About the Book: Hindu Religion and Ecology
The concept of ecology and its role play an integral part in the development of
culture and civilization of human beings. The Vedas and other Brahminical
literatures universally acknowledged everything of nature which is embodied
under the sun. The Vedas and other literatures deal with knowledge and the
knowledge covers both ecological and philosophical aspects of nature. The oldest
and simplest form of nature-worship finds expression in Vedic texts. Many
scholars have come to the conclusion that the Vedas are primarily concerned with
cosmology, however, they are not in a position to show that Vedic cosmology has
the solutions to the