Vedanta is an ancient and very difficult to understand system of Indian metaphysics that has attracted Western scientists for centuries. The purpose of Vedanta is to answer one question: “What is the source of everything?” To answer this question, Vedanta rises above the sacrificial ritualism of the Vedic religion. It stands unshakably on the philosophical pillars of the Vedic texts – the Upanishads and the Vedanta Sutra.
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.The answer that Vedanta seeks is in the realm of consciousness. But to reach the higher consciousness, which is the source of everything, it is necessary to rise above the lower levels of identification. One of these difficult levels to overcome is the level of the mind.
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For almost every researcher who grew up in the field of the Western cultural tradition, within the framework of which all philosophers – from the ancient Greeks to modern ones – rarely drew the line between “mind” and “soul”, the idea of ​​​​disidentifying oneself with the mind seems unrealistic. In the modern dictionary there is a word “psychology”, which symbolizes the attempt to scientifically explain the mind. This word is of Greek origin: “psyche?” means “soul”. But the mind is not the soul. He is a subtle material reflection of the soul. You can study the mind for millions of years and still not come close to understanding the true self.
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Vedanta Psychology introduces the reader to the ancient science of the difference between the pure, eternal and ever blissful soul and the flickering, unstable mind, which is the root cause of duality (happiness and sorrow, love and hate, etc.). The book explains in detail the structure of the mind and how it should be used in yoga (spiritual practice). Finally, the highest goal of Vedanta is explained – how a pure soul can free itself from the prison of mental identification and return to the Supreme Soul, the source of all existence.