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The Veda and Vedanta, are two highly significant branches of indological learning and if Veda can be said as the main base of the Vedanta, the later is the philosophic conclusion of the former. It may be said that the Vedic studies without Vedantic purview will remain unexplained and incomplete. The two are coordinating and inseparable and therefore it has been felt necessary, to study them from the aforesaid viewpoint. The Vedanta is an overall complete thought, which has its linkage with other systems of philosophy and has an impact on most of them. Not only as a philosophical system, its supremacy is recognized throughout the whole world, it has also been studied with its social relevance, as a practical vedanta, in India and abroad. In this country, particularly practical Vedanta of Vivekananda and a number of other neo-vedantins, has brought to notice the utility of Vedanta from the viewpoint of social relevance. For the day is full of various types of myseries caused of domestic and social conflicts, due to moral lacuna, and social and economic inequities, there is felt a need of studying and understanding Vedanta in the whole globe and tnerfore its readership has gone highly up in east and west. In this context, present author is happy that his fellowship has been inspired by the readers of Vedanta, to read and recognize his works, like Sankaracarya, Advaita Vedanta, Some aspects of Advaita philosophy, Glimpses of Vedanta, the Vedantasara (ed.) and the Encyclopaedia of Vedanta. I am highly thankful to them all. In India, along with moral, cultural and philosophical heritage, the saints of Vedic and post-Vedic period and onward, have impressed upon the whole human kind, through their saintliness, full of human-kindness, venevolence, attitude of human-welfare and overall goodness. It is worth-mentioning that the base of sainthood in India, is Sankarite Vedanta, and Vaisijavite both, particularly the Advita Vedanta' of Sankara. Nanaka, Kabira, Jnanesvara, Mira and many others may be referred to in this regard. In modern era, the saints, like Sister Nivedita, Mother of Pondicherry, Maharsi Ramana and Mother Teressa have done a great service for the welfare of human beings. This aspect too has been taken up in the present study. Former Union Minister and Ambassador to the United States of America, Dr. Karan Singh has been very kind to contribute his foreword to the present volume. I am highly grateful to him. Indeed, a word, from a scholar and advocate of international repute in the field of Vedanta, like Dr. Karan Singh, is of a great value to me and [ am further indebted for his sincere affection towards me. I am sincerely thankful to learned professor (Miss) Armaiti S. Desai, Chairperson and Professor Y.C. Mathur, Vice-Chairman, University grants commission for encouraging me in my pursuit of studies.

The idea of collecting the thread of above mentioned views and to interweave them came after organizing four seminars, on Veda-Vedanta conflict resolution in the University of Delhi under the auspices of Dharam Hinduja International centre of Indic research, New Delhi, which is engaged In Vedic and Vedantic research genuinely I am thankful to Dr. Kireet Joshi, President of DHICIR for giving me an opportunity to organize the said seminars. I also thank Dr. R.K. Sharma. Director of DHICIR and Mr. Ram Lal Arora, Administrative Officer of the Centre, for sharing the responsibility of organizing these seminars. I specially thank my wife, Mrs. Chetan Sharma for allways giving me her hand in my academic pursuits. I can never repay her debt. I also thank my daughter Dr. Priti Sharma for contributing her paper, "Abhipraya Prakaika and Brahman", to this volume : Dr. Vipul Gupta, a PILD, Research scholar and my son, Mr. Abhishek Sharma, a student of M. Tech (BHU), who have helped me in preparing. the index. I wish them all a great success in their career. Deputy Librarian, Mr. R. Saini, Mr. Sher Singh and Dr. J B. Khanna and other staff members of the Delhi University Library deserve special thanks, because, it is they who solved my problems regarding precuring me the very rare and precious treasure, I needed time to time. In the end, I am thankful to Mr. Shyam Malhotra, Manager, EI3L, for allways taking up my work to bring it out with keen interest and great zeal.