A broad-ranging, lightly-illustrated, scholarly treatment of core topics in Hindu spirituality during its formative earlier periods. It brings together the complex skein of thoughts, beliefs, and practices that developed from the archaic period of the Vedas and received their early crystallization as Vedanta. It presents the eternal, timeles dimension of Hinduism.

Krishna Sivaraman is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at McMaster University, Canada, and is the author of Saivism in Philosophical Perspective, co-editor of and contributor to Revelation in Indian Philosophy, and author of many articles published in North America and India