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Ecstasy
1st Edition
Hardback (22 May 2002)
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Gopal-or Ram Das Baba, as his devotees refer to him-is the son of a devout Brahmin family who has spent a lifetime seeking the ultimate truth of spiritual knowledge. His journey as a mystic is filled with illuminating visions, severe tribulations, and an unwavering faith, and he fulfills his destiny as a highly evolved Sadhu through ordeals of monastic bliss, tantric awakening, madness, and transexuality. As his life nears its end he meets a young man who belongs to a very different India. A profound relationship develops. In an age that dismisses divine vision as hallucination, and the desire for a union with God as a symptom of mental illness, Sudhir Kakar's richly detailed novel explores the mind-bending issues that plague the life of the modern thinker. Here are the struggles between emotion and reason; faith and logic-the fundamental questions that carry one from agony to ecstasy and back again.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781585672103 |
Publisher: | The Overlook Press |
Imprint: | The Overlook Press |
Pub date: | 22 May 2002 |
Edition: | 1st Edition |
DEWEY: | 823.914 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 251 |
Weight: | 417g |
Height: | 209mm |
Width: | 141mm |
Spine width: | 25mm |