“‘The Self is unstained, for it is beyond the reach of the three gunas, the qualities characterizing everything in the material world. Sattva is purity, virtue; rajas is energy, movement; and tamas is lethargy, ignorance. The interplay of all three gives us worldly life. But Brahman/Self underlies that life, serving as the Essence of all people, creatures, and objects, from the minutest single-celled bacterium to the vastest galactic supercluster.'”
Richard Dietrich Maddox's writing focuses on the search for permanent happiness, the goal of finding paradise on earth, the attainment of human Enlightenment. His work, though fiction, attempts to convey the profound spiritual Truth passed on to humanity by Enlightened Masters. Maddox approaches spiritual wisdom from a Western level of experience, presenting characters to whom readers can easily relate, offering situations in which readers might well have found themselves. His work offers, in a style which those living in the West will find understandable, the possibility of blissful existence.
