Gour Govinda Ray - Vedanta

Vedanta

His cultural nationalism was modified by the comparative assessments of other religions undertaken by his colleagues. It “loosened the bonds of ideological parochialism and made them value unity over diversity.” In his last book, published shortly before his death, he dealt with the philosophy of the Vedanta, in a way that “resembled the neo-Vedantic lectures” of Swami Vivekananda and Brahmabandhab Upadhyay. While the latter two glorified its virtues, “arguing the superiority of Hinduism”, Ray argued that Vedantic monism was offered to the world as “a universal faith to combat sectarianism and its false loyalty to ‘partial truths’.”