It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. 1, Life of Ramakrishna The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.His first book was published in 1902, when he was already 36 years old.Thirteen years later, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature 1915 as a tribute to the lofty idealism of his literary production and to the sympathy and love of truth with which he has described different types of human beings.
His mind sculpted by a passion for music and hero-worship, he sought a means of communion among men for his entire life. Because of his insistence upon justice and his humanist ideal, he looked for peace during and after the First World War in the works of the philosophers of India (Conversations with Rabindranath Tagore, and Mohandas Gandhi), then in the new world that the Soviet Union had built. Romain Rolland was strongly by the Vedanta philosophy of Hinduism, and authored several books (see below) on the subject. Contents 1 Life 1.1 A teacher, a pacifist, and a loner 1.2 Quotations 2 Bibliography 3 External links Life Rolland was born in Clamecy, Nivre to a family of notaries; he had both peasants and wealthy townspeople in his lineage. Writing introspectively in his Voyage intrieur (1942), he sees himself as a representative of an antique species. He would cast these ancestors in a truculent bawdy tale Colas Breugnon (1919). Accepted to the cole normale suprieure in 1886, he first studied philosophy, but his independence of spirit led him to abandon that so as not to submit to the dominant ideology. When he returned to France in 1895, he received his doctoral degree with his thesis The origins of modern lyric theatre and his doctoral dissertation, A History of Opera in Europe before Lully and Scarlatti. A teacher, a pacifist, and a loner Rolland with Gandhi in Switzerland, 1931. Not that he was indifferent to the youth: Jean-Christophe, Olivier and their friends the heroes of his novels are young people. But with living youths, like adults, Rolland only maintained distant relationships. Assured that literature would provide him with a modest income, he resigned from the university in 1912. In 1924, his book on Gandhi contributed to the Indian nonviolent leaders reputation and the two men met in 1931. In 1928 he and Hungarian scholar, philosopher and natural living experimenter Edmund Bordeaux Szekely founded the International Biogenic Society to promote and expand on their ideas of the integration of mind, body and spirit and the virtues of a natural, simple, vegetarian lifestyle. He moved to the shores of Lac Lman (Lake Geneva) to devote himself to writing. His life was interrupted by health problems, and by travels to art exhibitions. His voyage to Moscow (1935), on the invitation of Maxim Gorky, was an opportunity to meet Stalin, whom he considered the greatest man of his time. In 1937, he came back to live in Vzelay, which, in 1940, was occupied by the Germans. During the occupation, he isolated himself in complete solitude. He also placed the finishing touches on his musical research on the life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Quotations If there is one place on the face of the earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.For more than 30 centuries, the tree of vision, with all its thousand branches and their millions of twigs, has sprung from this torrid land, the burning womb of the Gods. It renews itself tirelessly showing no signs of decay. Life of Ramakrishna The true Vedantic spirit does not start out with a system of preconceived ideas.
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