Original Material Reading Raja Rao’s Chessmaster and his moves from Buddhist viewpoint
Buddha “The Awaken One” gave his philosophy of life his teaching is known today as Buddhist philosophy and it has been seen as very important phenomena and studied and practiced till today. Influence of Buddhist philosophy is not only seen on Indian culture but also on the world which embraces all areas such as literature, architecture, dance, music, drama, painting, printing, and various Art associated with Buddhism. This paper examines Raja Rao’s Chessmaster and his moves from Buddhist viewpoint.
The effect of Buddhist ideas and its practices upon European and western society is astonishing more especially since the mid-twentieth century, especially much …show more content…
Raja Rao especially contemplates the other great spiritual tradition, that of the Jews. The novel is divided into three parts, viz., Book 1 “The Turk and the Tiger Hunt”, Book 2 “The Goblets of Shiraz”, and Book 3 “The Brahmin and the Rabbi”. As Kaushal Sharma opines “The novelist deals very deftly with the serious thoughts on “politics, history, religion, love, death, God, and non-duality” (88). The novel is very rich not just because of good use of language and consist good plot, It also portrays a characters from; Indian, European, African and Jevish as well as reader find verity in dealing of complexity. Test is also multisided and working at different levels, the story moves from France to London, as well as Himalaya to Bengal. The title of the novel is symbolic. The chessmaster is an emblem of God (Brahman or Creator) and the game of chess is symbolic of the world (Jagat or Sansar). The moves made by the chessmaster are symbolic of the conduct of the drama of life (Lila). It is well-known fact that moves in the game of the chess cannot be predicted. In the novel narrator indicates life is like game of chess and all the incidents of life played with the laws of game of chess. Sivaram states: “Even objects have hierarchies, and events are shaped by the rules of this chess game, which has not four orders of pawns, but a million” (Rao, …show more content…
Each living or dead person has a name. Sivaram of the same mind, when fellow has asked him at the Institute in Paris where he works, “what are you called? Responding to that fellow he replied: “I don’t know”. Further he states: “But to be nameless is to be so true. Zero should really be one’s name. The Buddha, had he not said? There is nothing behind one. So sunya is my name. Zero my name” (Rao, The Chess 8).
Likewise, all name possessed beings will die or going to die one day. Man is a mortal being he not mean to be eternal. Sivaram thinks nature of the birth and death is similar to taking and giving. As said by him: To give is really to take, and thus reach one’s anonymity, one’s immortality. The semen then the birth of death, and through dire death to birth. Thus death again. What does not disappear has never been, the Buddha said. But what is can never die (Rao, The Chess
Buddha “The Awaken One” gave his philosophy of life his teaching is known today as Buddhist philosophy and it has been seen as very important phenomena and studied and practiced till today. Influence of Buddhist philosophy is not only seen on Indian culture but also on the world which embraces all areas such as literature, architecture, dance, music, drama, painting, printing, and various Art associated with Buddhism. This paper examines Raja Rao’s Chessmaster and his moves from Buddhist viewpoint.
The effect of Buddhist ideas and its practices upon European and western society is astonishing more especially since the mid-twentieth century, especially much …show more content…
Raja Rao especially contemplates the other great spiritual tradition, that of the Jews. The novel is divided into three parts, viz., Book 1 “The Turk and the Tiger Hunt”, Book 2 “The Goblets of Shiraz”, and Book 3 “The Brahmin and the Rabbi”. As Kaushal Sharma opines “The novelist deals very deftly with the serious thoughts on “politics, history, religion, love, death, God, and non-duality” (88). The novel is very rich not just because of good use of language and consist good plot, It also portrays a characters from; Indian, European, African and Jevish as well as reader find verity in dealing of complexity. Test is also multisided and working at different levels, the story moves from France to London, as well as Himalaya to Bengal. The title of the novel is symbolic. The chessmaster is an emblem of God (Brahman or Creator) and the game of chess is symbolic of the world (Jagat or Sansar). The moves made by the chessmaster are symbolic of the conduct of the drama of life (Lila). It is well-known fact that moves in the game of the chess cannot be predicted. In the novel narrator indicates life is like game of chess and all the incidents of life played with the laws of game of chess. Sivaram states: “Even objects have hierarchies, and events are shaped by the rules of this chess game, which has not four orders of pawns, but a million” (Rao, …show more content…
Each living or dead person has a name. Sivaram of the same mind, when fellow has asked him at the Institute in Paris where he works, “what are you called? Responding to that fellow he replied: “I don’t know”. Further he states: “But to be nameless is to be so true. Zero should really be one’s name. The Buddha, had he not said? There is nothing behind one. So sunya is my name. Zero my name” (Rao, The Chess 8).
Likewise, all name possessed beings will die or going to die one day. Man is a mortal being he not mean to be eternal. Sivaram thinks nature of the birth and death is similar to taking and giving. As said by him: To give is really to take, and thus reach one’s anonymity, one’s immortality. The semen then the birth of death, and through dire death to birth. Thus death again. What does not disappear has never been, the Buddha said. But what is can never die (Rao, The Chess