SUTRAS
First an Odyssey, then Drishti and now Sutras!
If one sees the literary meaning of Odyssey… it is a long adventurous journey or experience!
Enriched by those experiences, perceptions change, giving a new Drishti!
And now Dr. Maladkar has the power to give Sutras, initiating the readers on an eternal spiritual journey!
I am privileged and honoured to express my stray thoughts about Sutras!
I experienced the bliss while reading it!
The language is lucid and simple… unlike philosophical jargon; which directly touches those inner tender cords of the heart.
A story of an Alzheimer’s patient’s husband brought tears to my eyes. It was not sadness but an expression of a blissful experience.
‘Being lonely’ and ‘being alone’… two simple words but most meaningful.
I perceived it instantaneously when I read it! Although I have many a times experienced that aloneness, I had never articulated it.
Dr. Maladkar’s words have that powerful magic!
The German folktale — Rumpelstiltskin… same experience!
Such small, beautiful stories unfold the wonderful inner world!
Numerous quotes and anecdotes are elaborated so beautifully and powerfully that they give pure joy — joy that can’t be narrated but has to be experienced!
It is not a discourse but he (Dr. Maladkar) is answering the Seeker’s queries.
That is our age-old tradition of GURU–SHISHYA PARAMPARA!
I may say here that the word Teacher is not synonymous with Guru.
गुप्तरुपम् प्रदर्शयति स: गुरु
(One who skillfully unravels the Eternal Truth is Guru!)
Sant Dnyaneshwar, at the age of 16, has written:
बोली अरुपाचे रुप दावीन अतींद्रिय ते दाखवीन इंद्रियांकरवी
— संत ज्ञानेश्वर
(That supreme power… Nirgun, Nirakar — no form or appearance — I will show you through your five senses.)
This spiritual strength comes only after meditation or SADHANA.
The Sutras written by Dr. Maladkar will compel the reader to take the first step to initiate the spiritual odyssey!
The blissful experience that I had cannot be expressed in words — one has to self-experience it.
Thank you, Dr. Maladkar!
