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Binah

Binah

I started reading early in life and just read, read and read everything… on relationships, love, philosophy, literature… Started writing poems, play scripts while in school which made most people uncomfortable including my father… One thing that I stuck to at all cost and did not compromise for any thing was Truth… I exist because absolute Truth...more »
  • Mumbai, Ma, India
  • member since Saturday, October 27 2007

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  • sushil g

    sushil g says

    I am delighted to learn that you just finished reading The Fourth Monkey. There is a literary theory doing the rounds of academic circles for quite some time now asserting the death of the author. What this theory implies is that once a book is in public domain it is up to the readers to make what they want to make of it. In fact there are as amny meanings of the book as there are readers. Each reader brings his/her own world-view, his own reading, his own intelligence to a work. The author can't object to any interpretation. He is for all practical purposes dead. The work takes a life of its own filtered through the prism of the reader's mindset.
    Your response to many episodes and utternaces in the novel make interesting read. It shows that you read the novel with great involvement. Can I persuade you to pen down your reactions in the form of an article, highlighting or criticising some aspects of the novel which struck you as conspicuous? I can then get it published in some literary journal or post it on the website which is about to be operational within this week.
    Let me reiterate, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your comments on my work.
    We shall carry on our debate on the search of a soul mate by and by.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta says

    LEAP - Live your dream and be a person u want to be...Embrace uncertainty of events, surrrender to God…Appreciate miracles…Pain,mistakes and faliure helps in expanding understanding and experience...

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • sushil g

    sushil g says

    You very conveniently and adroitly evaded my queries about your details. It becomes easy to deal with a person if one knows some relevant particulars, but if you don't feel comfortable sharing them with me you are welcome to your privacy. All that I have gathered from your communication is that I am chatting with a woman who is fond of good things of life, has a poetic and philosophic outlook on life and is facile with words.
    I completely agree with you on the basic things of life that we enjoy: good food, books, films, music, sleep and sex. But when I look around I am fascinated by the wide range of passions that people are preoccupied with: travel, sports (cricket and football right now), religion (pilgrimages, rituals of fasting and other modes of denial, congregational chantings, listening to discourses by semi literate preachers), alcohol and drugs, the list is endless. To know what interests one is the ultimate of knowledge.
    Many of your utterances sound as profound as that of Osho. Search for the soulmate continues. I believe that when this search reaches a deadend one tends to create an imaginary soulmate and gives it the name of God. That could be one reason why as one grows older one tends to cling to this fatuous image. Real human beings let you down but God doesn't because he can't; he doesn't exist; he is a figment of one's imagination and would do only what one wants him to do.
    The search for soulmate is of paramount importance till one is young. It is essentially libido driven. When one is past that age one is no longer looking for this illusory image. One has to derive happiness all by oneself. Read or reject, in company or in solitude. Pursuit of happiness is the manifesto of life; how one derives it is the secret mantra of life.
    Thank you for giving me an opportunity to vocalise some of my thoughts on the topic.

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • sushil g

    sushil g says

    Dear Binah,
    I have no idea who you are, your age, your education, your present preoccupation etc, but you sound so profound in the passage posted below. To reach a stage where the line between mysticism and atheism gets blurred is indeed the acme of spiritual strivings.
    Of the long catalogue of erotica you had enumerated I am glad to learn that I have read another: Paulo Coelho's Eleven Minutes. And what about Marquez's Memories of My Melancholy Whores? I also noticed that half the books on your catalogue were sex manuals and only half genuine erotica. Surprisingly, all the authors were foreigners, except Osho. If I were to make my catalogue I would include Khushwant Singh's The Company of Women, Tarun Tejpal's The Alchemy of Desire, Sudhir Kakkar's The Ascetic of Desire and Sasthi Brata's Confessions of an Indian Woman Eater. Modesty prevents me from adding my own novel The Fourth Monkey. Erotica of course is only one aspect of the narrative; there is humour and a philosophical debate between Shelly's god-consciousness and Madan's scepticism. Your feedback will interest me.
    Sushil Gupta

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • sushil g

    sushil g says

    Dear Binah,
    Your note made interesting read. You seem to be a voracious reader. By the number of books you have read on sex and erotica you must be some kind of an authority over the subject. Among the long catalogue of books you have read I found only three books that I have read: Osho's Sex to Superconsciousness, Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and The Sensuous Woman by J. And all three I read two to three decades ago. I am 67+. If I were to enumerate the books I have read it would be much more eclectic. It would range from erotica to literary fiction to philosophy. Only a year back I got my first novel published titled The Fourth Monkey with a byline 'a comic, erotic and sophic tale'. If you get hold of a copy of the novel, read it, we could open a new vista of exchange of views on the topic centring around my novel. Another point that I notice from your write-up is that you are somewhat inclined towards the spiritual/metaphysical aspects of life. Let me specifically point out that I am out and out an atheist. I am one with Osho on atheism and on celebration of life through body. The conflict between mysticism and atheism has been highlighted in my novel. We can talk more about it after you have read it. It is published by Indialog. You can log on to www.indialog.co.in for more details about it along with a few reviews that have appeared in press.
    All the best.
    Sushil Gupta

    posted 1 month ago. ( send a note )
  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta says

    After The Witch of Portobello, Brida, then Alchemist, then The Pilgrimage, then The Valkyries, then By the River Piedra I sat down and Wept, now Manual of the Warrior of Light and The Zahir... at least some direction some where...

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  • Oswald Pereira

    oswald pereira says

    Yes Binah, let's be in touch. It would be great to know you better.
    Oswald

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Ajita Sahu

    ajita sahu says

    Hi Binah...
    thanks for adding me..
    tc

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • aprilblossoms123

    aprilblossoms123 says

    Hello Binah,
    Just sending lots of wishes to you, please share some of your books in our political Science /history group, thanks and gbu my dear friend. April

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oswald Pereira

    oswald pereira says

    Hi Binah,
    How have you been? I don't spend so much time on Shelfari now. But I'm still in touch for a short while almost every day.
    God bless.
    Oswald

    posted 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta says

    Finished 'The Fourth Monkey" by Sushil Gupta... Not on Shelfari... Just Brilliant

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • sanjay s

    sanjay s says

    i want take training from u of sex

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta says

    You have been conspicuous by your absence... any good thoughts...

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kalandrakas

    kalandrakas says

    You write well, Binah. You have Jewish roots? I find your "three years of total silence" and realizing "the ways of powers beyond..." very interesting.
    Warm greetings from the Philippines!

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Oswald Pereira

    oswald pereira says

    Hi Binah,
    I'm doing fine. How about you? You don't seem so frequent on Shelfari these days. Busy?
    Oswald

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Aruneshwar Gupta

    aruneshwar gupta says

    So what is the agenda for 2008...

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )


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