Ruminations of a Hindu (An Old and Rare Book)

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A modern Hindu having a "convent" education and working in the profitable but fiercely competetive field of management of an industry retires and re-aligns his life objectives. The search for the roots. Working from fundamentals new objectives are set out; and the forces that act as impediments, constraints and compulsions inside and outside of himself are analysed. The objective? To achieve a tranquil mind.

Why all the dots?

A pause for the reader to think; an opportunity for the reader to identify himself with the author.

57 years An Engineer by profession. Worked for the first 15 years on various hydel and irrigation projects all over India and the next 10 years in setting up a small scale industry in Poona. Retired prematurely to Bangalore with the altruistic urge to build up village industries but failed at the very first step of collecting funds for a corpus, may be all for the best because:

He stumbled into the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, Rama- krishna, Ramana and bhajans of Kabir and Tukaram. However, it was the Spanda theory (The Life Principle) in Yoga Vashishta as expounded by Prof. Satyanarayana Shastri of Vivekananda Kendra that sparked off these Ruminations.