“Path of illumination-Truth behind Religion”
“Henceforth I declare the Truth With raised hands”
“With overwhelming grief, pity and tears trickling,
I beseech ye listen and respond”.
- by Maha Yogi Sudhakarjee (realised Monist)
These two phrases reveal the content of the book; self-explanatory; arouses curiosity and creates sustained interest to read the book and understand the content of various scriptures with discrimination. The title further creates interest to interact with the author and probe into the One Truth behind the various religions and thereby the reader strengthens his own understanding. The title finds its place though indistinctly, but in an indicative expression in the Holy Bible, the Holy Quran, the Buddhistic and other literature and abundantly in the Indian Upanishads and Vedanta.
The title directly points out the Supreme Truth (the Self) and its radiance, which is beyond the word of expression, definition and description as transcendental, but immanently present in the entire creation. Indirectly it further provokes and prods the reader and the intelligentsia to enquire into the implied opposite namely - the path of darkness and the untruth in the religion and this part is mainly explained in all the scriptures and widely practised out of ignorance and lack of guidance. The sum and substance of these two aspects is discussed scientifically with precision and emphasis in this book for the awareness of the humanity at large.
The later part of the title "Henceforth, I declare the Truth with raised hands; "With overwhelming grief, pity and tears trickling, I beseech, ye! Listen and respond" - is a rousing call awakening the sleeping minds of the humanity to the Truth - The one Truth behind the Universe with the humble request to work out now for correct understanding and disseminating the knowledge of the one God and the one Truth and retrieve the misguided masses from belief and irrational approach to religion and God.
Maha Yogi:- The word, yogi is from the root yuj - to unite or to join. Here the effort to enter into the heart begins in uniting the divergent thought process and the vital energy particles into a single movement - a thoughtless state, the quietened mind and then compressing it into the Cause. It is the choiceless path of involution through an effortless effort where the formful merges in the formless and the sound in silence. Every one, in fact, is a Yogi in the day-to-day experience, since he joins all the vital energy within and the mental force in concentrating on the targeted desire for achievement. The targets vary as per ones own desire but the effort and concentration remains the same in nature. The Author's desire is to discover his true nature and the target is the Self-realisation. The process of struggle is deep penetration through the intervening adjuncts and the involution into the primal substance and, verily the author does record the Supreme triumph of Nirvana. He is, therefore, the Supreme, the great yogi, the Maha Yogi - the word in Sanskrit is rich in content and coined to mean human experience.
