His Holiness Ramanujacharya Jagadguru Swamy Dr Aroopanada Maharaj
President, Nikhila Utkal Sadhu Samaj Mahasangha, Odisha
Dr Jagannath Patnaik is personally known to me. He lives the doctrine of spirituality, communicates in an extraordinary way and writes in a language that attracts and reaches all levels of people.
He is an itinerant witness of God, well known and admired all over the country and overseas. He presents his ideas in an attractive style with practical examples and references from our ordinary lives. His way of presenting religious truths is also equally appealing.
The book The Veracity of Truth: Stories of My Life contains numerous thoughtprovoking reflections as his books always do. Through his talks, writings and extraordinary life, Dr Patnaaik has been spreading God’s love and goodness and widening our knowledge and love of God.
The book contains a lot of new and inspiring thoughts as simple as you. It is always a pleasant experience to read the books and the articles written by this simple and quiet man, humble but resolute with a clear mind and a heart burning with love of God. Dr Patnaaik strives to popularise all such thoughts to mankind and be loved through his writings. He looks at nature with the imagination of a poet, insight of a philosopher and genius of a scientist. All is grist that comes to his mill. One who dwells into his writings gets the feeling that poetry and philosophy have met together, truth and genius have embraced and lucidity and profundity have combined seamlessly.
I went through the book with great interest, admiration and profound gratitude. The Veracity of Truth is indeed a rare book. The illustrations and explanations are natural, graceful and memorable. Not one chapter is long or boring even to a casual reader and if one begins to read there is no stop on the way, until the end of the book. The language is simple yet profound that the reader would feel like floating in it like a lotus in water. To be frank, for long I have not read so interesting and thought-provoking a book.
Dr Patnaaik has perhaps created more goodwill and brotherly feeling among people of different faiths and creeds, ideas and outlooks, through his writings, than what could be done by the efforts of the various religious and political leaders in this part of the world during the last two decades.
God to him is one reality of life and his heart crafts the idol of faith in God.
Fine ideas are explained clearly; moral values are shed light on with beautiful and fine examples. Young boys and girls can easily understand the good ways of life from this remarkable book.
The Veracity of Truth is presently my best companion and I relish the contents very much. I bless the holy child of Lord to carry forward his karma for sprinkling the shower of peace of humanity with greater strength to his elbow.