Cosmos

Recently, while in a discussion, I was reminded of a book that I read. The book that helped me understand a lot about the world. Most importantly it helped me move on in life, from things that I was holding onto for emotional reason rather than practical ones.

One quote from the book, that, everytime I read takes me back to the days when I was sitting on the hostel roof, slight rain looking over the horizon and seeing the cars going over the expressway.

• दुःख सबको माँजता है और— चाहे स्वयं सबको मुक्ति देना वह न जाने, किंतु जिनको माँजता है उन्हें यह सीख देता है कि सबको मुक्त रखें।*
• Sorrow refines everyone, and—though it may not know how to grant liberation to all itself—it teaches those whom it refines to set everyone free.*

Agyeya has a way about him that I haven't been able to find in any of the writers I have read. Only “The Idiot” from Dostoevsky probably comes close.

I remember when I read this book for the first time, almost every line would make me sit and think about it. It took ages to finish the book because of that.

Once done, I knew I had to gift this book to a friend of mine. I generally don't think about other people's in that sense. I think I am not equipped for that kind of social life.

Anyway while discussing the book, I referred to book as a lesson on how not every store in your life needs to have an end. Sometimes the incompleteness of the story itself is a completeness. You take the jacket off once it's not cold. it doesn't make sense to keep on holding to it because it helped you during cold.

And then the organiser gave a simile for the book for a movie called: Hamari adhoori Kahani. I thought at the moment and what!! the movie that I found cringe is so close to my favorite book!

what a life!!!