The Nondescript God: "Abstraction or Paragon?" by M K Sudarshan

 About the book

All theistic philosophies of the world conceive of a Supreme God but none except Indian Vedanta Metaphysics of the two great schools, Advaita and Visishtaadvaita, ventures deeply to inquire further into the real nature of Godhead: Is God an abstract ideal, “nirguna”? Or a paragon of ideal qualities, “saguna”?

This book explains the uniqueness of the Visishtaadvaita interpretation of Theism in contradistinction to the Advaitin’s. 

Although its subject is a formidable one, the book written in a very novel format renders Vedanta Metaphysics intelligible to even a common reader and layman. Eight Dialogues, informal yet fluent and informative, between a philosophy-student and his mentor, the “Unknown Sri Vaishnava”, present the main Vedantic thesis of this engaging and very readable book in truly absorbing style

About the author

M. K. Sudarshan is a graduate of the Madras University from Loyola College, Chennai, and a qualified Chartered Accountant. After a 35-year-old long and successful international career in corporate finance, he now lives with his wife in Chennai, pursuing wider interests in Indian philosophy, world history and comparative religious literature, studies, and writing. His related interests are classical South Indian music, the history of Hindu temples in India and travelling worldwide.

 

Sudarshan traces his ancestral roots in his native town in Tirupati to the forebears on the paternal side of his family through his grandmother to the “Thozhappachariars” of Tirumala who were the descendants of the maternal uncle of Sri Ramanujachaarya, Sri Tirumalai Nambi (11^th century CE) and to the “Madabhooshi-vamsha” through his paternal grandfather who was a leading lawyer in Tirupati. Sudarshan is the son of the renowned Carnatic Musician Sangita Kalanidhi, (late) Smt. Mani Krishnaswami, who was the "Asthaana Vidwan" of the Tirumala Temple and the Ahobila Math.

Other published book of the author on Sri Vaishnavism: “Unusual Essays of an Unknown Sri Vaishnava” (2021 – Mainspring Books, LA, USA)

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