Monday 24 August 2015

Secret Doctrine - Review by Justice S Mohan


JUSTICE S. MOHAN
CHIEF JUSTICE,
HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA STATE

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, 
how complicate, how wonderful is man!

Distinguished link in being's endless chain! 
Midway from nothing to the deity!

Dim miniature of greatness absolute! 
An heir of glory a frail child of dust! 
Helpless immortal! Insect infinite! 
A worm A God!

That is the fine description of man by Edward Young.  One may laugh or scoff at it.  One may adore or admire it. But the truth of the matter is the perfect definition one can think of  I am convinced so after going through the pages of Amarakavi Ramachandra's monumen­tal work of The Human Evolution in the Physical (The Secret Doctrine).  No other book could ever start with the major premise that 'Man is a facade of Temple' 'in whom all wisdom and good abide' and develop upon that premise so beautifully as this work.

To him, the transcendence of mental power is something extra­ordinary.  Its wake up makes one reach intellectual power of immense height.  He would say “The reap of its turn out hatches Mano Shanti”.   The pursuit is a fascinating one and could be called ‘Jnana Upadesam' when the thinking seeks to attain celestial heights.

“The awakened spiritual awareness” – Jnana Upadesam – is something to marvel at.  The omnipresence of God is so inherent to that transmuted emphasis of day conscience into Paramakasa – tiers of om­niscience intelligence – as the nature of the divine in human power.  To gain entry into that should be one's constant endeavour; to gain impetus thereto should be the ultimate object of human progress – a way of life functioning to the guided sails of Paramatma, even as the man of the earth set to phenomenal yoke all day through".

This string of noble thoughts comes from mature mind linked to a higher line of thinking. Amarakavi Ramachandra is a rare person from whom emanates real philosophy with fine fragrance.

If persons like him make us believe in the great statement of Emerson: "Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool" should we not express our deep felt thanks to Amarakavi?

         "He is on earth, but his thoughts are with the stars; Mean and petty his wants and desires, yet they serve a soul exalted with grand, glorious aims – with immortal longings – with thoughts which sweep the heavens and wander through eternity.   A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest".

These words of Thomas Carlyle aptly fit the description of Amarakavi, excepting perhaps the wants and desires – for one with those wants and desires cannot attain great heights, as this book evidently illustrates. May his contribution to the world of thinking, high thinking remain a glittering light amidst the darkness of this word!

  "I saw Eternity the other night
 Like a great ring of pure and endless light".
                                                       

                                                        Henry Vaughan

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