Ecstasy Hardcover - 2002
by Sudhir Kakar
From the author of the acclaimed first novel, The Ascetic of Desire, comes a book that is "subtle yet deeply tantalizing" (Asian Age). Sudhir Kakar, a renowned psychoanalyst, brings a penetrating understanding of the human psyche to his new novel while exploring the nuances of philosophy and religion.
Gopal-or Ram Das Baba, as his devotees refer to him-is the son of a devout Brahmin family who has spent a lifetime seeking the ultimate truth of spiritual knowledge. His journey as a mystic is filled with illuminating visions, severe tribulations, and an unwavering faith, and he fulfills his destiny as a highly evolved Sadhu through ordeals of monastic bliss, tantric awakening, madness, and transexuality. As his life nears its end he meets a young man who belongs to a very different India. A profound relationship develops.
In an age that dismisses divine vision as hallucination, and the desire for a union with God as a symptom of mental illness, Sudhir Kakar's richly detailed novel explores the mind-bending issues that plague the life of the modern thinker. Here are the struggles between emotion and reason; faith and logic-the fundamental questions that carry one from agony to ecstasy and back again.
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- Title Ecstasy
- Author Sudhir Kakar
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 251
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harry N. Abrams, Woodstock.
- Date 2002-05-22
- ISBN 9781585672103 / 1585672106
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.24 x 5.56 x 1.01 in (20.93 x 14.12 x 2.57 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Young men
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002022874
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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