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The Burning Sands Of Sindh - A novel based on the life and times of Adi Shankaracharya (Paperback)
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The Burning Sands Of Sindh - A novel based on the life and times of Adi Shankaracharya (Paperback)
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The Burning Sands of Sindh is the story of the beginning of India's
decline, and enslavement of a thousand years, set in the eighth
century. It contains a vast range of human experiences and emotions
from the bizarre to the sublime. It is the story of every man and
woman who chooses to walk in the faint but sure light of the atman.
It is the story of those that do not want to live by the vagaries
of chance or destiny. The modern rationalists have confined reason
to a combination of sense-observations and logic. It is a neat
method adopted by genuine seekers of knowledge, yet it lacks the
joy that knowledge brings to the human heart. The expectation of
the heart is not a whim, for nobody suffers more due to lack of
this joy than those that lie in the Procrustean bed of empirical
knowledge. Intellect of Indian philosophers was not only empirical.
It evolved from Dhi (empirical) to Medha, i.e. the intellect aware
of sources other than empirical, to Pragya, i.e. the intellect
intimate with immortality, to Ritambhara, i.e. the intellect that
integrates the other three and discovers nature of the material
truth in the mundane world. Beyond these lie the transcendental
truth that includes everything - the material and the
transcendental - and satisfies the mind completely. Man needs to
investigate the way to happiness. Nirmal Kumar has offered in this
book a way to it, which may fit in the definition of rationality of
a majority of the modern people. This story is set in the eighth
century, when the Arabs invaded India and enforced Islam for the
first time. It was not like the earlier invasions of the Iranians,
the Greeks, the Shakas and the Huns. The Arab invasion aimed at
wiping out India's spiritual culture, which did not use deceit,
cunning and cruelty. The invaders aimed at changing the human
personality from natural to artificial. They wanted humans to fit
in the measurements of their newfound faith. They wiped out the
most populated cities of Sind that resisted them. This gory event
in India's history coincided with the brief life span of
Shankaracharya, one of the world's great rationalists. He taught
that when the intellect stops taking one further towards truth, a
deeper faculty, Pragya intellect brings intimations of immortality
to the mind. It grows only after the soul sacrifices itself to the
Absolute. After Pragya, the Ritambhara intellect grows. It
integrates the mortal body and the immortal soul. Self-sacrifice
only introduces the soul to its immortality. It gave the people the
secret of conquering fear and all negative emotions in those
troubled times.
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