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THIS little book is a slender account of my journeys in search of His Footprints. For hours have I stood spell-bound, gazing at the humble dust upon which He once trod, yet I have passed the magnificence of jewelled diadems with indifference, for they had no fragrance in their charmed lustre, there was nothing of Him in them. This is a basketful of musk-dust, gathered from the sacrificial fires that burn in places made sacred by the holy tread of His Footsteps. Ever since I have seen Him, the remembrance of the scent of His presence has been my religion; whatsoever recalls it to my mind is precious; it surpasses all that I have ever valued. I am good only when my eyes half-close in rapture at the contemplation of His God-personality; to me nothing else is of virtue. For I know that when I go from Him into the world, full as it is of learned men with fine clothes and wrinkled faces, I feel no more whole-I am torn asunder, sullied, weighed down and spent; the formless vapours of my intellect dim the mirror of my heart, and I see no more what my eyes have so recently beheld. I come back disappointed and disillusioned, a sadder man. Not in the outer world, only in the heart of God do I find that iridescent lustre, that absolute rapture which makes me immortal in one flash. Every meeting with Him is an advance of centuries over my own self.
Full Product Details
Author: Puran Singh
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 0.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.177kg
ISBN: 9781975663599
ISBN 10: 1975663594
Pages: 126
Publication Date: 22 August 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Author Information
Professor Puran Singh was a Punjabi poet, scientist and mystic. Born in Pothohaar, now in Pakistan, in an Ahluwalia family, he is acclaimed as one of the founders of modern Punjabi poetry.[2] He passed his matriculation examination at the Mission High School Rawalpindi in 1897 and, after obtaining a scholarship for the years 1900 to 1903, obtained a degree in Industrial Chemistry from Tokyo University in Pharmaceutical Sciences. Though a born Sikh he became a Buddhist Bhikshu and a sanyasi under influence of Ukakura a Japanese Buddhist monk and Swamy Ramtirath respectively before he finally got settled as a Sikh mystic when he came under influence of Bhai Vir Singh during a Sikh Educational Conference meeting at Sialkot in 1912.
