By Friedhelm Hardy
This learn conducts a full of life and cutting edge exploration of the conventional Indian religions and cultures that experience either interested and questioned the West for hundreds of years. the writer makes use of a superb number of assets, and listens not just to what the realized thinker or theologian within the classical Sanskrit texts has to assert, but additionally to what folks cults show in tales, myths, and poetry. by means of targeting the 3 common human drives of energy, love and knowledge, Hardy deals a colourful photograph of the massive range that's Indian faith.
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