Understanding India, its Culture and Sanatana Dharma

In the article, “The Renaissance of Hindu Dharma in the New Millennium,” the author describes the efforts being made by the institutions and organizers of various conferences and meetings in India and in the North America for the revival and resurgence of the Hindu Dharma.

In another article, “Sustaining Dharma through Mandirs,” Swamiji explains the importance of temples as altars of worship and as halls of learning for the promotion of Hindu unity.

Writing about “Media’s War on Hindu Dharma,” Swamiji says that the Indian media is explicitly hostile to Hindu Dharma, culture and the traditions of India. In the guise of ‘secularism’, the media is playing a very adverse and prejudiced role against the Hindu point of view. The Hindu Dharma, the Hindu Ahcaryas and the Hindu Samaj are passing through a critical period and Hindus in general are being dis-empowered socially, religiously and politically in the post-Independence era.

Swami Jyotirmayananda, who is a Swami Vivekananda scholar, has been visiting the US regularly and addressing various conferences and forums, since 1993, when the centenary of Parliament of World Religions was held in Chicago.

The other books that Swamiji has written include “Vivekananda – His Gospel of Man-making”; “Hanuman Chalisa and Ashtaka”; “Beloved Mother Amritanandamayi – A Sketch”; and “A Pilgirm Guide to Some Holy Places of Dakshina Kannada and around.”

Swami Jyotirmayananda hails from South Kanara in Karnataka state of India. He had his schooling and college studies at the Mangalore Ramakrishna Mission Students Home. He got the mantra diksha in 1966 while serving in a firm in Madras, from Swami Vireswarananda, the 10th president of the Ramakrishna Order. Swamiji joined the -4-