This is a unique book written by unique person. Dr. C. Dakshinamurti is not only a great agricultural physicist and scientist, but also an eminent philosopher and Sanskrit scholar. It is therefore our good fortune that he decided to write this book on "Origin of Universe - Vedic Approach." He has combined the depth of his scientific and analytical mind with the width of the vedic view of life. He mentions appropriately "physics ends where philosophy begins," "no amount of limited knowledge can be a tool to unravel the entire gamut of the nature where pure wisdom and knowledge become infinite and merge with celestial bliss." While reading this book I was reminded of the following excerpts from the book "What is Life?" by the eminent physicist Erwin Schrodinger. "In Christian terminology to say. 'Hence I am God Almighty' sounds both blasphemous and lunatic. But please disregard these connotations for the moment and consider whether the above inference is not the closest a biologist can get to proving God and immortality at one stroke. In itself, the insight is not new. The earliest records to my knowledge date back some 2500 years or more. From the early great Upanishads the recognition Atman = Brahman (the personal self-equals the omnipresent, all comprehending eternal self) was in Indian thought considered, far from being blasphemous, to represent the quintessence of deepest insight into the happenings of the world. The striving of all the scholars of Vedanta was, after having learnt to pronounce with their lips, really to assimilate in their minds this grandest of all thoughts." - from Amzon