வானப்ரஸ்தம் குறித்து விவேக்
America appears as a far vaster and more open land than India, and the story beautifully captures the peculiar emptiness of that space-an emptiness that creates both a kind of fatigue and, at the same time, a heightened spiritual awareness. Through Samyukta and her mother's long drive across America, we travel with them i95, past mountains, forests, and small towns, the descriptions of landscape and nature are vivid and unforced, and they give the narrative a quiet, contemplative rhythm.
One of the most striking strengths of the story is the way it handles the relationship between Samyukta and Amma. MTheir conversations move effortlessly between irritation, affection, worry, and quiet admiration, and this emotional oscillation feels very truthful to a modern, diasporic mother-daughter bond. The contrast between Samyukta's rational, career-driven, immigration-anxious mindset and Amma's slow, interior turning toward Vedanta is drawn with great subtlety. The bear encounter and their detour into the mountains work almost like an externalization of Samyukta's inner journey
Against this backdrop, the spiritual awakening that Samyukta experiences toward the end of the story feels especially meaningful. Still, one wonders whether this moment of opening might benefit from being rendered a little more explicitly.?
Only one small reservation (perhaps significant ) is that some of Amma’s spiritual explanations occasionally tilt toward the tone of a formal satsang. This is true to her character and background, but in a few places it feels slightly more like listening to a discourse than following the inner movement of the narrative. Even so, these passages enrich the larger themes of seeking freedom, meaning, and clarity in a foreign land, and they effectively frame Samyukta’s final transformation. The philosophical reflections and Vedantic ideas run like a quiet undercurrent through the story, for the most part they remain integrated, though toward the end they risk rising a bit above the narrative itself.
கதையில் இயற்கை வர்ணனைகள் அனைத்துமே ஆன்மீகமானது. கலை மூலம் அந்த நிலையை நம்மால் அடையமுடியும். ஜெ தத்துவ வகுப்பில் சொல்லும் அந்த symphony of values போன்றது. வேதாந்தத்தை ஒருவர் அறியும் முறையும் அதுவே. கலையின் மூலம் அந்த இயற்கை யாசகம் கூட வேதாந்தத்தை நோக்கி செல்லும் பயணமே. அதுவும் நாமாக உணரும் அனைத்தும் not end goal, its part of our journey. என்னுடைய கவிஞர் மேரி ஆலிவர் எழுதிய wild goose என்ற கவிதையில் இப்படி ஒருவரி வரும்
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination…
announcing your place
in the family of things.
இதோட சாரம்சம் கூட You belong to the universe என்பது. ஆம் Nature spiritualizes us not by altering the world, but by transforming the quality of our attention. Attention is all we need and we need more descript part that awaken this kind of attentive seeing.
