Love and Eternity' explores through human consciousness and rustic Nature the domain of timelessness. To arrive in a moment of time beyond dripping or meltind time of Salvadoe Dali. Breaking the linear division of past present and future. The novel explores profoundeur or depth of time that comes from entering a moment as if entering a deep lake. Depth is reached through love and meditation and art to live eternity in a moment.
Can love transcend ephemeral boundaries and endure for eternity? Petra's wisdom from Styria suggests an eternal youth within. This narative transcends the physical, intertwining love with the eternal essence of nature, from Khajuraho's allure to the serene landscapes of Styria. Human time, a bridge between the fleeting and the everlasting, is pondered by mystics and poets alike. Can love serve as an antidote to the corrosive passage of time, freeing us from existential struggles echoed in literature and art? Anant's testament to enduring love reflects on the divine in the mundane. 'Love and Eternity' beckons readers on a profound exploration of the soul's depths, where love transforms, elevates, and perhaps finds its ultimate sanctuary amidst the transient yet enduring beauty of existence."Can love fight the ephemeral and arrive in eternity? Petra the girl from Styria says, ‘what exists inside remains constant, forever fresh, and young.’ This novel lifts love from physical to higher domains of spirit fertilised by effervescent Nature in its myriad avatars and distilled in human soul. The erotic of Khajuraho coalesces with verdant Himalayan vales, sun–kissed beaches of Marmara and the countryside of Styria to make the whole gamut of love and eternity. What is human time? ‘It is the plug of ephemeral in the socket of eternity,’ says the mystic sage. Arthur Rimbaud in his poem Sensation alludes to the thoughtless void and eternity that Nature evokes—‘Je ne parlerai pas; je ne penserai rien. Mais l’amour infini me montera dans l’âme.’ Can love be the antidote to decaying time? Can we free ourselves from the existential quagmire that T.S. Eliot, Dostoevsky, Kafka and artist Francis Bacon allude to in their work? Can we find Eternal Rainbows in the brevity of human life? Anant remarks, ‘By your sterling love I was gifted the eternity. Now I live forever in your loving breath, your golden smiles and your rose fragrant eyes. In love humans in gods arrive, and gods in mundane fragility descend when in crass reside.’ The novel Love and Eternity is a promenade on the nether vistas of soul and a search for that which stays outside decay, destruction and dissolution.
Nothing is linear or chronological in the lives of characters in the novel. It is that each character creates her/his own time by going deep inside propelled by individual instruments of sensitivity, perception, obsession. Their means of travel in the profondness and depth of Being is by art, music, archaeology and communion with Nature. Do they arrive in timelessness, eternity, peace or as Buddha said Nibbana? Find out in the novel Love and Eternity if their search for meanings beyond time is realized since it is our collective search too.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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