The Cult of Me: Guest Author Interview - Soumya Vilekar

The Cult of Me: Guest Author Interview - Soumya Vilekar: Welcome to the latest guest author interview and a nice sunny day to boot. In today's interview we welcome poet Soumya Vilekar, you can...

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Dear Friends,

"The meaning of life for a mystic, is solely a journey from love to love. The condition of the soul before the journey is a condition of love; what is expected during the journey is love; and when the soul returns after the journey, it returns to love."

 - Hidayat Inayat Khan

The above statement is rather befitting to introduce the very reason 'Suroor of the Soul' - a metaphysical anthology was penned. It is of abundance, diversity and contrasts, manifesting a richness of voices and internal enthusiasm to commence dialogue and delve deep within the esoteric realm of self-realisation through mysticism in order to unveil and unite with the ultimate happiness - 'Truth. The illustrious anthology is meant to ignite a divine spark - resonating through our corporeal and celestial messages of Love, Harmony, Beauty and Truth - intricately woven with ever-growing spheres of tolerance and unity embracing Spiritual Liberty in a world where chaos and destruction continues to reign and often times fostering loathsome attitudes by mass society, hence, this book was written with a focus to gently alleviate pain and suffering in humanity by invoking a deep sense of spiritual awakening and participating in expanding a space for sharing our thoughts - encouraging the influence of love and by reflecting a diverse inner and outer dimension - to emphasize the necessity to expand, grow and evolve, thus, concentrating of consciousness of self - beyond all human definitions.

'Suroor of the Soul' (Intoxicated soul) is a book serving a multi-dimensional realm where humanness in being a human is a regal and recurring theme - and finally reaching to the Divine presence. It is in this very context that the mystic's role is to raise human love to the height of Divinity, hence, eliminating all boundaries to fathom that there is no difference between human love and Divine love, but, of course, the angle from which one is confronted is thereby the process at arriving at the ultimate happiness in both the outer and inner realms.

In humanity, we indirectly play a dual role; as spectators and participants in creating chaotic imbalance and harmony - a paradox, indeed. Absorbed in a world of variety and blinded by factuality, humanity often fails to grasp the inexpressible causes of intolerance, cruelty, fanaticism, ignorance and arrogance - in all this we are both the sufferer and the suffering; when we are cognizant of this paradoxical reality, then, it becomes a social, moral and spiritual duty to focus on cultivating love and harmony which can only result in a tendency toward spiritual awakening. 'Suroor of the Soul' is a seed and in the seed there is root, the stem, the branches, the leaves, the flower - the scent which tells the story of  'I' and 'You' - of our humanity in all its' conditions, of our individual quest to reach the soul's utter bliss and fragrance.

We hope you would support and encourage this book by whatever ways you find fit ! :p

A delight to share - the book is now available at: Amazon ! On Baker & Taylor and Barnes & Noble by end of the week! 

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1484914759

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Cheers,

Shaheen & Soumya

FROZEN STATUETTE

hours of unlimited quietness
awaiting to be broken
by your presence
metamorphosed into
a statuette ,
yearning moments of togetherness forever...

scattered leaves during the fall
blossomed flowers in times of spring
butterflies hovered over
yet the ephemeral moment remained unseen.

now an idol of frozen ice
white and pale in the weather
looks upon for a wanderer
who shall set ablaze the fire
to unfreeze the  frost layer after layer.