Writer · the Dhumavati series
Anatoly
Romashkov
Prose about what literature seldom lets in: living spiritual practice, told plainly — without gloss and without cheap thrills.
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The first novel of the series · 18+
DhumavatiA Voice in the Smoke
Dmitry is forty. An ordinary job, a flat of sixty-four square metres, evenings spent over Sanskrit dictionaries — and a voice. A woman’s voice: calm, wry, unhurried. He has heard it for years, and he calls her simply Ma.
One evening Ma says, ‘Get ready.’ — ‘For what?’ — ‘You will find out.’
So begins a path he never chose and would not now leave for anything: nights in a cemetery, cycles of practice, a broken mala and seven stranger beads, sixty-four sister yoginis — each with her own voice and her own temper — students who come to him and leave for themselves, mistakes paid for with oneself, and a silence in which the essential can at last be heard.
A novel about a Mother who does not comfort but teaches; about a fear that need not be conquered once you learn to see; and about a man who came to understand that being everywhere and nowhere is not a riddle but his true address.
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About the author
Anatoly Romashkov
Anatoly Romashkov is a writer and the author of the Dhumavati series. He is drawn to what literature seldom lets in: living spiritual practice, without gloss and without cheap thrills — the path of a man who hears more than he is supposed to, and pays for it with himself.
He writes plainly and directly: about fear and silence, about a Mother who does not console but teaches, and about how an ordinary life of work, traffic and washing-up turns out to be part of a far larger path.
Dhumavati: A Voice in the Smoke is the first novel in the series, published in both English and Russian.
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