- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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1 Mixed Sap -
2 I Had Not Been False -
3 Profundity with a Light Touch -
4 In a World Dominated by Adults -
5 Live a Man’s Life -
6 Sacral Space: No Trespassing! -
7 Purify the Mind and Clarify the Vision -
8 Some Eternal Scheme -
9 Enchantment in Life -
10 A Wizard for Malgudi -
11 The Moth and the Mahatma -
12 Grateful to Love and Death -
13 For God, Country—and Comedy! -
14 Private Sorrows, Indian Remedy -
15 First Love Again! -
16 Caution! Masterful Male! -
17 Guru and Chela -
18 Mettle Fatigue -
19 Gunas Horror -
20 Cosmic Comedy - Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
Live a Man’s Life
Live a Man’s Life
The Bachelor of Arts
- Chapter:
- (p.37) 5 Live a Man’s Life
- Source:
- R.K. Narayan
- Author(s):
Ranga Rao
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
This chapter looks at another of Narayan’s novels, The Bachelor of Arts. The training of the mind of a Narayan hero is properly launched by Chandran in this novel. By the end the struggle yields results; Chandran has gone through a self-devised schedule, of self-education. This young man could be a novitiate in a monastery cutting himself off with a will from the world. His self-training is self-launched. He has come a long way, from an assertion of ‘freedom’ to a voluntary control of freedom, even to a determined self-regulation of it. The moral dividend is a spiritual poise, though a balance achieved by youth.
Keywords: mind-training, self-training, voluntary control of freedom, spiritualism, balance, family, parental concern, B. Appasamy
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- Title Pages
- Frontispiece
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
-
1 Mixed Sap -
2 I Had Not Been False -
3 Profundity with a Light Touch -
4 In a World Dominated by Adults -
5 Live a Man’s Life -
6 Sacral Space: No Trespassing! -
7 Purify the Mind and Clarify the Vision -
8 Some Eternal Scheme -
9 Enchantment in Life -
10 A Wizard for Malgudi -
11 The Moth and the Mahatma -
12 Grateful to Love and Death -
13 For God, Country—and Comedy! -
14 Private Sorrows, Indian Remedy -
15 First Love Again! -
16 Caution! Masterful Male! -
17 Guru and Chela -
18 Mettle Fatigue -
19 Gunas Horror -
20 Cosmic Comedy - Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
