Chinmoy Mukherjee

The Moonlit Penance (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"The Moonlit Penance" is a deeply imaginative retelling of the transformation of Ratnakar, the violent highway robber, into the sage Valmiki, the revered author of the Ramayana. Shattered by his family's refusal to share the burden of his sins, Ratnakar abandons his life of crime and embarks on an epic, decades-long pilgrimage of atonement. Guided first by Narada and then by thirty legendary rishis and sages-from the compassionate Vashishtha and fiery Vishwamitra to the ecological visionary Kashyapa, the theatrical Bharata, and the integrative Patanjali-Ratnakar receives a uniquely tailored penance from each teacher. What begins as solitary chanting beneath the moon slowly expands into a comprehensive program of personal, social, ecological, and spiritual repair.

Each sage contributes a distinct strand to the weaving of a new man: restraint of impulse (Agastya), civic mediation and memory (Bharadwaja), ecological stewardship (Kashyapa), healing of body and community (Chyavana), ritual cohesion (Angiras), philosophical rigor (Yajnavalkya), cultural storytelling (Bharata), and finally the embodied discipline of yoga (Patanjali). Through planting orchards, drafting fair contracts, tending wounds, staging moral dramas, building granaries, and practicing asana and pranayama, Ratnakar systematically dismantles the reflexes of predation and constructs an entirely new architecture of character and society.

Ultimately, the novella presents redemption not as a single thunderbolt of grace but as patient, intelligent design: a lifelong, multi-dimensional penance that transforms a destroyer into a guardian, teacher, and living institution of reform. Under the constant witness of moonlight-an enduring symbol of cool, impartial forgiveness-Ratnakar proves that even the most blood-soaked soul can be refashioned, and that true atonement is measured not in suffering alone, but in the quiet, persistent labor of giving back more than was ever taken.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Chinmoy Mukherjee
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798232068677
• Artikelnr.: 75916663

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.