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FOREWORD By Professor Mahesh Mehta
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
What is Vedic
CHAPTER ONE WHY STUDY THE VEDAS IN OUR SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS
Finding the answers
Guidance from the Vedas
CHAPTER TWO WHAT ARE THE VEDAS
The Influence the Vedas have had on the West
Rediscovering Vedic science
CHAPTER THREE THE HISTORY AND TRADITIONAL SOURCE OF THE VEDAS
The Compiling of the Vedas
Rig Veda
Yajur Veda
Sama Veda
Atharva Veda
The Puranas
Srila Vyasadeva Was Still Dissatisfied
CHAPTER FOUR OUR REAL IDENTITY: THE SCIENCE OF THE SOUL
Finding ourselves
Review of Western philosophies
Problems with scientific theories of consciousness
Vedic recognition of the soul’s presence
The soul is eternal
The Vedic description of the soul
The nature of the soul
Supersoul: the unifying factor
Description of the Supersoul
Relationship between the soul and Supersoul
Being ignorant of the self
The cause of suffering
Achieving peace for the individual and for the world
Attaining the highest happiness
CHAPTER FIVE REINCARNATION AND THE LAW OF KARMA
Reincarnation in Christianity
Other references and believers in reincarnation
Approaching death
Rebirth
The law of karma and destiny
Free will and choice
Getting free of karma
CHAPTER FIVE (PART B) AVOIDING ACTIVITIES THAT CAUSE BAD KARMA
Being truthful
Practicing austerity
Inner and outer cleanliness
The issue of abortion
Sex or no sex
Showing mercy and being vegetarian
Biblical quotations about meat-eating
The karma of the nation
CHAPTER SIX THE MODES OF NATURE: DETERMINING YOUR FUTURE EXISTENCE
What are the modes of nature
How the modes of nature work
Action and consciousness in various modes
Where the modes take us
Becoming free from the modes
CHAPTER SEVEN HEAVEN AND HELL AND THE BASIC STRUCTURE OF THE UNIVERSE
The basic universal structure
Description of hell
Description of heaven
The opportunity in this earthly existence
CHAPTER EIGHT THE SOUL’S EVOLUTION THROUGH LIFE, DEATH AND BEYOND
Darwin’s theory
The Big Bang Theory
Our ignorance of life
The five basic stages of human evolution
Life in the womb and birth of the living entity
Life in the material world
Old age and death
The afterlife—heaven, hell, or beyond
CHAPTER NINE WHY IS THERE ANYTHING?
Why the material world exists
Why there is life at all
CHAPTER TEN PERSONAL GOD OR IMPERSONAL FORCE?
God is personal and impersonal
The Absolute Truth is a person
Descriptions from the Brahma-samhita
CHAPTER ELEVEN RECOGNIZING THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
The universal form
CHAPTER TWELVE DESCRIPTION OF THE SPIRITUAL WORLD
CONCLUSION
REFERENCES
GLOSSARY
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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