R.K. Ramachandran Nair, a qualified electrical engineer by profession, had been attached to various departments in different states in India including Andaman, had also served in foreign countries such as Qatar and Saudi Arabia. The awareness and vision gathered from varied experiences from different fields of life have been the cardinal asset of the Author. His tenure of two years, as the engineer on deputation to the holy shrine of Lord Krishna at Guruvayur, Kerala had inspired him to delve deep into the study of Lord Krishna and thus create this novel.
Previous books published by the author 1. Pearls of Passion (Collection of Poems)
2. Love me little, Love me long (Collection of Short Stories)
3. The Song never dies (Collection of Poems)
This is an unfamiliar story of a very familiar love-pair written in the ink of mythology. The backdrop and the principal characters are mythological, but the events are fresh-born. The story is woven around Krishna and Radha, the proverbial love-pair regarded as symbols of the supreme soul and the individual soul in Hindu mythology. I have been punctilious to restrain the free play of my imagination within the ambit of mythological sanctity.
Myths make mythology fascinating. But, will not mythology be more fascinating if the unbelievable myths are kept at arm's length? I think so. Only the myths of love are believable. This story teems with a lot of the myths of love, such as the myth surrounding Radha who looks sweet seventeen even at the very old age and the myth about Krishna who can play his flute through Radha while he meditates far off from her. The stream of the story flows over the golden sands of such myths of love.
Two persons are closest when they are soul mates that love each other merely for the joy of love. Here Krishna and Radha are soul mates separated for long, long decades - remembering and inspiring each other. Even at the moment of Krishna's death it was Radha who filled his heart though he had many other dear ones including his beloved wife.
Can a woman raise her lover to the pinnacle of godliness? In this story Radha, when separated from Krishna, sees him as the eternal energy, which enlivens every being on earth. Every grain of sand becomes a mirror for her to see Krishna. She becomes the forerunner of the movement of Krishna-worship, which has now encompassed the entire world.
Is incarnation God coming down as man? I think, no. Man can rise to the level of God. The reverse can't happen. In this story Krishna is a person of extra ordinary genius and staunch perseverance and endless love. He brightens the lives of his generation and thus becomes God in his lifetime itself.
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