The sages of ancient India said: “Don’t stay in the darkness, go to the light.” The book you hold in your hands is an invitation to journey from the dark night of materialism to the sunny day of transcendence. In the Vedic tradition, which dates back many thousands of years, spiritual knowledge is transmitted without distortion through the chain of disciplic succession, and this is how it is presented here. The teachers of Vedic wisdom never pursued any selfish goals. Offering the world a unique gift, they simply invited everyone on a journey leading from darkness to light, from the world of illusion to the world of reality, from death to immortality.