Vanity Karma: Ecclesiastes, the Bhagavad-gita, and the Meaning of Life

Jayadvaita Swami

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Searching for Meaning in a Meaningless World

What is life for? What may give it meaning? Does it have any meaning at all?

A sage in ancient Israel brooded over these questions. In ancient India, too, such
questions drove a despairing warrior to seek answers from his divine friend
Krishna. The thoughts of the sage became the wisdom book Ecclesiastes; those
of Krishna, the Bhagavad-gita. Their wisdom speaks to our deepest concerns.

In Vanity Karma, wisdom meets wisdom as these two
perennial classics come together, both offering us profound understanding.
And a deep and authentic spiritual understanding, we may find,
can infuse our lives with meaning and with joy.

Vanity Karma brings you on a journey through the full text of Ecclesiastes,
a journey illuminated by traditional biblical scholarship, insights from the
Bhagavad-gita, a dash of autobiography, and a steady spiritual focus.