It truly is "The search of the sacred" in modern India. To my surprise, it was really amazing, the kind of diversity we have even when it comes to spirituality. The kind of sophisticated thoughts each of the "Nine lives" have about god and spirituality is truly beyond what i had of "god" and the "spiritual people".
Me, someone not too "spiritual", found the interview of Dalrymple in The Hindu intriguing. Had always thought i should pick up a book, to see, if i could relate to or appreciate anybody`s or everybody`s views on spirituality, and this seemed interesting.
Though the book did not raise questions directly on "GOD" or "Spirituality", it did present a very beautiful holistic picture of spirituality and the innumerable number of ways people become/are spiritual.
Every story, of each of the nine different spiritual people, whose story the book tells, is unique and extremely intriguing. It provides very different insights on, the numerous, often misunderstood extreme spiritual people, from the "tantrics" of bengal to the jain monks of shravanabelagola to the devadasis of belagam and their wonderful ideas and thoughts of the divine.
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