Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
To my surprise, for all the development that has taken place, many of the issues that I found my holy men discussing and agonizing about remained the same eternal quandaries that absorbed the holy men of classical India thousands of year ago: the quest for material success and comfort against the claims of the life of the spirit; the call of the life of action against the life of contemplation; the way of stability against the lure of the open road; personal devotion against conventional or public religion; textual orthodoxy against emotional appeal of mysticism; the age old war of duty and desire. (Introduction xv)
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