The context of the Bhagavad Gita, the epic Mahabharata, and its striking theme, the battle of Kurukshetra, as well as its two main protagonists, Lord Krishna and his disciple Arjuna, are the subject of chapter one.

The Vedic tradition and the Upanishadic enquiry form the mainstay of the philosophical current flowing in the Divine Poem, as it is presented in chapter two.

The dialogue that unfolds in the Bhagavad Gita is both exoteric and esoteric in so far as it serves as a practical guide for spiritual seekers and contains concealed elements of the solar revelation for the initiates. The nature of this dialogue is described in chapter three.

The deeper insight into this dialogue culminates in the exposition of the solar way which is the subject of chapter four.
The ultimate goal of any authentic philosophy or religion is spiritual salvation. In the Bhagavad Gita, it is an unconditional surrender to the eternal flow of divine love and will which concludes the spiritual pilgrimage in chapter five.

In this spirit, each chapter of "The Solar Way" presents the spiritual journey of Krishna and Arjuna in a synthetic manner. The Divine Poem is seen from various angles and it is assessed at different levels of understanding but, each time the all-embracing treatment of the subject has prevailed over the fragmented analytical study.

As to the genesis of this book, readers may recall introduction to the book "Solar Yoga", my co-authored by Yogacharya Janakiraman, which described some of my spiritual experiences in India and my contacts with the great spiritual Masters of our times. "The Solar Way" is to be placed in the same context.

It is in Kurukshetra, a University town in Northern India, which corresponds to the ancient sacred place by the same name, that I attended my first spiritual retreat with the great saint Sree Ananda Moyi Ma. In the course of that week, destiny brought me to one of Her oldest devotees, Professor Gaurinath Shastri, who initiated me into the mysteries of the Bhagavad Gita. In the years that followed our encounter, we read and studied the Divine Poem and practised its esoteric teachings. During that time, my frequent visits to Sree Ananda Moyi Ma culminated in my spiritual initiation at Her ashram in Brindavan, the small town which had been the witness to Lord Krishna's playful youth. This was also the period of my spiritual pilgrimages to the most remote and ancient places of India when I had the grace of visiting the holy Krishna shrine of Badrinath in the Himalayas.

In those years, the first version of this commentary on the Bhagavad Gita appeared under the title "The Triune Path, a reading of the Bhagavad Gita by Gaurinath". The book, from cover to cover, came as an inspiration to me and was written in a very short span of time. It appeared as a publication of the Benares Sanskrit University, in the name of Gaurinath Shastri, then Vice-Chancellor of this prestigious institution, as an homage to his teaching me the cardinal principles of the Divine Poem.

At the close of my stay in India, I spent some time at the Shantiniketan University, a place which is vibrating with the universal spirit of the great poet Rabindranath Tagore. In this enchanting atmosphere of West Bengal, I could experience the profound longing of the poet for a nameless, universal, cosmic. Being, to whom no worship and no ritual should be offered but only the silent prayer of a pure heart. To feel this universal spirit vibrating so powerfully in a place where the poet whom I admired so much had longed for it, was for me the realization of an important aspect of the spiritual search. It is the Brahman of the Vedas, the Atma of the Upanishads, the Void of the Buddhists. But, beyond the cosmic manifestation, beyond the Brahman there is the supreme Person, the Purushottama, the Eternal who incarnates Himself in different ages on our earth. Far was I from knowing then that He was listening to my soul's aspiration and that He was watching all my peregrinations. It was only later, through the inner experiences with which He blessed me and in the spiritual companionship with Yogacharya Janakiraman, that I realized that He had been there in Shantiniketan answering my quest, the Lord Krishna of our age, Bhagavan Sathya Sai Baba, the One who hears and fulfils.

In the light of profound spiritual experiences, real Yoga becomes a creative variation on a unique theme. Nothing is created anew but the ancient Truth is discovered once again and, in this spirit, "The Solar Way" is offered to the readers.