Such an instance of humanistic mysticism developed through innovative mythologies is Amish Tripathi ’s The Shiva Trilogy, based on the reconstruction of several Indian mythical characters and stories drawn from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Shiva Purana. Thus, literary articulations of mysticism render it closer to human imagination and the mythologies which develop out of this articulation bring forth the human elements in the divine. However, even in religious literature, we see a humanistic amalgamation of mystic impulses and the (literary)will-to-communicate. This is the first book in a trilogy on Shiva, the simple man whose karma re-cast him as our Mahadev, the God of Gods.The traditional attitude towards mysticism centres round its association with religious sentiments, hence it often seems problematic to associate mysticism with secular literature.
Is the rough-hewn Tibetan immigrant Shiva, really that hero?ĭrawn suddenly to his destiny, by duty as well as by love, will Shiva lead the Suryavanshi vengeance and destroy evil? The only hope for the Suryavanshis is an ancient legend: ?When evil reaches epic proportions, when all seems lost, when it appears that your enemies have triumphed, a hero will emerge.? Have allied with the Nagas, an ostracised and sinister race of deformed humans with astonishing martial skills.
To make matters worse, the Chandravanshis appear to They also face devastating terrorist attacks from the east, the land of the Chandravanshis.
This once proud empire and its Suryavanshi rulers face severe perils as its primary river, the revered Saraswati, is slowly drying to extinction. The inhabitants of that period called it the land of Meluha ? a near perfect empire created many centuries earlier by Lord Ram, one of the greatest monarchs that ever lived. In what modern Indians mistakenly call the Indus Valley Civilisation.
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