "Gore Vidal says that from a 'barbaric Bronze Age text known as Old Testament, three anti-human religions have evolved - Judaism, Christianity and Islam'; he also calls them 'sky-god religions'."
Commu-nists have their Comintern working overtly or covertly." By 1987, Ram Swarup ought to have known that the Comintern was dissolved on May 22, 1943 and that the "Islamic International, a kind of Muslim Vatican, Rabitah al'-alam al-Iscaniya" (Muslim World League) is a Saudi-sponsored non-governmental organisation (1962) which counts for little in India.
www.thehindu.com /fline/fl1526/15261230.htm   (4399 words)

  
 David Frawley - Arjuna - Christianity And Islam (Page12)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ram Swarup copiously quotes from Christian and Islamic sources.
His work is not a mere traditional Hindu reaction against the West or the modern world Ram Swarup has a global and futuristic vision that is examining the spiritual problems of humanity, which Hinduism offers an important, if not crucial, perspective on.
Unfortunately there has been a call by minority interests in India to ban Ram Swarup's book, the same group that has brought about the banning of a number of books in the country like Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses.
www.hindubooks.org /david_frawley/arjuna/christianity_and_islam/page12.htm   (167 words)

  
 Organiser.................   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Sita Ram Goel was born in 1921 in a poor family of Haryana.
Much later, in a speech before the Yogakshema Society, Calcutta 1983, he explained his relation with Ram Swarup as follows: “In fact, it would have been in the fitness of things if the speaker today had been Ram Swarup, because whatever I have written and whatever I have to say today really comes from him.
Their long-term intellectual importance is that they have contributed immensely to breaking the spell of all kinds of Christian, Muslim and Marxist prejudices and misrepresentations of Hinduism and the Hindu revivalist movement.
www.organiser.org /p7a.htm   (1330 words)

  
 Hindutva Part I - List No. 11 - Manohar Books
Goel, Sita Ram: Muslim Separatism; Causes and Consequences.
Ram, Swarup: Pope John Paul II on Eastern Religions and Yoga; A Hindu- Buddhist Rejoinder.
Ram, Swarup: The World as Revelation; Names of Gods.
www.lib.virginia.edu /area-studies/SouthAsia/Lib/man11hin97.html   (759 words)

  
 Dancing with Dogs: Comment on Well-dressed nonsense   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Genuine historians—Sita Ram Goel, Ram Swarup, Majumdar—have either been sidelined or totally ignored because it would've taken but a couple of pages to expose the lies of these morons.
I've been reading Sita Ram Goel's works on Indian history and at the end of each book, I marvel and bow my head in reverence to this very committed scholar and patriot.
Sita Ram Goel (concludingfrom his writings) is a man who's hard to argue with.
www.realwomenonline.com /scgi-bin/something.cgi?entry_id=2478   (620 words)

  
 Resources: Hindu Dharma and India   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Ram Swarup: Hinduism's foremost modern thinker on the web site of Hinduism Today.
Excellent information on this important yet controversial movement to retake the birthplace of Lord Rama that was destroyed by Muslim invaders in the sixteenth century and has since been a disputed site, with Muslims claiming it for a mosque and Hindus as the site of an ancient temple.
Under the guidance of Ram Swarup and Sitaram Goel, Hinduism Today May 1998 calls Ram Swarup, "perhaps Hinduism's most cogent analyst." Publishes N.S. Rajaram, Subhash Kak, Koenraad Elst, K.D. Sethna, and Shrikant Talageri as well as David Frawley.
www.vedanet.com /resources_hindu.htm   (976 words)

  
 Sword of Truth Archives -- Hindus And Neo-Paganism   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The late Ram Swarup (1920-98), definitely the most important Hindu philosopher of independent India's first half-century, liked to point out that other cultures had traditions similar to Hinduism before Christianity or Islam wiped them out.
Leading Pagan thinker Prudence Jones had a correspondence with Ram Swarup, whose articles on polytheism have also been published in other Pagan media, e.g.
At Ram Swarup's suggestion, I have done some participant observation of this movement, or spectrum of movements, in the last couple of years.
www.swordoftruth.com /swordoftruth/archives/byauthor/koenraadelst/hanp.html   (3547 words)

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