The Christ We Adore (Bhavan's Eternal Values Booklets series: Nineteen)

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE After the publication of Bhavan's Eternal ValuesBooklets Series 1-to-18, the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan has pleasure in bringing out its Eternal Values Booklets Series: 19, by Poojya Swami Ranganathanandaji, under the title "The Christ We Adore". This book is based on a speech delivered by Swamiji at the Christmas celebration held at the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta in 1954 and later published in the December 1955 issue of the Bulletin of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Calcutta.

the Bhavan has published this lecture in volume two of "Eternal Values for Changing Society – Great Spiritual Teachers" by Swami Ranganathanandaji.

We are greatful to Swamiji for having given his consent to our request to bring out this booklet as part of its Eternal Values Booklets Series.

As Swamiji says, "that Gospel of Jesus is a Gospel of Spiritual redemption. That Gospel has a meaning only when we feel the bondage of worldliness irk-some and heavy and seek for freedom in the freedom of God. There is the assurance given by the Master that we shall then get what we seek. To ask and seek and knock is our share, and to give and reveal and open is the Lord's. That is the Hindu way of acceptance and assimilation."

Back of The Book THE AUTHOR Born in the village of Trikkur, Kerala State, on December 15, 1980, Swami Ranganathananda joined the Ramakrishna Order, the international Spiritual and cultural movement founded by Swami Vivekananda, at its branch in Mysore in 1926. he was formally initiated into Sannyasa in 1933 by Swami Sivananda, one of the eminent disciples of Sri Ramakrishna and the second President of the Order. After spending the first twelve years in the Order's branches in Mysore and Bangalore, the first six years of which as cook, dishwasher and house-keeper and later as warden of student's hostel, he worked as Secretary and librarian at the Ramakrishna Mission branch at Rangoon –from 1939 to 1942, and thereafter as President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Karachi, from 1942 to 1948.

From 1949 to 1962, he worked as the Secretary of the New Delhi branch of the Mission, and from 1962 to 1967, he was the Secretary of the Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Culcutta, Director of its School of Humanistic and Cultural Studies, and Editor of its monthly journal.

From 1973 to 1993 he was President of Ramakrishna Math, Hyderabad. Now he is a Vice-President of world-wide Ramakrishna Math and Ramakrishna Mission and he continues to stay at Hyderabad.

He has undertaken extensive lecture tours from 1946 to 1972 covering 50 countries. From 1973 to 1986 he visited annually Austraila, U.S.A. Holland and Germany.

In 1986 he was awarded the first Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration.

He has a versatile and facile pen, and has to his credit a number of publications, chief amongst which are : The Message of the Upanisads, A Pilgrim Look at the World, Vols. I and II; Four Volumes of Eternal Values for a Changing Society – Vol. I : Philosophy and Spirituality, Vol.2: Great Spiritual Teachers, Vol.3: Education for Human Excellence and Vol.4: Democracy for Total Human Fulfilment; (Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan's publication); Human Being in Depth (State University of New York publication) Practical Vedanta and Science of Values (Advaita Ashram publication), 28 video-tapes expounding the entire Gita Sloka by Sloka. 60 title of audio tapes expounding the ideas of Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Vedanta.

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