Sanatan Dharma (Vedic, Jain, Buddha)

Description

Quoting extensively from the Sanskrit scriptures the author defines Sanatan or Hindu Dharma in a coherent and contemporaneous manner.  Book covers vast array and sums up the key concepts like Atma, Karma, Brahmn, Avatar, Sansara, Purushartha, Moksya . It tries to put forward the essence of Vedic and other scriptures. It presents the eternal values of harmony, universalism, truth, democracy,  ethics, non- violence, peace, humanism, cosmic co-existence enshrined in Indian thought. It also encapsulates the faith, philosophy, spirituality, and way of life. It deliberates on the subtle distinction between Hindu and Abrahamic world view. The book puts forward oriental-Indic perspective also highlighting the digressions cropping up mainly due to the Indologists viewing the Oriental concepts from western Abrahamic prism. The book speaks about main scriptures, the knowledge tradition of saints and Gurus, the sublime and elevating ideals .It dwells on the Vedic, Jain and Buddhist philosophies and concludes that they differ only in the methods of worship and nature of reality, rest is the same. Book talks about what is that essence, that benign thought which makes Hindu Dharma a perennial source of goodness . Almost all aspects of Hindu religion have been incorporated- spirituality, meditation, environment, society, culture, economics so on . It talks about ups and downs, the challenges, the consequences of digressions from the eternal values. It deliberates on the irrepressible zest of Sanatan Dharma and the future of civilisation linked with it.