An Orchestra Of Oneness In Amrita Pritam바카라�s Writings

The death anniversary of the high priestess of love, Amrita Pritam (1919-2005), falls on October 31. My deliberations draw on her dream sequences which, neatly poised to launch 바카라�the soul바카라�s worship바카라�,  hold out the possibility of the renewed evolution of human consciousness. Here, I have in mind her significant works of mystical and esoteric expressions like 바카라�Lal Dhage Da Rishta바카라� (1989), 바카라�Hujre Di Mitti바카라� (1991), 바카라�Aksharon Ki Antardhvani바카라� (1990), 바카라�Sitaron Ke Akshar aur Kirnon ki Bhasha바카라� (1987), and 바카라�Akshar Kundali바카라� (1997). 

Discerning readers will recall the visionary poet바카라�s radical worldview where religion is not a ritualistic grammar dictated by an unquestioned allegiance to sacred texts but a redemptive, introspective journey nudged by the unalloyed desire to transform one바카라�s inner soulscape. It is the religion of the soul in Amrita바카라�s thought process that exudes an abiding impact to contest one바카라�s conditioning for a paradigm shift in one바카라�s attitude to life and living. Her manifesto of humanism, where love is therapeutic and transformative, appealed to me immensely when I discovered her soulful writings alongside Tagore and Whitman during my university days at Santiniketan. 

What added to my immersive reading of Amrita was the eclectic scholarship of my teacher바카라�s steady diet of works from a galaxy of thinkers 바카라� Sri Aurobindo, Blake, and Yeats. I began to echo Amrita바카라�s quest: can we conceive of a world where the truth of religion elicits values of different faith communities?  The forward-looking vision of Amrita is a devotee바카라�s compelling call for a sense of self against a world where imperviousness to religious pluralism is a pervasive reality, where human consciousness muddles through in futility, and where the eternal quest for the sublime is blighted by the empty rhetoric of bloated egoism. Against this spiritual slumber, exacerbated by the hubris of all-encompassing 바카라�I바카라�, what accords significance to Amirta바카라�s dream sequences is the prophetic nature of her illuminating and metaphysical epigrams induced by her inner search with its haloed specificity that bursts forth with what Evelyn Underhill calls 바카라�Illumination바카라�. 

The world of literature will be impoverished without the enduring beauty of Amrita바카라�s dream sequences. One feels the primordial pain of longing for love, peace, and harmony in her mystical musings. One detects the spiritual expansiveness, at times waxing euphoric of the fullness of personal quest. Love becomes a healing reversal of hatred, animosity, and death. In her dream sequences, one encounters an aspirant바카라�s paradisiacal flight in the wake of the collapse of a world imprisoned in pathological narcissism and the psyche바카라�s capriciousness. Amrita바카라�s words are cathartic to counter what is anti-life and anti-humanity and reaffirm the omnipotence of love. Her love is her 바카라�first religion바카라� as she uniquely underpins: 바카라�When I draped myself with your being/ Our bodies were turned within in meditation. / Then our limbs entwined like flowers in a garland/ As an offering at the altar of the soul.바카라�

Amrita바카라�s dream sequences, painfully salvaged from the wreckage of a love-less world, echo and ratify what she offers as a universal anodyne 바카라� 바카라�Rajnessh Chetna바카라�(Rajneesh Consciousness) to herald the children of a new dawn and kindle 바카라�deh ke mandir mein aatma ka diya바카라� (the lamp of the soul in the temple of the body).  Here in Amrita바카라�s world, love is truth, truth love! It is the benediction of love that sees everything in the light of grace. Amrita recalls Mirra Alfassa (The Mother) who writes to a boy with freckles: 바카라�You are beautiful, yes indeed, your freckles are so pretty; one would say that an angel had sown grains of wheat all over your face so as to attract the birds of the sky there.바카라� Does it not call to mind Amrita바카라�s passion for love where love is the clarity of a living consciousness? 

Amrita, in her search for the 바카라�infinite Ideal of Man바카라�, to quote Tagore, is a true mystic who is soaked in the grace of sublime knowledge where 바카라�there is no mystery beyond the present, no striving for the impossible, no shadow behind the charm, no grasping, in the depth of the dark.바카라� (S Radhakrishnan)

I ask myself: Who is Amrita? I am reminded of the exchange of dialogue, to borrow the lines from Eknath Easwaran :

바카라�Are you a God now?바카라�

Quietly, he made an answer. 바카라�No.바카라�

바카라�Well, are you an angel?바카라�

바카라�No.바카라�

바카라�Then what are you?바카라�

바카라�Awake.바카라�

To invoke the spirit of 바카라�Awake바카라� is to consider the value of Amrita바카라�s dream sequences,  both enchanting and enlightening, in greater depth to unravel deeper insights into humanity바카라�s relationship with love and its vanishing landscape. To cite an analogy, the timelessness of Amrita바카라�s eidetic vision is like the 바카라�Aging Maria바카라� and I am tempted to quote the soul-stirring words of Judith Ortiz Cofer:  바카라�Still, year after year, she stands firm in my mother바카라�s garden. In crepuscular light, her still regal form acquires a certain luster, the yellow patina of age briefly turning to a luminous gold, as though she were lit, as she is, from within.바카라�

(Sudeep Ghosh is an independent writer based in Hyderabad. He can be reached at sudeepmailsu@gmail.com. Views expressed are personal.)