Dharma Artha Kama Moksha: 40 Insights into Happiness by Devdutt Pattanaik

Category: Non-fiction/ Culture and Religion
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers India
Rights: Translation rights available for Indian and international languages (excluding Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil)

Artha-shastra is about generating food, i.e. wealth, by creating goods and services; Kama-shastra is about indulging our hungers with this food. Dharma-shastra insists we consider the hunger of others, while Moksha-shastra is about outgrowing our hungers, in order to be detached and generous. Together, these four Hindu shastras provide a framework within which human action, its purposes and consequences, can be defined; together, they validate human existence and give it meaning.

In Dharma Artha Kama Moksha, Devdutt Pattanaik uses his unique understanding of mythology to provide an accessible and lucid guide to the Hindu way of thinking, with short essays that are crisp expositions of important concepts.

Translations:
Dharma Artha Kama Moksha – The Hindi translation of Dharma Artha Kama Moksha: 40 Insights into Happiness
Dharma Artha Kama Moksha – The Malayalam translation of Dharma Artha Kama Moksha: 40 Insights into Happiness

The author: Devdutt Pattanaik