Praying in the Presence of Our Lord with Dorothy Day Book

Captivating exploration of a captivating man! A Catholic monk on mission in India, to wed Hindu wisdom, especially Advaita, with Christian wisdom, in the early post-Vatican II era.

Ironically, Abhiskiktanada, being a recluse and inward in orientation, possibly found his revelation of greatest Love, not in a direct immediacy with 'God,' but a human and male companion, whom he shared a deep Union with, beginning shortly before his heart attack and enclosure in care, where he died contented, as the record states.

My sense of the ending of this biography, was a sadness that this man, so moved to being apart-with-God, found a togetherness soul-with-soul, body-with-body, arising from this human Union ~ sexual, or not, no record remains to verify ~, then, amid the joy of that sharing, to have been stricken with the heart attack. ~ Cf. Thomas Merton's 'forbidden love affair' near the end of his life, with a nurse with whom he was under hospital care.

An excellent read for persons interested in interfaith relations, classical mysticism in the world faiths, or a man daring to go to the precipice from his native faith in faithfulness to its fullness in communion with forbidden wisdom and, possibly, forbidden love.