The Nirvitarka Concentration as Represented In Narayans Mr Sampath Ess

The novels of R.K. Narayan reflect that Indian sensibility which has been acquired through the ages from the wisdom of Indian philosophical thought that has been continually enriched since the ancient times but which had receded since colonization. Narayan adopts this theoretical base of the Indian philosophical tradition to retrieve and reconstitute a sense of Indianness. Perhaps, this is why he has proved to be the most working, highly rated and widely accessible, while his writing is the most consciously rooted in local circumstances, traditions and values as claimed by Dennis Walde(694). Meenakshi Mukherjee had earlier recognized Gandhi as having reached the state of Jeevan Mukta as depicted in Waiting for the Mahatma (Mukherjee 99-100). Even V.P. Rao observed that Krishnan practices some sort of yoga. He goes through the... The last three stages of Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi.(Rao 32)Taking this a priory. I attempt to evaluate Srinivas of Mr Sampath on the scale of Patanjalis N irvitarka concentration as mentioned in his Yogasutra.Before embarking on the venture of interpreting Srinivass love of undergoing Nirvitarka concentration during an exorcists ritual, it is imperative to have an overview of Patanjalis Yoga philosophy, of course, in a nutshell. Throughout this paper I have referred to P.N.Mukerjis translation of Patanjalis Yoga-sutra as well as of the commentary on Yoga philosophy by Swami Hariharananda Aranya. In his Yoga-sutra Patanjali expounds the theory of controlling the mind in order to know the Self. As he says,ksxfpkofkfujks/k% (Aranya 7)Yoga is the clear of restraining the fluctuation or modification caused due to the occupation of the mind. The occupation of the mind is to create t... ...his family, at the crucial moments of their life by acquiescing to take care of his fix in the absence of Ravi and his mother when she takes Ravi to the tantrics villageWorks CitedAranya,Swami Hariharananda.Yoqa Philosophy of Patanjali Trans.P, N.Mukerji.Calcutta University Press, 1963.Bowling,L.E. What is the Stream of Conscious Technique. Critical Approaches To Fiction. Ed.Shiv K.Kumar and Keith Mckean. parvenu Delhi Atlantic, 2003.331-345.Mukherjee,Meenakshi. The Twice Born Fiction. New Delhi Heinemann, 1974.Narayan,R.K. Mr. Sampath. The World of Malqudi. Ed.S.Krishnan. New Delhi Viking, 2000.Rao,V.P. The Art of R.K.Narayan. The Journal of Commonwealth Literature. 5(1968) 32-35Warder, Dennis. Post-Colonial Literatures in English History, Language, Theory. Oxford Blackwell, 1998.Ind.Rpt.2002.