Ananda Vacanamrtam: Difference between revisions

| image_caption    = "Ananda Vacanamrtam": the front covers of Parts 1 and 34  

| publisher        = Ananda Marga Publications<ref>{{citation|url=http://shop.anandamarga.org/ |year= 2012 |publisher= Ananda Marga Publications |title= Ananda Marga Publications web site |accessdate= 3 January 2013}}</ref>

| pub_date        = 1978 (first edition) (IND)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://shop.anandamarga.org/books/sarkar/av.htm |title=Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 1 on the publisher's site|publisher=Ananda Marga Publication |date= |accessdate=2012-12-23}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://shop.anandamarga.org/books/sarkar/av.htm |title=Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 34 on the publisher's site|publisher=Ananda Marga Publication |date= |accessdate=2012-12-23}}</ref>

'''Ananda Vacanamrtam''' ("Blissful Discourses") is a series of 34 books, part of the vast literary heritage of the author, that assembles all the known ''General Darshan'' (GD) discourses<ref group=note>''General Darshans'' were speeches regularly helded by Shrii Shrii Anandamurti and dedicated to the Ananda Marga's members.</ref> given by the [[Philosophy|philosopher]] and social reformer [[Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar]] aka Shrii Shrii Anandamurti (1921–1990).<ref group=note>Between 1955 and 1990 the author wrote in [[English language|English]], [[Bengali language|Bengali]] and [[Hindi]]. He wrote in the name "Shrii Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar" when treating [[sociology]], [[economics]], [[philology]] and various other subjects, and in the name ""Shrii Shrii Ánandamúrti"" when focusing on spiritual topics. Many of his books he gave as dictations; others were compiled from his discourses, some of them in small pocket-books.</ref>  

This kind of discourses are generally briefer than those given during the more formal occasion of the ''Dharma Maha Chakra'' (DMC)<ref group=note>A spiritual [[ceremony]] where the disciples [[meditation|meditate]] in the presence of the [[Guru|Master]] and He holds an important spiritual discourse and performs a special ''[[Mudra]]'' named ''Varabaja Mudra''.</ref> and collected on the ''[[Subhasita Samgraha (all parts)|Subhasita Samgraha]]'' series of books.

The range of topics are linked to the sphere of [[spirituality]] and intuitional science. This series of books was begun in 1978 with "''Ananda Vacanamrtam'' Part 1" starting with the discourse "The Secret behind Colours"{{sfn|Anandamurti |1978|p=5}} given by the author on August 5, 1978 in [[Patna]] ([[India]]). This discourse was followed from the GD speeches that the author gave over the subsequent six years.

* {{citation|title=Ananda Vacanamrtam Part 1 to 34 |last=Anandamurti |first=Shrii Shrii |city:Kolkata |publisher= Ananda Marga-Ananda Printers |year=1978}}

* [http://www.academia.edu/488910/The_Paradox_of_Being_Dasein_as_a_Potential_Ground_for_Futures_Work {{citation |last= Bussey |first= Marcus |title= The Paradox of Being: Dasein as a Potential "Ground" for Futures Work |journal= Journal of Futures Studies |volume= 10(4) |pages= 91–94 |date= May 2006 |year= 2006}}]-Retrieved 2013-1-1.