Occasionally a Christian will come to me saying that they want to go “deeper”. What they usually mean by this is that they want to do an “in-depth” study of the Scriptures. Now here is the problem.

The primary scriptures, the Vedas and the Upanishads, are ideally learnt from a guru and the oral method of transmission that has prevailed since days of yore is shown to have been efficacious in ...