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The stories that teach and enlighten are our very ownThe Path of Light retells stories from the Upanishads, the Jatakas and Asian folklore. Moving, amusing and extraordinary, this unusual collection is its own first from across the Indic tradition. Sort-of-known and unheard of, these magical tales take us from the banks of the Yamuna to the Kaveri and the Iravati, to the Himalayan foothills and across the Eastern seas.They map the journey of the human heart through the pleasures and pitfalls of existence, fusing the past with the present in a happy continuum.