Beyond Fear A Personal Journey To Soma

This is a book about two parallel paths in the life of a combat soldier. One, the external path of duty and fighting grim battles. The other, the equally arduous path of ones inner spiritual evolution. It is, a military autobiography with a difference as it seeks to record both the life trajectories of the author in the same book. Based upon personal experience, the author contends that in our personal evolution, years of meditation cause the Kundalini Shakti to rise from the terminal ends of our spine and go up to the brain. There it unleashes a copious flow of neurotransmitters called Endorphins. This is the flow of Soma that gives great Ecstasy, enhances creativity and charisma and amazingly takes away all Fear and Pain on the battle field. That is why Soma was prized by the Vedic sages as well as the Warriors. The BrahmaKshatra tradition in India (even as the Samurai tradition in Japan) combines the two paths of Soma and Soldiering. In the first part of this book the author recalls his many years in combat where he faced death time and again. The upsurge of Soma helped him greatly to overcome his fears and lead from the front. In the second part of the book he looks clinically at his own spiritual experiences. Based on personal anubhav (or experience), he theorises a synthesis of the Tantrik view of the Kundalini with the Vedic view of the Kala Agni. The Tantras spoke of the Ascent of the Kundalini while the Vedas described the Descent of Aurobindos Supermind or Soma. The author suggests they are both part of a unitary phenomenonthe Kundalini goes up, the Soma flows downit descends like the Ganga to purify our bodymind complex and brings about human evolution. A path breaking book with radical new insights.