By Sunil Kumar
जय श्री राम , जय श्री कृष्ण.. My first post this year on my personal site
Book Review on the Indic Club page some days back.
#indicbookclub #IndicAcademy First of all, I would like to convey my gratitude for sending what turned out to be a really interesting, insightful book. Finally got around to reading it after some prior commitments.
The book is simple, succinct and eloquent. Have read many of the concepts discussed here in other sources over the years. The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra, Swami Rama, Deepak Chopra, Sadhguru, Om Swami are some of the others that come to mind.
There is a contagious air of positivity in the narrative which I found endearing especially when there is a daily barrage of everything to the contrary.
Profound Vedantic concepts are simplified by Rishi Nityapragya into easily digestible snippets.
The subtle inner flow of consciousness has been extensively analyzed by practically every ancient Indic tradition. From the ‘sthitha pragya’ of the Bhagavad Gita to the detached observation of Vipassana, anekantavada to Advaita or Bhakti, the real wonders of the world lay inside . His main theme is to put a contemporary spin on the subject.
In many ‘spiritual’ and ‘scientific’ texts there is a tendency to get lost in the detail. I liked the fact that he has attempted to keep it free of unnecessary complexity while keeping the profundity in place.
Indic tradition often gets obscured by abstruse philosophical jargon.
On the other end of the spectrum, there are certain writers who are certainly readable but existentialist and self-aggrandizing. Camus, Sartre, Proust make an appearance in a long comparison to Indic tradition in a tome on ‘Kama’ I once read.
According to him, a thorough understanding of subtle inner strengths and their use for individual and collective benevolence is a part of ‘swadhyay’ in your life trajectory.
What Shri Nityapragya has covered is not new, but there is certainly a distinctive, fresh approach. This was also a book where brevity was not an issue. It is handy enough to be carried in a backpack whenever the world gravitates to a new normal.
To sum up, the book attempts to give a practical path for the sadhaka on an adhyatmic and material plane. Rishi Nityapragya describes ways for a transformation of consciousness. Invoking them regularly is the gist of his message.
