Seek the Reality and the Reality Itself Seeks You and Sets You Free (An Old and Rare Book)

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Dr.N.P.Rao holds B.Sc. (Hons.) and M.Sc., LL.B., Ph.D., Diploma in Business Administration and Industrial Management. He graduated from Stanford University, USA in Production Management. He was the Director in DR&DO, Ministry of Defence. He was a Visiting Professor at Delhi, Roorkee and Stanford University on Management and allied subjects. He published research work on management problems. He widely travelled and represented India at International Conferences. He has 40 years of teaching, research and consultancy experience.

He is on the Faculty of many Institutes. His latest books include Modernising Management for the 21st Century, HRD etc. Besides, he is the author of several books on religion, metaphysics, philosophy, spirituality impregnated with modern and scientific interpretation.

The author has, through this book, courageously embarked upon a path which is comparatively less travelled for which he deserves appreciation.

The concept of Supreme Reality - the underlying principle behind everything is explained in a lucid style. The Reality which is pure consciousness is constant, eternal, infinite and exists both inside and outside. It is greater than the greatest, greater than the earth, the sky, the mountains, the rivers and even the oceans. After explaining the nature of reality, the relationship of reality with the elements and senses is explained. The author then shows the reader the path one should follow in pursuit of Reality. It is stated that the Reality need not be searched for outside, but one should look inward within one's own self. It is within one's own heart, and is enveloped by untruth due to our longing for external objects of senses. At the same time, there is the path of divine knowledge which directly leads one to Reality without any intermediate stages. It is stated that Reality has to be actually realized. Mere intellectual comprehension of reality is not enough.

Dwelling into the soul-Supreme Reality relationship, the autho, states that power of the soul is drawn from the all-powerful reality of which soul is a segment. The individual soul, the universal spirit and the absolute reality are indistinguishable and cannot be discriminated from one another. When we are engrossed in the worldly things, we cannot perceive this unity of oneness due to our ignorance. To achieve reality, our very attitude and disposition should undergo change. We should feel that there is some superior force guiding our life and destiny. We must give up our ego. Then the Supreme Reality acts as our friend, philosopher and guide. Such an attitude gives us a sense of certainty that someone else is carrying the burdens for us and we can be free from worries.

In this world which is full of darkness caused by our own ignorance, a world in which mankind finds itself stranded, directionless, facing an emptiness, this book will certainly prove to be a true companion, philosopher and a guide in the pursuit of Reality.

This book entitled "SEEK THE REALITY AND THE REALITY ITSELF SEEKS YOU AND SETS YOU FREE" contains 18 Chapters. which number is significant like the 18 PARVAS of MAHABHARATA 18 YOGAS of BHAGAVATGITA, 18 MAHA PURANAS and 18 UPA PURANAS, 18 SAKTIPITHAS, 18 days of KURUKSHETRA WAR. 18 AKSHOHINIS that participated in that war, 18 steps to the SABARI MALAI LORD and 18 thousand SLOKAS OF SRIMADBHAGAVATA and so on.

The subject matter of Reality described in this book is the underlying principle behind everything - the individual, the universe and the cosmos the seen and unseen. It exists as TRUTH, KNOWLEDGE & BLISS. To facilitate knowing and experiencing it. we either accord various names and forms to it to worship or contemplate on the supreme principle using our reason, intellect. intuition, imagination, inference and deduction of the Reality therefrom This book is a successor to its predecessors SPIRITUAL UNITY AND A NEW SOCIAL ORDER", "MYSTIC WAYS OF KNOWING THE UNKNOWABLE & ENJOYING THE BLISS", "TOWARDS A MEANINGFUL & SATISFYING LIFE HERE & HEREAFTER" etc.

After an introduction to the basic concept of Reality, the book proceeds to deal with the pursuit of it, its relationship with the elements and senses, a unified theory of Reality and it's nature the transcendence principle, the Macro and Micro aspects of it, the vital force, the corporeal and divine planes, the demeanour of a realized soul, the seeker-sought connectivity. It concludes with our Great Expectations of realization of Reality, the light at the end of the tunnel and the ultimate reward.

Grateful acknowledgments are made to the various authors on the subject and the great light thrown by them on Reality. Thanks are also due to my various well-wishers and promoters and sponsors /donors who have taken absorbing interest in seeing the book through print, so elegantly broughtout, and correcting the DTP by Srnt. Chavali Kalpaka Manikyam.

The author has succeeded in providing an exemplary exposition of 'para-vidya' (Supreme Knowledge) which is the knowledge of the'Real', declared to be comprehensive of all. By knowing this knowledge, what is unheard becomes heard and what is not perceived becomes known. The journey from the unreal to the 'Real' is facilitated by the reflective consciousness of a human being who undertakes an earnest investigation of different ends of life. The celebrated prayer says, "from the unreal lead me to the 'Real', from darkness lead me to the light, from death lead me to immotality". The knowledge of the 'Real' dispels all our doubts and disbeliefs, frees us from all fear and secures for us unexcellable bliss. The Upanishads affirm that the quest of the Real' (the Infinite) is the supreme end of life It describes the 'Real' as, "the soul of truth, the anchor of ille, the delight of the mind, and the fullness of peace and eternity". Sankara observes in his commentary on a particular passage in the Upanishad that "even one well-versed in the scriptures should not set about seeking the knowledge of the Infinite by himself". Going to the Guru is not a mere formality but a necessity. For an aspirant engaged in relentless and persevering quest of the Infinite, this book, "Seek the Reality and the Reality itself seeks you" provides abundant discriminative sense (viveka) to pursue the quest for realization of the Absolute Reality by spiritual experience.