The Vedic religion is a complex and well-structured set of ideas, values, and practices whose main features have remained unchanged for more than three thousand years, becoming over the centuries the fundamental components of Hinduism. This rigorous and clear introduction to the ancient and classical Vedic traditions of India deals essentially with ideas revolving around the divine and its relationship with the natural and human world, with cosmology and revelation in their correspondence with poetry and rituals, as well as with the link of the human soul with ultimate reality and its yearning for liberation, immortality, and transcendence. Both Vedic literature and practices reveal to us a universe full of meaning that rests on a transcendent principle of harmony that, through imagination, comes into existence while protecting that harmony when it is threatened or restoring it when it has been destroyed. Thus, the ineffable gods who shaped the universe in their image and likeness are the creators of a cosmos that is nothing more than an infinite and prodigious work of art of the imagination.