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Bhava by U.R. Ananthamurthy Free read ✓ 0 A compelling tale of mystery passion and spiritual exploration Seventy year old Shastri; a reciter of Harikatha encounters an Ayyappa pilgrim on a train Around the pilgrim's neck is a Sri Chakra amulet which looks like one that belonged to Saroja Shastri's first wife But Shastri thought he had killed Saroja years before believing she was pregnant by another man If the amulet is Saroja's then she might have survived and the pilgrim Dinakar a televisi. It has been so long since I read books translated from Kannada Though I m a Kannadiga my Kannada reading skills are poor and I realized this is somewhat of a shame and I must improve Ananthamurthy had trouble with the translations into English and Judith Kroll has done a commendable job of it The book begins with Shastri who meets a fellow traveler Dinakar in Ayappa attire and offers him kuttavalakki Shastri is a popular man who performs harikatha and Dinakar has made his living acting in TV Shastri seeing the amulet in Dinakar s neck goes into intense mental turmoil Dinakar having faced too many hardships and failure in relationships is in search of his mother We see how these stories intermingle and the uestions in life itself arise From your kuttavalakki I remembered the name Mother used to call mePuttani Dinakar said What does Puttani mean If the name suits me call me by that name Thus begins Bhava the chances in life for retribution Dinakar meets Sitamma who has the most harmonious attitude and brimming with wisdom which she conveys through her food and rangoli How Sitamma performs these tasks is a walk down memory lane On these fragrant bud shaped banana leaves kadabu steamed in cups of jackfruit leaves and on the kadabu yellow coloured ghee from cow s milk Three different types of chutneys In a banana cup creamy curd On the side hot steaming coffee Bhava goes into the philosophical reasoning for past regrets however unforgivable and hurtful they may be How we must come to accept what is at hand and control the present only It goes beyond judgment and day to day miseries to achieve vairagya When ripe the cocoon bursts when ripea person can be transformed can turn over Bhava is part thriller part philosophy We see many uestions unanswered as highlighted in the Afterword There are many lessons in the book only if one appreciates the subtleties and gives themselves a fighting chanceFor Dinakar Sitamma s unuestioning acceptance of herself an her life was magical As her son Narayan Tantri says for her there will be no rebirth She lives in this bhava without being of it

Bhava by U.R. Ananthamurthy Free read ✓ 0 On star could be Shastri's son A similar story is revealed when Dinakar visits his old friend Narayan either could be the father of Prasad a young man destined for spiritual attainment The interwoven lives of three generations play out variations on the same themes Whose son am I Whose father am I Where are my roots These mysteries of the past and present are explored but there are no clear answers And while significant in daily being' such uestions. Lost in Translation

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Bhava by U.R. Ananthamurthy Free read ✓ 0 Lose urgency in the flux of becoming' bhava' means both being and becoming So we are led to consider that samsarathe world of illusion and embodimentmay not be very different from sunya the emptiness from which everything arises At times a drama of cruelty and lust at times a lyrical meditation on love and transformation Bhava is an exceptional novel by one of India's most celebrated writers Translated from the Kannada by Judith Kroll with the auth. This novella is not in same class as the celebrated Samskara from the author but it does follow the same theme What is the purpose of life How should we go about living our lives The book could not answer these uestions but does show the contradictions of life by narrating the lives of the protagonists All characters in this novella are searching the meaning of their lives and are engrossed in unravelling the riddle of life None succeeds but then author does not even meant them to do it A very well written book by the author who just left us all on his heavenly abode last month Perhaps in after life these uestions would have been answered for him