Summary of Vishal Mangalwadi's The Book that Made Your World

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#1 The Western missionary movement, which the BJP portrayed as the villain of modern India, was, in fact, the most important force that created contemporary India. But thanks to Shourie’s books, the missionaries began to be accused of being dangerous CIA agents.

#2 The sun does not have to set on the West. Europe and America can be revived. Light can again shine on nations that have been confused and misled by Western universities and media.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 16, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822543461

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Insights on Vishal Mangalwadi's The Book that Made Your World

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 18

Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 21

Insights from Chapter 22

Insights from Chapter 23

Insights from Chapter 24

Insights from Chapter 25

Insights from Chapter 26

Insights from Chapter 27

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Western missionary movement, which the BJP portrayed as the villain of modern India, was, in fact, the most important force that created contemporary India. But thanks to Shourie’s books, the missionaries began to be accused of being dangerous CIA agents.

#2

The sun does not have to set on the West. Europe and America can be revived. Light can again shine on nations that have been confused and misled by Western universities and media.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The phrase never mind means don’t bother, don’t concern yourself. Why should you mind, if nothing is true, good, or beautiful in any absolute sense. In contrast, the modern West was built by people who dedicated their lives to what they believed was divine, true, and noble.

#2

The 1980s were a period of social violence and humiliation for many young people. The Buddha’s first noble truth is that life is suffering. You don’t exist. Your sense of self is an illusion. Liberation is realizing the unreality of your existence.

#3

Cobain’s music reflected the confusion he saw in the postmodern world around him. He was unable to find a stable worldview in which to center his moral principles.

#4

The death of God created a void that many intellectuals are trying to fill by returning to the Buddhist idea that the self is an illusion. This makes it hard to explain music, because music is a matter of the soul.

#5

The Buddhist skepticism that Pyrrho brought to Europe is logical and powerful. The West escaped its paralyzing influence only because thinkers such as St. Augustine succeeded in refuting it.

#6

Cobain’s music was a full-throttled disharmony of rage, anguish, hatred, despair, meaninglessness, and obscenity. His song titles included I Hate Myself, I Want to Die and Rape Me. His music did not flourish in the soil of nihilism.

#7

Music is a new phenomenon in Buddhist temples, but it is not a new phenomenon in the world. Music is intrinsic to the universe and to human nature, even if some worldviews do not understand, recognize, or promote it.

#8

The Bible taught that a sovereign Creator governs the universe for his glory. He is powerful enough to save men like Job from their troubles. This belief in a cosmos, where every tension and conflict will be resolved, developed into the West’s classical music and its tradition of tension and resolution.

#9

The Augustinian perspective on the relationship of music, creation, the fall, and redemption is presented in the novel The Silmarillion, written by J. R. Tolkien. The Bible teaches that the Almighty Creator is loving and powerful enough to redeem the earth from the greatest possible mess, sin, and suffering.

#10

The pipe organ, which was the world’s most advanced machine until the invention of the mechanical clock, was an emblem of the West’s desire to use the arts, science, and technology for the glory of God as well as for the relief of humanity’s suffering and toil.

#11

Luther was a reformer because he realized that in order to conform to God’s Word, all God’s children would need to have that Word in their native languages. His translation of the Bible into German dialects turned his dialect into the Standard German for the German-speaking world.

#12

After Luther, the church began to allow congregations to sing during Christian