Devamrita Swami is the author of several books and articles that are rich in research content and deep in insight.
1. Searching for Vedic India
Bolder minds are keen to discover the hidden acheivements of the ancients. This curiosity will transform the way we see ourselves and the universe. Were some ancient civilizations much more advanced than what we allow? Particularly, India’s Vedic texts challenge our pride and conceptions. The sages of India’s lost past delighted in knowledge of the nonmaterial. But they testify that they also knew how to produce material benefits without industry. Dare we consider that the subcontinent of India, thousands of years ago, was the center of the greatest spiritual wisdom and mystical technology that the Earth has seen? The India of remote antiquity may surface as the greatest find in the new millennium. Searching for Vedic India reviews the latest research from both mainstream and independent sources. Most importantly, it unfolds the ancient answers to the modern riddles of consciousness, reincarnation, extraterrestrial contact, and spiritual dimensions beyond the laws of time and space. Deep in lost history, did high civilizations and advanced knowledge thrive? The ancient Vedic literatures of India describe a worldwide civilization that flourished at a time when modern historians insist that humans like us existed simply as hunter-gatherers. This Vedic civilization, centered in India, employed technologies based on a scientific understanding of the physical elements and forces we know today, as well as more subtle conscious elements. Devamrita Swami, who has spent a lifetime in his own search for Vedic India, takes us on a journey of intellectual discovery through the history of the remarkable Vedic civilization and its knowledge, locked in the ancient literatures of India. His wit and wisdom combine to make our search for Vedic India not only illuminating but entertaining. He tells us not only the truths of Vedic India, but how they are again coming to be. Searching for Vedic India thus takes us not only into the past, but into the future.
2. Perfect escape
Timeless wisdom from the Vedas with modern commentary based on the teachings of one of India's greatest spiritual leaders.
The advanced consciousness of human beings is for understanding the deepest mysteries of existence. What is life? What is its origin? Why does it exist? Yet most people today don't even have any practical understanding of the difference between spirit and matter. Spiritual knowledge is vague and inconclusive. Although fashionable peddlers of popular spirituality claim we are spiritual beings, there is a huge gulf between chic notions of the spiritual self and clear-cut knowledge about it. Centuries ago, the truth was imparted during a chance encounter between a wandering sage, Jada Bharata, and a powerful ruler, Maharaja Rahugana. In the course of a spirited discussion, Jada Bharata expertly and lovingly transported Rahugana out of the desert of false prestige, and unscrupulous action. To this day, anyone who acts according to the knowledge he imparted, will prosper in full understanding and spiritual satisfaction. Jada Bharata's timeless wisdom is a blueprint for the perfect escape from material bondage through knowledge of the Supreme Ultimate Truth.
3. Fast forward - beyond the barriers of limited Science
Today's type of technological wizardry may blind us, unknowingly, to real knowledge of the self. Although the reality of consciousness is apparent to us all, where is the university that can explain why living creatures should be conscious, or how?
Yes, within the narrow spectrum of technological control, the current materialistic paradigm is a fabulous success. Meanwhile, it offers little to answer the most pressing questions inn life.
Our reality is obviously a domain where matter and consciousness coexist. Yet, the ruling western conception, now under stress, exclusively focuses upon what is physical. It commands, "All research must begin and end with matter!" On the other hand, the Vedic texts of Indian have always instructed that we begin with consciousness.
4. Spiritual greed
An excrept from the book " In material life greed leads to pain and suffering. The first miserable gate, lust, because it can never be fulfilled, leads to the next gate, which is anger. When your desires aren’t fulfilled, you become bitter, angry at the world and yourself. Maybe some of you have experienced being attached to someone, but that person didn’t fulfill your desires. So you became so angry, remember? First there was powerful attachment, and then anger. Next, you scream at the person, “Get out of my life, I never want to see you again!” How many of you have done that? The general formula is to double the number of those who bravely raised their hand, since many are shy."
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