About The Author

Dr Girish Nath Jha teaches Computational Linguistics at Special Centre for Sanskrit Studies, JNU and is currently the Chairperson of the Centre. He has over 125 research papers and several books to his credit. He has supervised fourteen PhD and thirty-five MPhil students and has been awarded numerous national/international honours.

Sukalyan Sengupta, PhD, is a Professor of Environmental Engineering and the Director of the Center for Indic Studies at University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Apart from the Prasthanatrayi Vedanta scriptures, he has a deep interest in the overlap of Vedanta, cosmology and consciousness.

Bal Ram Singh, PhD, a professor since 1990 at UMass Dartmouth and Institute of Advanced Sciences, conducting research on botulinum and tetanus neurotoxins, and also on yoga, mind and consciousness. He has published eleven books and nearly 300 articles, and is editor of three journals, including Ayurveda Journal of Health.

Editorial note:

To A serious scholar of Indic knowledge systems, Vedanta presents a 6,000 years of continuous intellectual tradition and a virtual goldmine of research material. In today’s context where most of the world appears to be on the verge of collapsing into chaos, Vedanta needs to be reinterpreted and perhaps repackaged and contextualized for larger benefit. The younger generation which is progressively hooked on to Western materialism and lingo needs Vedanta much more now than it did earlier. How is the relevance of something we consider good to be established for a sceptical new world is the big question ancient civilizations like India have to answer. Since the new world takes pride in scepticism, argumentation, science and technology, we may perhaps think of offering Vedanta in a new platter to our younger readers. It is this idea that the organizers of the 21"1 Vedanta Congress agreed to take up as a challenge.