Chinmoy Mukherjee

Pangs of the Gopis (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

In the hallowed geography of the heart, there exists no landscape more sacred or more sorrowful than the groves of Vraja immediately following Krishna's departure for Mathura. The poems collected here, "Pangs of the Gopis," are not merely literary expressions of heartbreak; they are the crystallized tears of the soul, capturing the pinnacle of devotional theology known as vipralambha-bhavalove in separation. When Akrura's chariot carried Krishna away, he did not simply remove a person from a village; he ripped the sun from the sky of Vraja, plunging the cowherd maidens into a twilight of eternal longing.

These verses invite the reader into a world where sensory perception has been painfully heightened by absence. In Vraja, without Govinda, every sense object becomes a weapon. The cool, fragrant breeze from the Yamuna, once a source of delight during the rasa dance, now burns like the breath of a forest fire. The call of the cuckoo and the hum of the bumblebee, once the orchestra of their union, now sound like the jeers of fate. The visual tapestry of Vṛndavanathe emerald tamala trees, the sapphire river, the golden dust raised by cowsremains vividly colorful, yet for the Gopis, these colors are washed in the grey pallor of grief. They see his form in the dark rainclouds, they smell his aguru scent in the wet earth, and they feel the ghost of his touch in the brushing leaves.

The twenty-five voices articulated here represent a spectrum of emotional responses to this divine abandonment: anger, jealousy, humility, madness, and resigned adoration. Some Gopis blame the Creator for giving them eyelids that blink and interrupt their vision; others blame the horses that pulled the chariot. Yet, beneath the accusations of cruelty and the envy of the city women of Mathura, there lies an unyielding, iron-strong devotion. They do not seek liberation (moksha) or heavenly opulence; they seek only the dust of his feet. As you step into these poems, prepare to walk on that dust, illuminated by the flickering lamps of memory and scented with the crushing weight of a love that survives even when the Beloved is gone.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232511807
• Artikelnr.: 76077419

Autorenporträt

Chinmoy Mukherjee is the first Indian to author 100+ books in English, which includes 50+ Novellas. He has been working as solution architect for past 15 years. Over the past 25 years, he has contributed to 50 real-world software projects as an individual contributor. His experience has enabled him to design, develop, and deploy some of the most complex systems, handling millions of transactions per day. As both an AWS and GCP-certified architect, he has not only built 8 systems from scratch but has also successfully re-engineered 7 legacy systems, improving their performance by 1530%.

His expertise in cybersecurity has led to incredible discoveriessome thrilling, some frustrating. He was listed among the top 100 security researchers in the world for Microsoft (Q4, 2022) and also in Google's Hall of Fame. He ethically hacked Baba Bank, retrieving its entire customer database, and even achieved remote code execution in JPMC & Solana. Over time, he has reported critical vulnerabilities to 50+ Australian companies and received bug bounties from Uber, Apple, Mastercard, Octopus Australia, MagicLeap, and Paysafe. One of his wildest exploits? He found a vulnerability that let him order a Porsche without payingonly to receive a meager $1050 bounty for the discovery.

His penchant for testing boundaries made him the first engineer among 500,000 in HCLTech to complete and download all 1,000 offered certificates. In the industry, he played a critical role in defeating Infosys in 3 major RFPs while being part of underdog teams. Beyond corporate challenges, he took the lead in India's first blockchain token deployment, successfully developing and listing tokens on the Ethereum network.

Innovation has been central to his career. He holds 3 patents, granted in the USA and Australia. Among them, he developed "Patient Analytics," a patented system that underwent successful clinical trials in India. He has published a technical book titled "Build Android-Based Smart Applications" via Springer. This book has been downloaded by 18000+ software professionals from single channel of Springer.