The Fire of Karma
Published on 31. May 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
323 pages
978-1-912655-78-6 (ISBN)
Description
NEW EDITION
The Fire of Karma is a completely original novel about India, a genuine one, like no other writing on this subject. The heroine and also the storyteller, Oma—the initiated name of the second wife of Shiva, Shakti, returned in another body—went to India in December 1986, (with financial aid from Sweden, if I remember well), to undergo a yoga treatment, as she suffered from certain locomotor malformations.
She learns Bengali and is initiated into Sanskrit texts, but her doctor—or guru, as they say—seems like a paltry profiteer. He lives on her money, gets her pregnant (although he is married, and as we come to understand, he has other children), he is jealous, he abandons her, he often leaves her at the will of fate, and he follows her after she returns to her country.
—Ion Rotaru
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cardiff
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
284 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-912655-78-6 (9781912655786)
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Oma was born in Bozioru, Buzau (Romania) on June 18, 1961.
After she graduated primary, secondary and high schools in Buzau and Constanta, she graduated from the Faculty of Economics in Iasi in 1985, along with completing a course in Greek between 1982 and 1985. She completed her education and training in surprisingly diverse subjects.
Spending three and half years in India, she graduated from courses in hatha yoga in India at Serampore, Calcutta; Ananda Ashram, Pondicherry; Lonavla Yoga Institute, Poona; and Jain Yoga Institute, Adhyatma Sadhana Kendra, New Delhi.
She was a student of Ayurveda for six months in 1988, at Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam, Coimbatore, and at Kottakkal Arya Vaidya Sala, Kerala.
She also visited Dera Baba Jaimal Singh and the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
She returned to Romania after the Romanian Revolution.
PUBLISHED BOOKS:
Hathina, Hatha Yoga, Loma-Viloma - a practical course on hatha yoga, published by Porto Franco, Galati, 1993
Arsita Karmei ("The Fire of Karma") - a memoir, published by Nona, Piatra Neamt, 1997, awarded with the National Prize Mihail Sadoveanu, reprinted in 2009 by Zeit, Braila
Chipuri Indiene ("Indian Faces") - published by The Parallel 45, 2001, revised edition published by Zeit, Braila
In voia vremii ("Be It So") - a novel, published by Junimea Publishing House, 2007, prefaced by the famous Romanian literary critic and historian, Ion Rotaru
Mrejele Iubirii ("Love Spell") - a novel, published by Zeit, Braila, 2008
The Fire of Karma - the English version of Arsita Karmei, published by Zeit, Braila, 2010;
Sobrele Iubite ("The Smoldering Babes") and Furtuni si Amaraciuni ("Storms and Bitterness") - novels, published by Zeit, Braila, 2011
Cand Pronia Ingaduie ("When Providence Allows") - a novel, published by Axis Libri, 2012
Cealalta Fata a Destinului ("The Other Face of Destiny") - a novel, published by Junimea Publishing House, 2012.
Love Spell - the English version of Mrejele Iubirii, published by Zeit, Braila, 2014
Gara cu Trei Linii ("The Three Lines Station") - a novel, published by Zeit, Braila, 2015;
Be It So and The Fire of Karma - novels, published by Author House UK, 2017
Hatha Yoga for a Quiet Old Age, Without Pain - a practical course on hatha yoga, published by Lucas, Braila, 2018. Revised and expanded edition published in 2019.