Searching for Vedic India

Bolder minds are keen to discover the hidden acheivements of the ancients. This curiosity will transform the way we see ourselves and the universe. Were some ancient civilizations much more advanced than what we allow? Particularly, India’s Vedic texts challenge our pride and conceptions. The sages of India’s lost past delighted in knowledge of the nonmaterial. But they testify that they also knew how to produce material benefits without industry. Dare we consider that the subcontinent of India, thousands of years ago, was the center of the greatest spiritual wisdom and mystical technology that the Earth has seen? The India of remote antiquity may surface as the greatest find in the new millennium. Searching for Vedic India reviews the latest research from both mainstream and independent sources. Most importantly, it unfolds the ancient answers to the modern riddles of consciousness, reincarnation, extraterrestrial contact, and spiritual dimensions beyond the laws of time and space. Deep in lost history, did high civilizations and advanced knowledge thrive? The ancient Vedic literatures of India describe a worldwide civilization that flourished at a time when modern historians insist that humans like us existed simply as hunter-gatherers. This Vedic civilization, centered in India, employed technologies based on a scientific understanding of the physical elements and forces we know today, as well as more subtle conscious elements. Devamrita Swami, who has spent a lifetime in his own search for Vedic India, takes us on a journey of intellectual discovery through the history of the remarkable Vedic civilization and its knowledge, locked in the ancient literatures of India. His wit and wisdom combine to make our search for Vedic India not only illuminating but entertaining. He tells us not only the truths of Vedic India, but how they are again coming to be. Searching for Vedic India thus takes us not only into the past, but into the future.

Devamrita Swami is an author and researcher specializing in the history and knowledge of ancient India. Born in New York City, he began his immersion in India upon graduating from Yale University in 1972. Visiting India annually for almost three decades, he is an ordained sannyasi, or monk, of India’s Vaishnava spiritual tradition. He is now based in Australia, from where he travels to every continent. His previous book, Perfect Escape, is a contemporary commentary on a section of the spiritual text Shrimad-Bhagavatam.