Mending Your Soul: The Spiritual Path to Inner Wholeness

...The book is a invitation to the fold of Christ. The author points out that each one has a hole in his (spiritual) heart and only Christ can fix it. The book develops the confirming the hole, Measuring the hole, Engaging it, Filling it, and Fixing the Hole in your soul. For someone exposed to mathematics, it is like proving the existence, finding the actual value and then operating on it. One of the main observation is that modern man follow surrogate religions like sports, entertainment, people, shopping or work and he is not aware of it. Modern philosophically inspired movements are identified as spurious religions. He also shows the incompleteness of standard religions and private religion. He also specially deals with the questions of skeptic about resurrection of Jesus. The book is written with a good understanding of the background of a common educated man(woman).

It is a very interesting variant in Christian preaching. People who are exposed to eastern religions are easily put off by the Christian starting line ` You are born sinner'. It does not make sense to them. The metaphor of Ramesh Richard is : Your soul has a hole; Only Christ (the doctor) can fix it. This metaphor is more sensible. The meeting of Christ and the Samritian Woman has relevance here. Jesus : " But Whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; ". The important point is that accepting Christ as saviour is to be seen as the begining of spiritual repair process. That is a start of life-long pligrimage. The author prefers John's gospel as the right one. The chapters are arranged in the theme : Pondering the hole in your hole; Confirming it,Measuring it, Engagaing it, Filling it and Fixing it. The work is written in a scholarly mode with a human touch. Modern man miss to recognise how sports, entertainment, people, shopping or work is a surrogate religion. There are few interesting puzzles which engage the reader. A good invitation to the fold of Christ.