About the Book: Love Beauty Joy

C M Ramakrishna was born and educated in Benga-luru. He received B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Mathematics from Bengaluru Central College. He later studied Elec-trical Communications Engineering at the Indian Insti-tute of Science, Bengaluru. He worked at the Atomic Energy Establishment Trombay, Bombay (the present Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai) for a few years, and then went to the USA for higher studies. After receiving his Ph.D., in Electrical Engineering, from The Ohio State University, he worked for NN .„ General Electric Co. for several years. Computer Sciences Corporation, Litton (Amecom) and O Even though his First and Second Languages were English and Sanskrit, in his school and college classes, after retirement, he started writing some rational essays in Kannada, some of which were published in the Commemorative Souvenirs of AKKA World Confer-ences. Later he translated those essays into English. The essays found in this book are about rational inter-pretations, logical explanations, or even a few possible corrections, of some of the age-old concepts, ideas and scriptural statements. These essays point out a few inconsistencies, contradictions and unscientific ideas found in some of our ancient works, whichwere no doubt inevitable, given the fact that the knowledge of our ancestors about nature — natural forces and phenome-na-was very meagre, at best. Yet, we find some profound wisdom and intelligence in those hoary works, albeit mixed with some conjectures, wrong assumptions and beliefs. Now, it is left to us, who are trained in sci-entific disciplines, to separate what is proper or relevant from what is not proper or not relevant in those ancient works. "Love — Beauty — Joy" is an attempt in that direction.