The Veda Made Simple

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About the Book The Veda Made Simple is an important book. In a strikingly clear, lucid and straightforward manner, the author reveals the rich and complex philosophy and symbolism of the Rig Veda for anyone who is open to receive the wisdom of humanity's oldest spiritual scripture. That the author does this in the light of Sri Aurobindo-inarguably among the very few who realized and lived the deepest and highest Vedic truths in his being-makes it even more significant. This book comes at the right time too as Indians globally begin to reawaken to their timeless Vedic and Sanatan heritage.

About the Author Pariksith Singh, MD, is a passionate and acutely intelligent student and exponent of Hindu Dharma, and one who has been deeply engaged spiritually and intellectually with Sri Aurobindo and his Yoga for almost all his adult life. Singh is also the author of two other remarkably enlightening books on the Master and his works-Sri Aurobindo and the Literary Renaissance of India (2021) and Sri Aurobindo and Philosophy (2022). Singh's approach and writings are uniquely personal and not academic at all. His works, though of a commendable intellectual calibre, are suffused with bhakti-psychic devotion for the subject that he has chosen as his oeuvre: Sri Aurobindo himself.

Foreword The Rig Veda is the oldest book in the world. It is like an ancient monument in pristine form for we know it was passed down without change of a single syllable by the use of mnemonic devices that have ensured perfect fidelity.

Preface The Veda is an ocean of the purest and most condensed knowledge. And this ocean of wisdom is the heritage of all humankind.

This is perhaps the best way I can describe this ancient revelation of sacred hymns. Vast, multi-faceted, multi-horizoned, protean, revealing dimensions upon dimensions within its all- encompassing expanse. Each moment its colors changing, from aquamarine to chartreuse, from sapphire to violet, from indigo to emerald, from russet dawns to golden dusks.

And each colour a broadband of knowing, cognizing, experiencing.

Acknowledgements I wish to acknowledge my immense debt to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Pondicherry, without whom this book would not exist.

The Vedic rishis are the founders of our civilization. Without them, the Indian civilization would never have arisen in the first place, let alone taken the shape and form that it did. Modern India, too, in a sense is a creation of rishis such as Sri Aurobindo, who went into the very depths of ancient wisdom in their attempts to forge a new nation. This book is a tribute to the rishis, both of yore and of recent times the poorvebhih and the nootanai.