Thursday 29 December 2016

Foreword TO ABC; XYZ; GOD

One of the best readers ! Surely amazing and superb in its approach to the unfathomable knowledge of the Supreme Truth and Reality. I have all appreciations to Shri CB Rao for this masterpiece of deep understanding and exploration.
Basically a scientist, Mr Rao has an unshakable faith in Divine. His wisdom is all assuring and well signals a lasting reward for the awakened human race. Let us only see how long it takes a scientist to become the saint now ! It has been said that the greatness of GOD will remain ever unsung even if the ink pot earth finishes entire ocean of ink using all trees as pen writing in His praise all over the sky! I only wonder if it is a beginning of this process actually begun this way here. The manifold aspects and attributes which Mr Rao discusses in 'Titbits about GOD'  surely exhibit his deep insight of accumulated vast learning as well as the exact experience required in this direction.
I am also very much impressed by the command the author exercises in a foreign language, English. The selection of appropriate words, the precise and communicative use of the punctuations and the lucidity in expression- all mark the utmost care Mr Rao takes trying to bring home his point to the reader.
About the themes and contents of the book, I will only add that Shri Rao lays a little too much stress on the principle of Karma. This principle basically gets much related to the theory of cause and effect and the birth and rebirth idea on this earth. The Vedantic view of India is indeed the ultimate indication of Reality in true tradition of knowledge. When Gita compares death to be an other aspect of life like childhood, youth or old age, it assures that there is no break in the continuity of it by death as it is One Consciousness only ever living. Further in Chapter thirteen of it when Krishna declares that He is one Kshetragya ( cosmic soul) living in all bodies, there is no case of single outing any one  soul with any separable individual identity. We do no consider an electric bulb or a fan or a tube light having a distinct electric power to be used and reused!
Further, it may sometimes be concluded by Mr Rao's exposition that GOD being All Powerful and Competent, is the Supreme Performer. In the ninth Chapter of the Gita, Bhagwan very well explains that the nature in 'His Chairmanship performs and for no other reason than this, the world evolves'. To my mind, therefore, talking about GOD, as the Supreme Performer, may at times be misleading.
I have finished reading this book word by word amidst loud marriage ceremonial noise remaining totally undisturbed. This is perhaps because the author is silently in long persuasive conversation with his readers with all earnestness and sincerity. I wish this epoch building work a great success. 
President, Maharshi Agastya Vedic Santhanam, Bhopal 

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