The Vedas are the oldest record available to mankind. It has been orally preserved in India over many millennia. According to the Vedas wisdom is as ancient as the mountains, the Earth and the Sun. This may sound strange but makes sense in every case, whether we admit, postulate or realise omniscient Lord (God). Vedic vision is revolutionary. It is way different from what we commonly believe. We believe that life (or consciousness) evolved on this planet in a certain geological age in distant past, but Vedic sages see it as eternal (nitya) and self-existent (svayambhu) with recurrent...

Yajur Veda reveals its entire scheme in the opening lines- 'You folks are the carriers and accomplishers of needs and wishes (of community). God Savitri (Creator) may stimulate you for the noblest deed (Yajna).' (1.1) Further the Veda declares there is no salvation other than by doing (the enjoined) works. (40.2) Rationality behind this approach is summed up as Isavasya &c. (40.1). According to it, ego, individuality and personal choice are false, fanciful. So we see ourselves one with cosmos or cosmic action. We are at best instruments or vehicles of Cosmic Order. Apart from being...

The present book contains text and translation of the Bhagavad Gita (or the Gita). One might wonder why a further translation is needed when hundreds of translations and even scholarly commentaries are already there. This suspicion of readers is quite genuine. No doubt, we have many translations and commentaries, but many of them suffer from defects like too voluminous or too scholarly. Quite often, we find that the Gita many times is explained, from beginning to end, with commentator's bias toward Bhakti (devotion) or Karma Yoga (yoga of action). Such translation becomes lopsided. My firm...