Full Circle

by Swami Suddhananda

Death of a loved one, more particularly a parent, touches everyone. A mother, a father are special entities in our lives. They are there when you are born, the first people we come to recognize, to depend on and to love.

Here in Full Circle Swami Suddhananda, with moving sensitivity, traces moment by moment the passing of his father, and with his poignant account he interweaves a candid account of his own life, his village roots, and his family. But more importantly he lays bare the emotions and grief attached to such an event. And alongside it he qualifies the eternal flame that is life, and in which there is neither birth nor death.