Sanatan Dharma-Manoj Singh

Book: Sanatan Dharma: Vaidik Gateway to the Next Century
Author: Manoj Singh
Publisher: Bloomsbury

What is your understanding of Sanatan Dharma?

Sanatan Dharma by Manoj Singh explores the concept of Sanatan Dharma and attempts to provide solutions to our current problems using this idea of human civilization. He explores Hinduism as a way of life and promotes the natural way of living. He takes up the idea of the evolution if Vaidik Civilization, and elaborates on the basis of Vaidik Sanatan Dharma. Discussing the life in Hinduism, along with the culture, festivals, rituals, customs, yoga, Vedas, and mantras. This is a comprehensive work that touches upon all the aspects of Sanatan Life philosophy for spiritual enlightenment.

This voluminous book is a well-researched and well written book exploring the idea of a Sanatan Lifestyle. The book details the origins of various aspects of the Sanatan Life such as calendar, dates, festivals etc. and explains the significance of the various terms that each one of us would have heard, but not have dwelt upon. Divided into 5 parts with 33 chapters, the author has taken one topic and talked about it extensively with aspects from origins, meaning and its impact on us. He also draws parallels with science at various points to show how the civilization was quite advanced in the earlier times. The book is engaging, and I loved how the author has referenced various books such as the Bhagavad Gita to support his arguments.

The book is not a monotonous lecture, and it takes a logical path to explain why the Sanatan way of life should be adopted. The language of the book is simple and easy to understand. The things are explained well, and the concepts are believable with the evidence provided. I liked the fact that it helped me understand some of the points I was confused about. The thing that didn’t work for me in the book was the fact that the author tried to demean the other cultures and tried to show that Sanatan is the best culture. His repeated attempts to show that the western Culture is the root of all problems was something I felt should not have been in the book. He did a good job of collating the information and explaining it, but when it is used to demean someone else, then the charm of the book drops a little.

Overall, a good book if you want to know more about the Sanatan Culture that scores a 4.13/5 for me.

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