Quest for Truth

Author: Banamali Lahiry
Publisher: Indica Books
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 58
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186569200

Description

This book records the vision of a truth seeker unclouded by theological dogmatism or sectarian bigotry. It is a quintessential exposition of the direct awareness of reality unmediated by the inherently defective instruments we use in our efforts to gain knowledge. The central paradox in our search for truth is that in order to know Reality as it is the knower should disappear, i e the ego-mind should spontaneously dissolve itself in its substratum-the thought-fee consciousness with which the ultimate Reality is homogeneous.

Banamali Lahiry, retired teacher of Chemistry of Banaras Hindu University, belongs to a family of sages whose graphic description he has given in the Epilogue form his personal experience. He expounds here the quintessence of the ageold Indian wisdom in a simple and clear way without technical terms, easily understandable to the modern reader.