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A Few Problems Solved

Nine volumes of discourses on art, society, history, language, and spiritual practice.

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A Few Problems Solved is a set of nine volumes of discourses given by Reverend Shrii Shrii Anandamurti ji. Each volume is a collection of talks, and the talks move from one subject to another. Art, history, language, society, and spiritual practice sit in the same life, and he treats them as one movement.

Part 1 takes up the meaning of literature and the relation of Tantra to the older civilisation of India. Part 2 asks how a person can want progress in every sphere of life, and how a social change moves through a claim, its opposite, and a new synthesis. That same volume treats human society as one movement, then turns to land and labour, and to the moral principles that should hold a people together.

Part 3 asks whether weapons can end a civilisation, what a society actually is, and how song, dance, and instrumental music belong in a civilised life. It also follows the physical and psychic development of human beings, and the history of Bengal and of Rarh. Part 4 is the long volume. It takes up the expanding microcosm, dogma and intellect, art and science, and a subjective approach lived through an objective adjustment.

The same volume goes on to plants, animals, and human beings, to the histories of Mithila, Maithili, and Bhojpuri, and to what history itself ought to record. Part 5 speaks of festivals, dogma, neohumanism, and the place of inanimate things in that philosophy. It also treats rivers and civilisation, education, and the three expressions of life, which are physical, psychic, and spiritual.

Part 6 looks at the future of civilisation, at real progress, and at a universality wider than race, language, religion, or local culture. The later volumes continue in the same way. A discourse names one problem, then sets it inside the larger path of Self-realization and service. The title matches the form of the talks. He takes up a problem in each talk and carries it through. A qualified Acharya still gives the personal practice. This page only says what the nine volumes are about.

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