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In a brilliant and far-ranging study, Dr. S. Omana trace the evolution of Narayana Guru’s Philosophy in a scholarly and academic manner through the application of scientific methodological tools, and as a result the present book in its entirety is clearly a work of original insight. Beginning with the examination of the Guru’s life and teachings the work takes us through a fascinating series of philosophical visions and experiments which come from the laboratory of a scientist, the Guru. Special attention has been given to the concept of One World and so the work is a valuable contribution to the unity of mankind. The author has made a well balanced assessment to make its quality quite acceptable to everyone. In A Study of History, Toynbee examines the historical causes which now and then shake part of the mankind. After careful scrutiny he concludes his study with what has now become famous as the theory of Challenge and Response. In the history of India we see such an encounter in the life and teachings of Narayana Guru. He confronted the course of history and has shaken the conscience of the very people who have been exercising the worst kind of social iniquity in the name of an assumed caste-prejudice. His bold encounter with orthodoxy did the miracle of rousing self-esteem in millions of down-trodden people. And it was the Guru who wrested out of the clutches of age-old customs, a new civilization which is even today fighting for eaquality of opportunity and social justice in its own right.