Nature and Man: The Hindu Perspectives (In 2 Volumes)

The present work is an important contribution towards understandingthe cultural environment in which the conceptsof man and nature were conceived in India. By reviewing thephilosophical values on which Hinduism is based, this studywants to provide information regarding the traditional Indianconceptions of man and nature to the people involved in thesearch for new ecological ethics.Since the author explains the ancient ideas from a perspectivewhich has contemporary relevance, the book has the rarevirtue of presenting the Hindu philosophical systems in a stylewhich is clearly intelligible even for neophytes. At the sametime his scholastic review of esoteric topics like the Psychologyof Samkhya and the Cosmology of Saivism makes the bookan important reading also for authorities on Indology.