Tathagata (An Anthology of English Poems)

Tathāgata is an image here. He renunciates the world in search of Truth. Then why do we chase before the world? There is only misery. The word may be explained as either thatā gataḥ (going back) or tathā āgataḥ (coming back). As reunion didn’t happen therefore this anthology specifies the first meaning. This poetry book is about attachment pains agonies tears and self-consolation. Neither anything is absolute good nor absolute non-good in this world. It varies from individual to individual as things are relative here. No one is at fault. As nothing significant happened his coming and going back did not bring any glory he is Tathā gata; but not Buddha. The title wraps romanticism (छायावादः) with a philosophy to eradicate the created sorrows of unreal imaginations. Possibilities have their doors everywhere and non-possibility has nowhere. The in-between things are poems or stories. About the Author: Dr Paramba Shree Yogamaya is a Vedic Scholar and working as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Veda at Shri Jagannath Sanskrit University Puri India. Her other fields of research include Indology Epics and Puranas Philosophy and Religion and Contemporary Sanskrit Literature. Besides her academic inclinations she writes poems short stories and essays mostly in Sanskrit but also in Odia English and Hindi languages and translates literature from these languages into Sanskrit.