Readers' Comments

A. Mr. Mehta gives a nice summary of all the main aspects of Indian philosophy, from his perspective of believing in God.  The book is well set out and as brief and yet comprehensive as I can imagine.  Because it is set out in a "bullet" style, unusual for a book, it is easy to follow and the reader will definitely come away with a clear knowledge of Indian philosophy.

Yoga teacher, Athens, Greece

B. The language is easy to read (for my standard as I do  not have a sophisticate knowledge on Indian phylosopy so yours is written in such a language that I could understand and is not as dry as those I had read in the past and did not seem to understand much because of too technical on Indian phylosophical terms ).

Chinese lady from Singapore

Back Cover

"Today, everything is marketed.  You decide whether to buy a book on the basis of whether it looks nice, whether it looks interesting, its price, whether you have seen it advertised.

Indian philosophy is not idle speculation.  It is not to do with a scientist or philosopher waking up one morning and saying to himself, let me devise a theory of this or that.

Indian philosophy is to do with helping you achieve your purpose in life. 

It tells you what you need to know in your religious development.

In this day everyone lacks guidance.  There is "information" in abundance, but it is mostly irrelevant or wrong.  Your parents and teachers do not teach you what you need to know.  If you go to a "yoga" class you are harmed not helped.

Just as a baby or a child cannot grow up on its own, you too cannot follow a religious path on your own.  It is not possible.  The harder you try, the greater will be your pride.  You will fail.

In the ancient tradition of India, a guru, spiritual teacher searched for suitable students to help.  Today, there are no teachers in touch with God.

Life for a religious aspirant is much much more difficult than it used to be.

You need a strategy.  In my five books in the series a "Perfecting Your Energy Spheres" I have given you all the information you need to form your own strategy.  In my sixth book "Spiritual and Religious Journey" I set out how religious progress happens.

This book summarizes the main factual content of Indian philosophy.  Why do you need to read Indian philosophy?  Shri Krishna and Lord Patanjali, both incarnations of God, took the trouble to set out this subject.

In this book, I summarize what is stated in Indian philosophy.  In my other works, I give supplementary information of benefits to the sincere religious practitioner.

Compared with India in 500 B.C., intelligence levels today are greatly reduced.  It is not possible for a sincere student to read the source texts and understand their import, nor to develop from just the information they contain.  This is not to do simply with a difference in education or background.  In and around 1000 A.D., many of the greatest minds of India, noting this decline, commented on the ancient works.  Today, even these commentaries cannot be understood.  A person by the time he or she has read one sentence will have forgotten the previous one.  Reading even a short book such as the Yoga Sutra written in 500 B.C. is completely impossible.

Even though abilities have declined, people like to buy large tomes.  A long novel is preferred to a short one, a large car to a small car.  To make my works accessible, I have tried to keep the books short.  In this book, I often use "bullet" style, so that the essence of a point can be quickly grasped, without the clutter of superfluous words.

Religion is not about festivals and pilgrimages and churches. Here is an excerpt from a well known authority about which tours you should not go on if you are interested in Religion:

X Badrinath Yatra (7 D)
X Buddhist Pilgrimage Tour (15 D)
X Char Dham Yatra (10 D)."

ISBN 1-4121-5211-9