# Vedanta Guidebook

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**Author:** Jiten Ruparel[⌊WP_20151211_15_19_04_Pro⌉](https://writersworkshopindia.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WP_20151211_15_19_04_Pro.jpg)
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Pages:** 190 **Year of Publication:** 2015 **Price:** Rs 600 **ISBN:** 978-93-5045-
096-3 (9789350450963)

_**About the Author**_
 Jiten Ruparel holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, an
M.A.Sc. in Management Sciences, and a Ph.D. in International Technology Transfer.
Specializing in the design and construction of nuclear power plants in the UK, Canada
and the US between 1962 and 1996, he has worked at General Electric in India, Atomic
Energy of Canada in Toronto, and American Electric Power in Columbus, Ohio. He taught
at Ohio State University, Franklin University and Otterbein University between 1998
and 2010 and retired as Associate Professor of Business Policy and Strategy in June
2010.

Dr Ruparel’s father was a Vedantin associated with the Ramakrishna Mission in Kolkata,
India, and his mother was a Krishna devotee. He studied Sanskrit at home and in 
school. He attended lectures of Swami Chinmayananda in Kolkata and Shivananda Yoga
camps in Canada and the Bahamas. He completed a one-year yoga teacher’s training
programme in Toronto in 1978 and a one-year residential Vedanta course conducted
by Chinmaya Mission in Piercy, California, between August 2010 and July 2011. He
was taught by Swamis Tejomayananda, Shantananda, Ishwarananda and Bodhatmananda,
and many other teachers over the years.

_**Teaser**_

With colour plates, tables and other visual aids, this book is an excellent resource
on the Vedas. In his preface to the book, Dr Ruparel writes:

“This book is being written for emotionally mature men and women, regardless of 
age, who have an open mind and want to understand the wisdom of the Vedas and who
have a rational, enquiring mind that is not totally satisfied by rituals and pronouncements,
no matter how ancient and hallowed they may be. This book is about you, about me,
about each one of us who has the courage and audacity to examine life lovingly, 
critically and dispassionately. The purpose of this book is to make you happy.

This book is suitable for those who have a nodding familiarity with the teachings
of Vedānta. If you have read one or more Vedānta texts, it will help you connect
the conceptual dots in your mind. It is an intermediate-level text. It will prepare
you to go deeper into Vedānta, if that is what you decide to do.

This book is ideal for those of Hindu descent/background or those who were socialized
in such a family environment. This book will benefit you if you have some exposure
to an Indian language or are able to cope with Sanskrit Vedānta terminology that
will be introduced, explained and only then used in this book.”

_**Contents**_

PREFACE: Is This the Book for You? / 11
 INTRODUCTION / 15

SECTION ONE: Vedic Background / 35
 SECTION TWO: The Vision and Wisdom of the Rishis/
51 SECTION THREE: Related Topics / 133

EPILOGUE / 177
 APPENDICES 1. Timeline of Indian Worldviews / 178 2. The Five Sheaths
and the Three States / 179 3. Sequence of Apparent Creation / 180 Vedic Worship /
181 Personal Prayer / 182 Further Reading / 183

TABLES
 1. How to Pronounce Transliterated Sanskrit / 13 2. The Three Gunas / 99
3. Relationship between the Elements and the Senses / 147 4. Sequential Manifestation
of the Five Elements / 149 5. Microcosm and Macrocosm Terms / 176