Vedic Knowledge — From Those who Have Sipped and Supped

It sometimes feels that these days everyone is writing, and everyone is talking — all the time! There are so many books being written, and it does not matter if there is no publisher willing to publish them. The authors can self-publish, and Amazon is willing to sell it to the world, one print-to-order copy at a time. If there is so much being written, is there anyone who is reading these books? Like the philosophical thought experiment which asks, “If a tree falls in the forest and there is no one to hear it, does it make a sound?” we may also ask, “If everyone is writing, is there anyone reading?”

While this intro to a review of “Vedic Culture: The Difference it Can Make in Your Life,” may be rather discomfiting, it is offered with the hope that some people, especially those busy writing their own books, will indeed pick this book up to ponder over their own fate in this world of maya, and the fate of the world in the grip of busy human bodies.

We are living in a world that is teetering on the edge of disaster — overpopulation, unbridled consumption, over production, environmental disasters, and nature gone awry. One year of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the deaths of about 2.5 million people, but the world population in just these first fifty days of 2021 has increased by more than twelve million! We are close to 7.9…