An initiate of the late Swami Venkatesananda,
Durga Rahasya builds on the insights vouchsafed by him. It brings out the cosmological, anthropological and existential meaning of the text via the three tales. The introduction unravels the stories syntactically together with the lauds in a relaxed semiotic rhythm, supplementing with a commentary cultural and trans-cultural in five brief chapters enabling insights on the Eternal feminine to the contemporary reader. The transcreation in a class by itself done by a poet steeped in Durga symbology as a sahridaya reader rounds off the
Durga Rahasya. The book should interest any intelligent reader in addition to indologists and psychologists and the initiates. It is a handmade book, free from need- less jargon. It stands apart from any other book on the subject by virtue of its freshness and inter- disciplinary rangings.
Contents:
Preface
Introduction
1. Creative principle
2. World-principle
3. The tale of transformation
4. Stotrams
5. Walpurgisnacht
6. Transcreation
Index.
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