Deeply anguished by incessant sufferings and the onslaught of nonstop thought of the ephemeral nature of all things and relationships, he intensely cried for immortality since childhood. In search of God he escaped multiple times to the caves of the Himalayas from the college hostel. His attempt was to go beyond death one day. Little did he know then, what the ask was! It was a terrific fight agai
nst the mighty Maya and like a corpse he moved on in the crowded cities, his Atman (individual soul or I) lost elsewhere. Time rolled on, despair loomed large over the little horizon of mind and life became unbearable. Hope had almost departed, friends had parted ways, when one day he suddenly woke up to see "Whole world afloat inside shadow like". The all engulfing fiercest storm of liberation had passed over his little world right in the campus days. Now, cage open, parting hours near, but the little bird waits for a while adoring its old dolls (relations) gathered over ages! Objective of the book is to stamp with authority that Atman is and iron will overcomes all obstacles. A loud and intense cry does wonder. What is samadhi or realization at a very profound level, and what promise it holds for the sagging and drooping souls everywhere engulfed by fear and disease? The experiment recorded in this little book is an emphatic 'Yes'; There is no may be, there is no might be, truth alone is, and can be realized in one life. And, after realization eternal spring does return. Like a focused beam of light from a lens burns a paper, like a laser light in hospital burns the diseased part, like a hot frying pan sucking a water drop, the infinitely unified consciousness reduces all things to what they really are, into mere shadow like appearances. In other words, the infinitely unified consciousness or gathered mind or meditative absorption doesn't allow things to settle as 'mass or energy' no matter how big the object is, be it a black hole, be it andromeda, be it our sun. No cosmos can survive the penetrating eye metaphorically attributed to Shiva's third eye.
