Searching For Vedic India [Hardcover]

Devamrita Swami (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 7, 2002

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 hunters-gatherers. This Vedic civilization, centered in India, employed technologies based on a scientific understanding of the physical elements and froces we know today, as well as more subtle conscious elements. The author, who has spent a lifetime in his own search for Vedic India , takes 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 the truths of Vedic India, but how they are again coming to be, This book thus takes us not only into the past, but into the future.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 615 pages
• Publisher: Bhaktivedanta Book Trust (May 7, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892133503
• ISBN-13: 978-0892133505
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,397,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #57 in Books > Religion & Spirituality > Hinduism > Vedas

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent overview, October 5, 2003

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Julian Seidenberg "Candidasa" (Wellington, New Zealand) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching For Vedic India (Hardcover)

Devamrita Swami gives a complete overview of the many current ideas and vast ocean of information about ancient Vedic India. Search for Vedic India gives lots of mind-boggling information.

For example: The top blocks of the Egyptian pyramids weigh more than the ones on the bottom. For some reason the Egyptians used the heavier blocks on the top, where they would have been more difficult to place. The best theory to explain this is that that ancient culture could somehow levitate huge ton-sized stone blocks. Indeed, the 5000 year old Vedic India texts give similar accounts.

The book is very well written. It kept my interest like only a few rare other books do. I would recommend this book to anyone with even the slightest interest in history, anthropology, or ancient civilizations. Highly recommended.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars From the blurb:, June 23, 2003

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Edward Pattillo (Eungella, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching For Vedic India (Hardcover)

Bolder minds are keen to discover the hidden achievements 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.

Devamrita Swami is an author and researcher specializing in the history and knowledge of ancient India. Born in New York City, he began his immersion in India upon graduating from Yale University in 1972. Visiting India annually for almost three decades, he is an ordained sannyasi, or monk, of India's Vaishnava spiritual tradition. He is now based in Australia, from where he travels to every continent. His previous
book, Perfect Escape, is a contemporary commentary on a section of the spiritual text Srimad-Bhagavatam.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book is brilliant !, June 22, 2003

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Edward Pattillo (Eungella, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Searching For Vedic India (Hardcover)

I highly recommend this book to anyone; especially to those who have misgivings about the current state of western so-called 'civilization'. SFVI provides illuminating insights into the very fragile foundations that form many of our conceptions regarding the development of human culture. It also challenges the premises of what we accept as 'knowledge' these days and even implores us to question the process of how we obtain such knowledge.

I've read it once but to get a good grasp on the information presented here would deserve a thorough study.

There's plenty of material here to keep even the most stodgy intellectual type of person entertained and amazed - what to speak of its potential for people who have a taste for engaging others in stimulating discussion.

Get this book while you can. You won't regret it.

Regards,
Edward Pattillo