Many earnest seekers are today caught in one dischotomy or another of a conceptual nature.Words and their meanings tyranize over the destiny of man.Even some of the exotic words like Karma have now become as familiar as crunchy granola.Such a seemingly innocent acceptance brings more chaos than good to people. This talk (given by Yati at Dellbrook in San Francisco) is an attempt to expose the irrelevancy of easily swallowing the dischotomic terms
Nitya Chaitanya Yati (2 November 1924 – 14 May 1999) was an Indian philosopher, psychologist, author and poet, best known for his commentaries on Advaita Vedanta as well as his literary criticisms. He was a disciple of Nataraja Guru, the successor to Narayana Guru. Yati published over 140 books in English and Malayalam including a commentary on Darsana Mala of Narayana Guru, titled, Psychology of Darsana Mala. Kerala Sahitya Akademi honoured him with their annual award for literary criticism in 1977.
This book /talk(given at Dellbrook in San Francisco) is too short for such a vast topic..talk on cause ,effect,holistic wholeness concepts as experienced in India as 'Vedanta' in China as "Taoism and in Japan as 'Zen".Thre are some intresting musings in this book like 'Galaxies can emerge and remerge like waves of the ocean in the Absolute inclusiveness called God.The cyclic emergence and re-mergence of the cosmos can be looked upon as a gaint throb of gentle expansion and contraction or two bigbangs of projections and anhilation.It is as if the cosmos is projected when God expires and it disappears when God inspires.When both space-wise and time-wise infinities are telescoped into ,and relation-relata complexities are co-ordinated into an absolute unity ,we arrive at the notion of One with out a second' ..
Any thing written by the author is infomative and readable and this book is a not a exemption.