Contents:
I. Introduction.
1. The Rig Veda, the book of mantra
2. Chants to heaven and earth and chants to the dawn
II. The fourfold godhead.
3. Agni, consciousness-force, the sacred fire
4. Indra, pure being, the spiritual man
5. Surya, intelligence, the solar self
6. Soma, the immortal nectar, the bliss of pure perception
III. The goddess.
7. The goddess, the power of the divine word

"The Rig Veda is not only one of the oldest sacred scriptures of the world, but also one of the most misunderstood. Past scholarship has dismissed the hymns of the Rig Veda as being expressions of a primitive animistic mentality that only rarely rose to true spiritual and philosophical heights. David Frawley's book demonstrates that this judgmental view is ill-founded. This is an important and riveting book, ushering in a new and sounder tradition of Vedic interpretation and scholarship." Georg Feuerstein