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Raja Rao’s Vedantic Strains

Dr Anupam Kumar and Abha Pandey

That Raja Rao’s novels are not only the testimony of an intellectual giant’s writing fling, but they go beyond the textual exploring spiritual dimensions which tell us much more about both India, is the edifice of this paper. The principal focus of this study is to describe the vedantic strains in the major novels of Raja Rao. It is to let younger society grasp the extraordinary mental display of the Hindu civilization.

Raja Rao love for his spiritual quest for self-realisation is accepted worldwide. His works havea multi-dimensional approach, dealing with socio-cultural aspects as well as spiritual aspects, but the vedantic strain is the main one. Rao is the writer who understood the spiritual illness of that age and came out with practical solutions in the form of novels. Rao’s four major novels: Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare, and The Chessmaster and His Moves form the basis for the metaphysical concepts, particularly, advaita of Shankaracharya. As literature is sadhana for Raja Rao so his literary endeavors are actually his spiritual attainments.

Keywords: Raja Rao, Spirituality, Religion, Advaita Vedanta, Shankaracharya, Self- Realization.

The aim of the present paper is to focus on the Vedantic strains as spiritual endeavours of Raja Rao. He was the youngest literary stalwart of the trio-majestic writers –Mulk Raj Anand, R.K. Narayan, and he himself.

Raja Rao’s work has a multi-dimensional approach, dealing with socio-cultural aspects as well as spiritual aspects. Rao’s four major novels: Kanthapura, The Serpent and the Rope, The Cat and Shakespeare, and The Chessmaster and His Moves present metaphysical concepts, particularly, advaita of Shankaracharya. He has incorporated the spiritual journey of human life, covering the various spectrums of social, political, and cultural aspects with all dexterity possible. The social, political, and cultural frameworks have always been mediums of expression for the seeker of truth, as a writer, thus being the medium of spiritual quest for Raja Rao too.

Spirituality is not just a mental balm to soothe our sorrows but to enlighten our lives in order to make our lives sublime. Raja Rao is the writer who understood the spiritual illness of that age and came out with practical solutions in the form of novels. Literature is sadhana for Raja Rao and his literary endeavours are actually his spiritual attainments. This can be examined through various philosophical perspectives.

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Dr Anupam Kumar
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SGT University, Gurugram, Haryana
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Abha Pandey
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Amity University, Greater Noida
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