CONTENTS Publisher's Note iii Welcome Address 1 Swami Lokeswarananda Inaugural Address 3 Swami Atmasthananda Keynote Address 6 Swami Smaranananda Revelation as the Nature of Upanishadic Knowledge 13 Alena Adamkova Advaita Relation : A Search in the Authentic Writings of Shankara 29 K. P. Aleaz Understanding Vedanta in the light of Completeness vs. Consistency Questions in the Formalism of Mathematical Logic 59 Swami Atmapriyananda The Question of T in Advaita Vedanta : Reviewing the Contributions of K. C. Bhattacharya 77 Anindita N. Balslev Advaita Vedanta : A Contemporary Perspective 88 Hiranmoy Banerjee Alienation and Neo-Vedanta 94 Swami Bhajanananda The Unique Concepts of Advaita Vedanta 115 Pandit Dinesh Chandra Bhattacharya Shastri vi Vedanta : Concepts and Application Sarada Devi: Emblem of Vedanta in Hindu Tradition and Western Modernity (Her Value as a Role Model for Contemporary American Women) 126 Pravrajika Brahmaprana God as the Teacher, the Teacher as God : Notes towards a Critique of the Concept of an Omniscient Guru in the Devotional Advaita of Jnaneshwari (Gita) 159 Arindam Chakraborti Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita as Different Stages of Vedanta 174 Nirod Baran Chakraborty Vedanta as a Method for Inter-Religious Theology 187 John B. Chethimattam Swami Vivekananda's Idea of Vedanta 204 R. K. DasGupta Shankara and Vivekananda on Jivanmukti and Social Service 214 Andrew O. Fort Advaita Vedanta and Personal Identity : Some Reflections 231 Bina Gupta Chinese Buddhism and Vedanta 255 Alan Hunter Advaita Vedanta as Philosophy and as Religion 280 J. N. Mohanty Vedanta : Concepts and Application through Sri Ramakrishna's Life 292 \ Swami Mumukshananda \ Swami Vivekananda's Concept of Service : A Feather in Vedanta's Cap 317 j Swami Prabhananda I Contents vii The Bnhadaranyaka Upanishad and Modernity : New Perspectives 336 Arvind Sharma The Advaita Vedanta on Meaning 360 J. L. Shaw Religious and Cultural Interflow between Indian Vedanta and Chinese Buddhism and Taoism 374 Huan Xinchuan Introduction to Contributors 379.