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Gora
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A dense philosophical novel delineating the inherent dialectics within diverse systems of faith, the parochial notions of selfhood and nationalist fervour that are released through cataclysmic upheavals bringing about the realisation of unfettered Truth, and the transmutation of identities that are dissected in tandem with their emotional and social trajectories.
He seemed adrift in a lawless realm, where the impossible becomes possible, the unthinkable can be accomplished, and transcendent beauty assumes visible form.
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At the far end of the dew-moist kash fields with their tall feathery reeds, shone the golden radiance of approaching sunrise. Neither of them had ever witnessed such a sunrise before. The light had never touched them in this way. For the first time they realised that the sky was not empty, that it gazed steadfastly at Creation in silent wondrous bliss. Such an intense awareness had awakened in their hearts that they seemed to physically collide with the innermost consciousness of the entire universe.
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After all infinitude of emotion is a much greater thing than infinitude of extent.
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Where the alleyway narrowed, joining the main road, stars were visible against the stone-black darkness of the open sky. That piece of sky, those few stars, carried Gora's soul away tonight, to a place remote from all worldly demands, far, far away from the mundane routines assigned for this workaday world! Transcending the rise and fall of so many kingdoms and empires, far beyond the efforts and prayers of so many ages, that patch of sky and those few stars were waiting, in complete detachment. Yet when one heart called out to another from within the bottomless abyss, that wordless yearning from the solitary edge of the world seemed to set off a vibration in that remote sky, in those stars so far away.
He seemed adrift in a lawless realm, where the impossible becomes possible, the unthinkable can be accomplished, and transcendent beauty assumes visible form.
***
At the far end of the dew-moist kash fields with their tall feathery reeds, shone the golden radiance of approaching sunrise. Neither of them had ever witnessed such a sunrise before. The light had never touched them in this way. For the first time they realised that the sky was not empty, that it gazed steadfastly at Creation in silent wondrous bliss. Such an intense awareness had awakened in their hearts that they seemed to physically collide with the innermost consciousness of the entire universe.
***
After all infinitude of emotion is a much greater thing than infinitude of extent.
***
Where the alleyway narrowed, joining the main road, stars were visible against the stone-black darkness of the open sky. That piece of sky, those few stars, carried Gora's soul away tonight, to a place remote from all worldly demands, far, far away from the mundane routines assigned for this workaday world! Transcending the rise and fall of so many kingdoms and empires, far beyond the efforts and prayers of so many ages, that patch of sky and those few stars were waiting, in complete detachment. Yet when one heart called out to another from within the bottomless abyss, that wordless yearning from the solitary edge of the world seemed to set off a vibration in that remote sky, in those stars so far away.
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December 18, 2021
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December 18, 2021
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February 26, 2022
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"That day she had for the first time seen ideas in relation to human beings, sensing the mysterious presence of something alive and whole. She had forgotten that day, the divisive vision that saw human society in black and white alone, separating ny side from yours. She had been able to regard a person of different views as primarily a human beings, so his opinions became secondary."
March 4, 2022
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"The deity she had been taught by her father to worship seemed to bless her today. And on this sleeping rivershore dense with foliage, at the sacred moment of union when the night's darkness first secretly embraces the new light of dawn, at the full assembly of stars in the firmament, a divine melody rang out on the unstirred strings of the vast cosmic mahaveena, like unbearably exquisite pangs of joy."
March 16, 2022
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