The Teaching of the Vedas: What Light Does It Throw on the Origin and Development of Religion? (Classic Reprint) by Maurice Phillips (Paperback / softback, 2016)
Excerpt from The Teaching of the Vedas: What Light Does It Throw on the Origin and Development of Religion? This book is intended to answer two questions, via, (i) what is the fundamental teaching of the Vedas? And (2) what light does that teaching throw on the origin and development of Religion? There is book in the English language giving a popular, succinct, and yet an adequate, account of the teaching of the Vedas, the oldest records of the Aryan nations. It is hoped, therefore, that this will supply a want long felt alike by missionaries, ministers, and all interested in the religious history of our fellow-subjects in India. When I began my missionary career among the Hindus, thirty-three years ago, I felt keenly that, in order to be an efficient worker, a kwledge of the religious and speculative thought of the people was absolutely necessary. But there was book avail able that could furnish me with such kwledge. Ihad to gather it little by little; at first from the works of learned specialists, and afterwards from the study of the Vedas, by the aid of pundits. The results are embodied in this volume. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
