Passage to Perfect Happiness

List of Figures - Foreword by Philip Goldberg - Preface - Introduction - Path to Perfection: Six Systems - Mind, Body, Self, and Paths - The Vedic Religion, Spiritualism, and Culture - The Vedic Principles and Practices - The Vedic Music and Intellectuals - Appendix 1: Glossary - Appendix 2: The Vedic Scriptures - Bibliography - Index - About the Author.

Nirode Mohanty has taught, worked, and consulted on religious terrorism; GPS navigation; network architecture; systems analysis and design; signal processing; and religious studies for over 30 years. He has taught communications systems, information theory, coding, computer networks, and signal processing at the State University of New York, Buffalo; the University of California, Riverside; and California State University, Long Beach. Dr. Mohanty has directed research at various aerospace companies as a senior scientist, manager, and vice president, and senior consultant. He has received the Excellence in Creativity Award from Rockwell International and various commendations. He was chairman of IEEE Information Theory in Buffalo, New York. For his contribution to secure and survival communications systems, he has been elected an IEEE fellow (the highest recognition for contributions and publications) and is serving as an associate editor of the International Journal on Telecommunication and Networking. He is the co-author of the paper "Is the Nyquist Rate Enough" in the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT) 2008, and the paper "Capacity Theorem for Finite Duration Symbols" in the ICDT 2009, which won best paper awards from the International Academy, Research and Industry Association (IARIA). He has published seven books. He has received an M.S., M.S.E.E., and Ph.D. from the University of Southern California.

"Passage to Perfect Happiness: The Ancient Vedic Wisdom presents a detailed yet clear overview of Vedic wisdom that can be appreciated by the average reader. A particular virtue of this book is its exploration of the influence of this wisdom on important cultural figures of the Western world. This shows that Vedic wisdom is not only a product of the ancient past, but is something that bears universal relevance, and remains important even today. Indeed today, perhaps more than ever, the world is in need of an approach to truth that allows for difference, and that is committed to a state of harmony and the well-being of all." -Jeffery D. Long, Carl W. Zeigler Professor of Religion, Philosophy, and Asian Studies, Elizabethtown College