Ritu Maheshwari
India Post News Service
It is my honor to introduce Ram Malik, author of the recently published book titled “LIFE OF A SOUL UNDER THE SHADOW OF GITA.” The book is available on AMAZON and BARNES and NOBLE and e-book at KINDLE.
Ram Malik, a student of Gita,is a true seeker of the spiritual knowledge contained in our epics and his book attempts to share his insights. Ram Malik has authored a wonderful book, which is full of spiritual topics leading us to earn God’s Bliss. The book is an ocean of knowledge laced with Devine splendor and grandeur.
Q: What made you write this book?
A: I have been a student of Gita ever since seventies. I have been very fortunate in listening to Gita tenets by Gita scholarsincluding Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, JAYA-DAYAL GOYAN-DAKA, and many others and read commentaries on Gita reasoned out by many Indian and western thinkers. I went through the spiritual messages in Srimad Bhagavatam by Kamala Subramaniam.
I did that because I was inspired by the power of thinking and knowing and that I have been moved and guided by this inspiration. I have closely observed persons who are always seeking for true knowledge and thriving to acquire an insight about Vedanta, Vedas, Upanishads, Hindu Mythology, Karma, Samskara they have several queries related to Hinduism. Writings and talks of those notable philosophers inspired me in putting this text together. These multisensory humans which included Ralph Waldo Emerson (once called Amerca’s Shankaracharya) Gary Zukav, Deepak Chopra, Wayne Dyer, Aldous Huxley, Eckhart Tolle, President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Albert Einstein, Pandit Shriram Sharma, Dr. Karan Singh, Swami Mukundananda, Sister Kusum and Sister Shivani of Brahma Kumari, who have been bestowed with His grace in acquiring Jnana (wisdom) and Vijnana (Spiritual knowledge).
They put their souls and minds on something and achieved an extraordinary place in the territory of inspiration. A sage inscribed that the wealth of spiritual knowledge is the best of all wealth. By the grace of the Creator, by the blessing of nature, I pursued this course and acquired spiritual canons enough that I could pour it in this book. It was mine God granted, conviction that once I had labored through this book, I will be granted joy and fulfillment of my efforts.
Q. In the Book, you described the journey of the soul and what else?
Althea book covers the pointers to connect to God through Prayers, Meditation, Karma Yoga, Love for humanity, Surrender to God’s will and Being kind and merciful. All these pointers have described in details. Effort has been made to make this book a science of life, a roadmap to direct our path and a moral code of conduct which holds together individuals, head and heart and emotions. This book offers something to every seeker of God of every temperament and every faith. Talking of needs of the soul: Soul wants nothing as Soul consciousness is to experience Divine? And so, the soul is everything, all wisdom, all knowledge, all power and all glory. The soul is a part of you which never sleeps and never forgets and never dies.
Q: Why an eternal soul enters a material body of limited life span.
A: Soul uses the human body as a vehicle for the manifestation of the SOUL. While choosing the human body to live in, the soul undergoes a massive reduction of its powers. Soul being so powerful, ever living, Indestructible with no worldly element can harm it. That said, eventhen it enters a body whose life can be controlled by life events. So, the soul, which is eternal, does take this material body only to heal and to recuperate. The soul chooses this body, this energy tool, to function within the framework of the physical world. As God has given humans full right to do whatever he wants, so man does what he does, and in the process earns karmic debt. The karmic debt must be paid off to attain Moksha and for that one has to reincarnate in the next life and attempt to pay off remaining karmic debt to heal. Soul uses human body as an instrument to do Karma to pay off the karmic debt. After a soul leaves this body, the soul has no other choice than coming back to this world in human form to pay off the karmic debt, that it had earned in the previous lives and not come back in any lower form of an animal because all Lower life livings do not do Karma and earn no Karmic debt.
Ritu ji, this book, “LIFE OF A SOUL under the shadow of Gita” is a unique one. In addition to many spiritual subjects from soul, soul aids, ways to connect to God though meditation, yoga, Karma yoga, faith, Surrender to His Will and exercising humanity, the book contains hundreds of sayings of saints and sages and many philosophers of all parts of the world.
Allow me to repeat one thought. This book is a science of life, a roadmap to direct our path and a moral code of conduct. It is a code of conduct holding together individuals, societies, head and heart and emotions. This book offers something every seeker of God of every temperament and every path.