Stapledon’s novel Star Maker is mystical in the sense that the protagonists strives for a union with the divine, but first that he strives for more and more awareness along his journey that leads to the divine. The language evoked in this novel resonates with the terms used in some South Asian religions like Buddhism and Hinduism. Using terms from Hinduism and Buddhism, this paper will explore the central figure and how he uses post-Vedic sense of awakening. One of the main ideas, especially from Hinduism, is that “atman is brahman”. Atman being the self, the individual and brahman being a vague understanding of what holds he universe together. The idea that all is one and one is all, we are a part of the universe and the universe is a part
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And like the shramanas, the protagonist finds a follower in Bvalltu, who accompanies him on this cosmic journey and gathering other cosmic view points from various worlds. The protagonist has started a new tradition, a movement in which he and his fellow cosmic points of view inhabit those who accept this new-found awareness and journey deeper into space. While awakening was not the immediate plan for this journey, it was what the protagonist ultimately strives for. As a result, he and his followers join, continuing to accumulate and witness how those in the universes long to join into unions, whether they maybe the nebulae or large growing …show more content…
Like the Buddha, the protagonist is experiencing a meditation like state, in which he leaves his physical body and explores the cosmos, gaining more awarness of the universe as he goes on. “At the close of this period I, the communal mind, emerged re-made, as from a chrysalis; and for a brief moment, which was indeed the supreme moment of the cosmos, I faced the Star Maker” (104). Upon meeting the Star Maker, he becomes “enlightened”, not only is he introduced to the Star Maker, he experiences the history of the Star Maker and his creations. The protagonist experiences the multitude of universes that exist and the Star Maker’s creation process. Like the Buddha, the protagonist experiences multiple past lives, but unlike the Buddha the are the past lives of the creations of the Star Maker as well as his own universe. As a cosmic mind, he dies away, but awakens a new on the hill top with a new awarness of his many
And like the shramanas, the protagonist finds a follower in Bvalltu, who accompanies him on this cosmic journey and gathering other cosmic view points from various worlds. The protagonist has started a new tradition, a movement in which he and his fellow cosmic points of view inhabit those who accept this new-found awareness and journey deeper into space. While awakening was not the immediate plan for this journey, it was what the protagonist ultimately strives for. As a result, he and his followers join, continuing to accumulate and witness how those in the universes long to join into unions, whether they maybe the nebulae or large growing …show more content…
Like the Buddha, the protagonist is experiencing a meditation like state, in which he leaves his physical body and explores the cosmos, gaining more awarness of the universe as he goes on. “At the close of this period I, the communal mind, emerged re-made, as from a chrysalis; and for a brief moment, which was indeed the supreme moment of the cosmos, I faced the Star Maker” (104). Upon meeting the Star Maker, he becomes “enlightened”, not only is he introduced to the Star Maker, he experiences the history of the Star Maker and his creations. The protagonist experiences the multitude of universes that exist and the Star Maker’s creation process. Like the Buddha, the protagonist experiences multiple past lives, but unlike the Buddha the are the past lives of the creations of the Star Maker as well as his own universe. As a cosmic mind, he dies away, but awakens a new on the hill top with a new awarness of his many