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The legend is well known: Vivekananda going up to Paramahansa asking him to prove that God existed, and Paramahansa replying that he was seeing God just as he was looking at Vivek. Only Paramahansa could have said so. For to him God was not a concept as with the theologians or most of the Godmen. He was an immediate presence to be experienced through bhavasamadhi. Nor was experience limited by temporal and physical categories of days, years, male, female for ...
All my Boys and Other Stories is in two parts. The first part unfolding the characters of all my boys through the eyes of the observer protagonist who happens to be their generic uncle and mentor to some extent, though transactionally a landlord as they are his lodgers is essentially in the profile and portrait mode. This part captures adolescent psychology and their group dynamics, their relationship with their parents, mostly over phone, their growth and ...
Asitaang Bhairav is a scripture in verse dialogue which expounds in depth and detail God Bhairav who is Rudra Shiva in dynamic from Bhairav destroys evil and imparts fearlessness. He is in the service of Mahalaxmi. In Asitaang Bhairav Bhairav is bodied forth in fullness and fine print, using eastern Mythology and lore, Western Psychology; the verse moves fast through stories, dialogue encounters, authorial Omniscient addresses to the reader, many in catalogue ...
Ganpati: A New Look, is in the genre of Revisioning Shiva, earlier published by Indian Publishers’ Distributors. It explains in depth and detail God ganpati. Using spirituality, mythology, lore, semiotics, psychology and common sense. In addition to mini stories, Pauraic and folkloric, it has eleven original stories and uses a dozen poems to enrich the interpretation Ganpati: A New Look may be viewed as an extended meditation on an Indian cultural archetype, ...
Sonia Gandhi A profile in Courage and Grace, is a mini epic in the dialogic and dramatic vein. The poet uses the symbology coined from Jung’s concept of shadow, from Durga Archetype, Buddhist Mandala, etc to capture the story and script of Sonia’s personality in the India Gandhi’s households, becoming he First and emerging finally as a charismatic leader. The defining moments in the narration are highlighted. Sonia Gandhi as a poem takes its place in the ...