A glance at the
schematic genesis of this book (P. I
- II) evokes a sensitive praise of God
which when sung become music. Compliments
thus fall due. It is natural to feel
seized. My being not too well up on
Him did not come in the way since the
forward move is by measure of the soul
that brings the goal nearer when I realised
that God is much more immense than I
thought. Why not risk the traditional
belief: that there is no real relief
from the ever elusive ratio of His knowability
when in view, is curiously 'other' than
all the varieties of the known ones
in forms and figures while His unknowability
calls upon all His seekers to hazard
their guess to rue the utter lack of
clue to be anywhere near Him because
He is increasingly far above it and
away. However sweet and or sour the
endeavour is, the seekers remain raw
to spot the subtle subtlety of His paw-mark
to harp on with contemplation to rise
above human understanding - a mystic's
job. Knowing as I do my own image (penned
in the penultimate para - p. II of this
book) I worked out my missionary resolve
'Well Done O Lord" to be near and
dear to Him not without facing my self
searching scanner. When Plotinus-a neoplatonic
said 'we know Him by what He is not'
that echoes the assertions of the Upanishads,
I tilted a bit to treat Him in a homely
way notwithstanding His eternal pledge
to add to His unknowability. I was laying
my hands for a handy inventory of His
knowbaility. This book is the third
of the trilogy on God, the preceding
ones are the Biography of Good (Part
I & II) and living with God.
Dr. Subhash Sarkar was born in East
Bengal (now Bangladesh) on October 12,
1928, the son of Suresh Ch. Sarker and
Surobala Sarker (both now deceased).
After arriving in Calcutta during the
most critical period of the Second World
War, he was hit by the partition of
India and labelled a refugee, yet he
continued his schooling and college
career from below the poverty line.
He received his Master of Surgery from
Calcutta University and became a Fellow
of the Royal College of Surgeons (London
& Edinburgh), earning a Gold Medal
in Anatomy, Silver Medal in Surgery
and Certificates of Honours in Physiology
for his work.
After service as a Lieutenant Colonel
in the Indian Army Medical Corps.
Dr. Sarker was awarded a Distinguished
Service (Vishist Seva) Medal by the
President of the Republic of India for
his role as Head of the Surgical Team
in the Indo-Pak War in 1965. Most recently
a Consultant Urologist and Surgeon in
Calcutta-based hospitals and institutions.
Dr. Sarker has in the past been employed
as a surgeon in hospitals in the United
Kingdom.
Aside from his brilliant career in
medicine. Dr. Sarker has been devoted
to creative literary work all his life,
with nomination for the Nobel Prize
in Literature. In his writing, he strives
to restore to literature and philosophy
‘the high command over the individual,
society and State and strike harmony
and balance between duty and beauty’.
A prolific writer, he has been described
as having a ‘’unique devotion
and deep thinking... Each stanza gives
the much covetable joy of lasting nectar...[his]
poems make bold statements to encompass
time, society and culture. He is a true
creator of poems and composer of songs’’.
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