Description
Book SynopsisEvery human soul is divine and valuable. An embodied being's ultimate purpose is the enjoyment of Supreme bliss as a free soul (Mukta, salvation, liberation) in the highest heaven. Enjoyment is also the basis of happiness upon earth. It leads to the spiritual enlightenment for happy, healthy, and peaceful life and environment. The knowledge of self is what leads to the knowledge of God and this knowledge is the road to eternal happiness or bliss. Real happiness cannot be found externally, it must be realized within. The soul of a man is in the hidden structure of God. He is inside all of us. All life comes from God. The causes of unhappiness are our ego, our prejudice, our desire, and our impropriety. There must not be any lust and hatred, neither longing for one thing, nor any loathing the opposite. The world is spiraling toward conflict, belligerence, and disharmony and is now going through an unprecedented spiritual crisis, class confrontation, calamity, and nuclear and terrorist
Trade Review
"Passage to Perfect Happiness: The Ancient Vedic Wisdom presents a detailed yet clear overview of Vedic wisdom that can be appreciated by the average reader. A particular virtue of this book is its exploration of the influence of this wisdom on important cultural figures of the Western world. This shows that Vedic wisdom is not only a product of the ancient past, but is something that bears universal relevance, and remains important even today. Indeed today, perhaps more than ever, the world is in need of an approach to truth that allows for difference, and that is committed to a state of harmony and the well-being of all." —Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College
“Without any doubt at all, whatever you ever wanted to know about Hinduism, you will find it here, albeit briefly, in this abridged encyclopedia.” —J.P. Das, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Author, Quest for Consciousness Where East Meets West
"The historic transmission poured into West gradually and found its way into different sectors of society through a variety of streams and tributaries. Nirode Mohanty has written about many of them crisply and concisely in Passage to Perfect Happiness, in addition to explaining the central elements of what his subtitle calls." —Philip Goldberg, Author, American Veda
Table of Contents
List of Figures – Foreword by Philip Goldberg – Preface – Introduction – Path to Perfection: Six Systems – Mind, Body, Self, and Paths – The Vedic Religion, Spiritualism, and Culture – The Vedic Principles and Practices – The Vedic Music and Intellectuals – Appendix 1: Glossary – Appendix 2: The Vedic Scriptures – Bibliography – Index – About the Author.
