Author: Candrasekharendra Sarasvati Svami
Publisher: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
Year: 2008
Language: English
Pages: 828
ISBN/UPC (if available): 81-7276-055-8
Description
An illuminating account of Hindu Dharma in all its aspects bearing the vast erudition, intuitive insights and synaptic vision of the Sankaracharya of Kanci Kamakoti Pitha.
To deal with Hindu Dharma, or more correctly, Veda Dharma or Sanatana Dharma, within the compass of a book, is like trying to contain an ocean in a jar. It is a task that can be accomplished only by a Great Master. Such a Master was the author of this work.
The author discusses the basic texts of Veda Dharma - the four Vedas, the six Vedangas, Mimansa, Nyaya, the Puranas and Dharmasastra. These encompass various systems of thought and various points of view and the Great Master tries to make them part of one unified wisdom with modern knowledge and it thus that he finds common points between the metaphysics and physics.
Altogether it is an integrated view of Sanatana Dharma that emerges in which the ultimate Vedic message of liberation here and now is underlined.
Contents
Foreword by Sri Justice P S Mishra
Preface
Introduction
Translator’s Note
Key to Pronunciation
For the Reader’s Attention
PART ONE
Religion in General
PART TWO
The Vedic Religion: Introductory
PART THREE:
The Vedic Religion and Varna Dharma
PART FOUR
The Sastras and Modern Life
PART FIVE
The Vedas
PART SIX
Siksa
PART SEVEN
Vyakarana
PART EIGHT
Chandas
PART NINE
Nirukta
PART TEN
Jyotisa
PART ELEVEN:
Kalpa
PART TWELVE:
Mimamsa – Karmamarga
PART THIRTEEN
Nyaya
PART FOURTEEN
Puranas
PART FIFTEEN
Dharmasastra
PART SIXTEEN
The Forty Samskaras
PART SEVENTEEN
Brahmacaryasrama
PART EIGHTEEN
Marriage
PART NINETEEN
Grhasthasrama
PART TWENTY
Varna Dharma for universal Well-Being
PART TWENTY-ONE
From Work to Worklessness
PART TWENTY-TWO
Dharmas Common to All
Appendices
Sanskrit Glossary
Tamil Glossary
Index
Cover Photograph