Comprehensive history of India's philosophy and religions. Illuminating discussion on the Vedas, Upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhism, Jainism, and India's six systems of philosophy. Includes liberal quotations from scriptures and supplementary writings. Also presents lives and ideas of a few great Indian philosophers.
My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person.The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person.
-Swami Vivekananda