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Every human soul is divine and valuable. An embodied being’s ultimate purpose is the enjoyment of Supreme bliss as a free soul (Mukta, salvation, liberation) in the highest heaven. Enjoyment is also the basis of happiness upon earth. It leads to the spiritual enlightenment for happy, healthy, and peaceful life and environment. The knowledge of self is what leads to the knowledge of God and this knowledge is the road to eternal happiness or bliss. Real happiness cannot be found externally, it must be realized within. The soul of a man is in the hidden structure of God. He is inside all of us. All life comes from God. The causes of unhappiness are our ego, our prejudice, our desire, and our impropriety. There must not be any lust and hatred, neither longing for one thing, nor any loathing the opposite. The world is spiraling toward conflict, belligerence, and disharmony and is now going through an unprecedented spiritual crisis, class confrontation, calamity, and nuclear and terrorists’ threats. The rise of drug use, the rise of broken families, the rise of the number of single parents, the rise of school and public space mass shootings, the rise of suicides and depression, the rise of sexual scandals among priests and media, rise of overuse of iPad and smartphones by young kids are all threatening our home, society, schools, and the environment with vicious violence, menacing insecurity, wild protests, and rampant immorality.

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Anybody who is looking for a clear and concise introduction to the basic principles of Hinduism will find this volume highly valuable. -Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Riverside This succinct and evocative overview of key ideas from the six schools of Indian philosophy provides a glimpse of a rich tradition, characterized by a commitment to understanding physical realities, rules of logic, ritual, and the possibility of human freedom. Many forms of Yoga are lifted up in this volume, as well as an array of great teachers, from Shankaracharya to George Harrison. -Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and Director, Master of Arts in Yoga Studies, Loyola Marymount University Passage to Perfect Happiness: The Ancient Vedic Wisdom presents a detailed yet clear overview of Vedic wisdom that can be appreciated by the average reader. A particular virtue of this book is its exploration of the influence of this wisdom on important cultural figures of the Western world. This shows that Vedic wisdom is not only a product of the ancient past, but is something that bears universal relevance, and remains important even today. Indeed today, perhaps more than ever, the world is in need of an approach to truth that allows for difference, and that is committed to a state of harmony and the well-being of all. -Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College Without any doubt at all, whatever you ever wanted to know about Hinduism, you will find it here, albeit briefly, in this abridged encyclopedia. -J.P. Das, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Author of Quest for Consciousness Where East Meets West The historic transmission poured into West gradually and found its way into different sectors of society through a variety of streams and tributaries. Nirode Mohanty has written about many of them crisply and concisely in Passage to Perfect Happiness, in addition to explaining the central elements of what his subtitle calls. -Philip Goldberg, Author, American Veda

This succinct and evocative overview of key ideas from the six schools of Indian philosophy provides a glimpse of a rich tradition, characterized by a commitment to understanding physical realities, rules of logic, ritual, and the possibility of human freedom. Many forms of Yoga are lifted up in this volume, as well as an array of great teachers, from Shankaracharya to George Harrison. -Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and Director, Master of Arts in Yoga Studies, Loyola Marymount University Anybody who is looking for a clear and concise introduction to the basic principles of Hinduism will find this volume highly valuable. -Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Riverside The historic transmission poured into West gradually and found its way into different sectors of society through a variety of streams and tributaries. Nirode Mohanty has written about many of them crisply and concisely in Passage to Perfect Happiness, in addition to explaining the central elements of what his subtitle calls. -Philip Goldberg, Author, American Veda Without any doubt at all, whatever you ever wanted to know about Hinduism, you will find it here, albeit briefly, in this abridged encyclopedia. -J.P. Das, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Author, Quest for Consciousness Where East Meets West Passage to Perfect Happiness: The Ancient Vedic Wisdom presents a detailed yet clear overview of Vedic wisdom that can be appreciated by the average reader. A particular virtue of this book is its exploration of the influence of this wisdom on important cultural figures of the Western world. This shows that Vedic wisdom is not only a product of the ancient past, but is something that bears universal relevance, and remains important even today. Indeed today, perhaps more than ever, the world is in need of an approach to truth that allows for difference, and that is committed to a state of harmony and the well-being of all. -Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College

This succinct and evocative overview of key ideas from the six schools of Indian philosophy provides a glimpse of a rich tradition, characterized by a commitment to understanding physical realities, rules of logic, ritual, and the possibility of human freedom. Many forms of Yoga are lifted up in this volume, as well as an array of great teachers, from Shankaracharya to George Harrison. -Christopher Key Chapple, Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology and Director, Master of Arts in Yoga Studies, Loyola Marymount University Anybody who is looking for a clear and concise introduction to the basic principles of Hinduism will find this volume highly valuable. -Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Emeritus Professor, University of California, Riverside Without any doubt at all, whatever you ever wanted to know about Hinduism, you will find it here, albeit briefly, in this abridged encyclopedia. -J.P. Das, University of Alberta, Edmonton; Author, Quest for Consciousness Where East Meets West Passage to Perfect Happiness: The Ancient Vedic Wisdom presents a detailed yet clear overview of Vedic wisdom that can be appreciated by the average reader. A particular virtue of this book is its exploration of the influence of this wisdom on important cultural figures of the Western world. This shows that Vedic wisdom is not only a product of the ancient past, but is something that bears universal relevance, and remains important even today. Indeed today, perhaps more than ever, the world is in need of an approach to truth that allows for difference, and that is committed to a state of harmony and the well-being of all. -Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College The historic transmission poured into West gradually and found its way into different sectors of society through a variety of streams and tributaries. Nirode Mohanty has written about many of them crisply and concisely in Passage to Perfect Happiness, in addition to explaining the central elements of what his subtitle calls. -Philip Goldberg, Author, American Veda

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"Nirode Mohanty has taught, worked, and consulted on religious terrorism; GPS navigation; network architecture; systems analysis and design; signal processing; and religious studies for over 30 years. He has taught communications systems, information theory, coding, computer networks, and signal processing at the State University of New York, Buff alo; the University of California, Riverside; and California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Mohanty has directed research at various aerospace companies as a senior scientist, manager, and vice president, and senior consultant. He has received the Excellence in Creativity Award from Rockwell International and various commendations. He was chairman of IEEE Information Theory in Buff alo, New York. For his contribution to secure and survival communications systems, he has been elected an IEEE fellow (the highest recognition for contributions and publications) and is serving as an associate editor of the International Journal on Telecommunication and Networking. He is the co-author of the paper ""Is the Nyquist Rate Enough"" in the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) 2008, and the paper ""Capacity Theorem for Finite Duration Symbols"" in the ICDT 2009, which won best paper awards from the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). He has published seven books. He has received an M.S., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. from the university of Southern California."

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