Sanatana Dharma: An Elementary Text-Book of Hindu Religion and Ethics

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Professor Ramesh Chandra Panda who edited the present text was the Vice Chancellor of Maharshi Panini Sanskrit and Vaidik University, Ujjain, M.P. and also worked as Dean and Head at the Faculty of Samskrta Vidya Dharma Vijñana, Banaras Hindu University. At Present he is retired from his job and is engaged in his academic research and publication work. There are 28 published Research Articles and four books to his credit. He also edited some books and research journals. Thirty Seven research Scholars were awarded Ph.D. Degree under his supervision. He has contributed a lot to the field of Päninian Grammar. He is well-known in our country and abroad for his teaching and research.

Anybody who wants to have an idea of Sanatana Dharma should read this book from beginning to end. This book consists of three parts. The first part deals with the basic Hindu Religious Ideas. The second part elucidates general Hindu religious customs and rights. The third part discusses ethical teachings explicitly.

Thus this book may be treated as a hand book of everyone who is interested in Hindu way of life and Sanatana. Dharma t hough there are some controversial statements in this text with whom many scholars do not agree.

THE Board of Trustees of the Central Hindu College has laid down the following principles on which religious and moral teaching is to be given in all institutions under its control.

The object of the Central Hindu College being to combine Hindu religious and ethical training with the western education suited to the needs of the time, it is necessary that this religious and ethical training shall be of a wide, liberal and unsectarian character, while at the same time it shall be definitely and distinctively Hindu. It must be inclusive enough to unite the most divergent forms of Hindu thought, but exclusive enough to leave out side it, forms of thought which are non-Hindu. It must avoid all doctrines which are the subject of controversy between schools recognised as orthodox; it must not enter into any of the social and political questions of the day; but it must lay a solid foundation of religion of religion and ethics on which the student may build, in his manhood, the more specialised principles suited to his intellectual and emotional remperament. It must be directed to the building up of a character-pious, dutiful, strong, self-reliant, upright, righteous, gentle and wellbalanced-a character which will be that of a good man and a good citizen; the fundamental principles of religion, governing the general view of life and of life's obligations, are alone sufficient to form such a character.