Durga Rahasya: A Key to the Eternal Feminine

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An initiate of the late Swami Venkatesananda, Durga Rahasya builds on the insights vouchsafed by him. It brings out the cosmological, anthropolo- gical and existential meaning of the text via the three tales. The Introduc- tion unravels the stories syntactically together with the lauds in a relaxed semiotic rhythm, supplementing with a commentary cultural and trans- cultural in five brief chapters enabling insights on the Eternal Feminine to the contemporary reader. The transcreation in a class by itself done by a poet steeped in Durga symbology as a sabridaya reader rounds off the Durga Rahasya. The book should interest any intelligent reader in addition to indologists and psychologists and the initiates. It is a handmade book, free from needless jargon. It stands apart from any other book on the subject by virtue of its freshness and interdisciplinary rangings.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Som Ranchan

Som Ranchan (born in Lahore in 1932), professor , poed, therapist, folklorist, critic, and aphorist, has been professor of English & American literature in the U.S.A. and India. He was Head Department of English, H.P. University for over a decade, where he held several other positions such as Dean of Arts, Social Sciences and Languages for varying spells. Ranchan has been the recipient of prestigious fellowships such s Fulbright. Hazen, University of Wisconsin and Indian Institute of Advanced Study.