Introduction To
The Augmented Edition
On the eve of
bringing out the 2nd Edition, nothing, I presume, can be a more fitting
beginning, than thanking lavishly the theist community and intellectual
fraternity, who read and are reading, either for information to visit these
hoary temples for gaining merit, or to augment their dissertations to be
submitted for scaling higher academic ladder, for fulfilling my sole ambition
dissemination of the spiritual wisdom of our sacred IND. My joy at going to the
press in a short period of 30 months is so great that it out-weighed all the
worries, caused by hurdles, rows, disappointments that squeezed the sap of my
life, to speak the truth.
For, I played
several roles-writer, Publisher, Distributor, Seller etc. to making the 1000
copies of the first edition reach the discerning readers scattered all over
India. And abroad too. The experiences read like a fascinating tragic-comedy.
Its didacticism failed miserably, though it tried with all its might to mould me
into altogether a different man-a business man, for my firm conviction that
writers alone shape the destiny of mankind and fill the world with bliss
remained firmer than before. Has not Shelley pronounced-authors are the
unacknowledged legislators of the world? Though it made me wise, it did not rise
my monetary position.
Never
regretted, since my aim in taking up the several roles is, as said not for
profit, but promotion of our Sanathan Dharma, its nucleus being the integration
of diverse nationals and divine sentiments. A little more of this is necessary
now for full comprehension of the idea of starting the Message Publications. So
read.
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