“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature,” declared Joseph Campbell, illustrious mythologist. Myths, rituals, and prayers help in making our heartbeats match the beat of the universe. It’s about the harmony between oneself and the world outside. It’s about discovering the meaning of that world in spite of its apparent harshness, absurdity, and terror. It’s about discovering the harmony between the self and the universe. Literature has helped me much in the process of discovering that harmony. Any good work of literature makes me probe the defences I have erected against painful truths about me as well as the world outside me. Good literature chips away those defences. Truth is revealed through a alchemical process. Good literature also has the potential to heal the ruptures caused by the chipping away of the facile inner illusions and self-delusions. Good literature takes the reader beyond his “in
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