चिनार पब्लिशर्स, पुणे, महाराष्ट्र, 2025
महावीरांचे तत्वज्ञान बहुमुखी आहे. ते विश्वशास्त्रापासून ते जीवशास्त्रापर्यंत चौफेर विहार करते. मह... more महावीरांचे तत्वज्ञान बहुमुखी आहे. ते विश्वशास्त्रापासून ते जीवशास्त्रापर्यंत चौफेर विहार करते. महावीरांच्या तत्त्वज्ञानाचा केंद्रबिंदू हा आत्मा आणि त्याला कर्मबंधनातून मुक्त करून मोक्ष (मुक्ती) प्राप्त करणे हा आहे. असे करताना ते मानवी जीवन, जीवांचे जीवन आणि भवतालाचे ज्ञानात्मक विश्लेषण करत लोकांना जागृत करण्याचा प्रयत्न करतात. त्यांच्या तत्वज्ञानाला ज्ञानशास्त्रीय, तत्वमीमांसा, आचारात्मक मुक्तीचा मार्ग, मोक्षप्राप्तीसाठी आवश्यक असलेले तीन आधारस्तंभ म्हणजे सम्यक् दर्शन, सम्यक् ज्ञान आणि सम्यक् चारित्र्य ही त्रिरत्ने, आणि पंचमहाव्रतांचा आचारात्मक व वैचारिकतेचा पाया आहे.
तत्वद्न्यानात्म्क शिखर गाठत असताना महावीरांनी आपले संघटन व व्यवस्थापन कौशल्य वापरत जैन संघाची रचना करून जैन धर्माला एक सुव्यवस्थित रूप दिले हे त्याचे महान लौकिक कार्य होय. असा थोर तत्वज्ञ आणि मानवतावादी, समतेचे तत्व प्रस्थापित करणारा धर्मसंघटक आपल्या देशात जन्माला यावा हे आपले भाग्यच होय!
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Books by Sanjay Sonawani
तत्वद्न्यानात्म्क शिखर गाठत असताना महावीरांनी आपले संघटन व व्यवस्थापन कौशल्य वापरत जैन संघाची रचना करून जैन धर्माला एक सुव्यवस्थित रूप दिले हे त्याचे महान लौकिक कार्य होय. असा थोर तत्वज्ञ आणि मानवतावादी, समतेचे तत्व प्रस्थापित करणारा धर्मसंघटक आपल्या देशात जन्माला यावा हे आपले भाग्यच होय!
हिंदू धर्म व वैदिक धर्म कसे वेगळे आहेत हेही या ग्रंथात दाखवून देण्यात आले आहे.
In a very short life of 37 years, this great scholar has left an indelible mark on Europe, USA and India through his seminal thoughts during the period 1890 to 1901. Even Mahatma Gandhi was highly influenced by his thoughts. He is the first person on the modern times who presented Jainism before the world. Through his knowledge of all the religions in the world and his mastery over fourteen languages he explained the importance of the Jain religion and the Jain philosophy on the basis of an independent interpretation. He was the first global level Jain philosopher who had truly understood the Jain philosophy and he told the world loud and clear how this philosophy can help the world to live in true peace and cooperation.
His work as a social reformer and as a leader of India’s struggle for freedom demonstrates two more wonderful aspects of his life. Indeed, such a person is born once in several centuries. However, it’s quite unfortunate that the importance of his work hasn’t reached the common people as it should have. This biography is a humble step in that direction.
Yashwantrao became a legend in his lifetime. Many poets and bards sung his victories across the nation. However, historians had not done justice to his contribution to Indian history. He died at a young age of 35. It is very rare to find such a person in history, who rebuilt his kingdom from scratch, was coronated and gave a lone fight to throw away the foreign yoke.
It will be naïve to think that the abrogation of the two Articles would suddenly change the Kashmiri people. Though the state has ultimately been made an integral part of India constitutionally, its people have to accept the change without any resistance mentally too. The Kashmiri psyche needs to be understood by the government agencies as well as by prospective investors.
SARHAD has been exposing its inmates to a variety of human life and I have no doubt that the children brought up in the bracing climate of an utterly friendly environment will learn what India is and what her cultural heritage stands for. When they grow they will be proud citizens of this country with a well integrated personality and actively enriched disposition. I have felt elated and better informed after reading what Sanjay and Sushma have gone through in the strife-torn ambience of Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. I have great pleasure in wishing them god-speed in this endeavour of human engineering and making India strong and vibrant. Great meticulous care has been taken by him in his description of tragic events, sensitive issues encompassing almost all aspects of socio-political life of the entire region, and the hardship faced by the people involved.
I hope the casual readers as well as the students of history welcome this book as the first ever document on an exemplary king of Kashmir, of India and of the entire Southeast Asia. It is truly historic and well researched book because it throws light not only on the life of Lalitaditya but also on the whole gamut of the politics, diplomacy, social milieu, geography and the chronology of events of medieval India.
Prashant Talnikar
In his book, Mr. Sonawani attempts to have a look at the ‘homeland’ scenario. While doing so, he takes cognizance of all the theories forwarded by the scholars so far from fresh angle and postulates that;
1. The Indo-European language group theory is based upon migrations of the proto Indo-European language speakers from some homeland. The author challenges the hypotheses’ of such migration and using the available archaeological, anthropological and scriptural evidences goes on to prove that there were no massive migrations from any place since 10,000 BC which may have caused substantial impact on other cultures. Using the archaeological evidences, he proves that the people all over the globe started settling down by 15,000 BC with the invention of early agriculture. The process was gradually completed by before 10,000 BC. Therefore, it is out of the question that the so-called PIE speakers started migrating from the hypothetical homelands at about 2000 BC or 5000 BC and impacted the linguistic and cultural features of other civilisations, as postulated by the scholars.
2. The author further proves that the early humans were foragers during the period ranging from 60,000 BC till 15,000 BC when they already had learnt to move around in the known territories and developed geographical consciousness. By then they had already shared, developed rudimentary languages having common features. These rudimentary languages took separate paths after he settled down in the respective regions. However, the early vocabulary and grammatical traits survived, which is why there are some similarities even today in the territories in question. These similarities are owed to the early human life and not to the movement of so-called Proto-Indo-European people.
3. Author proves that from all the results pouring in from the geological explorations at Ghaggar basin, and from the careful analysis of Rig Vedic/mythological descriptions of the Saraswati River, the Ghaggar river cannot be at all equated with the Rig Vedic Saraswati.
4. Mr. Sonawani, in this book, proves that many personalities, including Zarathustra and his patrons, were contemporary to the early phase of Rig Vedic compositions and have been mentioned in both the Rig Veda and the Avesta. This sheds light on the possible date of the Rig Veda and Gathas of the Avesta. Further, the author proves, with in depth analysis of numerous scriptural and archaeological evidences, that the Rig Vedic geography is that of nowhere else but Helmand valley, Southern Afghanistan. Using references from the Rig Veda and the Avesta, he has proved that most of the identifiable tribes mentioned were and still are located in Iran, Afghanistan and north-east India( now Pakistan), and are speaking the descendent languages even today.
5. The author also proves that the indigenous Vedic Aryan theory is unfounded since there is no slightest affinity between the Vedic and Indus culture. He explains diligently that, how, even if Rig Vedic period is stretched back substantially, i.e. from presently accepted period of about 1500 BC, to as back as 3000 BC or even far before, any association of the Vedic people with Indus-Ghaggar Civilisation is improbable.
6. Since Indus-Ghaggar Valley have not experienced any intruding immigrants from minimum of 7000+ BC, there is no any genetic or archeological proof to prove any foreign influx since then. Therefore, there is total absence of any proofs to prove the migration of so-called Vedic Aryans from India to West. The vital questions raised by Mr. Sonawani are: How the Vedic religion was introduced to India? How it found space here to become a major sect in the later course of time? The revelations, supported by substantial proofs may help us change the traditional perspective of our ancient socio-cultural and religious history.
7. Importantly, the author points out at the sever social harm caused by the supremacist views taken by the European and Vedicist scholars over the last two hundred years to solve non-existent mystery of origin, either of the Aryan race or of the PIE language.
8. This book explains the roots of the original Rig Vedic language and how it was gradually modified in ancient times to suite the changed linguistic environments, while providing the internal proofs from the Rig Veda and from the observations of Indian as well as European Sanskrit scholars. As a result, the myth of the Vedic dialect being mother of Sanskrit and other Prakrit languages crumbles.
Rather the author of this book has referred to almost all the living and dead renowned scholars whose works have been related with a wide range of topics such as the myth of the Aryans or the PIE speakers hypotheses, archaeology, geology, linguistics, anthropology to religion.
Mr. Sonawani stresses through this book that distorting the human history to prove that some humans are superior over others, racially or linguistically, is not the way to solve the puzzles of our ancient past.
“Origin of the Vedic Religion and Indus-Ghaggar Civilization” is an attempt to help us look back at our past with clean and unprejudiced vision.