Some Mysteries are like 'Kyaka' from Songs of the Mist a Fabulous Book by Shashi Sharma : These Mysteries are not meant to be soved but cherished for a life time.
Hi Friends Let me tell you about a book I recently read.’Songs
of the Mist’, the first book in The Monk Key series, is a spiritual/literary
fiction writtenby Shashi Sharma. This is one of my rearest read , I am not much
into books of this genre. Let me tell you people honestly I ‘was’ not into this
genre before I read this book.So I guess
you all can understand how inspiring
this book is.As I was exploring
this book ,some memories of
childhood and late school life started flashing on my mind .When I was reading
these lines“Death is not the destruction of your body or the flowing stream,
but the merging of your dreams, desires, sorrow and anger into an eternal calm
of eternity.” I was reminding me of Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose’s literary
work “Abyakta”.
When I was studying in 9th standard we had a prose piece “Bhagirathir Utsho Shondhane”(
Finding the source of Bhagirathi “ where
the author simplifies the meaning of death and life-circle and draws a perfect
anonymous example with bhagirathi’s source and course.
The books starts first introducing all charecters including
Ashutosh and proceeding to how these people are related to him.The book takes a
new turn when an all-knowing but simple
monkis introduced, there is Ashutosh got acquainted with the monk and their
journey sails for many years and becomes a monk himself.Ayan is also an
important character who seeks answers for his scientific problems but takes the
path of spirituality to find those answers. Yogini Anishka is a unique character who takes up Yoga to heal her pain but ends up
choosing spirituality as a way of life,she is a girl who had a past.Her past
was surrounded by infatuation followed by a situation where she failed to
differentiate between lust and love.Ends up identifying her interest as pure lust abd not love and
decided to move on. There is Vasudha who had fame and every earthly pleasure
needed in love ,Ashutosh’s llost love vasudha had some inner emptiness that was killing her.The other two
important charecters are Kyaka and Calliope.
One of the most unique thing about this book is it’s
uniqueness that revolves around the scenic beauty of Himalayas .When Ashutosh meets
the monk the journey next seems like a dream whose twists and turns are simple like the monk’s
words but their meaning’s too deep to be understood in a single go.
“Love is basically a very selfish emotion. It takes away
your own control to be happy, within your own self, through your need for the
other person to make you happy and selfish. It takes away the freedom to be
happy or to even be sad.”The philosophy of this book is not only deep but also
takes up awakening mode.Love here is no longer confined to the boundary of Male
and female attraction.Here love is selfless love, love for family.
One of the most attractive and mysterious character in this
book is Kyaka.Her beauty and poise is simple and naturally charming like the
scenic beauty of Himalaya. She is like a wild flower one cannot get over. Her
enigmatic poise would make your mind picturise her. The authors unique way of
describing Kyaka is praise worthy. Her mysterious presence will surely make
many questions come back to back and I assure your mind will never get enough of it
to answers those.
As you are nearing the end of the book,the most important
question that is hitting your mind when you are nearing the end ‘Who is the
tribal girl Kyaka?’
My realization says Kyaka is not a existant human being but
the imagination of the lead character Ashutosh.The Ashutosh that meets Kyaka
or rather saying imagines her is
mercilessly lonely and terribly upset.The Ashutosh that tells about Kyaka is
all together a different person,he is a loner by choice.Lonely and terrible
betrayed by destiny Ashutosh creates seeks
a cool shade of affection as the scorching heat of betrayal , sorrow ,agony of
loosing loved ones was killing him from inside.He creates a soothing andcomforting character in his mind
and feels comforted by her presence everytime. I am not saying that this what
is all about Kyaka , this is what I felt the author might me hinting .
Kyaka’s is the epitome of mystery that is kind of addictive
. This character’s decent appeal kind of forces readers to believe she exists
on the other had series of mysterious do-gooded deeds makes a lot of questions
come up.She again does something so alluring that you would believe in her existence.In
the end her existence would felt like
that soothing touch of mist that drifts away when the sun declares the
dawn with a ray of hope.
You can buy this book from Amazon
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