Vedic Experience of Mantramanjari - Tapa dura

"This is a welcome addition to the anthologies of Vedic hymns. This is intended for what the translator calls the "Modern Man" defined as one who is secular in his attitude (not irreligious) and finds himself in a transcultural situation." --Bhavan's Journal Vol. 44, No. 17, April 15, 1998

"The book is a piece of art and knowledge which one should have in personal collection." --Mystic India, August, 1995

"The collection is adressed to the modern man." --Prabuddha Bharata, September, 1996

One of the most stupendous manifestations of the Spirit is undoubtedly that which has been handed down to us under the generic name of the Vedas. The Vedas are still too much neglected not only in the world at large but also in their country of origin. this Vedic anthology will make direct and fruitful knowledge of the Vedas available to a wider range of people than the small elite of pandits and Indologists. This anthology collects the most crucial texts of the Indian Sacred Scriptures--in all more than 500--newly translated into contemporary English. Dr. Panikkar`s principle has been to select and place together texts so as to offer a selection of texts that cover the full range of `The Vedic Experience` and at the same time to show how they manifest the universal rhythms of nature, history, and Man. Excerpts are taken from the oldest hymns, such as the Rig Veda; from the Brahmanas, the Aranyakas, or "Forest Treatises," and finally the Upanishads, which represent the mystical and philosophical culmination of the Vedas. This is a book for meditation, for reading, public and private, as well as for thorough study at this wellspring of human wisdom. It should, moreover, facilitate that meeting of East and West so long desired and delayed, and now so imperative.