Author: Pandit Motilal Shastri
Translator: Rishi Kumar Mishra
Pandit Motilal Shastri’s Vyakhyana-panchakam (five discourses) was delivered at Rashtrapati Bhawan, New Delhi, on December 14-18, 1956. The collection of five discourses was translated by Rishi Kumar Mishra.
Pandit Motilal Shastri was invited by India’s first President, Dr Rajendra Prasad, to give five discourses on vedic vijnana at the Rashtrapati Bhawan on December 14 to December 18, 1956. The lectures were attended by several well-known scholars and acharyas (teachers) of Veda-shastra including eminent vedic scholar, Dr Vasudev Sharan Agarwal.
Shastriji chose five themes for his discourses, focussing on distinct vidyas or knowledge systems, all of which offered a unique insight into the mysteries of Creation.
This makes the five lectures he delivered at the Rashtrapati Bhawan an important testimony to the storehouse of vedic knowledge which has shaped and embellished a nation of over one billion people. In these five discourses, Shastriji has presented a kernel of Vedic wisdom, a tiny seed that contains the magnificent cosmic tree of creation.
