The Eternal Circle: Kashi and The Cosmic Imagination of Charu Sheel Singh (Essays on Myth, Mandala and Visionary Poetics)

In these meditative explorations, Charusheel Singh stands as an illustrious poet-scholar of mythic and metaphysical resonance, whose verse transmutes ontology into mantra and philosophy into flame. His poetics of sacred semiosis fuses Vedic hermeneutics with postmodern reflexivity, reimagining myth as a living mandala of consciousness. Through symbolic fire and tantric breath, Singh forges a cosmology where language unfolds into a symphony of rasa, dhvani, and divine signification—reconciling mythic memory and transcendental imagination within an eternal dialogic continuum.

Author of ' Banaras and the Other', Ashwani Kumar is a prominent  poet and professor at Tata Institute of Social Sciences- Mumbai.

This book is not an anthology of Charusheel Singh's oeuvre nor an omnibus but a collection of scholarly-reflected articles with an anthological approach by the virtuous disciples of the master. This is the first retrospective collection to span his entire writings assiduously edited by his disciple Dr. Sonia Singh. The Charusheel personality comes through a general wisdom and a deepest insight in his insistence on the integrity of a gracious human life. He had a unique ability to observe the smallest changes in consciousness and and to record the slightest movements of the body which reflected through his writings.

A torrent of beauty, reflection and lyrical consciousness has become the sātvik bhāva of this book. This significantly composed edition shows the love of Charusheel's professor students and broadens the focus of reader's conscience in terms of hermeneutic deconstruction.

By Gautam Chatterjee  A Seer in Kashi who has authored numerous books including books on Natyashastra, Kashi, and Indian philosophic tradition.