The Yoga of Love

The Yoga of Love is the much-awaited third volume (540 pages), completing the trilogy that started with the Arc of The Horizon (512 pages) in 2001 that preceded the monumental Legends of The Emperor's Ring (503 pages) published in 2003. In many ways this blissfully vivacious, heart-stirring volume draws together Balkrishna Naipaul's balancing act of not just a story of passionate coexistence among the three main characters with whom we cohabited in the two first volumes of the trilogy, but it is indeed, the construction of a brand new theory of love that opens the way to understanding the underlying philosophical basis of Hindu Tantra. This idea was trashed out in the plot arrangement of the previous two novels (they can be read independently of the others), especially in the dynamic interplay of the characters relation ship with each other; but in the Yoga of Love it is posed as a catalyst for conclusive resolution of both plot and theme, as well as giving vent for the underlying premise for Mr. Naipaul's theory of Love.