The book starts quite interestingly in the womb and the narrator is the unborn child, a wise soul dying to share its understanding of the ways of the universe. The wise soul discovers it has been reborn as a doggy swamiji abandoned in a garbage dump. How the dog Vasu is rescued and comes to get embroiled in the worldly drama with other characters, is what the story is about.
The story revolves around an activist Durga who has her own issues to sort, her tenant Meghna and her daughter Saira, the gardener Manickam, and of course the protagonist, Vasu, the doggy swamiji. The story weaves through the abandonment of Vasu, being adopted by Manickam, loved by Meghna and Saira, detested by Durga, until it changes things. Meanwhile Vasu reveals his wisdom. The story ends on a sad note for those who are used to happy endings but the purpose of the book is to say that sad-happy is only maya.
The religious wisdom however is as such.
It takes the path of Advaita and questions - what is your essence? Your real nature is not your changing ideals or your beliefs or the thoughts and emotions that arise from that. Your real nature is stillness, a restful awareness.
The one who has Shraddha attains Jnana.
The consciousness that is the foundation of the world is the same as that of your individual being.
Rather than coming from our mind, when we come from our silent awareness, we experience a profound oneness with the same awareness of other beings.
Only when the deeper still awareness is cultivated in you, only when you can relate to the world through your sensitivity can you be said to be fully above the reality.
Knowing that you shall see all beings in yourself.
The still awareness in nature is the persistent ever present reality. all the entities of the world are ephemeral and changing stuff.
The world is a field of expression, a canvas that consciousness created to paint itself.
Your life can bear meaning only when you make it the outward expression of your deepest truth,; an expression of the unique authentic being that you are.
As you abide in your core awareness more and more, your action becomes effortless and smooth.
We saw how self-realisation would transform your work in the world. to see how it transforms relationships - know that you shall see all thing in yourself
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It is a well-written book with a good dose of humour that I enjoyed, characters that are in conflict with themselves and the world around them, a dramatic ending. But what I loved most was the way the philosophy was doled out in such a simple way.
Loved read the book and picking up the philosophy.
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