{"id":3441,"date":"2020-10-31T12:12:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-31T06:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/?p=3441"},"modified":"2020-10-31T23:07:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-31T17:37:22","slug":"purgatory-voyage-encountering-life-after-death-by-adarsh-khare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/purgatory-voyage-encountering-life-after-death-by-adarsh-khare\/","title":{"rendered":"Purgatory Voyage: encountering life after death by Adarsh Khare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Product details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li> File size : 15862 KB <\/li><li> Print length : 217 pages <\/li><li>Format : Kindle<\/li><li>Language : English<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Purgatory-Voyage-encountering-after-death-ebook\/dp\/B08KHRYX2N\">ABOUT THE BOOK<\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>This story dates back to 925 AD of a village person, otherwise  living peacefully, whose life is thrown into turmoil consequent to an  extraordinary experience of the afterlife, an outcome of his own deed  (karma) and sense of inquiry.\u00a0 The story is beautifully weaved with  threads of mythology, traditional Hindu beliefs, and folklore. At the  same time, there is a conscious effort to bring out the social behavior,  rituals, and festivities of village life of that period along with the  political order of the king with his subject.<br><br>The king of then  Jujhoti-Khand, of present-day Bundelkhand, undertakes a 10-days  purgatory journey (voyage) to Yam planet through Yamraj Temple located  in Bharmaur in Champavati (presently Chamba) to relieve his kingdom from  5-years of continuous drought, believed by him to be due to divine  wrath against people\u2019s sin of his Kingdom. Along with him, though  somewhat sneakily, goes a common villager \u201cKali\u201d, the protagonist of the  story, to satisfy his curiosity of life after death and also to know  the exact reason of drought. While the King has no memory, as is decreed  by divine law, of what happened to him during those 10-days of a short  stay in the Yam planet, Kali, a purer soul, is able to recall everything  in graphic detail due to a blessing given by Chitragupta, the minister  of Yamraj and the record-keeper of virtues and sins of all persons.<br><br>What  follows is a gripping narration of Kali\u2019s other-worldly experience of  his visits to after-life planets of hells and heavens, of torments and  punitive actions meted out to sinners, and accounts of suffering the  souls, have to undergo for the various sins committed in their earthly  lives. The author seems to have largely drawn from \u201cPretkalp\u201d part of  Garudpuran for making such a vivid description of the splendors the city  of Yam, horrors of various hells and the excruciating journey of an  ordinary soul through all this.<br><br>The most interesting part of  this novel is the day-by-day recount by Kali of incidents, pain, and  suffering of his soul and other fellow souls in his 10-days sojourn to  different types of hells and also exploring parts of Yam City and  heaven. The curiosity of a reader is held on toes as an account of each  day unfolds, much like Arabian nights.<br><br>The \u201cPurgatory Voyage\u201d a  hugely fascinating story in which one cannot leave reading halfway. It  latches on to your curiosity and leads your imagination till you reach  the end and sigh a sense of relief and joy of having gone through the  upheavals along with the protagonist of the story. I think this is the  achievement in writing this book.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2578\" height=\"1850\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?fit=696%2C500\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?w=2578&amp;ssl=1 2578w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=300%2C215&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=768%2C551&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=1024%2C735&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=696%2C499&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=1068%2C766&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?resize=585%2C420&amp;ssl=1 585w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?w=1392 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Cover-Page-08.jpg?w=2088 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Adarsh Kumar Khare<\/strong> is a software professional with more than 20 years of experience in the software industry. He holds a Master\u2019s degree in Software Systems from BITS Pilani. He graduated from GBPUA&amp;T Pantnagar in Computer Engineering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He has contributed many technical research papers in national and international journals. He has also attended many international conferences and presented papers. Many of his articles of general interest have also been published in newspapers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adarsh is passionate about mythology and occultism. His debut book was \u2018Full Moon Day\u2019. This book is a riveting account of Kalidas\u2019s purgatory voyage. The story demystifies the mystery of after-death life. He currently resides in Bengaluru, India along with his wife and sons Krishna and Kartikey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button aligncenter\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Purgatory-Voyage-encountering-after-death-ebook\/dp\/B08KHRYX2N\">Buy Now<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Product details File size : 15862 KB Print length : 217 pages Format : Kindle Language : English ABOUT THE BOOK This story dates back to 925 AD of a village person, otherwise living peacefully, whose life is thrown into turmoil consequent to an extraordinary experience of the afterlife, an outcome of his own deed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books"},"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/featured-image.jpg?fit=4342%2C3474&ssl=1","author_info":{"display_name":"Writing Geeks","author_link":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/author\/writinggeeks\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/featured-image.jpg?fit=4342%2C3474&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6uhmH-Tv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3445,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3441\/revisions\/3445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writinggeeks.in\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}